Albuquerque morning journal., 1920-07-23
SENATOR LODGE NOTIFIES
HARDING OF NOMINA TON
AS G.. O. p. CANDIDA TIE
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Marion, Ohio, July 22.-Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge, chairman of
the notification committee, today
delivered the address notifying
Senator Warren G. Harding of his
nomination as the republican cam
didate for president. Senator
Lodges address follows:
Senator Harding:
We are assembled here as a
committee representing the states,
territories and possessions of the
United States to make to you
formal announcement of your
nomination for the office of pres
ident of the republic on June 18th
last, at Chicago, by the republican
national convention. This duty is
to us as pleasing as it is honor
able, but we are also deeply con-
scious of it's far-reaching impor-
tance. We fully appreciate that
what you say to us today will not
only be read and pondered by all
the American 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 re-
publican party in the great cleo
toral 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 keep
ing.
We await this declaration un-
troubled by any doubts and with
the most entire confidence. All
who are familiar with your char
acter and career and most espe-
cially those who have taken part
with you in public service know
beyond a peradventure that you
'are a patriotic American, imbued
with the spirit of the great lead
|ers of the past, of Washington
Lincoln and Roosevelt, whose serv-
ices to the American people have
become forever memorable in our
history. You will always, and in
stinctively, in meeting the difficult
questions and weighty responsibit
tiles which confront you, think
with complete unselfishness of your
country and your country's inter
ests first, high qualification for
IAN exalted office not too familiar
Ito us of late and therefore pc
lculiarly necessary at this moment
You will, we are certain, be ever
faithful to the finest traditions OF
the republican party and at the
same time, we are equally sure
that you are wisely tolerant and
open-minded, in sympathy with
THE best movements of the time,
looking forward to the future, and
its needs but never unmindful oil
the great basic principles upon
which the builders of the republic
laid the foundation Of our govern
ment. Your public life has shown
to us and all your fellow citizens
that you believe in the system OF
government designed by the
trainers of the constitution. They
established a representative de-
mocracy and had no sympathy
with any scheme which would
turn the government of the United
States into an autocracy baseo
upon a plebiscite and with all the
intervening representative features
disregarded or effaced. You have
labundantly shown your unwaver-
| ing conviction that the government
of the United States should be one
/ of laws and not of men and thal
| the three branches of that gov
lernment should all work together
In the exercise Of the powers cof-
|ferred upon them ssveraiiy by the
constitution, for the common pur'