Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-10-02
ENFORCEMENT
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Several special trains brought dele
cations Of women and most of the
business places here employing wom
en- clerks closed for the day.
The visitors marched to the Hard
ing home in martial order. with
bands playing and with standards
bearing the names of numerous
cities following in column the ban
ners of local employees organizations.
They crowded the lawn to overflow
ing and at the end of the speech
women factory workers >jostled
shoulders with women decked in
costly furs and tailored gowns, in a
scramble to shake the nominees
hand.
One feature of the procession up
Mount Vernon avenue was a pageant
in which u girls Of foreign ancestry
marched in the native costume of
their races.
Mrs. Richard Edwards of Indiana
was marshal of the parade and
chairman Of the, front porch meet
ing and Mrs. Raymond Robins of
| Chicago made the speech presenting
the delegation to Senator and Mrs.
| Harding. zs
Tonight Senator Harding made
public a telegram to Edward A.
Ryan of Washington. d. c., who
was arrested at the senator's Balti-
more meeting Monday night after he
had asked the nominee whether "he
agreed with Senator Johnson in his
position to scrap the League of Ma.
| IN hi NT. Ia Ji,,cy
| expressed regret that there had been
i an arrest and declared that he did
not control any senator's attitude
but was trying to harmonic the
views Of American leaders that we
shall be able to adopt a policy in our
| world relations to which Americans
will unitedly subscribe"
| In his discussion OF the League
during his speech to the women the
! candidate said he was sure the
mothers and wives of America do
not wish to give their sons and hus-
bands for sacrifice at the call an an
extra constitutional body like the
| council of the Paris League.
You have heard so much about
Article x, the heart of the league
that I wish to read it to you. You
have also heard something about our
failure to adopt it breaking the
heart Of the world l am a pretty
sympathetic man myself but / want
to tell you women of America that
l would rather break the heart of the
world than destroy the soul of the
United States.
Il have a notion that most of you
can understand the English lam
guage. You can understand Article
K. That is the heart of the League.
That is the mortgage of American
resources. man power and wealth.
, putting them at the command of a
| council OF foreign powers, sitting
around a table at the capital of the
world in Geneva. And if anybody is
in doubt about my position under
stand me now: l am not in favor Of
that covenant.
you note the contract. America
is now 'welcher.' If you do go in
and don't keep your promises you
have made it the colossal disap-
pointment Of all time So I say to
you women Of America let us in good
conscience play our part, not only
by example, but by helping the cause
of humanity and forwarding civil
ization. as we have done from the
beginning Of our republic: but let
us hold to ourselves the right to de-
termine Americas obligation to the
rest of the world"
Many prominent women were in
the gathering, which came largely
from Ohio, Illinois, kentucky, Mich
igan and Minnesota. Among those
present were Mrs. Leonard Wood.
Mrs. Douglas Robinson, Mrs. William
c. Sproul, Mrs. James Garfield, Mrs
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Mrs.
Maude Wood Park, Mrs. Mary Rob-
erts Rinehart and Mrs. Clifford Pin
chot. A delegation Of negro women
was headed by Mrs. Lethia c.
Fleming. Republican National di-
rector of work among colored people.
Senator Harding on Social Justice
Americans:-Tod the people of
Marion and their neighbors welcome
you. You represent the achieve
ments Of the women of America You
| represent, indeed, an extension of
woman's field of endeavor, which is
| benefaction to the world. I believe
that this extension Of womens' activ-
! tiles has been taken. and must for
| ever be taken, without peril to the
fulfilment of that most precious of all
American possessions Americas
motherhood
/ have been asked repeatedly to
make an especial appeal to the wo-