Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-25
HARDING DECLARES
'ONE-MAN CONTROL
IS NOT HIS POLICY
Candidate. Addresses Thou
sands of Commercial Men
From Marion Porch.
By the Associated Press

From Marion Porch.
By the Associated Press
MARION. Ohio, September 25.-An
| era OF business stability and of busi-
nesslike government wa. promised by
Senator Harding today in a front-porch
speech to a gathering of several thou
J sand commercial travellers, who came
from all parts of the country under the
| auspices of the Harding and Coolidge
Travelling Mems League.
The business methods of the demo-
| cratic administration, both in the CON
duct of its own affairs and in it's rela-
! tons to private enterprise, were de-
| Eounced by the republican nominee as
meddllng and autocratic' to degree
threatening industrial chaos He out
lined policy of common counsel in
contrast to "one-man judgment" and
on such sense that it does not treat
the nations business with suspicion and
contempt"
His Success Means Change.
Il believe that everywhere in the
land, said Senator Harding, there is
the opinion that we have had enough
OF government excessively centralized in
executive powers; enough of autocratic
government unwilling to heed counsel
and advice; enough of government
which ignores the representative branch
and its close contact with the popular
will. 1 want it very explicitly under
stood that my election to the executive
office means complete change from the
one-man policy which has characterized
our national government during the past
seven years.
Senator Harding said, in part:
MY Countrymen: Long before money
long before banks and clearing houses
were even thought of, the barterers of
trade were the advance agents expand
ing civilization. The primitive man
produced from the soil for his own sus-
tenance. but when he began turning ma
lures bounty into surpluses people un-
dertook their exchanges, and the ex-
change of products was attended by an
exchange of ideas, and the world devel-
oped and advanced accordingly It was
in these exchanges that the first trave.-
ing men of all civilization became the
ambassadors of education and art, the
bearers of ideas and the surveyors OF
the widened fields of human relation
ships. The paths of cargoes were the
highways of exchanging ideas, and the
men who bought and sold, the travelling
men of old, were the. foremost expo
nents of the worlds commerce and its
attending civilization.
1.-THE travelling men of today main
tain their eminent relationship to the
life and progress of our people. BusI-
ness is the life blood of the nation, ana
these business agents are unfailing in
their reflex of progressive thought and
the convictions of the American people.
We find them everywhere, always alerr.
always pushing ahead, always eager 70
add to the volume of business which is
hah hxy.r fnvp ST tn~, y~1
tune and the base of all our boasted at
tainments.
As Americans First. :
'But do not mean to address you
especially as commercial travellers
but rather as Americans first. I do
not ask that you. who can carry fur
ther than any other body of men a
message to the American people shall
carry any part of a message in which
you do not yourselves believe, with
full heart and with calm thinking,
is for the good of the whole of the
American people. 1 would not dwell
upon criticism of the conditions
brought about by nearly eight years
of mismanagement of the United
States if it were not necessary to
take some account of where we now
stand SO that we may wisely bring
America again to her main road. and
restore prosperity and give promise
to the laborer. who gives us the
products of soil and toll. that We
shall not have in the United states
no hour day"
"I know pretty well. from more or
less contact with commercial travel
ers. during a third of a century OF
business life. how it is in the heart
of each to further the work which
/ is his task. 1t is in this untiring de-
votion, this never-ending activity, en-
HANGED by other attributes, that sue
cess is achieved. / want the CONNER
cial travellers of the one big house
this republic of ours-always to be
thinking of America first.
"But I know what is in your minds
today-your practical thought: You
want stability once more for Amer
lean business. You want normal con-
ditions. You want that confidence and
security which will put an end TO
anxiety about production; an end 10
fear about buying; an end 10 uncer-
tainty about delivery or distribution.
NJ abiding commercial edifice was
ever builded on the changing sahos OF
uncertainty.
Free From Abuse.
"In deplorine present day conditions
do not mean to indulge in abuse
which can bear no good fruit, nor IN
criticism, which can only result in
contention Undeniably. there Is a
feeling permeatlng the American
mind that great harm has been done
bv unwise heads and prodigal hands
In seeking the correction, the party
for which I speak means to appeal 10
the confidence and the sober convic-
ttons of America, else we do not
| wish to be committed to the enor-
! mons tasks before us. We want this
confidence and conviction Of America
hocanse we need the will of the peo-
Me in the sought-for solution.
.I want it very explicitly understood
that INV election to the executive office
means a complete change from the
nne-man policy which has character
izad our national government during
the mast seven years
Driven Toward Chaos.
| eve have been driven toward chaos
helieve. not only by the unsuccess-
ful attempts made to mortgage
American rights, American fortunes
and the American conscience abroad
and TO check American nationality
and American honor at the cloak
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