The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1920-09-25
BUSINESS ERA
PROMISED BY
SEN. HARDING
Nominee Tells Several Thous-
and Commercial Travellers
He Will Stand for Stability
-Assails Administration.
PLEDGES GOOD SENSE
(By Associated Press)

MARION, O., Sept. 25.-An era of
business stability and of business-like
government was promised by Sena tor
Harding today in front porch speech
to gathering of several thousand
commercial travellers who came from
all parts of the country under the
auspices Of the Harding and Coolidge
Travelling Mems league.
The business methods of the Demo
cratic administration, both in the con-
duct Of its own affairs and in it's re-
1ations to private enterprises, were
denounced by the Republican NOM
1nee as "muddling and autocratic'' to
degree, threatening Industrial cha os.
Harding outlined policy of COM
mon counsel in contrast to "one-man
Judgment" and pledged himself to "an
idealism based on such sense that it
does not treat the nations business
with suspicion and contempt"
Mr.. Harding said In part:
THE travelling men of today main.
tain their eminent relationship to the
life and progress of our people. Busi-
ness is the life blood Of the nation,
and these business agents are unfail-
ing in their reflex of progressive
thought and the convictions Of the
American people.
I'VE find them everywhere, always
alert, always pushing ahead, always
eager to add to the volume of business
which is the barometer Of our mate
rial good fortune and the base of all
our boasted attainments.
Il would not dwell upon criticism
OF the conditions brought about by
nearly eight years of mismanagement
OF the United States If it were not
necessary to take some account of
where we now stand so that we may
wisely bring America again to her
main road, and restore prosperity and
give promise to the laborer, who gives
US the products of soil and toll, that
we shall not have in the United States
a No Hour Day
Confidence Needed.
But l know what is in your minds
today-your practical thought. You
want stability once more for Ameri-
can business. You want normal condi-
tions. You want that confidence and
security which will put an end to anx-
1ety about production; an end to fear
ABOUT buylng; an end to uncertainty
about delivery or distribution. No
abiding commercial edifice was ever
builded on the changing sands of un-
certainty
Il believe that everywhere in the
land there is the opinion that we have
mad enough of government excessive
ly centralized in executive powers:
enough Of autocratic government un-
willing to heed counsel and advice:
enough of government which ignores
the representative branch and its close
contact with the popular will. want
1T very explicitly understood that my
election to the executive office means
a complete change from the one-man
policy which has characterized our
national government during the past
seven years.
Democratic Expenses
Il believe that the people Of Amer
lea need not be told that they pay the
bills of administrative government
whose distension for war still remains
over-distended for peace. 1t has be-
come common knowledge that there
are between seven hundred and eight
hundred thousand persons on the paw
roll OF the United States, who will be
kept there, of course, unless we have
new management, because the party
which hired will never he the party
to bring the number of excess EN-
ployes down again toward the four
hundred and forty thousand who were
on the payroll in 1915.
THE people know very we'll that
only an intelligent opposition prevent
ed the present administration from
making an expenditure Of over eleven
billions OF dollars in a peace year and
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