The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-07-22
HARDING'S SPEECH
Of ACCEPTANCE
Received by Thousands Of Enthusias-
tie Republicans Today at
Marion, o.
lAasocfatea : re9al

campaign attained fuli speed ahead
today with the formal nomination of
Senator Warren q. Harding. The
ceremonies, which brought to Marion
most Of the big leade.s Of the party
and thousands Of Harding enthus-
lasts, included the acceptance speech
cf Senator Harding. interpreting the
Chicago platform and declaring the
principles on which he expects the
campaign to be fought out. The ac-
ceptance speech came at the end Of q
long program in which enthusiasm
ruled as the visiting delegations
marched by the Harding residence in
unhroken succession.
Mr. Harding said:
No man ig big enough TO run this
great republic. There Heyer has been
one. Such domipation was never in
tended. Tranquility, stability, de-
peIdability-all are asSured in party
sponsorship, and we mean to renew
the assurances which were rended in
the cataclysmal war.
II was not surprising that we went
far afeld from safe and prescribed
was the unfortunate tendency before;
there was the surrender of Congress
to the growing assumption of the ex-
ecutiye before the world-war imperill-
ed all the practices we had learned to
believe in; and in the war emergency
every safeguard was swept away. In
the name of democracy we established
autocracy. We are not complaining
at this extraordinary bestowal or as
sumption i'm war, it seemed temporar-
ily necessary; our alarm is over the
failure to restore the constitutional
methods when the war emergency
ended.
Our first committal is the restora-
tion of representative popular gov
ernment, under the constitution, thru
the agency Of the republican party.
Our vision includes more than chief
executive, we believe in cabinet of
highest capacity, equal to the respon-
sibilities which our system cOntem-
plates, in whose councils the vice.
president, second official of the repub-
lie, shall be asked to participate. The
same vision includes a cordial under
standing and co-ordinated activities
with House Of Congress, fresh from
the people, voicing the convictions
which members bring from direct con-
tact with the electorate, and cordial
cooperation along with the restored
functions of the Senate, fit to be the
greatest deliberative body of the
world. It's members are the designat-
ed sentinels on the towers of constI-
tutional government. The resumption
of the Senate's authority saved TO this
republic it's independent nationality,
when ~autocracy misinterpreted the
dream of world experiment to be
the vision Of world ideal.
Ii il not difficult, Chairman Lodge,
to make ourselves clean on the ques-
tion of international relationship. We
republicans Of the Senate, conscious
of our constitutional obligations,
when we saw the structure of world
super-government taking visionary
form. Joined i'm a becoming warning
of our devotion TO this republic. Ii
the torch of constitutionalism had not
been dimmed, the delayed peace OF
the world and the tragedy of disap-
pointment and Europe's misunder-
standing Of America easily might
have been avoided. The republicans
of the Senate halted the barter OF in
dependent American eminence and in-
fiuence, which it was proposed to ex-
change for an obscure and unequal
place in the merged government OF
tie world. Our party means to hold
the heritage of American nationality
unimpaired and unsurrendered.
The world will not misconstrue. We
do not mean to hold aloof. We do not
mean to shun single responsibility
of this republic toward civilization.
There is no hate in the American
heart. We have no envy, no suspic-
ion, no aversion for any people in the
world. We hold to our rights, and
means to defend, aye, we mean 70
sustain the rights of this nation and
our citizens alike, everywhere under
the shining sun. Yet there is the con-
cord Of amity and sympathy and fra
teinity in every resolution. There is
a genuine aspiration in every Amer
lean breast for a tranquil friendship
with all the world.
More, we believe the unspeakable
sororws, the immeasurable sacrifices
the awakened convictions and the as.
piring conscience of human kind must
commit the nations of the earth to 0
new and better relationship. 1t need
not be discussed now what motives
plunged the world into war. it neee
not be Snquired whether we asked tht
some Of this republic to defend oui
national rights. as | believe we did
or to purge the old world of the &C
cumulated ills of rivalry and greed
the sacrifices will be in vain if we car
not acclaim new order. with addec
security to civilization and peace
maintained.
One may readily sense the con
science of our America. | am sure
understand the purpose of the domi
nant group Of the Senate. We wer'
rot seeking to defeat a world aspira
ton. we were resolved to safeguard
urpAmerica. We were resolved then
even as we are today, and viii be to
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