Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1920-10-30

familiar arraignment Of the inefhciency
Of the Wilson administration, q defense
of the railroad and shipping legislation
Of the present Congress and an advocacy
of tax and tariff revision.
NO FIREWORKS FOR SENATOR
All the political fireworks of what
promises to be the tense Ohio finish will
! be left for Governor Cox and the DEM
ocrats to set off. Senator Harding will
go forward with the increased caution
and prudence which has marked his
more recent utterapces and which he be-
lieves square with the responsibility he
will be called upon to assume March 4
next. The preparation of the ad-
dresses he will deliver in Cleveland,
Akron, Cincinnati and Columbus this
week is being undertaken with great de-
liberation, and Senator Harding is
really taking three days off from the
dust of the campaign to phrase his
be expressed. He is resting a great
deal also to get rid Of slight cold con-
tracted on his southern trip.
Pennsylvania politics have been in
jected upon the quiet of Marion during
the last two days. Clifford Pinchot,
state forester, visitor here yesterday,
brought the Republican view and to-day
Senator Harding received first hand in
formation upon the attitude of some of
the prominent Democrats of Pennsyl-
vania.
Judge John NJ. Garman, of Wilkes
barre, formerly chairman of the Demo-
cratic state central committee, and
prominent member of Democratic fac
ton. led by James G,,ffey, of Pitts
burgh, announced his support of the
Republican national ticket in state
msnt received by Senator Harding to-
day.
CARAVAN DECLARES FOR HARDING
II believe the welfare of our coun-
try" said Judge Garman's statement,
demands Harding's election and that
the welfare of the Democratic party de-
mands that the pirates now controlling
the good ship democracy should be
thrown overheard, weighted by their
political sins, forever submerged in the
deep, dark sea of oblivion.
Il favor Harding for President, first
because / am Democrat. If candi-
date for office can indorse Woodrow
Wilson's course in endeavoring to CO.
cree the Senate when it is exercising its
constitutional right, such candidate
does not represent any kind of Democ-
racy and cannot have my vote. Some
one may ask why l vote for Harding,
who surely is not Democrat? The
answer is, that his platform and ad-
dresses show that he is supporting the
constitution, and is safer than one who
openly commends efforts to subvert
that grand old document.
"Second, shall vote for Harding be-
cause he is in accord with my views as
to Wilson's League of Nations, / be-
Keve it would establish super govern
ment not chosen by our free citizens,
and that our young men by hundreds of
thousands, and our wealth by hundreds
of millions would be sacrificed in Euro
pean broils. l am unwilling to offer up
American lives in trying to keep at
peace nations animated by centuries of
prejudice and fired by memories of
ages of cruelty and oppression.
FINDS COX FAILED TEST
''Third, Harding has shown himself
man of sane intellectual processes,
temperate in speech, steadfast in his |
loyalty to the constitution and imbued
with a strong sense of the dignity of |
the position in which he is placed as the |
candidate of great political party and
a probable President of the nation. By |
his campaign Cox has been tested and.
in my opinion, has been found sadly |
wanting.
Fourth, Harding does not claim to |
possess the whole sum of human wis |
dom. He declares that if elected he |
will be the President of the whole peo-
pie and will surround himself with wise
men, with whom he will take counsel as
to his executive actions. That is my
ideal of proper President. We now
have President who surrounded him
self with pignies in the hope that he
might appear giant, end with this one
specimen am completely satisfied. AS
it is we'll known that Cox's nomination
was planned and engineered by four po-
litical dealers in politics, it is to be
wondered whether these are to be his
advisers in case of his election. TO ef-
fectually scotch the harpies Harding's
election is necessary.
Fifth. Harding should be elected be-
cause he believes in the democratic doc
trine that American citizens engaged in
awful business in any country are I'M
Ter the protection of this government.