The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-03

the luncheon American Legion boys
opened a way through the crowd and led
The Senator TO a new fiagpole made out
of three Splced locust trees. The Co
lumbus Glee Club sang and the Senator
raised the flag. II waved over the yell
low cornfields and comfortable homes
and wooded stretches. All the pastures
We're blocked with farmers, automo-
hlles. Three thousand machines ar
rived befoVe noon.
At the tent the programme was under
the direction of DIR. NJ. ]. Jenkins of
'ain City The senator was presented
With a horseshoe fashioned for him by
Uncle Sam Robinson. the village black
smith. Representative Charles Crabb
said II meant the Senator would pitch
ringer on November 2. Mrs. Margaret
Taylor Upton and Representative Simeon
u Fess We're on the programme.
Mrs. Upton explained that every wom-
an is for peace, and yet they are all
against Article X. of the League of Ma
tons. If we are going TO have war, she
said. we want it declared by our own
men. The league. she said. gives over
sight over women. children and opium.
ard women wanted none of that anyway.
The chairman, forgot the invocation
until the middle OF the programme. after
the glee club had sung several rollicking
songs about "Shifty Jimmy" as they
termed Gov. Cox. Then the Rev. A. l..
Rogers was invited to offer prayer. The
Senator said he was glad to have his
address preceded by ps2yer. as 1--WE
need little more region in the United
States. and little more of God in our
worldly affairs" de spoke of the tribu
lations of running for office. and said
that perhaps woman would be can
cndate the next Time. He spoke against
those who seek favor by petty methods.
and explained that since he had become
a nominee he had been more thoughtful
than ever of his utterances and felt
obliged to read from manuscript
Outlines G. o. II. Purposes.
The Senator's address was of the high
plane of progressive, liberal thought that
marked his speech of yesterday to the
women. The tone of the days remarks
may be judged by this:
The future will require that. We use
government to conserve human resource,
human health, human happiness. as we'll
as mere human prosperity"
The essentials of the speech covered
the practical problems that seem to be
of deep concern to the people in this
campaign. These may be stated, con-
cisely, as The Republican party's de-
termination to increase the prosperity
of the land owning farmer to dis
courage and check land grabbing and
the consequent evil of tenant farming /:
to enable the Government to provide the
money by which men can own and oper-
ate their own farms to the best ad-
vantage, and so get a long way toward
solving the food problem and the cost
of living; to provide better distribution
for farm products by encouraging rail-
road reconstruction and assisting rail-
roads to larger facilities; to develop
waterways and other transported ton
feeders by honest. economical means,
while doing away with pork barrel"
methods of appropriating the public
money; to provide a protective, tariff
that Will help not only the farmers but
all citizens, particularly labor, and that
Will assist in keeping wages up to a
high level; to assist farmers to such
prosperity as will keep women out Of
the fields; to provide better educational
Facilities IN rural districts. and generally
10 iegislate and administer on the theory
that the prosperity and happiness of the
farmers of the country may mean the
very salvation of American democracy.
Inc plOS OF the KeDuDllCln
party, Senator Harding said. is based
upon three policies He outlined them
thus:
THE first Of these policies is that as
nation we shall All do whatever we
can to make prosperous the landowning.
soil conserving American farmer We
must oppose the menacing increase of
the tenant farmer, who cannot call the
lands and the buildings home and. of
course. have no great concern for con-
serving our soil and no particular en-
couragement to make improvements of a
permanent character.
THE reason for this tenancy is not
difficult to uncore, as we have gone FOR
ward in great national growth We have
been catching up with our food produce
ton and the time will be upon us soon,
unless we do something about it, when
we will no longer be feeding the world,
but will experience difficulty in feeding
ourselves. With the extension of farm
ing in the United states. with the in
creased demands for farm products. we
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