Imperial Valley press., 1920-07-22
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PRESIDENTIAL
RACE SHOWN
BY HARDING
Crowds Fill Streets to Hear
the Republican Candidates
Address of Acceptance.
All Marion Join in HON.
age. :.
(By Associated Iress)


MARION, Ohio, July 22.-The re-
publican campaign attained full speed
ahead here today when Senator Lodge
formally notified Senator Harding that
he was the choice of the republican
party as candidate for president.
The notification Of the ceremony
brought to Marion practically every
leader of the republican party. who,
with the "home folks" of Harding's
own home town, made an enthusiastic
moz Of G. O. P. hackers.
! Bursts of enthusiasm continued
through the speech made by Lodge
and the acceptance speech by Harding.
In his speech Harding exhibited his
Interpretation of the Chicago platform
as well as the principles upon which
he expects to fight the contest out.
At z o'clock this morning a noisy
aggregation of Marion citizen gath
cred before the home of Senator Hard
! |ing. So great was the number Of
people who. came to welcome the re-
publican candidate that it appeared the
whole town, politics and political par
ties notwithstanding, had come to
greet their fellow citizen on the day
Of big official acceptance Of the presi-
dental nomination.
Senator Harding:
We are assembled here as a COM
mittee representing the states, terri
tories and possessions of the United
States to make to you formal an
| nOuncement of your nomination for
the office of president Of the republic
on June 18th last, at Chicago, by the
Republican National Convent 10 n.
This duty is to us as pleasing as it
is honorable, but we are also deeply
conscious of it's far-reaching import
ance. We fully appreciate that what
you say to us today will not only be
read and pondered by all the Ameri-
can people within the confines Of the
United States but also by all other
civilized nations. Here today you
| will chart the course to be followed
by the republican party in the great
electoral contest which lies before US
and will declare your purposes and
those of the party you lead when
the authority of government is once
more committed to our keeping.
We await this declaration un-
troubled by any doubts and with
the most entire confidence. All who
are familiar with your character and
career and most especially those who
have taken part with you in public
service know beyond a peradventure
that you are patriotic American,
imbued with the spirit of the great
leaders OF the past, of Washington,
, Lincoln and Roosevelt, whose serv-
ices to the American people have
become forever memorable in our
history. You will always, and instinc-
lively, in meeting the difficult qucs-
tions and weighty responsibilities
which confront you, think with CON-
plete unselfishness of your country
and your country's interests first
high qualification for an exalted Of
flee not too familiar to us of late and
therefore peculiarly necessary at this
moment. You will, we are certain,
be ever faithful to the finest tradi-
tions Of the republican party ard at
the same time. we are equally sure
that you are wisely tolerant and open
minded, in sympathy with the
best movements of the time, looking
forward to the future and its needs
but never unmindful of the great
basic principles upon which the
builders Of the republic laid the
foundation of our government. Your
public life has shown to us and all
your fellow citizens that you believe
in the system of government designed
hby the trainers of the constitution.
They established representative
democracy and had no sympathy with
any scheme which would turn the gov
lernment of the United States into an
autocracy based upon plebiscite and
with all the intervening representa-
tive features disregarded or sffaced.
You have abundantly shown your un.
wavering conviction that the govern
ment Of the United States should b
lone of the laws and not Of men and
that the three branches Of that
government should all work together
In the exercise Of the powers con.
) ferred upon them severaliy by the
, constitution, for the common pur.
! post of advancing the general welfare
J of the people. The makers Of the
constitution intended to coordinate
J the three great elements Of govern
: ment and strove to guard against
either usurpation or trespass by one
branch at the expense Of the other
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