The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-10-26
HARDING ISSUES
PLEA TOPEOPLE
Prediction Statement Sets
Forth Advantages of Repub-
IiCan Administration.
REVIEWS WAR PERIOD

| Washington. Oct. Ex-senator Hard
| ing. In a prediction statement 10 the
American people. made public here last
might, declared the republican party
goes TO the people assured that they
VIII recognize its superiority az an i'm
strumentality OF administration. and that
In the election now impending they will
give II the certificate OF their confidence
and trust"
Senator Hardlng's statement follows:
I'm asking the suffrage of the Aeri-
can electorate this year the republican
party has In mind both the record OF
service from It's beginning, whereof IL
Is very proud, and the vision Of opportu-
nifty for service in the future, which its
Spokesman have presented during this
campaign. Onerous as is the RESPONSE
bility we seek, our party has no thought
OF eyading, for II never has been guilty
OF that.
Democratic economic and administra-
tive policies had brought this country to
the danger OF disaster before the OUT
break Of the war In Europe. The vast
expansion OF our export trade and de-
mands upon our producing facilities,
which came with the war, saved us from
immediate precipitation OF that disaster.
nothing but return to those construc-
tive and progressive policies which have
always characterized the republican adj
ADMINISTRATION can save us from early real
ization OF the danger that then con-
fronted U.S.
From the beginning OF the war in
nurope the democratic administration
steadfastly refused TO prepare for the ma
tionai defense In case we should be in
volved :. Thus when we found our
selves at last In the struggle, we were
utterly unready for IT, and our partic-
ipation cost us immeasurably more than
IL should have cost.
AZ 10 Preparedness.
AN ADMINISTRATION that. when all the
world way In conhagration, refused TO
realize the Importance OF preparedness,
OF course. could not be expected TO real
lie while we were at war tn necessity
OF preparing for peace. SO we entered
into place quite as unready for It as we
had been for war;. Our economics were
our debt enormous. our
foreign commerce devoted largely to
supplying. the necessaries OF war.
'Instead OF setting itself to remedying
these condltionss, the administration has
devoted itself from the day of the armi-
Htice 70 promoting a project OF world
reorganiSation IN which American should
bear the largest responsibilities OF guar
anteeing new scheme OF things. In
stead OF making legal peace as soon as
actual peace had been won, the Ameri-
can people, alone of all the warning ma
lions were uenlou Dy their government
the privilege OF return to the legal
status Of peace and to the enjoyment OF
those rights which they had Temporarily
surrendered under the circumstances OF
war. 800
80 while immediate and practical
concerns were being neglected, while
reconstruction and reorganization of
our own country were forgotten, the
administration was devoting itself to
the chimera of world reorganization.
The republican congress- that had been
elected In the autumn of 1918, at
tempted TO and did initiate measures
10 set JUS on the right track once more.
II devised a budget system In the hope
OF putting an end to the treasury deficit
and bringing economy and system into
our national finances. But the presl-
dent vetoed that measure. The adj
ministration went right on spending
vast sums in excess OF our revenues,
offering no constructive inspiration or
leadership, apparently forgetting our
domestic differences In its angrossment
with the chimera OF world sreconstruc-
ton.
''This, IN q word. 10 the record OF the
administration now about TO retire from
power, which seeks TO have Its policies
perpetuated. The country will decline
to give it's confidence and its mandate