The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-30
HARDING FLAYS
WILSON REIGN
Many Failures" and "Short.
comings' During Eight Years
Democratic Rule Enumerated.
by Associated Press).

Cincinnati, Oct. ga day of cam
/ paigning through his own state was
concluded by Senator Harding tonight
with an address in Cincinnati's music
| hall again drawing attention to do
| mestic issues and charging that the
| Democratic party had sought to
cover up mistakes at home by empha-
sizing speculative propositions with
reference to our foreign relations
Democratic slogans and promises
of four and eight years ago were
brought back before the voters by the
ton III SNORT. cufifrngs laid at the door,
of the Wilson administration. In 1922
he said the Democrats won with with
a promise to reduce the cost of living,
and in 1916, they used the slogan "he
kept us out of war" although the adj
ministration knew definitely, absolute
ly that our entry into the war was
inevitable.
Extravaganza, waste, unprepared-
ness, for war and for peace, and a
bungling industrial policy were among
the failures" which the candidate
declared had characterized eight years
of Democratic rule. All of these he
promised to remedy under an admin
istration dedicated first of all to put
ting our own house in order.
The candidates speech at music
hall followed a series of local dem
constructions in which thousands well
coined and acclaimed him.
At Dayton. home town of Governor
Cox, no speech had been arranged,
but during a short stop there the nom
inee and Mrs. Harding alighted from
their train and shook hanos with
several scores of men and women.
In his speech in the music hall the
senator gave major attention to do
nestle questions. but also restated
his position on the league and assert
ed that only by giving the proper
example to the world could the nation
fulfill its mission and pay it's debt to
civilization.
Lincoln once said that our nation
could not endure half slave and half
free, he said, And by the same token
and in the same sense the economic
world cannot long endure half bank
ruptcy and half solvent half subject
and half free. This is obvious to all
who consider the subject status of |
hundreds of millions of people under !
the fixed and practically unalterable /;
conditions of the Versailles compact, !
dominated by the creditor nations of |
the world.
LET us do our part in the world |
first by giving the world a fitting ex-
ample of self government competentiy |
conducted. Before we reach for the |
stars. let us sweep the hearth.
while there has been great deal |
said in this campaign about the heart |
of the world. surely something is due |
m he Safd Oh he ~ IF A 1
lea.
I'VE have for the past eight years, |
had an administration which has been |
more concerned with the ordinary |
than with performance, more interest
ed in internationally than in nation
atty We have had an administra- |
ton always abroad at home, and never |
at home abroad.
"In 1918, the Democratic party went |
into power with a promise to reduce
what was then considered the high
cost of living. They made that the !
paramount promise. What of the full |
fllment? They lowered the barriers
of trade, threw open the world to I'M
fair world competition, and brought
US to the verge of Industrial paralysis
.'They went INTO office with a pledge
TO establish governmental econo-
my and they broke faith with an ex-
hibition of the most profiigate and in
excusable waste of public funds which
the world has ever known. l do not
refer to the expenditures necessitated
by the war. But it is fact that from
the very moment the present admin
istration took the reins of power. the
cost of government began TO increase
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