Arizona republican., 1920-07-06
HARDING GIVEN
 GREAT OVATION
favorite as the first lady of the land
 Rarding's Address
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ScNatOr Hardlng adufess IVIIV"s'

Senator Harding's address follows: i Dear friends and neighbours; There is a conflict Of emotions Tn l responding to your cordial welcome home It is always good to come home
 no matter whither one has gone or
 what the revolving fates have wrought during ones absence.
 Tt i sa little difficult to make a i choice among thoughts impelling. For l 3S wears we have been friends and neiChbors here in Marion, and only l few miles away are the treasured scenes of birth and boyhood. Some Of 1 them have bee nrecalled and recorded, l very recently. with touches of magma 1 ton I fear, because the real story IS very ordinary one which might be re-
 lated concerning many of us, but that doesn't in any way mar the under standing among home folk.
 1 '.There can be no mistaken appraisal l of our relationship. It is too extended | too intimate. too thoroughly stamped | by community interest. You and ], all
 of us Marionites, have been boosting l this Marion of ours together for con- siderabIy more than 30 years and have 1 shared in varying degrees the achieve
 ments attending its development. Ihe | thought of development and progress, 1 a desire to find ourselves on the map of Ohio inspired us and there was common interest in spite of seeming | selfishness attending rewards. We were all boosters together because 1t IS
 an engaging pursuit Any distinction | which came to me in this connection was due to the accident of my occupa-
 tion as a publisher here rather than any spirit peculiarly my own. We all played the game together because It | was our game. and we boosted because ! the upbuilding, uplifting, commenting pursuits in life are the only ones worthy of any ones committal. If 1t l is becoming to assent to the praise you ! bestow, let it be understood that any | preference ever shown me was wholly and invariably due to that considera- ton which l have willingly shown to | others and in an inherited conviction that it is a waste of Gods rich en- dowments to assail and destroy when all the flowers of life bloom best in the soil of sympathy and encourage ment.
 Expresses Gratitude
 Marion has been unfailingly gener- ous towards me. Many Of you nave
 stood before this home before and
 voiced your greetings and encourage
 ment. There is running through my mind recouections of seventeen years
 ago when you first wished me we'll as a state candidate. Seven years later you came again, though the en- terprise later ended in failure. Four
 years later you came once more and
 we did succeed, and 1 was honored with a commission IO L46 lSu6IdA SSh- ate, where any man might we'll prefer to perform his part in public service.
 IL is iilspozsi10le to convey my reluc- tance to leaye the senate and just now [ have come to realize what am leav- ing. no matter how the elections de- eide. But the thought I want to em- phasize. which every stamp of grati-
 tude, is that you have come with your ! greetings again and again, and yet again and you come this afternoon
 E.-s.z -g s.l, rlT confidence which must fill many human heart to oyerflowing. l am so truly grateful I fell it all so deeply that words fail to convey all the ap-
 preciation which is in my heart. "But I must tell you the thing old Marion county did which was the su- preme compensation to me. It isn't so expressive to applaud a victorious can ! didate, but you test the metal of real friendship when one is initiating a candidacy, Last April when the pri- mary was invoked to bespeak Ohio's preference, this old county gave to me that neighborly and friendly sup port which is the nearest approach to 100 per cent loyalty l have ever seen accorded to anyone. That was
 the supreme expression. If l could have but one, if I had to choose, be- tween that tribute of the home county, | and the final vote in the national con- ventionS l would choose the home
  1 cause yuor knowing me- made it the finest tribute to which one may aspire. | Frankly, I like your rejoicing over | a more than usual tribute to fellow 1 townsman. I like it because it is in | consonace with our American policy. 1 Perhaps it is in the minds of some of l you to wonder that we succeeded and the thought is not exclusively yours, 1 even if I have guessed correctly. You
 view the institution of federal govern
 ment from afar in that reverence which | is a chief security of a republic. God ! help us to rivet that reverence more 1 firmly. It will not destroy it, it will | only clarify that reverence and add
 to your confidence. if I tell you, after close range observation, that govern | ment is not of super men, but normal l men, very much like you and me- ex- cept that those in authority are or l ought to be. broadened and strength ened in measuring up to great respon- 1 sibility.
 Let me say it to you, friends and neighbors aye let me say to any who may be noting our exchanging of ! greetings today if I believed in
 One-man government, if I believed tha superman were necessary to appeal to the sober sense of the republic and ask our people to plant their feet in secure and forward paths once more, I would not be here in the capacity which | has prompted your greetings. Normal men ana DaCk 70 nOTmduIy Will SteaQY
 a civilization which has been feVered by the supreme Upheaval of all the world. i Government is a very natural thing and in most instances ought to be a
 very normal and deliberate proceeding. Not always, of course. because great emergencies and crises mark all the
 vicissitudes of life. Normal men rise
 to meet them, else they never would
 be met
 Perhaps I best can convey my
 thought by reverting to the community of endeavor which made the city we rejoice to boast. No superman did it, no one man did it. We worked to- [ gether, we counselled one another we | consulted men stamped with leadership,
 and in these processes we have achiev-
 ed, and rejoiced thereat. Now make
 the application This wonderful land of ours is but the aggregate of com muniues, the sum total of cities. will ] lases and farms, and the mutuality of interest and the necessary harmony of
 purpose, if we are to go on, must ile in conference, in council in the concord
 O many minds wisdom of