The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-07-24
HARDING SPEECH
IS CALLED BUM"
Farmer Labor Nominee Says
Address Is Exhibition of
Art of Shadow Boxing" --

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July "a
The speech of Senator Harding ac-
cepting the Republican nomination fol-
president is bunk" Farley p. Chris
Jensen, candidate for the same office
on the ticket of the Farmer-L Labor
party, declared in formal statement
today Mr.. Christensen ridiculed the
Republican nominee 1or accepting yes
terday a nomination which he declared
was rendered to him IN Chicago hote
room early in the morning of June IL
last.
Mr.. Christensen said Washington and
Lincoln were defenseiess before the
charge" made by Senator Lodge in
notifying Senator Harding of his NOM
nation that you are imbued with the
spirit of Washington, Lincoln and
Roosevelt" He continued:
who fought by the siue of Roosevelt
when he was being called every kind
of criminal and traitor by the reac-
tionary Harding. l, as one of them
can testify to my belief that if Theo.
dore Roosevelt were alive he would
scourge the combination of profiteers
and politicians who now so braZenly link
his memory with their nefarious effort
to turn this republic over to soviet OF
Wall street bankers.
DSHdlOT t1dTulllS duuT6SS Is all Ell
tightening exhibition of the high and
manly art of shadow boxing. The
- league of nations is dead, yet he lunges
at its ghost and shouts to the onlook-
eers: It's alive! It's alive! l tell you
only Pontius Palmer" Mr.. Christen-
sen said, foresaw red conflagrauion
with vision equal to that of Senator
Harding.
He went on:
las to the vital issues before the
people, issues involving their deiverance
from economic bondage and political
servility, the senator from Ohio pours
forth sea of words signifying nothing.
He, who but few years ago sullenly
said the working man should be salts
fled with one dollar day and the far
mer contented with one dollar bushel
Tor wheat, has become so progressive as
a candidate for the presidency as to
admit labor is entitled to a better wage
than that but adds that labor must
give its full measure of service for
high wages if this country is going to
avoid industrial and economic chaos.
That is a contemplate insult to the
sincerity of the American worker and
a groveling guarantee to big business
that it has nothing to fear from Hard
ing if he is elected. Senator Harding
knows, as does every other member OF
the senate-for they have all been pre-
wages report prepared by w. Jett
Lauck, former secretary of the national
war labor board, that the ratio of prof
its in prices has increased from one
to two hundred percent as a result of
wartime corporate profiteering and that
the ratio of wages in prices has de-
creased by nearly the same percentage
and that the dissipated purchasing pow
er of the average mans dollar makes
his economic condition worse than it
was before the war.
IF this country is to suffer indus
trial and economic ruin, it will be be-
cause the people have been deceived
once more into surrendering control
over their lives and their rights to the
financial pirates"
Mr.. Christensen charged that Senator
Harding and the Democratic nominee,
Gov. Cox, represented those that he
designated as financial pirates" He
declared Senator Harding's address cen
WINGED him that the Ohioan was dom
mated by the will of organized capi-
tai" that If he were elected economic
chaos and a nation of soup kitchens"
were inevitable.
Senator Harding talks much and
says nothing" the Farmer Labor nom
inee continued. Those who have felt
the sting of high prices and made
quate income certainly can find no ray
of the generous expression of graft
tude, that Senator Harding promises
them. Farmers look in vain for a def
mite pledge of relief from the burdens
imposed upon them. Organized finance
alone can find joy in the address: for
organized finance Harding is a good
candidate"