Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-08


Tho nominees voice showed the
strain of yesterdays vigorous cam
paisninE, when i,r made sixteen
speeches in Iowa and Nebraska. ASIDE
from tho hoarscncSa, however, he
seemed In fine trim and declared lie
| was ready to meet rs many audiences
| as could be reached by fast train
| schedule.
With Mrs. Harding aud tho other
| members OF his party the presidential
nominee spent the night at an Oma .
( ha hotel. retiring Immediately after
| the speech there last night and rest
ing until later than his usual rising
hour in the morning. Leaving Omaha
shortly after o'clock his train was
due in St Joseph at 2:i5 pm, ana al
Kansas City at 500 pm.
| Speaks for Cummins.
/ OMAHA. Neb.. October s.-Senator
Albert Cummins, candidate for re-
election. accompanied the presidential
nominee through the state yesterday
land in each of his speeches the latter
! asked for Mr.. Cummins' election: In
several of them he praised the Cum
| Minis Esch railway law as an &C
accomplishment unequaled in progress
sive legislation for a decade.
At the Des Moines meeting the
nominee carried on a colloquy with
several men in the crowd, who asked
him questions about internationa
lpolicies. In the course of the discus
sion. which kept the big hall for a
time in confusion, he outlined MS
position on the Irish question. de-
clared American soldiers in Germany
should be brought home as quickly
las possible. reasserted his belief that
no separate peace with Germany
would be necessary. and declared the
nation would be guilty of "the gross
| ri
obligations of the league and then
rct6sed TO furnish troops at the
: 6ague's call.
Omaha Audience Big.
The big Omaha Auditorium was
pa ed to the rafters for the senator's
night meeting. Mrs. Harding sat or
| the stage and was cheered when she
was presented by the chairman as
''the next lady of the White House
Again assailing President Wilson
for his insistence on repeal of the
Panama canal tolls law, which gave
| free passage to American ships
| Senator Harding declared he wanted
! to see the nation decide it's own COM
mercial course without dictat ton from
| abroad.
when I'm President" he said
! were going to see If we can't send
our ships through the Panama cana
without charging them for it,
| turning 10 the league issue, tile
nominee said:
Somebody has been saying I don't
| know where L stand on the Paris
| league of nations. Well, I'm not foI
! it. The democratic nominee says he's
| i'll favor of going in. I'm not.
Somebody wants to know whether
I'm in accord with Senator Borah and
whether I've agreed with Senator
Hiram w. Johnson to scrap the
league. 1t doesn't matter whether I'm
| in accord with Senator Borah or not
AS a matter of fact, I'm not precisely
in accord with him, but as President
of the United States I'll be in one po-
sition and as senator he'll be in an
other, and / don't try to- control any
senator.
Senator Johnson and / haven't
spoken about 'scrapping the league.
dent Wilson, and his chief agent was
your neighbor and friend, Senator
Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock.
somebody says: Are you going
TO submit this league to the Senate p
Never, my countrymen, with article Y
in it. / know that America is i'll pc
sition where it can lead the way to
revision or whatever is necessary to
form an association that will preserve
American freedom and nationality
Senator Harding's speech in full was
II believe that no man can be a
Office in the service of the American
people without giving consideration
to the public sentiment of his
countrymen as to the enforcement
of law and order. I propose upon
this occasion to state, as frankly
and as definitely as l can, that which
1 believe TO be the true American
principles which we must all safe
guard in maintaining the security OF
our nation.
ut is easy, when in haste, or at
times of heated emotions or weak
errors in respect to our American
standards of law and order. There
fore. l have deemed it my duty to
give thought and analysis to these
questions and, through you, to
present my conclusions to all the
people.
unfortunately, it is often those
who are most insistent upon the
maintenance of law and order who
in their zeal. give cause for further
breaches of the peaceful admins
tration of our communities. Some
law and order that their words and
acts in behalf of our institutions
constitute, in themselves. serious
breach of our laws, and an offense
to our social sense of what is fair
and right, and just. Then the self
themselves become menacing to our
peace.
No General Amnesty.
'No true American will argue tina
our laws should not be enforced. ] re
fer to laws, no matter of what nature
whether they be those which deal
with ordinary criminals and misde-
meanors. or those which deal with acts
of treason to the United States, threat
ening to the Constitution and the fab
ric of our social organization. l wish
no one to misunderstood me and.
therefore, 1 will say as plainly as j
can that for my part l can see no es-
sential differences between ordinary
crimes and ordinary criminals on the
one hand, and political crimes and po-
litical prisoners on the other hand. If
there is a distinction, surely it is not
a distinction which favors political
crimes, or political prisoners. The
thief, or any ordinary criminal is
surely less a menace to those things
which we all hold dear. than the mar
or woman who conspireS to destroy
our American institutions.
Il have been asked many times dur
ing this campaign whether l would
grant general amnesty, as it is called
to political prisoners. My answer.
trust is clear / would not A gen