Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-11-12
PACT IS DEAD,
SAYS HARDING
PreSident-Elect of U. S. Pledges
New Efforts for World
Peace.
YANKS TO HOLD LEADERSHIP
Makes First Speech Since Election at
Celebration of His Victory by the
Home FoIks-"Corpse" at
Front Porch.

Marion, O., Nov. 6-President-elect
Warren G. Harding said the last sad
rites over the deceased Versailles
League of Nations when its corpse"
was brought to the front porch in the
midst of a great celebration by his
home folks in honor of his election.
The bier bearing the remains" was
carried in the parade on the shoulders
Of six "pallbearers." A "mourner"
held aloft a banner telling the identi-
ty of the departed. The President
elect smiled and waved his hat as the
cortege passed, a band behind played
a funeral dirge and later when the
corpse was taken in front of the steps,
he turned to Mrs. Harding and said:
There's the corpse"
In his speech to the crowd of thirty
thousand or more, the first address
since his election, he said in comment
ing on the league:
Il saw in the procession the mourn
| full spectacle of the dead League of
Nations and / didn't see as much sor-
row in your faces as 1 rather appre-
| hended. But it was not because you
or question the wisdom, the justice.
or the desirability of America having
| it's part in a new fraternity of nations,
or because we question the high ideals
of those who were responsible for the
Versailles covenant.
"You Just didn't want a surrendered
United States of America.
You wanted America to be free
and unmortgaged to the Old World.
You wanted the America you have
seen made under American ideals to
go on under American ideals. That's
why you didn't want the league which
is now deceased
Visibly affected by the demonstra-
ton, President-elect Harding told his
home folks he was not talking in a
partisan spirit; election is over" he
added. "The task is such that it makes
any man pause. 1t is too serious to
be exultant. I like to stand before you
and tell you I don't have to come with
a single apology or regret. If 1 had
to seek the presidency at the cost OF
speaking i'll or telling lie would
spurn the Office. because it would not
be worth any honest mans occupancy
eve are the greatest people in the
world in America and the world look:
to US for leadership. But America
is not expecting a superman.
81 told the American people that this
was going to be a government of Law
and not of men. We are going to have
in America once more a government
of the Constitution, a government o.
the people through their chosen rep
resentatives. We are going to hav,
government again where it is the
will of the people and not the will O.
the chief executive of this republic.
Those who know me will agree tha
maybe ! have ono qualification tha
will fit into the present situation.
alone have preached conference, con
sultation and exchange of ideas.
have never been a radical. Sometime!
they have called, me a reactionary o.
an ultra conservative.
"What we need is a little shown.
up by the radicals and a little speed
ing up by the ultra-conservatives so W,
can come to G common understand
ing and give the stabilizing infiuenc,
of America to the civilization of tn,
world
81 am going into Office knowing tn,
heart of the American people is righ
and in the spirit of compromise ant
desire for an understanding for tn,
promotion of our national interests
and America is going on safe and sur
at home and giving its steadying an,
stabilizing influence, to mankind an,
the civilization of the world.
my work among you has been a
fellow booster, and, God helping
me, am going to Washington as
booster for the United States of Amer
lea. But I don't mean that we wan
America to lead selfish existence
We don't want to advance our ow
country at the cost of discouragin
or neglecting the rest of the world
"The United States will meet ever
obligation it owes to humanity an,
to the world. There is much to dc
A new world relationship is to be es
tablished and through you I tell tn
world when the next administrator
comes into power we are going to pla
our part"