Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-08-26
WOMAN 8 PARTY
NOT REQUIRED,
HARDING SAYS
Candidate Makes Plea
for Government and
Private Economies.

Marion, o., Aug. 25.-At the
close of a speech Wednesday,
Senator Harding turned from
his audience to two visiting sol
diers, both blinded in the Ar
gonne and solemnly made a pub
lie pledge and there never shall
be substitute for the Stars and
Stripes-they last forever.
The personal touch, which brought a
momentary hush over the gathering and
then was echoed in a roaring avalanche
of cheers followed a broader promise to
the world that in its effects for inter
national concord America never will
surrender its nationality and sugges-
ton that it would be better Ito culti-
vate waiting opportunities on friendly
soil in the new world than chase a phan-
tom amid the enyies and rivalries of the
old"
Economy
The nominee asked for governm entail
and industrial economy as the primary
step to reduce the cost of living, de-
clared for policy Of federal mainten
ance of public highways and appealed
to the new women voters not to Segre-
gate themselves in new party based
on sex prejudice. The Democratic ad
ministration he accused Of "premediat-
ed neglect in preparing for the great
war and hardness IN providing for a
return TO a peace status. He paid a
tribute to Theodore Roosevelt and de-
clared his conviction that were he
living ! would be speaking for him at
this moment as your candidate for pres
ident"
The greater part of the speech, deliv-
cred from the front porch to a delega-
tion from Wyandotte county, Ohio, was
devoted to government economy.
Neglect is Charged.
Asserting the administration never
could explain why it did not prepare
sooner for the war, the candidate charg-
ed that administration officials know
we could not escape involvement"
That neglect was premeditated," he
continued, "and the American people
who now are forced to meet the over
whelming costs of that neglect have a
just reason to hold the administration
to account"
Pan American.
In espousing pan American comfy.
much dreamed about but SO little real
lzed, the nominee asserted that mo
body had thought of American aloof-
ness or of any failure to make full
contribution to world progresss
Highways
Of highway maintenance. Senator
Harding said it was q criminal waste
Of public funds to expend thousands of
dollars per mile on improved highways
and then allow them to go to ruin be-
fore half the bonds issued to pay for
them have come to maturity He
promised that if elected he would ask
congress to make a maintenance proyis-
ion part of every federal highway ap-
preparation.
The admonition against. a special
Woman's party came as q depression af-
ter he had expressed qualification that
women were to be enfranchsed.
whatever differences there may
have been over the granting of the right
of suffrage to women" he said, there
can be no question as to their fitness,
their capacity, their patriotism and their
earnestness I voted for the woman
suffrage amendment to the constitution.
| hope | may never regret it. There
is only one thing that could make me
regret it, and that would be to find the
women of this country segregating
themselves into parties because Of the
prejudice Of sex.
"You women must come into the po-
itical parties and make them what they
ought to be, If they are not already
that; and don't you ever imagine for
moment that politics is muddy pool
It is the finest and most patriotic bus
mess in the u S. of America. Come
on in, the waters fine