The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-22
[By Raymond Clapper, United Press
Staff Correspondent

/
| Staff Correspondent
! MARION, Ohio, July 22.--Immediate
declaration of peace an a new effort
| to form an association of all nations
based on justice rather than force,
was promised by Warren G. Harding,
in formally accepting the republican
presidential nomination here today
Scoring the league of nations coven-
! ant as the supreme blunder," he
lauded the senators who opposed its
unqualified ratification as ''sentinals
on the towers of constitutional gov
ernment'
| The nominee was silent regarding
.Sratification of the treaty or the league
in case he is elected. However, he said
he welcomed referendum.
| Harding opened his address with a
! broadside at personal dictatorial and
iautocratic government" He said mo
man is big enough to run this great
republic" His address in full was as
: follows:
| Chairman Lodge, members of the
notification committee, members of
! the national committee, ladies and
gentlemen: The message which you
have formally conveyed brings to me
realization of responsibility which
! is not underestimated. 1t is SUI
preme task to interpret the covenant
of great political party, the activi
/ ties of which are SO woven into the
history of this republic, and a very
sacred and solemn undertaking to
utter the faith and aspirations of the
many millions who adhere to that
party. The party platform has chart
ed the way, yet, somehow, we have
| come to expect that Interpretation
which voices the faith of nominees
who must assume specific tasks.
Let me understood clearly from the
very beginning. l believe in party
Sponsorship in government. believe
in party government as distinguished
from personal government, individual,
dictatorial, autocratic or what not In
a citizenship of more than hundred
millions it is impossible to reach
agreement upon all questions. Parties
are formed by those who reach con-
sensus of opinion. 1t was the intent
of the founding fathers to give to
this republic a dependable and endtr-
ing popular government, representa-
tive in form, and it was designed to
make political parties not only the
preserving sponsors but also the eff.
fective agencies through which hopes
and aspirations and convictions and
conscience may be translated into
public performance.
Popular government has been an in
spiration of liberty since the dawn of
civilization. Republics have risen
and fallen, and a transition from party
to personal government has preceded
every failure since the world began.
Under the constitution we have the
charted way to security and perpet-
uity. We know it gave to US the safe
path to a developing eminence which
no people in the world ever rivalled. 1t
has guaranteed the rule of intelligent,
deliberate public opinion expressed
through parties. Under this plan
masterful leadership becomingly may
manifest it's influence, but a peoples
will still remains the supreme author
ity.
America AS Model.
The American achievement under
the plan of the fathers is nowhere
disputed. On the contrary the Amer
ican example has been the model of
every republic which glorifes the pro-
gress of liberty, and is everywhere
the leaven of representative democra-
cy which has expanded human free
dom. 1t has been wrought through
party government.
No man is big enough to run this
great republic There never has
been one Such denomination was
never intended. Tranquility, stabili-
ty, dependability--all are assured in
party sponsorship, and we mean to
renew the assurances which were
rended in the cataclysmal war.
1t was not surprising that we went
far afield from safe and prescribed