The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-07-22

MARION, Ohio.-(By A. P.)-The
republican campaign attained "full
speed ahead today with the formal
notification of Senator Harding, the
presidential nominee, Of the action of
the Chicago convention.
These ceremonies which brought to
Marion the most big party leaders
and thousands of Harding enthusi-
asts, included the notification speech
by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of
Massachusetts, chairman of the Chi
|cago convention; and the acceptance
speech of Senator Harding, interpret
ing the Chicago platform and declar-
ing the principles on which he ex-
poets the campaign to be fought. The
acceptance speech came as the end of
a long program high pitched with en-
thusiasm as the visiting delegates
marched ON the Harding residence.
Senator Lodges Address.
Senator Lodge, in notifying Sena-
tor Harding of the action of the re-
publican convention in nominating
him for president, said in part:
Senator Harding:
We are assembled here as COM
mittee representing the states, ter
ritories and possessions of the United
States to make to you formal an
nouncement of your nomination for
the office of president of the Repub-
lie on June 18th last, at Chicago, by
the republican national convention.
This duty is to us as pleasing as it
is honorable, but we are also deeply
conscious Of its far-reaching import
ance. We fully appreciate that what
you say to us today will not only be
read and pondered by all the Ameri-
can people within the confines of the
United States but also by all other
civilized nations. Here today you
will chart the course to be followed
by the republican party in the great
electoral contest which lies before us
and will declare your purposes and
those of the party you lead when
the authority of government is once
more committed to our keeping.
We await this declaration un-
troubled by any doubts and with
the most entire confidence. All who
are familiar with your character and
career and most especially those who
have taken part with you in public
service know beyond peradventure
that you are patriotic American,
imbued with the spirit of the great
leaders Of the past, of Washington,
Lincoln and Roosevelt, whose SER
vices to the American people have
become forever memorable in our
history. You will always, and instinc-
lively, in meeting the difficult ques-
ions and weighty responsibilities
which confront you, think with COM
olete unselfishness of your country
snd your country's interests first, a |
high qualification for an exalted Of |
ice not too familiar to US Of late and I
therefore peculiarly necessary at this /
Foreign Policy Far Reaching.
The present situation, however,
,rings with it far-reaching questions
# foreign policy to a degree never
,nown in our previous history. At our
,wn doors we have Mexico in a state
# disorder and disintegration to
which our government, has unhappily |
most literally contributed. Here is a
,rave responsibility not to be evaded
he supremacy in the American hemi-
phere of the Monroe doctrine, which
vas declared by US in order to guard
he safety Of the United States and
ave the New World so far as pos
ible from the wars and misfortunes ;
f the old. We justly demand the
bstention of Europe from any inter
erence with American questions, but
his doctrine Of ours brings with it
OF only it's benefits but its duties.
he condition of Mexico, owing in
arge measure to the shortcomings of
ur government, could not well be
7orse, and we must make up our
minds that we not only owe it to our
elves to protect there, as all over
he world, American rights and in
erests SO long neglected, but to reach !
ut a helping hand to the Mexican
eople to the end that law and order