The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-07-27
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IN ADDRESS ACCEPTING REPUB-
LiCAN NOMINATION.
Says Formal and Effective Action
Will Come if His Party Con-
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that an effort to form an ASSOCIATION
Of nations that would not impair
American sovereignty were promised
today by Warren G. Harding in his
speech accepting the Republican
nomination for the presidency.
He declared the time had come to
recognize 'the failure attending as
sumption, obsti1acy, impracticability
and delay" in President Wilson's at
tempt to form a league of nations
and that new pathway must be
found to peace and world concert.
In receiving formally his party's
mandate, the nominee also outlined
a stand for government by party
rather than by individuals, declared
railway employees might we'll be ac-
corded a status of public servants,
indorsed cooperative marketing for
farmers and pronounced increased
production the key to a lower cost
of living.
The address constituting the candi-
dates personal platform in the cam
paign was delivered here at the eli
max of day Of celebration which
brought to Marion notable COM
pany of party chiefs and crowd of
many thousands. The plaudits and
serenading kept the. nominee the CEN
tre of a seven hours reception as
delegations from many states parad-
ed past the Harding residence in a
clamoring cavalcade.
Soon After Sunup.
Soon after sunup the march of the
first delegation brought the senator
to his front door step, and after that
there scarcely was letup until he
left for the notification ceremonies
on the outskirts of the city at z
o'clock. Old friends from nearby
counties miytl with the representa-
tives of powerful Republican clubs
of distant cities in the procession,
gay with decorations and blatant with
noise.
At the chautauqua pavilion, where
the notification took place, seats had
been provided for 1900 and many
times that number surged about the
park and surrounding fields, unable
to get within earshot of the speak
ers. The pronouncements of the
candidate were received with a tum-
ult of applause and he was cheered
back to h.s home through crowded
streets, a tired but smiling man.
VIII H. Hays, the national chair
man, presided at the ceremony, and
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts,, who
was chairman of the Chicago conven-
ton, formally notified the candidate
of his nomination in speech rap
ping President: Wilson's league of ma
lions and praising the part Senator
Harding had taken In preventing its
unreserved acceptance.
Cheers From Crowd.
Speaking slowly and with a char
acteristic gravity, the nominee de-
lvered his declaration of policy in a
clear, full voice that penetrated far
into the crowded outskirts of the
pavilion. Points he wished to drive
home with particular force he en-
phasized by aggressive gestures, and
several times he got the crowd on its
feet, cheering, as he hammered with
clinched fist to land his blows where
they would tell.
His thrusts at the league of ma
tions were answered by repeated
thunderclaps of cheers, but the pas
sage the crowd seemed to like best
came almost at the end of the hour
and a half of speaking when he voic-
ed his humility in the presence of the
responsibilities of the presidency and
then squaring his broad shoulders,
added that his confidence in the sup
port of his fellow citizens made him
wholly unfraid.''
In his discussion of the league he
made no direct recommendation for
rejection of the peace treaty, and did
not take up in detail the league cove
nant. Contenting himself with the
declaration that the league as con-
ceived by the president was unthink-
able; he passed on to state his own
views of what should be done.
''In the. call of the conscience OF
America is peace" he said, "peace
that closes the gaping wound of world
war and silences the impassional
voices of international envy and dis
trust. Needing this call and know
ing as / do the disposition of con-
gress / promise you formal and ef-
fective peace so quickly as a Re
publican congress can pass its de-
oision for a Republican executive to
sign. disposed as we are, the
way is simple. Let the failure at.
tending assumption, obstinacy, un'
practicability and delay be recogniz:
ed and let US find the big, practical
unselfsh way to do our part.
With senate advising as the consti.
tuition contemplates, would ap:
preach the nations of Europe and
the earth proposing that understand.
ing which makes us willing partici.
pant in the conservation of nations to
new relationship, to commit the
moral forces of the world, America
included to peace and internationa
justice, still leaving America free, in.
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