Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-26
SUGGEST VACATION
| TRIP FOR HARDING
Elaborate Homes Placed at His
i Disposal for Rest After
III Election
PLEDGES U. s. PROSPERITY

Marion, O., Oct. 26.-As election day
draws near volunteer suggestions for
vacation trip for Senator Harding are
coming 20 his headquarters here In in.
creasing numbers from his friends and
admirers throughout the country.
number Of popular winter resorts have
asked to be his host and several elab
crate private homes have been placed at
his disposal for whatever rest he may
decide to take after the end Of the cam
paign.
II was said today that all of these
offers were held open for the present.
and that probably no choice Of va
cation spot would be announced until
after election. Both the senator and
Mrs. Harding. it was explained. pre-
ferred to devote their energies now TO
the campaign. leaving their personal
plans to be worked out later.
Hawaii, Bermuda. Panama. Califor-
mia, the Gulf coast and many other
places have been mentioned in specu-
lation here regarding a vacation trip.
The general belief Of those who know
the senator's inclinations. however.
Is that he will not go outside continental
United States and probably will not
travel as far West as the Pacific coast
1t is expected that any trip he makes
will give him at least two weeks of Sc
Starts Trip Tomorrow
Today the nominee took an easy
stride in his campaign work, seeing
few visitors and devoting most of his
attention to miscellaneous tasks around
his headquarters. II was virtually his
last breathing spell before election, for
he starts tomorrow on campaign trip
through Ohio that will last the re-
nainder Of the week.
Senator Harding issued another
statement last night In which progress
Is promised the American people In
return for victory.
The Republican nominee in his clean
cut declaration AYERS that the people
have had enough Of democracy under
the mere guise of democratic forms"
and impresses the need for return ito
those constructive policies which have
always characterized the Republican
administration"
Senator Harding promises to turn the
thought of the country's executive and
legislative functions once more toward
the domestic issues that are so pressing
and abandon the Wilsonian engross-
ment with the chimera Of world recon-
struction.
The people are assured it will be the
aim Of the Republican party to keep
them on the new and higher lever which
the times have brought, but there Is the
additional warning to those who seek
70 disrupt the present scheme of things
through violent means that evolution
and development, not revolution or dis
integration, will be followed in the
carrying out of this program.
Text of Harding's Statement
Senator Harding's statement follows :
'In asking the suffrage of the Amer
lean electorate this year, the Republi :
can party has in mind both the record
Of service for its beginnings. whereof II
IN very proud. and the vision of oppor
tunity for service In the future. which
its spokesmen have presented dur.
ing this campaign. We are asking that
a great responsibility be imposed upor
us. II is a responsibility that must be
measured by both the gravity Of thu
crisis that confronts the world and th'
incapacity with which the present ad
ministration has met the problems Of
the last few years. Onerous as is tht
responsibility we seek, our party mas nc
thought of evading. for it never has been
guilty Of that.
democratic economic and admins
trative policies had brought this coun-
try TO the danger of disaster before thu
outbreak of the war in Europe. Th'
vast expansion of our export trade anC
demands upon our producing facilities
which came with the war, saved US from
immediate precipitation of that disas
ter. But that phase has now passet
and nothing but return to those con
structiye and progressive policies which
have always characterized the Republi
can administration can save US from
early realization of the danger that con
fronted us at the middle of 1914.
From the beginning of the war il
Europe the Democratic administration
steadfastly refused to prepare for tn
national defense in case we should b
involved. In 1915 when 1t was ap
parent to most people that our countr
was in imminent danger of being draw
into the struggle. the Democratic part
made it's campaign on the boast that
had kept us out Of war, and the promis
TO continue keeping US out. Thus, wheI
we found ourselves at last in the strug
gle. we were utterly unready for II. ant
our participation cost us immeasurabl
more than it should have cost.
Unprepared for Peace
IAN administration that. when a.
the world was in confagratiOn. refuses
10 realize the Importance of prepared
ness, of course could not be expected
TO realize while we were at war tn
necessity Of preparing for peace, 5
we entered into peace quite as unread
for Il as we had for war Our eco
nomics were disorEanized. our deb
enormous. our foreign commerce de
voted largely to supplying the neces
sartes of war.
Instead Of setting itself to remedy
ing these conditions, the administrator
has devoted itself from the day Of tn
armistice to promoting a project Q
world reorganization in which Americ
should bear the largest responsible
ties of guaranteeing a new scheme @
things. Instead OF making legal peac
as soon as actual peace had been won
the American people. alone OF all tn
warning nations were denied by thei
government the privilege Of return t
the legal status Of peace and TO the en-
ioyment of those rights which they ha
Temporarily surrendered under the cir
cumstances of war.
$50 long as war was on hepnbhcar
upheld the hands Of the administration
forgetting party considerations, an
gave their vote in support OF wa
measures far more generously than di
their political opponents. Yet an au
tocrattc administration repaid this 10y
atty with the demand in the campaig
of 1918 that Republicans he remove
from every position of influence an
mower. That demand the country re
jected. 1t was the first time in the his
tory Of this nation that An administra
tion had been defeated in the midst {
A foreign war. That defeat would hay
been ample admonition to any admin
I.ka. tton MT eptiralv absorbed in II