Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-26
u. S. WILL DECIDE PART SIZE
TAKES IN WORLD AFFAIRS"
Harding, In Final Pre-Election Statement
So Says to People, Declaring Respon-
sibility Will Be Borne.

"The nation is determined to be
done with democracy under the mere
guise Of democratic forms; it is de.
! termlned there shall be no return to
the old order" said Senator Harding
IN a final prediction statement to
the American people made public
here last night.
The plain people, he said, have
DHen raise raised to a higher level ect and
abilities Of the republican party to
Keep them there"
1T is our purpose to accomplish
| exactly this" continued Senator Hard
ing. While we viii I.,e oppose eyer every
tegration, we do stand for every
measure of evolution and develop
! ment that tends to carry the masses
of the nation forward and upward"
| Certificate Of Trust.
| In conclusion. the republican NOM
| inee for President said: 'The repub-
iean party goes TO the recogniEe
superiority as an instrumentality OF
administration, and that in the cleo
| ton now impending they will give it
the certificate of their confidence
and trust"
The democratic administration is
criticised in the statement. Senator
Harding charging that it has been
incompetent and that it failed to
prepare either for war or for peace.
Senator Harding summarized his
partys stand on the league OF ma
tions issue as follows:
such an association Of nations as
will most effectively further the as
piration for worldwide and per-
manent peace without sacr1fclng any
part of the Independence Of the
American nation. It believes Amer
lea can and must bear its full part
in the responsibilities OF the world,
but it always believes that America
alone must decide what that part
shall be-"
Senator Harding's Statement
Senator Harding's statement fol-
lows:
'In asking the suffrage Of the Amer
lean electorate this year. the repub-
lican party has in mind both the rec
ord of service from it's beginnings,
whereof it is very proud, and the
vision of opportunity for service in
the future, which its spokesman have
presented during this campaign. We
are asking that a great responsibility
be imposed upon us. It is respon-
sibility that must be measured by
both the gravity of the crisis that
confronts the world and the in
capacity with which the present ad-
ministration has met the problems or
the last few years. Onerous as is the
responsibility we seek, our party has
no thought of evading. for 1t never
has been guilty of that.
Democratic economic and admin
istrative policies had brought this
country to the danger of disaster be-
fore the outbreak of the war III Eu-
rope. The best expansion of our
export trade and demands upon our
producing facilities, which came with
the war, saved US from immediate
precipitation Of that disaster. But
that phase has now passed ana moth
ing but return to those construc-
tive and progressive policies which
have always characterized the repub-
lican administration can save us from
early realization of the danger that
confronted us at the middle Of 1914.
Refused to Prepare.
From the beginning of the war in
Europe the democratic adminiStra-
ton steadfastly refused to prepare
for the national defense in case we
should be involved. In 1915. when
it was apparent to most people that
our country was in imminent danger
of being drawn into the struggle, the
democratic party made its campaign
on the boast that it had kept US out
keeping us out. Thus when we found
ourselves at last in the struggle we
were utterly unready for it, and our
participation cost US tmmeasurably
more than 1t should have cost.
IAN administration that, when all
the world was in sconflagration, re.
fused to realize the importance OF
preparedness, of course could not be
expected to realize while we were at
war the necessity of preparing for
peace. So we entered into peace
quite as unready for it as we had
been for war. Our economies were
disorganized, our debt enormous, our
foreign commerce devoted largely to
supplying the necessaries OF war.
Calls Administrator Autocratic.
Instead Of setting itself to remedy
ing these conditions. the administra-
ton has devoted itself from the day
Of the armistice to promoting a prof.
ect of world reorganization in which
America should bear the largest re-
sponsibilities of guaranteeing new
scheme of things. Instead of making
legal peace as soon as actual peace
had been won, the American people,
alone of all the warning nations, were
denied by their government the privi-
lege of a return to the legal status
of peace and to the enjoyment of
those rights which they had tempo
rarily surrendered under the circum-