Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-10-26
OHIO SENATOR
IS CONFIDENT
. Of POSITION
COP. Nominee Asserts
New Agreement Best
and Voters Will Trust
Republicans.
Full Responsibility Of
Establishing Plan for
World Peace Will Be
Assumed.

Washington, Oct. Ex-senator
Harding in a prediction state
ment to the American people made
public here Monday night, declared
the Republican party "gOes to the
American people assured that they
will recognize its superiority as an
instrumentaIity of administration
and that in the election now i'm
pending they will give it the certifi-
cate of their confidence and trust"
The Republican party nominee criti-
cised Democratic administrations of gov
ernmental affairs, declaring the nation
is determined to be done with democracy
under the mere guse of democratic
Torms." The Republican party. he as
serted, "has proposed in its platform and
developed in the utterances of its leaders,
Il program which contemplates equal OPP
portunity for all" and recognizes the
vices of exploitation and profiteering.' =
AS to the League OF Nations issue,
Senator Hading summarized his party s
position as follows:
"The Republican party purposes
: =. such an association of ma
tons as will most effectively fur
ther the aspiration for world
wide and permanent peace without
sacrificing any part of the indepen-
dence of the American nation. 1T
believes America can and must bear
its full part in the responsibilities
Of the world but 1t always believes
!, that America alone must decide
what that part shall be-"
Senator Hardings statement follows:
In asking the suffrage Of the Amer
ican electorate this year the Republican
!party has in mind both the record of
service from its beginning, whereof it
is very proud, and the vision of oppor-
tunity for service in the future, which
its spokesmen have presented during
this campaign. We are asking that a
great responsibility be imposed upon us.
1t is responsibility that must be mea-
sured by both the gravity of the crisis
that confronts the world and the inca
pacacity with which the present admin
istration has met the problems of the
last few years. Onerous as is the re-
sponsibility we seek our party has no
Thought of evading, for it never has
been guilty of that
Charges Party Responsibility
democratic economic and admins
trative policies had brought this country
to the danger of disaster before the out
break of the war in Europe. The vast
expansion of our own export trade anG
demands upon our producing facilities
, which came with the war, saved US from
immediate participation in that disaster
But that phase has now passed anl
nothing but return to those conStruc
tive and progressive policies which have
always characterized the Republican ad
ministration can save us for early reali
zation of the danger that confronted Us
at the middle of 1914.
Preparation Refused.
From the beginning Of tho war il
Europe the Democratic administration
steadfastly refused to prepare for the
national defense in case we should bc
involved. In 1915 when it was apparent
to most people that our country was II
imminent danger Of being drawn int
|. the struggle, the Democratic party made
it's campaign on the boast that it haC
kept Us out Of war, and the promise
to continue to keep us out. Thus whcI
we found ourselves at last in the strug
BILE, we were utterly unready for it, ant
our participation cost immeasurabl,
more than is should have cost Us.
An administration that when all TIL
world was in conflagration refused Il
realize the importance of preparedness
of course could not be expected t.
realize while we were at war th'
snecessity Of preparing for peace. So W
entered into peace quite as unready fo
it as we had been for war Our econo
mics, were disorgani2ed, our debt enor
nous. our foreign commerce devoted
largely to supplying the necessaries o
war.
Alien Rights First.
INSTEAD of settling itself to remedy
ing these conditions. the administration
fhas devoted itself from the day of The
armistice to promoting a project o.
world reorganization in which Americt
should bear the largest responsibilitie:
Of guaranteeing q new scheme of things
Instead of making legal peace as soo1
as actual peace had been won, the Amer
ican people. alone of all the warning ma
tions. were denied by their governm IN
the privilege Of return to the lega
statuts Of peace and to the enjoymen
4 of those rights which they had temper
arily surrendered under the circum
stances of war, So long as war was on
Republicans upheld the hands Of the ad
ministration. forgetting party consdera
tions, and gave their vote in support o.
war measures far more generously thai
did their political opponents. Yet al
autocratic administration repaid this 10y
a]ty with the demand in the campaign
of 1918, that Republicans be removed
from every position of influence AM
power That demand the country re
jcctad 1t was the first time in lnt
history Of this nation that an administra
ton had been defeated in the midst of 1
foreign war That defeat would hav,
been ample admonlrion to any admins
.(tration not entirely absorbed in it's owl
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