New-York tribune., 1920-07-23
Declaration of Peace
Would Enable Readjust-
ment and Deliberate
Treaty Action, He Says
Declares Against
Super-Government
Rejects Submerging of
Freedom; Favors Peace
by Justice, Not Force
From a Staff Correspondent

From Sta1 Correspondent
MARION, Ohio, July 22.-Prompt
and effective peace by declaration
was promised to-day by Senator
Warren G. Harding in his formal
speech accepting the Republican
nomination for the Presidency.
After this had been done, the Sem
ator declared, the people of the
United States might turn their at
tention to readjustment at home and
proceed deliberately and refec-
lively" to the achievement of an as
sociation of nations.
In this world relationship Senator
Harding promised that the nation
ality of America would be preserved.
He said that the League of Nations
covenant had been conceived for
world government, negotiated
in misunderstanding and intolerably
urged and demanded by its Admin
istration sponsors"
The Senate Advising
The nominee continued:
With a Senate advising as the
| Constitution contemplates, | would
hopefully approach the nations of
Europe and of the earth, proposing
that understanding which makes us
willing participant in the consecra-
tion Of nations to new relationship
! to commit the moral forces of the
world, America included, to peace
and international justice, still leav-
ing America free, Independent and
self-reliant, but offering friendship
to all the world"
The Republican nominee gave severe
emphasis TO his words when he said:
From our own viewpoint the pro-
gram is specifically American, and we
mean TO be Americans first, to all the
world"
There was not one individual in the
Senator's vast audience who did not
know that President Wilson was re-
ferred to when he said:
"No man is big enough to run this
great Republic" And there were cheers
when he declared
"Our first committal is the restora-
ton of representative popular govern
ment, under the Constitution, through
the agency of the Republican party"
Believes in Party Rule
In the very beginning of his speech
the nominee made it clear that he be-
lieves in party sponsorship in govern
ment, saying:
81 believe in party government as
distinguished from personal govern
ment, individual, dictatorial, autocratic
or what not"
While preserved nationality is the
first essential to the progress of the
Republic, Senator Harding said that
linked with it is the supreme necessity
for the -revealment" of the Con-
stitution and our reconstruction as an
industrial nation.
The great trouble of the world to-
day, the nominee said, is that the
World War wrought destruction of
healthful competition and left store
houses empty, SO that there is mini
mum of production when the need is
maximum. The war, he pointed out,
has established higher standards for
wages and he wants these to abide on
one condition that the wage Garner
gives full return for the wage received.
While under production is a crime of
omission, the Senator said protiteering
is crime Of commission, a crime which
the nominee challenges sharply in ths
name of his party.
Urges Labor Understanding
Senator Harding said he declined TO
recognize any conflict of interest among
the participants in industry, labor,
management and capital. He added
that there is an insstent call for them
to reach an understanding.
Bolshevism in America was not
ignored in the speech. The Senator
said that this movement which he de-
scribed as one aimed to destroy our
economic SYSTEM" is mot to be halted
by throttled liberties"
'We must not abrdge the freedom
of speech, the freedom of press. or
the freedom of assembly, because there
is no promise in repression" he eau
toned. Then he said:
I'VE do hold to the right to crush
sedition, to stife a menacing contempt
for law, to stamp out peril to the
Republic or its people, when emergency
calls, because security and the majesty
Of the law are the first essentials of
liberty"
Returning, % industrial ills, the
nominee said:
1--WE do not oppose, but approve. col
lective bargaining, because that is an
outstanding right, bat we are unalter-
ably insistent that its exercise must
not destroy the equally sacred right
of the individual IN mis- necessary pur-
suit of a livelihood. ANY American
has the right to quit his employment:
SO has every American the right to seek
employment The group must not en-
danger the individual, and we must