New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-20
Autocratic, Personal Rule
Must Cease and Upper
House Have Voice i'm
Nations Policy, He Says
Derides Record
OF Democrats
Return to Constitution as
Wholesome Change for
U. S., Candidate Urges
From q StaN CorrcSpondcnt


vigorous fighting speech that he has
made since his acceptance of the Re-
publican nomination., Senator Harding
to-day, before members of the Ohio
General Assembly, attacked autocratic
personal government in this country
defended the United States Senate and
dcrided the Democratic claims of pro-
gressive record in Ohio.
Senator Harding commented on oppo-
sition cartoons, editorials and speeches
that carried the suggestion that Re-
publican President proposes to permit
the Senate to have some say in deter
mining the policy of government"
Il gladly proclaim all these sugges-
tlons to be literally correct" the Sena-
tor said slowly, emphasizing every
word. Il had rather have the counsel
of the Senate than all the political
bosses of any party in America"
Presidents Duty Outlined
Voicing his conception of the duty
and responsibility of the Pres dental
office, he asserted:
"The particular task Of the Rcpub
lican party is to appeal to the conf
and to assure them that if VIC are re-
turned to power we mean to restore
the exercise of the fullncss of rights
to the various branches of the govern
ment, and not make America the pawn
Of an individual or the plaything of
a party, or the plumber of the prof
iteers who were developed under the
rule of that party which now inveighs
most loudly against them"
The Senator said he wanted a re-
sumption of representative popular
government in fact, not merely in
name. He spoke in contempt of the
and their cry of the 'new freedom"
"There has been a fevered tendency
of humanity in recent years complete
ly to alter everything that has gone
BEFORE" he declared. 1--WE had a period
of popular resentment Of the existence
of ovr courts, and for a time there
was the suggestion that we should
submit their decisions to popular sane
ton, else they should not abide.
"There is not very much choice be-
tween venomous assaults on the nteg
rity of the courts and the momentary
clamor about eliminating the Senate
from responsibility in Federal govern
ment.
II do not know whether the idea is
one imported from the peace council
of Paris or whether it is reflex Of the
mob mentality which has broken out
in revolution in various places in Eu-
rope. Our business is to hold America
stable"
The great mass of Americans, the
Senator thinks, merely want the pres
ervation of their liberties, the as
suronce of tranquility and fari
chance amid conditions which promise
that men may achieve and be rewarded
as they merit.
Puts Faith in Ohio
ono one worth while in America"
he said, wants the adoption of any
thing approx mating the rule of ruin
in Russia or the impractical things Of
the well-meaning dreamer at home"
The Senator, from his porch, was
them Republicans, by Ralph d. Cole,
who recently was defeated for the
gubernatoral nomination, but who will
take the stump for Harding and the
state ticket. Ohio, he said. was the
solar center of political activity Ohio
and Virginia, he declared, were the
great mother states of Presidents.
"And Ohio never produced a Demo
cratic Pres dent," he said, "and never
will"
Senator Harding's speech in part fol-
lows
"Much is said from time to time con-
corning the progressive policies of the
State of Ohio, and very frequently
credit has been unduly claimed by the
executive who happened to be in power
at the time the reforms were regis
tered. AS mere matter of justice
n ha tot hot
of the reforms have come through the
leadership of House and Senate
"a Republican general assembly,
with an executive quite without SYM
pathy with its general program, per
fected the workmen's compensation act
and has given to the workmen of the
lCnntinued IN mana fhrnsN