Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-06
Harding Would Guard Our Men From War
Warns Against Giving Any Council of Foreign Powers Authority to Summon Our Sons to Battle.

Marion, Ohio, Aug. 5.-A plea that future questions of peace and war be de- cided by the nations conscience and not by any council of foreign powers was voiced by Senator Harding today in talk to the cheering crowd of Spanish War Veterans gathered here in reunion.
 Here in America,' he said, we do not need anyone to tell us what our obligation is We can read it in our own conscience. I want to hold the American Conscience strictly and solely American.
 T want America to play it's part in the world but 1 do not want council of foreign powers at any time, for any reason, to summon the sons of America to battle."
 It was national spirit awakening to the defense of American rights, the nom inee asserted, that led this country in to both the Spanish-American war and the world war, and that always could be counted on to hold the republic secure. He added that although underlying con- siderations of humanity had urged the United States into both conflicts, it had required q physical infringement of na- tional rights in each case to start the faroes of war.
 The talk was made in response to the
 
 were members of the Fourth Ohio h. fantry, when the senator and Mrs. Hard ing accepted an invitation to be the reg iments guests of honor at their reunion.
 The visit to the reunion came near the end of q day given over by. the nominee almost entirely to correspond ence and other work at his desk. One subject of attention was the woman suffrage situation in Tennessee which he canvassed carefully on the basis of detailed information gathered at his re- quest by the republican national com mittee.
 In the light of this information he determined to take a more direct course in appealing for ratification of the suf- frage amendment and sent telegrams to both suffrage and party leaders at Nash vile expressing lis views. To State Senator Houk, the republican state chair man, he telegraphed that republican legislators could serve both party and country by aiding ratification.
 A telegram sent last Friday to the Harding and Coolidge Club at Wash ington, D. C. saying he was not then ready to make such a request, also was made public here. In it he declared that before acting he wanted the information being collected by the national commit tee, so that ne InlSnL pc sur eOl Llle req sons actuating those opposed to rati- fication.
 Organization of a Marion delegation to the notification Saturday of Governor Cox, the democratic nominee, at Dayton, was the subject of an official statement issued tonight by Harding headquarters. It accused the Cox boosters of guaran- teeing free tickets and expenses in or- der to swell the dele ! ton and to make Ia showing flor pictures by movie ma chimes"
 Papers in nearby towns such as Bucyrus, Gallon, upper Sandusky. Del aware and others" the statement said announce efforts are being made to re- cruit the Marion delegation from these neighborhoods. Free tickets and ex- penses have been freely offered to swell their number. The entire movement is characteristic of machine politics."
 Senator Harding saw few callers to- day. but late in the afternoon he sus- pended work for while to chat with g group of young men from the class ot school administration at Ohio State Uni. versity who came to pay their respects.