The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-25
CHANGE ONLY REMEDY
Senator Willing to Lead
People Out of Jungle of
Mismanagement.
SLOGAN is AMERICA FIRST
Present Administration Leads
Nation Toward Another
Industrial Crisis.

Special Despatch to THE NEw YORK HraALD.
MARION, Ohio Oct. Ex-senator Har-
ding. in an open letter addressed to
United States. indicted the Federal
Administration to-day for unprepared-
ness for war and for peace for wretch
edly mismanaging the peoples busi-
ness. for perverting government m
ways that would have been as intol-
cradle to Jefferson and Cleveland as
to Washington and Lincoln, and for
bankruptcy Of policies and plans. He
said the appeal for the election Of
James NJ. Cox is an effort to continue
In power the MASTERS. the autocrats
and the meddlers, and challenged his
opponent, in effect, to state his course
clearly regarding the predominant is
sues of the campaign.
Senator Harding especially called
attention Of the people to the fact that
the election of Cox would mean the
continuation Of the blockade against
the League Of Nations in its present
form, and stated that the best hope
Of those that desire America TO adopt
a generous and humane foreign policy
lies in his own election to the Presi-
dency.
Clear Answer on vital Issues.
The Senator's statement, addressed
To the American People" follows in
full:
II believe that the men and women of
this country are entitled to receive from
any political party seeking their sup
port a clear answer upon the predomi-
nAnt Issues which affect the future
course Of America.
SELDOM in the history OF our country
has there been such an avoidance of this
duty upon the part OF any candidates as
has been evident among our opponents.
'"The American people are satisfied
that the conduct Of our domestic affairs
has been grossly mismanaged. They
hunger for a constructive American
policy. il has been my sense of oblign-
tion to treat with clarity and definition
the Republican plan for putting our
house in order.
IT call upon the Democratic party 70
answer the charge that It's management
of domestic affairs had brought us to the
brink of an Industrial crisis in 1914
from which only world war saved us,
and Is even now leading us toward an
other precipice.
There has been no answer to the well
known fact that they have cost America
untold billions of dollars and the pre-
cious lives of our sons by unprepared-
moss for war persisted in for political
expediency.
''They have made no answer to the
charge that they. were equally unpre-
pared for peace and reconstruction.
'"They have made no answer to the
charge that their experiment with the
American railways, their Industrial pol
Icy and their maintaining in the Federal
Government hundreds OF thousands OF
unnecessary employees has cost the tax
payers OF this country fearful financial
burden which our men and women, and
even their children. VIII have to pay.
'"rhey have made no answer to the
charge that their rule has been one OF
grotesque ineflciency.
They have made no answer to the
charge that during the control which
they now seek to perpetuate they have
perverted the form of government OF our
Republic and overrldden the purposes of
our Constitution by maintaining extreme