Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-12
ROOSEVELT STATES HARDING CHOICE
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when it is either popular or useful to damn everybody and everything connected with the opposition. I willingly acknowledge and praise the fine citizenship which goes to make up the rank and file of the re- publican party. Many millions of voters of the republican ticket are splendid Americans, just as sincere in their devotion to the basic principles on which the nations stand as other millions who vote a democratic tick ct. The republican party is one of great traditions, of great patriotism, of great accomplishments. I speak of the rank and file of that party even today with true respect.
 "But for eight, yes for twelve years, conflict has been raging within that party. raging not so much among the privates in the ranks as among those in high command. In the first eight years of this cen tury, the republican party was in large part under true leaders, men who marched with the times, men who tried to interpret the thought of the body of the party for the better gov erning of the country. From 1908 to 1912, group of selfish men sought for their own purposes with their eyes on the ground, to gain the con- trol of the party machinery. You know the result. It was in this very city that these men succeeded in their purpose. It was in this very city that was born the movement of pro- test that, in the elections of 1912, received the majority of the votes of the old republican party. That vote was given to a great American lead CT. but it was even more than support of Theodore Roosevelt, the man; it was the voice of insistence that the party control be taken out of the hand of selfish men, of men who had not discovered that the world was moving on. Among those in that year who supported the ancient regime, who hurled bitter and insulting at- tack at the progressive leader, was the present republican nominee for the presidency.
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 "Today, eight years later, this same man and his 'sponsors,' the old guard, show no signs of having taken to heart the drastic lesson taught them at that time. Once again we see them, with their eyes on the ground, of the marvellous progress around them, they appeared in their selfishness, fault finding and bitter ly criticising, but offering no real or constructive program to meet the national and international problems we face today.
 'I need not go into the details of the convention here this year. I need not recite to you the remarkable doc ument which finally emerged label led the republican platform I need not refer to the plank so mysterious ly mislaid. But I ask you to read that document, and to read the demo- cratic platform and to make up your minds. l will abide willingly by the result.
 "The democratic party offers> not a change, but the change. It's plat form pledges definite program of measures, not hodge podge of vague compromises; a def mite foreign policy for immediate 1 and permanent peace, not an unde- fined suggestion or new and unwork- able schemes; pledge that the safe guards of working men and women already accomplished under democra- dictatorship shall remain; not the fear that "a republican change will restore to power the influential few.
 "Above all, let us unite, democrats, independents from north md south, east and west, to explode 'hams of partisan narrowness, to grasp our true issues, our true prob ems with broad vision; to insist. on !. progress and action, and ro work In- as individuals for the bet erment of our nation"