Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-26

ing. in a prediction statement to the American people. made public here to- nigh. declared the republican party -. to the people assured that they N recognize it's superiority as an m sfrlireutaIity uf administration anu lhat !, The election now impending they Wl' give. tt the certificate of their conhde Ec9 and trust .
 The republican presidential nominee criticised democratic admlnlsUatloh Ol governmental affairs declaring the na- fi,n is determined Co be done with dem o~-scv uudcr the ut.-e Eu.se of demo- r-,tir forms" The r.W 1.can party, he asserted has proposed ln Its plallorln anI developed In the utteranees Of us leaders. a program which contempiale5 equal opportunity for all,' and iecog- nizes the vices of exploitation and proI- uccring'
 As n, the league of nations issue. Sen ator uarding summarized his party po- sition as follows;
 .The republican party purposes x f surh an association of nations as Will i most effectively further the aspiration ] for worldwide and permanent peace without sacrificing any part of the hdN- ,,.ndeucc of the American nation It De- ueves America can and must bear lts f1U part in the responsibilities or lhe world but it always believes that Amer lea alone must decide what that part shall be-" senator Harding's statement follows: "In asking the suffrage of the Ameri- can electorate this year, the republican party has in mind both the record of ser vice from its beginning whereof II IS very proud. and the vision of opportun'- tv for service in the future, which lls fnokcFmeu have presented durlhB lhis campaign. We are asking that a great r.sronsibiiity Doe imposed upon us It g n respongibllity that must be measured bv both the gravity of the crisis that r9nfrouts the world and the incapacity with which the present administration has met the problems Of the last few v@ars Onerous as Is the res. .1nsibility we seek. our party has no ought of esading for it never has been guilty ot that. Democratic economic and administra- five policies had brought this country 10 the danger of disaster before the out break of the war in Europe. The vast expansion of our export trade and de- niands upon o1r producing facilities, which came with the war, saved us from immediate precipitation of that disaster But that phase has now passed and nothing but a return to those con&truc- I've and progressive policies which have
  ministration can save us from early re- alization of the danger that confronted us at the middle of 1914.
 Prom the beginning of the war Tn Europe the democratic administration stezdfastly refused to prepare for the national defense in case we should be involved. In 1916. when it was appar- ent 10 most people that our country was iin imminent danger of being drawn into the struggle. the democratic party made it's campaign on the boast that it had kept us out of war and the promise to continue keeping us out Thus, when we found ourselves at last in the struggle, we were utterly unready for it, and our participation cost Us immeasureably more than it should have cost.
 "An administration that when all the world was in confagraton, refused to realize the importance of preparedness, Of course could not be expected to real ize while we were at war the necessity Of preparing for peace. So we entere into peace quite as unready for it as We had been for wal Our economies were disorEanized. our debt enormous, our foreign commerce devoted largely to supplying the necessaries of war.
 Instead of setting itself 10 remedy ing these conditions, the administration has devoted itself from the day of th
 
 reorganization in which America shoult bear the largest responsibilities of guar antecing a new scheme of things. h stead of making legal peace as soon a' actual peace had been won, the Ameri ca npeople alone of ali the warrins ma tions. were denied by their government the privilege of a return to the lega status of peace and to the enjoyment o1 those rights which they had tempotarily ofr a. war.
 The circumstances of war. So lone as war was on. republicans upheld tho hands of the administration. forgettin, party considerations, and gave their vott in support of war measures far m31, generously than did their political oppo nents. Yet an autocratic administrator repaid this loyalty with the demand. il the campaign of 1918, that republics n be removed from every position of in huence and power That demand tn, country rejected. l. was the first tim in the history of this nation that an ad ninistration had been defeated in 'thl midst of a foreign war That defea would have been ample admonition t sny administration not entirely absorb ed in it's own peculiar policies and pur poses. But it apparently was unheede by the powers at Washington. Neglect Ing the acute domestic situation the ad ministration suddenly conceived an in terest in foreign affairs that contrastc impressvely with it's lack of concern fo them in the period before we were dra VI Into the war.
 50. while immediate and practica concerns were being neglected. while re construction and reorganization of ou swn cuontry were forgotten. the admin isfration was devotlng itself 10 the chi r1era Of a world reorganization. Tn republican congress. that had been elect ed in the autumn of 1918, attempted tC end did initiate measures to set us O. the right track once more. It devised fudget system in the hope of putting a end 10 the treasury deficit and bringin tconom yand system into our nationa finances. But the president vetoed ths measure. The administration went rigl on spending vast sums in excess of ou revenues, offering no constructive inspii rtion or leadership. apparently forgettin our domestic difficulties in it's engross rnent with the chimera of world recon 6truction.
 'Thk, In a-word. is the record of tn