The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-23
PEACE FIRST AND
 THEN A LEAGUE IS <.
 HARDING'S PROMISE
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friends from nearby counties mixed
 with the representatives of powerful 1 republican clubs of distanct cities in the procession. gay with decorations and blatant with noise.
 At the Chautauqua pavilion, where the notification took place, seats had been provided for 4,000 and many times that number surged about the park and surrounding fields. unable to get within earshot of the speakers. The pro- nouncements of the candidate were re- ceived with a tumult of applause and he was cheered back to his home through crowded streets. tired but smiling man.
 Will H. Hays, the national chairman, presided at the ceremonies, and Sena- tor Lodge of Massachusetts, who was chairman of the Chicago convention. formally notified the candidate of his nomination in speech. rapping Presi : dent Wilson's League of Nations and praising the part Sentaor Harding had taken in preventing its unreserved ac- ceptance.
 Speaking slowly and with a charac- teristic gravity, the nominee delivered his declaration of policy with a clear full voice that penetrated far into the crowded outskirts of the pavilion. Points he wished to drive home with particular force he emphasized by az gressive gestures. and several times he got the crowd on it's feet, cheering as he hammered with clinched fist to em phasize his points.
 CHEER LEAGUE THRUSTS
 His thrusts at the League of Nations were answered by repeated thunderclaps tl,a +1,o seemed to like best came almost at the end of the hour and half of speaking, when he voiced his humility in the pres- ence of the responsibilities of the presi- dency and then, squaring his broad shoulders. added that his confidence in the support of his fellow citizens made him wholly unafraid'
 In his discussion of the league he made no direct recommendation for rejection of the peace treaty and did not take up in detail the league covenant. Content ing himself with the declaration that the league as conceived by the President was urthinkabe. he passed on to state his ownsview of what should be done.
 Tn the call of the conscience of Ameri- ca is peace,' he said, peace that closes the gaping wound of world war and si- fences the impassioned voices of inter national envy and distrust Heeding as do this call and knowing as I do the disposition of Congress. I promise you formal and effective peace so quickly as republican Congres can pass it's dec- laration for a republican executive to sign.
 WAY IS SIMPLE
 Disposed as we are. the way is simple. Let the failure attending assumption, ob- stinacy. impracticability and delay be rec ognized and let us find the big, practical, unsel1sh way to do our part. With a Senate advising as the constitution con- templates. l would approach the nations of Europe and of the earth proposing that understanding which makes us a will ing participant in the conservation of na- tions to new relationship, to commit the moral forces of the world. America. included, to peace and international jus tice. still leaving America free, indepen- dent and self-reliant, but offering friend ship to all the world.'
 At the conclusion of the speech the senator returned to his home. but sev- eral of the visiting delegations, not con tent with their first reception. called again to say good-by. With Mrs. Hard ing, who had been by the side of the nom- inee during most of the morning, he again shook hands with the callers It was his first big day of handshaking since his nomination and he was tired out by the time it was over