Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-25
cox DODGES ISSUES,
HARDING DECLARES
Senator Would Force Rival to
Shoulder Responsibility for
Wartime Extravaganza
PREPARES FINAL SPEECHES

ances with which he will rest his can
didacy.
The speech to be delivered Saturday
night at Columbus occupied the nom
tnee's major attention. though it was
said that some data still remained TO be
prepared for the three he will deliver
during the week at Cleveland, Akron
and Cincinnati. In all of these ad-
dresses he is expected to Pnunciate
again his position on the League of Ma
tions and also to sum up thr d'i9cStic
policies he has advocated in the course
Of the campaign.
The Republican nominee issuel
statement yesterday in which he charged
that the Democratic party had failed to
give the voters clear answer upon the
predominant issues Of the campaign.
The candidates statement was
viewed in Marion as move to force
Governor Cox to shoulder the full load
OF responsibility for the mismanacC-
ment of the affairs Of the government
under two terms of Woodrow Wilson.
Senator Harding's Message .
Senator Hardng's message follows
believe that the men and women
bf thb country are entitled 70 receive
from any political party. seeking their
support. clear answer upon the pre-.
dominant 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 oppo-
rents.
"The American people are satisfied
that the conduct of our domestic affairs
has been grossly mismanagcd. They
hunger for constructive American
policy. 1t has been my sense of OBJ
legation to treat with clarity and defini-
tion the Republican plan for putting our
house in order.
81 call upon the Democratic party
to answer the charge that its manage.
mentj of domestic affairs had brought us
TO the brink of an industrial crisis in
1919 from which only world war saved
u.s. and is even now leading US toward
abother precipice.
Cost United States Untold Billions
"There has been no answer to tho
Jwell known fact that they have cost
/America untold billions of dollars and
! the precious lives of Our sons by un-
preparedness for war persisted in for
political expediency.
''They have made no answer to tho
charge that they were equally unpre.
pared for peace and reconstruction
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 a fearful finan-
cial burden which our men and women
and even their children, will have to pay.
''They have made no answer to the
charge that their rule has been one Of
grotesque ineticicncy.
''They have made no answer to the
charge that during the control which
they now sePk to perpetuatc, they have
perverted the form of government Of
our republic and overridden the pur-
poses of our constitution by maintain
ing extreme and undemocratic central
ization of executive power which would
have been an offensc to Thomas JCffer-
son and to Grover Cleveland as mucn
as It would have been to Washington,
Lincoln and Roosevelt.
Constructive Policy Outlined
81 have spent this campaign in set
ting forth a constructive Republican
policy. ! have demanded the restora-
tion of the constitutional government
of a representative democracy, which
shall represent the will Of the people
flowing up from the people, rather than
the will of one man government de-
scending toward the people
Il have stood for more business in
government and less government in
business. / have demanded reorgani-
zation of administrative government so
that 1t shall become source of pride
to the American spirit of efficiency and
will remove the drain from the tax
payers.
servation Of our human resources and
one for the development of our material
resources. / have suggested means for
the protection Of motherhood and child
hood and for the alcviation of human
suffering at home here in America.
have stated clearly plan for the whole
some expansion of our foreign trade
and for the protection OF our industries
and for the upbuilding and safeguard.
ing OF our agriculture and for mer-
chant marine.
Practical Foreign Program
GAS to our foreign policy and Amcri
cas- full expectation of becoming n
member OF wise association Of nations.
with the preservation of our own iudc.
pendence and national spirit. | hnye
given a ConsHenuouS and practical pro-
posal.
~ 81 have stated that I an wholly
against the proposal to approve our
membership in The League OF Nations.
as our opponents insist that il shall
be written, Even in the hands Of our
opponents that program Is impossibIe.
Even were our opponents 10 be- elected
Il would result in hopeless blockade
as q sequel 10 the one which the Prcsj
dent of the United States has carried
on since the peace treaty was submit.
ted 10 the representatives Of the people
for approval.
az have cndeavOrcd 10 serve in this
campaign. not merely TO be plcctod but
TO set before tho American pOpln, sin
cerely and clearly, definite nOIirv for
the administration Of the United States
TO bring our people ont Of the jungle Of
mismanagement and into tho light Of a
stable good fortune. | have cndravorpd
to serve by doing what l could to har-
monize public opinions and unite Amer
ica behind a foreign policy which shall
be wise, generous and humane, though
it refuses to mortgage America to the
old world.
1--WE do not know what our opponents
stand for. / stand for united America.
n humane America an efficient Anericn
America first"