Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-16
HARDING DECLARES
 HE WILL ENDEAVOR
 TO PREVENT STRIFE
Willing to Adopt Some Plan Other Than That Made
 In Paris


 ing that America must do every thing she can" to prevent future wars, Senator Harding renewed here tonight his declaration of six weeks ago, in organizing the sentiment of the world for peace, he favors talk ingJall that is good in the Versailles league of nations.
 / "When elected" he said tonight, "I will immediately summon the best minds of America to consult and advise as to America's relationship to the present association of nations to modifications of it or substitutes for it. The senate and our party have recognized much good in new world fellowship and co-operationy but we insistently reject all that menaces America. We must sep arate the wheat from the chaff."
 Was Hard Day.
 The senator's speech here in>Tom- linson hall included a day of hard campaigning throuh the southern half of Indiana.
 He will renew his plea to the h. diana voters tomorrow as he travels westward for night meeting at St. Louis.
 In all his speeches today the can didate argued for preserved nation alism and urged the election of a Republican congress, making special appeals at each stop for Senator James E. Watson, who accompanied him on his special train. He praised the Indiana senator "as a great and useful public man who deserves re- election"
 Among others on the train were Harry s. New and Governor Good rich..
 Besides the league of nations Sen ator Harding touched in his night speech here many of the other issues of the campaign and declared it was the Republican party who offered Constructive and progressive pro- gram" to readjust American affairs Democratic neglect, inefficiency waste, and wild extravaganza" he de- nounced in vigorous assault on the administration by which he declared the nation was "being led toward an- other crisis of stagnancy and unem- ployment." He predicted that the peo- pie would not permit anyone to "write third chapter of the Demo- cratic book of destruction"
 Sensible men and women will won- der "he continued" at the assump. tion of those who, having no prac- tical program to offer at home, no constructive proposal to make for America, should be going the length and breadth of the land proposing that the leagne of nations, as nego- tiated by the president, should be adopted. A Democratic president, even if he were elected, would not be able to bind the American people or mortgage their conscience and their honor under article ten for the simple reason that he could not sum- mon sufficient votes in congress to support his program. His attempt would result in another statement and an unwilling America would find herself just where she has been ev- CT since the bungled negotiations at Paris.
 "The reason Democratic presi- dent could do nothing toward put ting into effect our membership in the league of nations, just as 1t stands, is that, behind the represen- tatives at Washington, the American people have rejected membership of that kind. They rejected it long ago; they will continue their refusal to enter the Paris league as it stands. The proposal of our opponents that the American people shall accept it as it stands, without changes, is an ad- ditianal affrontery, and the Ameri- can people are justified in asking:
 How many times must we say no!
 Summon Best Minds.
 "When elected I will immediately summon the best minds of America to consult and advise as to America's relationship to the present associa- tion of nations, to notifications of it, or substitute for it. I am commit ted to policy of America doing ev- erything that she can, acting either Independently or with other nations to prevent future wars.~ place only two qualifications upon her con tribution.
 The candidate repeated the follow ing excerpt from his own speech of August 28:
 If, in the failed league of Yer sailles, there can be found machinery which The (Hague) tribunal can use properly and advantageously, by all means let it be appropriated. | would even go further. I would take and combine all that is good and ex- ercise all that is bad from both or ganixations. This statement is broad enough to include the suggres- tion that if the league has been so interwined and interwoven into the peace of Europe that its good must be preserved in order to stabilize the peace of the continent, then it can be amended or revised so that we may still have remnant of the worlds aspirants of 1918 builded in- to the worlds highest conception of helpful cooperation in the Intimate realizations."
 The nominee did not comment di- rectly on this quotation following it with suggestion that it would be better "to build up peace through Justice than to promote alliance of Q ,.vnad fnrnaeU