The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-09

, the chairman and was given Chau- tauqua greeting. Senator Harding be- gan his speech by saying that he cred . ited his applause 10 the fact that "as presidential candidate I come before you thinking of America first" He noted the large number of women
 in the crowd and expressed his thank fulness that women now had voice in the government Oniy one thing could ever make him regret the coming of
 womans suffrage. he said. and hat was for women to segregate ~hem- selves into a party of their own
 In plea for party government, the nominee promised that with the re-
 turn of the republican party to power there would be an end to "one nan domination,"4 "4and added that he hoped
 the people would elect republican Senate as well as a republican Con gress.
 Senator Spencer, he declared, ought 1 to be reelected.
 EXPLAINS OWN TROUBLES The trouble with America today, - said Senator Harding, lis that the ad- Iministrative part of our government has been thinking too much of the af- 1 of affairs at home. We've been vast l ing our attention on a dream of world domination with which the United States has no business"
 | When the nominee first mentioned 1 the League of Nations, someone n the crowd yelled league of notions, and lthe senator laughingly replied: T accept the amendment"
 l lIe added that he wanted to be fair and that he did not oppose President | Wilson's trip to Europe, but only ob- jected because he didn't take anyone with him."
 T want to turn back" he contiu ;ed | and note the word back which is synonomous with 'again'--I want to | turn back to constitutional govern ment There used to be considerable criticism of the Senate. It used to be called a. rich mans club But I know | that today it is representative of the intelligent thought of the country Why, the Senate preserved 10 you ,eur United States of America"
 The nominee declared that the dem ocratic nominee is in favor of accept 1 ns the Paris covenant for a League lof Nations, and says he is"
 | m not" he shouted, and the ycrovd | rose to it's feet and cheered.
 T mean by that that as President I 1 will never submit to league or an as- | Article X in it." he added Under that article, when the league calls, America must respond or be guilty of gross in ternauonal dishonesty, and I do not want dishonest America. I am hoping that we make sure before we so in rather l than trying to sneak out afterwards THINKS LEAGUE LIKELY T want America to do it's part. l be- lieve it is inevitable that there will be some association of nations for, the pro- motion of peace. 1 think that's likely
 nay more, l think it is right. But I want that association based on justice, not force. e4
 The League of Nations as proposed by President Wilson-mark, I say that eague, the league we're not going to nave-sets up a militaristic power l, iolates every fundamental principle oi national freedom. Instead of adding se- curity to the world, it's the bigges; threat of war ever proposed to mankind Yet, our sympathies have been ap- Dealed to. It has been proposed that we take mandate for Armenia I know how appealing it was, but they didn'u tell you that the other nations had taken all the valuable territory about Armenia
 and had left for America only the sui
 iering Aremenians. In the Senate it was found it would take 100000 soldiers to carry out that task and it would have
 involved us in all the quarrels of the
 old world.
 "The simple truth today that although the league has been organized and is funetionng with 19s battle fronts aflame it hasn't amounted to a conti- mental in European affairs. The league g
 failure. They ask me if it has been scrapped. Of course. it has been scrapped
 serapped by President Wilson himself
 ''They ask me if l have a specific
 plan. have no specific plan, because it was a specific plan and the insistence
 on that plan which scrapped President Wilson's league. There is no one man
 big enough for such a task. My spe- cific duty will be to bring counsel to- gether behind a plan which will com mand the support of a united country.