The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-22
Republican Candidate for President Makes
Plain What He Stands for and His Views
on National Questions.
RESPONSIBILITY NOT UNDERESTIMATE Ed
League of Nations, Mexico, Prohibition and
High Cost of Living Touched Upon in
Address of This Afternoon.

paths amid the war anxieties. There
was the unfortunate tendency before;
there was the surrender of congress
to the growing assumption of the exc
cutive before the world-war i'm
perilled all the practices we had
learned to belive in; and in the war
lemergency every safeguard was swept
away In the name of democracy
we established autocracy. We are
not complaining at this extraordinary
bestowal or assumption in war; it
seemed temporarily necessary; our
alarm is over the failure to restore
the constitutional methods when the
war emergency ended.
Cur first eorsmittaI is tha restora-
tion or representative popular govern
ment, under the constitution, through
the agency of the republican part.,
Our vision includes more than !, chief
executives; we believe in cabinet OF
highest capacity, equal to the respon-
sibilities which our system contem-
plates, in whose councils the vice
president, second official # the re-
public, shall be asked to participate.
The same vision includes cordial
understanding and co-ordinated ac-
tivities with a house of congress,
fresh from the people, voicing the
convictions which members bring
from direct contact with the cleo
torate, and cordial cooperation along
with the restored functions of the
senate, fit to be the greatest delibera-
tive body of the world. It's members
are the designated sentinels on the
towers of constitutional government
The resumption of the senate's au-
thority saved to this republic it's in
dependent nationality when autocracy
misinterpreted the dream of world
experiment to be the vision of
world ideal. a.
Barter of independence.
1t is not difficult, Chairman Lodge,
to make ourselves clear on the ques-
tion of international relationship. We
republicans of the senate, conscious
OF our solemn oaths and mindful of
our constitutional obligations, when
we saw the structure of a world super.
government taking visionary form,
Joined in a becoming warning of our
devotion to this republic. If the torch
of constitutionalism had not been
dimed, the delayed peace Of the world
and the tragedy of disappointment
and Europe's misunderstanding of
America easily might have been
avoided The republicans of the sen.
ate halted the barter of independent
American eminence and influence,
which it was proposed to exchange
for an obscure and unequal place in
the merged government of the world.
Our party means to hold the heritage
of American nationality, unimpaired
and unsurrendered.
The world will not misCOnstrue.
We do not mean to hold aloof. We do
not mean to shun single RESPONSE
btlity of this republic to world civili-
zation There is no hate in tho
American heart. We have no envy
no suspicion. no aversion for any
people in the world We hold to our
rights, and mean to defend, aye, we
mean to sustain the rights of this
nation and our citizens alike, every
where under the shining sun. Yet
there is the concord of amity and
sympathy and fraternity in every
resolution. There is a genuine aspira-
ton in every American breast for
TRANQUIL friendship with all the world.
More, we believe the unspeakahts
sorrows, the immeasurable sacrifices,
the awakened convictions and the
aspiring conscience of human kind
must commit the nations Of the earth
to a new and better relationship. It
need not be discussed now what mo-
tives plunged the world into war; it
need not be inquired whether We
asked the sons of this republic to-
defend our national rights, as be-f
lieye we did, or to purge the old
world Of the accumulated ills of II
valry and greed, the sacrifices viii
be in vain if we cannot acclaim new
order. with added security to ciyiliza-
ton and peace maintained.
One may readily sense the con-
science of our America am sure