The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-26
HARDING ISSUES HIS REELECTION
 MESSAGE ID PUBLIC
Says Party Goes to People AS sured That They Will Recog- flize Its Superiority of
 Administration

Washington, October 25.-Sena-
 tor Harding in a prediction state
 ment to the American people made
 public here tonight declared his
 party ~gOes to the people assured
 that they will recognize it's su-
 pertority an instrumentalfty of
 administration and in the election
 now impending they will give it the
 certificate of their confidence and
 trust.1
 The republican presidential nominee criticized democratic administration of governmental affairs, declaring the nation is determined to be done with democracy under the mere guise of democratic forms"
 As to the League of Nations issue. Senator Harding summarized lis partys position as follows: i
 The republican party proposes : such an association of nations as will most effectively provide world wide and permanent peace without sacrifice ing any part of the independence of the American"
 Senator Harding's statement follows:
 Tn asking the suffrage of the Amer lean electorate this year the repub- hcan party has in mind both the rec ord of service from its beginning. whereof it is very proud, and the vision of opportunity for service in the fu- ture which it's spokesmen have pre- as is the responsibility we seek. our party has no thought of eyading. for .t never has been guilty of that
 mocratic economic and admins trative policies had brought this coun- try to the danger of disaster before the outbreak of the war in Europe.
 The vast expansion of our export trade and demands upon our producing facilities. which came with the war, saved us from immediate precipitation oi that disaster. But that phase has now passed and nothing but a return to those constructive and progressive poll icies which have always characterized the republican administration can save us from early realization of the dan- ger that confronted us at the middle of 1914
 SINCE WAR IN EUROPE
 From the beginning of the war in Europe the democratic administration steadfastly refused to prepare for the national defense in case we should be involved Thus when we found ourselves at last in the struggle we were utterly unready for it and our participation cost us immesurably more than II should nave cost.
 'An administration that when all the world was in conflagration, refused t. realize the importance of prepared ness of course could not be expected tr realize while we were at war the necessity of preparing for peace. So ue entered into peace quite as unready for it as we had been for war. Oar economics were disorganized, our debt enormous, our foreign commerce de- voted largely to supplying the neces- saries of war.
 Instead of setting itself to remedy ing these conditions, the administration devoted itself from the day of the arr mistice to promoting a project of world reorganization in which America should bear the largest responsibilities of guaranteeing new scheme of things. Instead of making legal peace soon as actual peace had been won, the American people, alone of all the warning nations, were denied by their government the privilege of return to the legal status of peace and to the en- joyment of those rights which they had temporarily surrendered under the cir cumstances of war. ss =
 50 while immediate and practical concerns were being neglected, while reconstruction and reorganization of our own country were forgotten. the administration was devoting itself to the chimera of world reorganization. The republican Congress that had been elected in the autumn of 1918 attempt ed to and did initiate measures to set us on the right track once more. It devised budget system in the hope of
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