The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-10-26
HARDING MAKES
FINAL STATEMENT
r E p U BLICAN PRESIDENTIAL
NOMINEE GIVES LAST PRE-
ELECTION ANNOUNCER

WESTINGHOUSE A. P.)-Sen
ator Harding in a final prediction
statement to the American people
made public here tonight, declared
the republican party 'sgoes to the peo-
pie assured that they will recognize
its superiority as an instrumentality
of administration and that in the cleo
ton now impending they will give it
the certificate of their confidence and
trust"
The republican party nominee cri-
ticised democratic administration OF
governmental affairs, declaring "the
nation is determined to be done with
democracy, under the mere guise OF
democratic FORMS The republican
party, he asserted, "has proposed in
its platform and developed in the ut
terances of its leaders, a program
which contemplates equal opportuni-
ty for all' and "recognizes the vices
of exploitation and profiteering."
AS to the league of nations issue,
Senator Harding summarized his
party's position as follows:
'The republican party purposes
such an association of nations as will
most effectively further the aspira-
ton for world wide and permanent
peace without sacrificing any part
of the independence of the American
nation. 1t believes America can and
must bear its full part in the respons
Utilities of the world but it always
believes that America alone must de-
eide what that part shall be-"
Senator Harding's statement fol-
lows:
1sIn asking the suffrage of the Ameri
can electorate this year, the republi-
can party has in mind both the record
of service from it's beginning, where
of it is very proud, and the vision of
opportunity for service in the future,
which its spokesman have presented
during this campaign. We are ask
ing that a great responsibility be i'm
posed upon us. 1t is a responsibility
that must be measured by both the
gravity of the crisis that confronts
the world and the incapacity with
which the present administration has
met the problems of the last few
years. Enormous as is the respons-
ibility we seek, our party has no
thought of evading, for it never has
been guilty of that.
democratic economic and admin
istrative policies had brought this
country to the danger of disaster be-
fore the outbreak of the war in Euro
pe The vast expansion of our own
export LIdue anu uculdIluS upon Jul
producing facilities, which came with
the war, saved us from immediate
participation in that disaster But
that phase has now passed and moth
ing but a return to those constructive
and progressive policies which have
always characterized the republican
administration can save US from early
realization of the danger that con-
fronted US at the middle of 1914.
''From the beginning of the war in
Europe the democratic adminItra-
ton steadfastly refused to prepare
for the national defense in case we
should be involved. In 1916 when it
was apparent to most people that our
country was in imminent danger of
being drawn into the struggle the
democratic party made its campaign
on the boast that it had kept us out
of war, and the promise to continue 4
to keep US out. Thus when we found
ourselves at last in the struggle, we
were utterly unready for it, and our
cost UNNECESSARILY more
than it should have cost u.s.
can administration that when all
The world was in conflagration re-
fused to realize the Importance of
preparedness, of course could not be
to realize while we were at
war the necessity of preparing for
peace. Some entered into peace quite
as unready for it as we had been for
var. Our economics were disorgan-i