Albuquerque morning journal., 1920-07-23
HARDING To END
WAR IF ELECTED
ny 7. seuTION
SAYS IN 5fl;S's:;:
After That viii Endeavor to
Form An Association OF
Nations, With American
Sovereignty Unimpaired,
NEW PATHWAY MUST
BE FOUND TO PEACE
Marion Is Crowded On No
tification Day. Nominee Is
the Center of a Reception
Lasting Seven Hours,
tnr MORNING. JoursAl SPECIAL ls.ssD w,.x,

Marion, Ohio, July 22.-Peace by
resolution of congress and after
that an effort to form an associa-
ton of nations that would not i'm
pair American sovereignty were
promised today by Warren G..
Harding in his speech accepting the
republican nomination for the
presidency.
lie declared the time had come
TO recognize "the failure attending
assumption, obstinacy, Impractical
billty and delay" in President Will
sons attempt to form a league of
nations, and that a new pathway
must be found to peace and world
concert
In receiving formally his party's
mandate the nominee also outlined
| n stand for government by party
rather than by individuals, declared
railway employees might well be
accorded a status of public serv-
ants, endorsed cooperative market
ing for farmers, and pronounce /
! increased production the key to a
| lower cost of living.
| Crowd of Many Thousands.
The address was delivered here
at the climax Of day of celehra-
| tion which brought to Marion a
notable company Of party chiefs
and a crowd of many thousands.
| Their plaudits and serenading kent
| the nominee the center of q seven
hour reception as delegations from
man states paraded past the Hard
| ing residence In clamoring caval-
cade.
Soon after sun up the march of
! the first delegations brought the
senator to his front doorstep and
after that there scarcely was let
up until he left for the notification
ceremonies on the outskirts of the
city at O'Clock Old friends from
nearby counties mixed with the
lioan clubs of distant cities IN the
procession, gay with decorations
and blatant with noise.
Hays Prestdes at Ceremonies.
At the chautauqua pavilion,
where the notification took place,
seats had been provided for 1000
and many times that number
surged about the park and sur
rounding fields unable to get with
in earshot of the speakers.
Will II, Hays, national chair
/ man, presided at the ceremonies,
and Senator Lodge OF Massachu-
sets, who was chairman of the
Chicago convention, formally notl-
| fled the candidate of his nomina-
ton in a speech rapping President
Wilson's league Of nations and
praising the part Senator Harding
had taken in preventing its unre-
served acceptance.
Speaking slowly and with a
| characteristic gravity, the nomi-
nee delivered his declaration of
policy in clear, full voice that
penetrated the outskirts Of the pa
yillion. Several times h, got the
crowd on its feet as he hammered
with clinChed fist to lnld his blows
where thew would tell
Blows at League ApDlaud"d.
His thrusts at the league OF ma :
tions were answered by repeated
thunderclaps of cheering lut the
passage the crowd seemed to like
best came when he voiced MS hn-
mility in the presence of the re-
sponsibilities of the presidency and
then, squaring his shoulders, added
that his confidence in the support
of his fellow citizens made him
I"wholly unafraid."
| In his discussion Of tre league
ne made no direct recommendation
for rejection of tn peace treaty
and did not take up in ietail the
league covenant, CoHtenting hlm-
self with the declaration tbat tnH
league as conceived hv the presi-
dent was unthinkablc, he pa ''ed on
to state his own view Of Wha'
should be done.