Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-10-26
HARDING Confident
OF HIS ELECTION
Issues Final Statement" Sum.
marizing Party's Record and
Its Pledges for Future.
o. ..,.,ad prexs IN Every. Evening

Bv Associated Press to Every Evening
Washington, Oct. Ex-senator Hard
ING. in final prediction statement to
The American people, made public here
tonight, declared the Republican party
goes TO the people assured that they VIII
recognize IT'S superiority as an instru-
mentality of administration and that IN
the election now impending they VIII
pive il the certificate of their confidence
and trust.
The Republican Pre- sIdentlal nominee
criticised Democratic administration OF
governmental affairs, declaring the ma
non is determined to be done with de-
mocracy under the mere guise OF Demo-
cratic forms" The Republican party, he
assert ed, has proposed in its platform and
developed i'm the utterances OF Its leaders q
procrom which contemplates equal OPP
portunitv for all, and recognizes the
vices of exploitation and profteerlng
As to the League of Nations issue,
Senator Harding summarized his party S
position as follows: -
"Thc Republican party purposes :, sucn
an ASSOCIATION of nations as VIII most
effectively further the aspiration LOT
Worldwide and permanent peace without
sacrificing any part oi the Independence
of tho American nation. Ii DeiicNeS MINER
On can and must bear ITS tull part IN the
responsibilities Of the world, but II al
WAYS believes that America alone must
decide what that part shall DC
Senator liardlngs statement IN part
follows:
In = sling the suffrage Of the American
electorate thus wear. the Republican party
has in mind both the record Of service
from its beginning whereof 1T IS very
proud. and the vision OF opportunity Tor
scrvicc in the future, which It's Spokcsmen
have presented during this campaign we
arc asking that a great responsibility ne
,rnnoScd unon US. 1t Is . responsibility
that must be measured by both the
gravity of the crisis that confrontS the
world and the incapacity with which the
present administration has met the prob
icms of the last few years. Oncrous as 1t
tho responsibility we seek. our party has
no thought OF cvading for 1t never has
bccn guilty nf that.
"Dcmocratlc economic and admins
tratiyc policies have brought this country
tn th, danger of disaster before the out
break of the war in Europe. The vast
cVpanSion of our export trade and de
nandS upon our producing facilities, Which
came with the war. saved us from I'M
mediate precipitation OF that disaster i'ut
that phase has now passed and nothing pu0
a return 10 those constructive ana pro-
rrcs>Ivc policies which have always char
actcrized the Republican administration
can save u from carly realization oi the
danger that confronted US at the middle
OF 1914
From the beginning cf the war in
F,,r,re the Democratic administration
steadfastlv refused TO prepare for the
national defense in case We should be IN
Volvcd. in 1916. when u was apparent to
mot renrlc that our country was IN
lmminen. danger Of being drawn INTO the
struggle. the Democratic party made rs
cnmpeicn on The boast that It had kept
"a Out ol war and the promise TO con-
tinue keeping US out. Thus. when we
found ourselves az last in the struggle,
We were utterly unresdy for It, ard our
Dqrtirinafion cost Us immcaslreaDIv
more than il should have cost.
Al administration that, when all the
world was IN confsgratlon, refused TO
realize tho Importance Of preparedness, OF
course could not he expected 10 realize
while we were al war the necessity OF pre-
naring for peace. so we entered INTO peace
quite rs unreqdv for II as we had been for
war. Our economics were dlsorganlzed,
our debt enormous, our foreign commerce
devoted largely 10 supplying the neces-
sarles Of war.
Instead of setting itself to remedvIng
these conditions, the administration has
devoted itself from the day OF the arms
tice u promoting project OF world re-
organization In which America should
bear the largest responsibilities OF guar
anteeing a new scheme of things. In
stead Of making legal peace as soon as
actual peace had been won, the American
people, alone of all the warring nstions,
were denied by their government the
privilege of return TO the legal status of
peace and TO the enjoyment of those rights
which they had temporarily surrendered
under the circumstances of wal"