Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-07-24
LABOR FARMER
CANDIDATE IS
HARSH CRITIC
Christensen Calls Speech of
Acceptance BY Harding
''Bunk";; Makes Caustic
Reference to Sen. Lodge.

Salt Lake City, Utah, July ga
The speech of Senator Harding ac-
cepting the republican nomination
Tor president is bunk" Farley p.
Christensen, candidate for the same
office on the ticket. Of the farmer-
labor party, declared in forma |
statement today. MIR. Christensen
ridiculed the republican nominee
for accepting yesterday a nomina-
ton which he declared was. ten
dered to him i'll Chicago hotel
room early in the morning of June
IL last. In a bitter couplet the
farmer labor candidate professed
his inability to see nothing much
in either Senator Hardin3s words
or mind.
Mr.. Christensen said Washington
and Lincoln were defenseless be
fore the charge" made by Sena-
tor Lodge in notifying Senator
Harding of his nomination, that
you are imbued with the spirit OF
Washington. Lincoln and Rose
Welt" He continued;
But there are those of Us still
alive who fought by the side OF
Roosevelt when he was being called
a kind of criminal and trat.or by
the reactiOnary Harding, |. as one
of them, can testify to my hehel
that if Theodore Roosevelt were
alive he would scourge the comoi~
nation Of profiteers and politicians
who now so brazenly link his mem
ory with their nefarious effort 10
turn this republic over to soviet
of Wall street bankers.
Calls Ii Shadow Boxing.
Senator Harding'S address Is
anlightening exhibition of the high
and manly art o. shadow boxing
The league of nations is dead YET
he Iunges at its ghost and shouts
TO the onlookehs. tits alive. s
alive, tell YOU it's alive!
only "Pontius Palmer MI.
Christensen said, foresaw "a red
confederation" with vision equal 10
that Of Senator Harding. lie went
On: c Az,
AS to the vital issue before the
people, issues involving ther ae-
liverance from economic bohuaee
and political serVillty, the senator
from Ohio pours forth a sea OF
words signifying nothing. lie, VINO
hut a few years ago sullehly salu
tho working man should be satlS-
fled with 81 a day and the farmer
contented with 81 bushei ioI
wheat, has become so progressive
rs a candidate for the presidency
os To admit labor is entitled 10 d
better wage than that, but addS lhat
labor must give its tuu measure OIL
service for high wages If tins couh :
try is going to avoid lhauSu'd' anu
economic chaos
Insult to Labor.
THAT is a contemplate Insult ~
the sincerity of. the AmeflCal'
worker and a groveling guarantee
IN big business that it has nothing
to fear from Harding if he is elect
ed. Senator Harding knows. as does
every other member of the senate
for they have all been presented
with the impartial profits and waS-
es report prepared ~ w. Jet
Lauck, former secretary Of the ma
tjonal war labor board-that the
ratio of profits in prices has in
creased from 100 to 200 per cent as
result OF war TIME col POI d'e
profiteering and that the ratio Of
wages in prices has decreased by
nearly the came percentage and
that the dissipated purchasing
power of the average mans dollar
makes his economic condition
worse than it was before the war.
IF this country is to suffer in
dustrial and economic ruin it will
be because the people have been
deceived once more into surrender
ing control over their lives and