Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-07-22


ciated Press. Following is the text
of Senator Lodges address of Motif
cation to Senator Harding, the Re-
publican presidential nominee, at
his home here today:
CENATOR Harding:
- We are assembled here as a
committee representing the states,
territories and possessions of the
| United States to make you formal
announcement of your nomination
for the office of president of the Re-
public on June 18th last, at Chicago,
| by the Republican National Conven-
ton. This duty is to US as pleasing
as it is honorable, but we are also
/ deeply conscious of its far-reaching
Importance. We fully appreciate
that what you say to US today will
not only be read and pondered by all
/ the American people within the con-
fines of the United States, but also
| by all other civilized nations. Here
today you will chart the course to
be followed by the Republican party
in the great electoral contest which
| lies before US and will declare your
purposes and those of the party you
lead when the authority of govern
ment is once more committed to our
| keeping.
We await this declaration I'M
troubled by any doubts and with
the most entire confidence. All who
are familiar with your character and
career and most especially those who
have taken part with you in public
service know beyond peradventure
that you are a patriotic American,
| imbued with the spirit of the great
leaders of the past, of Washington,
Lincoln and Roosevelt, whose SER
vices to the American people have
become forever memorable in our
history. You will always and instinc-
lively, in meeting the difficult ques-
lions and weighty responsibilities
which confront you think with COM
plete unselfishness of your country
and your country's interests first, a
high qualification for an exalted of
flee not too familiar to us of late and
therefore peculiarly necessary at this
moment. You will, we are certain,
be ever faithful to the finest tradi-
tions of the Republican party and at
the same time we are equally sure
that you are wisely tolerant and
open-minded, in sympathy with the
best movements of the time, looking
forward to the future and it's needs
but never unmindful of the great
basic principles upon which the
builders of the Republic laid the
foundation of our government. Your
public life has shown to US and all
your fellow citizens that you believe
in the system of government de-
signed by the trainers of the con-
stltution. They established a rep
resentative democracy and had no
sympathy with any scheme which
would turn the government of the
United States into an aristocracy
based upon a plebiscite and with all
the intervening representative feat
ures disregarded or effaced. You
have abundantly shown your I'M
wavering conviction that the govern
ment of the United States should be
one of laws and not of men and
that the three branches of that
government should all work together
In the exercise of the powers con-
ferred upon them severally by the
constitution, for the common pur-
pose of advancing the general well
fare of the people The makers of
the constitution intended to co-ordi
nate the three great elements of
government and strove to guard
against either usurpation or trespass
by one branch at the expense of the
other two. In that spirit, ave all
know well, you will enter upon your
great responsibility.
Domestic and economic questions
of extreme completely and difficulty
must be dealt with at once in such a
way as to meet the needs of the time.
We shall not attempt to discuss these
questions in any detail because we
know that you will declare your
policies in regard to them in accord
ance not only with the lifelong
principles of the Republican party
but also with the opinions recently
declared by the Republican conven-
ton at Chicago. 1t is not for US to
enumerate them to you, for it is to
you that we look to set forth the
proper policies to be pursued by the
Republican party both in the cam
palgn and when charged with the re-
sponsibility of administration and
legislation. Our immediate duty and
that of all Republicans and all true
Americans who are thinking of the
problems and perils of the present
and of the future is to give you such
generous and complete support that
when you take up the duties of the
great office for which you have been
nominated, you will find House and
Senate in full sympathy with your
purposes and ready to aid you in
every way in carrying them to full
fillment.
The present situation, however,
brings with it far-reaching questions
of foreign policy to a degree never
known in our previous history. At
our own doors we have Mexico in a
state of disorder and disintegratiOn
to which our government, has unhap-
lily most literally contributed. Here
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