Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-10-15
TO VOTERS WHO WANT CHANGE

You say, Mr.. and Mrs. Voter, yot;
are thinking of voting for Harding
! because you want a change.
You are not very enthusiastic
about Harding, but you don't like the
! administration. You are tired of the
things that came with the War-cheap
dollars, high prices and general incon-
! venience. You want to kick out the
Gins" AND put in the "outs" You ia
vor new deal
/ Very well, Mr. and Mrs. Voter. You
have right to your opinion and feel
ings. But let's be frank and open
eyed about this thing. Let's look
where we are jumping before we take
the leap.
For the sake OF argument we viii
| agree with you about the desirability
or new deal.
We would like to see prices come
down, and taxes come down, and the
! national debt come down.
We would like to see freight rate
lower and commerce more active.
We would like to see harmony es-
tablished between capital and labor
We would like to see more person
al liberty and less Burleson-isn.
! We don't like institutions like ''po-
litical prisons" and Palmer's spy sys-
tenn.
We hate government by injunction
and Legislation for special privilege.
We have had too much of thesc
things. We are keen for n deal.
| But we won't fool ourselv, ou'
Harding. We can't make o4-.-.v,.s
! believe that we arc heading for :
| erty, prosperity or Industrial peace
when we vote for Harding. There is
no use trying to glossover Harding.
He is not a new or unknown politi-
cal quantity. He has been in public
life for 20 years and has registered
on every important political subject
That valuable publication "The
| Searchhght" has compiled his votes
and his speeches and it is conserva-
tive to say that they show Harding tC
be 90 per cent bad-"bad" for the
people and good" for special priv
lege. That's what we mean by, bad"
and "goodA le ~ :a - HlHt
Harding is a decent man, personal
ly. He is a good husband and neigh
| Dor. He pitches q fair game of horse
shoes. He is dignified in appearance,
and can make an average speech.
But he belongs to the school of pol
itics which regards business-organ-
| lied business-as the only thing OF
real Importance and the people as {;
lot of votes to be humbugged.
Harding's public record shows this
| There is no reason to believe that his
| influence will be used for peace, for
civil liberty, or for an intelligent out
working Of industrial problems.
| On the contrary, there is every rea-
son to believe that Harding will be
guided in all MS actions by the voice
of the senate oligarchy which repre-
sents Big Business.
| If this oligarchy tells him to go to
war with Mexico to protect American
SPECTATORS and exploitere, he prob
ably will take the country into war II
the oligarchy says 70 use the army to
coerce labor he probably viii use it
If the oligarchy tells him to put lower
taxes on the rich and higher taxes or
the poor, the will of the oligarchy
will probably be carried out.
1t will be a return to normally
and Harding's idea of nornlalcy is
the golden age when trusts were fos-
tered, rebates We're legalized and en-
couraged, tariffs wre boosted and Big
/ Business had the public by the throat
1t may be that Cox is not Glad
stone and it may be that the voters
are tired of the present situation.
BUT A CHANGE TO HARDING!
Better stop and think, Mr.. Voter
AND MRS. VOTER, what you are
letting yourselves and the rest of the
country in for by voting for such q
change.-Cincinnati Post.