New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-23
League Perils
Emphasized i'm
Lodges Speech
I'VE Decline to Permit Our
Youth To Be Called to
Die i'm Quarrels Not
Their Own He Saws
Confidence in Harding
Ii World Needs Us Again.
as i'm 1917, We Will Not
Fail i'm Duty, He Asserts
Confidence i'm Harding

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as i'm 1917, We Will Not
Fail i'm Duty, He Asserts
MARION, Ohio, Jstly Ex-senator
Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachu-
'etts, notifying Senator Warren G..
Harding to-day of has nomination as
Republican candidate yor President,
said.
Senator Harding: We are assem-
bled here as a committee represent
ing the states. territories and posses
sions of the United States to make to
you formal announcement of your
nomination for the office of President
Of the Republic on June II last, at
Chicago, by the Republican National
Convention. This duty Is to us as
pleasing as it is honorable, but we
are also deeply conscious of its far
reaching Importance We fully ap-
preciate that what you say to us to-
DAY will not only be read and pom
dered by all the American people
within the confines of the United
States. but also by all other civil
llzed nations. Here day you will
chart the course to be followed by
the Republican party in the great
electoral contests which lies be-
fore us and will declare your pur-
poses and those of the party you lead
when the authority of government is
once more committed TO our keep
ing.
Full Confidence in Harding
We await this declaration untrou-
bied 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 a patriotic American,
lmbued 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 in
stinctively, in meeting the difficult
questions and weighty responsible
ties which confront you think with
complete unselhshness of your coun-
try and your country's interests first,
a high qualification for an exalted Of
fee 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 traditions of
the Republican party and at the same
time we are equally sure that you
are wisely tolerant and open minded,
il sympathy with the best move
ments 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 sys-
tenn of government designed by the
trainers of the Constitution. They
established representative democ-
racy and had no sympathy with any
scheme which would turn the gov
eminent of the United States into
an autocracy based upon a plebiscite
and with all the intervening repre-
sentative features disregarded or eff
faced.
For Government by Laws
You have abundantly shown your
unwavering conviction that the gov
ernment of the United States should
be one of laws and not of men and
that the three branches Of that gov
eminent should all work together
in the exercise OF the powers con-
ferred upon them severally by the
Constitution, for the common pur-
pose of advancing the general well
fare of the people. The makers Of
the Constitution intended to coordi-
nate the three great elements CT
government and strove to guard
against either usurpation or trespass
by ore branch at the expense of the
other two. In that spirit, we all
know we'll, you viii enter upon your
great responsibility.
Domestic and economic questions
of extreme complexity and difficulty
must be dealt with at once in such a
way as to meet the needs of the
time. We shall not attempt to dis
cuss these questions in any detail,
because we know that you will de
clare your policies in regard to them
in accordance not only with the life
long principles of the Republican
party but also with the opinions re-
Gently declared by the Republican
convention at Chicago. 1t is not for
Us TO enumerate them to you, for 1t
is to you that we look to set forth the
proper policies to be pursued by the
Republican party both in the cam
paign and when charged with the re-
sponsibility of administration and
legislation
Our immediate duty and that of all
Republicans and all true Americans
who are thinking of the problems and
perils of the present and of the fu-
ture is to give you such generous
and complete support that when you
take up the duties of the great office
for which you have been nominated
you will find House and Senate in
full sympathy with your purposes
and ready to aid you in every way IN
carrying them to fulfillment.
Foreign Policy Problems
The present situation, however,
brings with it far-reaching questions
of foreign policy to degree never
known in our previous history. AT
our own doors we have Mexico in
state of disorder and disintegration
to which our government has unhap
PLY most literally contributed. Here
is q grave responsibility not to be
evaded or escaped. We rightly in
sist upon the supremacy in the
American hemisphere of the Monroe
Doctrine, which was declared by us
in order to guard the safety of the
United States and save the New
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