Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-09-16
A FRONT PORCH
SPEECH TO WOMEN
Harding Says We Should ''Pre-
serve Our Own National Con-
science at Home and Not
Check it at Geneva"

Marion, o.. Sept 15.--ITrging the adop-
ton or n new proposal for prevention Of
war instead Of the League of Nations
Senator Harding in a message to-day to
Republican women's organizations and
women's Harding and Coolidge clubs
asked that we preserve our own national
conscience at home al i not check it at
Geneva"
The message which was addressed to
Mrs. Kay f. fucker president Of the
women's Harding and Coolidge club Of
New York city. and sent to all women 8
organizations also asserted that "Ameri-.
can women must realize that the League
OF Nations as presented by a Democratic
| administration, would not mean peace for
us. but would mean American boys living
In army tents overseas and asked to die
In causes In which they would have no
heart"
The message was intended to set forth
to the women voters the candidates. views
on their entrance into politics. why they
should enroll in the Republican party and
| a brief outline of the partv's position on
the League of Nations. Sc nator Harding
said he expects in the near future to
make a comprehensive discussion of the
League of Nations from the womens
,, view point In a front porch speech.
He intimated this may be one of his
most important front porch addresses
IT will be made to n delesation Of women
voters.
Before leaving for Columbus to play
golf this afternoon, Senator Harding
conferred with Or. Newell Dwight Hills
pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn
N. Y. DR.. Hills later gave out a state
ment in which he said that possibly
one reason why the tide is obbng away
from the party in power Is because the
people think that Governor Cox Illus
trates the law of arithmetical progress
sion.
Beginning with the charge that the
Republicans were spending eight million
dollars In buying the presidency he
jumped to 10 millions and yesterday to
30 millions and soon probably, in the
spirit of progression. will have the Re-
publicans spending the total annual in
| come of the nation as a corruption fund.
! and the next week he will have us bor-
rowing money from Germany. Sidney
Smith once said concerning certain fables
that a superstition was dead whenever
the people begin to laugh at it
why is the tide running so strongly
toward Senator Harding? The serious note
In the senator's thinking; his atmosphere
of self-restraint: the serenity of a man
conscious of his reserves, his generous
| Judgments of those who differ from him a:
the total abence OF any bitterness In any
! word of any speech; his spirit of kind
ness. his good will, his big broad Ameri-
canism. his constant use of the words
back to the constitution the way in
which he restraints his friends with the
words remember that this is "A govern
| ment of law and not of men,' the earnest
ness with which he uttered these words
this morning My primary purpose in
| these speeches Is the building of Amer1 :
can manhood and the strengthening of
| American Institutions: my secondary
! ambition Ia to be president of tho United
| tates. But ] would a thousand times
rather lose the presidency and be con-
scious that have done something for
| American manhood and American in
stitutions than gain the presidency
| through any word or deed that might
weaken faith at home or abroad In our
free institutions. or injure the quality Of
American manhood-al! that has con-
vnced the American people that at last
there is a man that IL equal 10 and in a
sense bigger than any office whatsoever"