The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-21
HARDING SITS PAT
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Republican Nominee Challenges
4 Amy to Find Contradictions.
Declares His Stand on League
II Has Not Changed.
REFUSES TO OUTLINE PLAN
No Workable Plan Can Be Made
in Minute.
Eastern Tour May End His
! Campaign-Cuts N. Y. City.
lEFUSES TO OUTLINE PLAN
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER.

f.. Rochester, n. Y, Oct. 21.-Senator
Warren C. Harding today challenged
anyone to draw up parallel column
of his utterances on the League of Ma
gions and find statements not in ac-
cord.
III Speaking at Convention hall here,
the Republican candidate insisted that
he has held to one position turnout
his campaign and again refused 70
outline in. detail his conception OF an
association of nations.
II No Hope for League.
81 challenge contradiction, 1 invite
any mans parallel of utterances which
are not in accord" he said. Il nave
hnfailingly said that we wish TO asso-
riate with other nations to end war
and promote and preserve peace. me
bther nations of the world are wiser
than our political opponents.
n .aThey have accepted the fact that
there is no hope of uniting Amerlca.Hs'
a. even a very substantial minority,
behind the impossible proposal that
Ne should accept the covenant as writ.
ren. The foreign nations nave SCI
their faces to the future 80 mus
America, so must every friend Oh tne
new and better order.
: Must Use Caution.
It is easy enough for any candloate
who is going to lose to say almost any
thine about the league of nations or
his future plans, Harding contihueu.
l13ut those who expect to be calea 70
iresDonsibility have the task OF unltinS
American opinion behind workanie
lplan and must, therefore proceeu Win
caution, he explained.
'nress the purpose of the American
j1eopie before being clothed with autn-
iaritv to consult them, if 1 desired 10
dictate to foreign nations 1t would De
iimpossible for me to suggest a new
loo enc and say to the nations or the
tta~tb and To nv native countrymen:
sralre this or take nothing, HARDING
said "But I am not that KIND OF 2
icardidate. I believe in consulting the
tkmerican, in fact as well as IN tneory'
ii IT still believe in constitutional gov
iernment and have seen some OF the
lfaiinres which came of Haunting 1t.
.realize il much more than ever tne
failure which came of ignoring the
Senate. I can see no great service IN
ifiving upon a plan and then refusing
to change it. Our business is 70 IN
lvitc American opinion and and ma
.way to national aceompnsnnleeihp''. .,s
No World Citizenship.
1zsrdinp said he finds "no minstrel
noDrure swelling for citizenship of the
world = at is one thing" he contin-
iued ITO reject a dangerous contract
,hnd quite another to say becoming
iarran gements would be gladly consio-
Tered"
The American people surely can
mot take seriously the Democratic IN
lsistcnce that the Paris covenant snail
lstiu be considered for acceptance as
lit stands he said
"The constitutional spokesman for
the people performing sworn duty
have twice rejected that proposal, and
they reject it now. So do 1 now, as
lone of them, have repeatedly
spoken such rejection from the day OF
accepting my nomination to this very
'hour with unfailing consistency"
Won't Speak in n. Y. City.
Senator Harding entered New York
Estate today for the first time since he
received the Republican presidential
nomination. A set speech was made al
Rochester another is scheduled al
buffalo tonight. Several rear platform
talks probably will be made.
Senator Harding does not plan to &c
Ito New York City during the cam
lpaign. The plan was originally not tC
icnter' New York state. but appeal;
from up state leaders resulted in the
lRepublican candidate consenting t.
this trip.
This probably will be Senator Hard
iing's lasts50prney outside of his hom'
istate. The final week of the cam
ipaisn will be spent in important Ohit
trftfas