The Washington herald., 1920-06-30
HARDING CANS
FIRST SPEECH
OF CAMPAIGN
Republican Nominee Pleads
,"Americanism" IN Phono-
graph Horn.
COOLIDGE IN CAPITAL
Vice Presidential Nominee
To Confer with Running
Mate Probably Today.
oPnhlte Ledger servieeJ

Warren G. Harding. the Republi-
can Presidential nominee. delivered
h.s nrsf campaign address here yes
<erdzy for phonographic record
rakfng -Americanism" as his sub
5sct. the Republican candidate re-
eited 4 four minute speech in an
office In the Senate Office Building.
whsrs the recording apparatus was
4rrenged.
SpeakIng in the same pitch Of
voice which he would use on the
pIatferms M. Harding declared for
sastiouaIity ghich is the very soul
Of highest Americanism-" Pro-
claiming that 'it is fine to ideal
ize, it is very practical to make
sure our own house is in perfect
order before We attempt a miracle
of world stabilization."
Gov. Calvin c. Coolidge. of Massa-
chusetts, the Vice Presidential nomi-
nee, likewise made his first cam
paign address for the phonograph-
The record was made several days
ago at the home of the Vice Presi-
Dental candidate in Northampton,
Mass. and was made public yester-
day. Both speeches will be dis
tributed throughout the country
by the Republican National Com
mittee.
Taking for his subject Law and
Order" Mr.. Coolidge pictured Lin
coin as the incarnation of the
American ideal. He urged that
duty is collective as well as per-
sonal," and that law must rest on
the permanent foundation of righ-
teousness."
Coolidge did not arrive in Wash
irgton yesterday in time to confer
with Mr.. Harding. but Is expected to
confer ssodsy. ="
Harding held a brief meeting with
Stanley II. Howe. Of New York, di-
rector of the national budget com.
, mittee and secretary of the Young
Republican Club of New York, rela-
tive to the work of the former or
sanization in preparing a new bud
get bill for the next session of Con-
gress The Republican candidate
discussed the reclamation of the
arid lands of the West with Sena-
tor Charles L. McNary, of Oregon.
Il am gratified and delighted that
Senator Harding has such a thor
ough and comprehensive view of the
problems of the West" McNary
said. Il find him sympathetic to the
underlying principles of reclamation
and the increasing productivity Of
the great areas of the Western
States.
Appeal to Americanism.
Harding's speech to the phono-
graph recording machine follows:
My countrymen, the first flaming
torch of Americanism was lighted
in framing the Federal Constitution
in 1887. The Pilgrims signed their
simple and majestic covenant a full
century and a half before, and set
afiame their beacon of liberty on the
coast of Massachusetts,. Other pio-
neers OF the new world freedom
We're rearing their new standards of
liberty from jamestown and Ply
Lexington AMI Concord heralded a
new era: 1t was all American in the
destined result, yet all of II lacked
the soul of nationality. In simple
truth, there was no thought of Ia
tionality in the revolution for Amer
lean independence. The colonists
were resisting a wrong, and freedom
was their solace. Once it was
achieved. nationality was the only
agency suited to it's preservation.
"Americanism really began when
robed in nationality. The American
republic began the blazed trail of
representative popular governme n
Representative democracy was pro-
claimed the safe agency of highest
human freedom. America headed the
forward procession of civil, human,
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