Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1920-06-18

NEXT PRESIDENT AND VICE PRES
DENT NOMINATED. PLAT
FORM ADOPTED.

The Republican National Con
vention which was held in Chica-
go last week. on Thursday
adopted a strong, conservative
and practical platform, which
action was followed Saturday
by the nomination of Q. S. Sen
ator Warren G. Harding, Of Ohio,
for President, and Governor
Calvin Coolidge, of Massachus-
etts, for Vice President.
The platform upon which the
candidates will make their APP
peal to the voters OF the country
is not only a clear, conservative
and frank expression of the prin-
ciples OF the Republican party,
but is a patriotic, American doc
ument. 1t rings true to the
ideals, purposes and feelings of
every true and red-blooded
American citizen.
The Republican National Con
vcntion not only performed a
great and admirable duty in
adopting such a platform, but
rendered a still greater service
to the party and to the people Of
the United States, in the nomi
nation of Senator Harding for
President and Governor Cool
idge, for Vice President.
The Baltimore American says
among other things in reference
to the candidates =:
Warren G. Harding, the Re
publican candidate for President.
represents the type of American
ism that is in the hope, aspira-
ton and desire of those who be-
heve in constitutional govern
ment as it has been set up in
this republic and who are for
American institutions and not
for merging the destiny of our
firmly founded and splendidly
prosperous country with the
hopeless tumble of a vaguely
planned world government. The
presidential candidate is not
man with his head in the clouds.
He is noted above all else for the
practical and discriminating
quality of his common sense.
His feet are upon the earth. He
knows men and things as they
are. He is not a visioner who is
trying to look forty centuries
ahead He was born and reared
in Ohio and he knows the United
States from Maine to California;
from Duluth, Minnesota, to San
Antonio, Texas. He is of the
people, he knows the meaning of
democracy the purposes and
aims of that idealized democracy
which Lincoln typified and for
which the Republican party has
always stood. He knows this
kind of democracy and he stands
for it.
This may be taken as absolute
ly certain that if elected to the
presidency, or, let us cut out the
if and say that when he becomes
President, Harding will not at
tempt to be the whole thing in
government. There is no sign or
token of inflated ego about him. !
And he is a known proposition. |
He is no find. He has been
prominent as a political lead |
er in Ohio for twenty years and
has been influential in national |
politics since his election to the
United States Senate in 1914.
He is a member of the present |
Senate Committee on kNreign
Affairs; he has been, during his
service in the Senate, influential
in shaping all important matters
of Legislation. AS President hel
willsurrodnd himself with strong
men the most capable and com
petent Saying this is no hap
hazard guess. What Harding is,
what he stands for, are all writ
ten in the records. When he as
sumes the responsibilities of the
chief executive Office he will re-
gard it as his paramount duty to |
devote himself to those RESPONSE |
bilities. He will not be asking
Congress for mandate power
over Armenia, Siberia, nor for
any other Of the forty-odd ma
tons born of the war.
AS to the nominee for Vice
President, Calvin Coolidge is the
right sort Of the potential re
serve to the presidency 1t is a
generally accepted theory that
the Vice President does not fea
ture importantly in governmental
affairs, but, beyond question, the
selection OF the man who, in case
of the death or permanent inca
pacity of the Chief Executive, |
will succeed to the presidency is
an affair of large importance.
The ticket presented by the
Republican party will command |
the confidence OF the American
per a." 1t is a ticket that will
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