The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-09-16
DAY OF REST FOR
HARDING; OBSERVES
CONSTITUTION DAY

MARION, O.. Sept. 16.-This was to
Harding, the Republican presidential
candidate.
Tomorrow he will make a front
porch address on constitutional gov
eminent to delegations from number
OF surrounding counties, augmented by
citizens Of Marion and Marion county.
A big parade to the Harding home is
planned.
Senator Harding's statement, in
commemoration of "Constitution" day,
follows in part.
There is abroad in the land a spir-
it which seeks to weaken the adher-
ence of the people to their constitu-
ton, and which recklessly challenges
it's worth. 1t is we'll, therefore, to
have one day in the year set apart
for the clearing of our vision and the
regeneration of our faith.
ITO assail or belittle the flag is to
invite and incur the just and passion
ate resentment of all country-loving
men, but the constitution may be at
tackled or disparaged with impunity,
and, all too often, with approval; and
yet the one is but symbol-though
very precious symbol-while the
other is the very warp and woof of
our national existence.
at has sometimes been asserted
that the constitution was imposed
upon the many for the benefit of the
few. On the contrary, it is the one
thing. above all other things in our
policy, which both in origin and eX-
preston is universal in its democ-
racy.
"a statute rests upon the delegated
authority of small official group,
but the constitution is the direct fiat
of all the people. 1t is their man.
datc-expressing not their wishes, but
their will-fiXing the immovable
boundaries of power beyond which
their servants are forbidden to go. 1t
is declared to be the supreme law Of
the land with which every other law
and every official act must coincide
or fail
"It is an ever-standing proclama-
ton of the right OF the people to
speak as the sovereign power of the
nation, whose body and soul they
are, for does it not begin with the
imperial words: We. the people of
the United States. do ordain and
establish this constitution for the
L HlIeO states OF America.
'If by some tragic dispensation of
fate this constitution should cease
to be the door would no longer be
closed against the stealthy appropri-
alton of autocratic power. and the
gradual absorption of the peoples
sovereignty.
so long as it endures the people
will never have a master. but will
rule themselves subject to no com
pelling force but their own authority
and the will of God.
whether it shall endure will be
for the men and women of America
to determine. Respect for it, rever-
enCe for it, is not enough. They
must take hold of its meaning, pene-
trate its spirit cleave to its prinCi-
pies. confound it's enemies. More
dangerous than open reputation is
insidious subversion.
Constitution day, Friday, Sept. II,
will be generally observed by the Re
publicans throughout Indiana. One
meeting has been scheduled for
Wayne county. to be held Friday
evening in Cambridge City in the
opera house. The meeting will be ad-
dressed by Webster Davis. of Gary,
formerly assistant secretary of the in
terror under the administration of
President Mckinley.
Several other Constitution day
meetings are to be held in cities
peighboring Richmond. A list OF
these meetings and the speakers fol-
lows:
Connersville, Harry E. Yockey, of
Indianapolis; Newcastle, Representa-
tive Richard N. Elliott, of Corners
Vile; Winchester. Thomas A Daily;
Liberty, NJ. w. Pershing. of Indian