Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-10-26
COP. Sure
OF Support
OF People
Republican Nominee Scores
Democratic Governmental
Handling of Affairs in
Final Statement.
Explains League Stand


Harding in prediction state
ment to the American people made
public here tonight, declared the re-
publican party goes to the peopl'
assured that they will recognize it:
superiority as an instrumentality o.
administration and that in the elec.
ton now impending, they will give
il the certificate of their confidence
and trust"
The republican party nominee
criticised democratic administration
of governmental affairs, declaring
"the nation is determined to be done
with democracy under the mere guise
OF democratic forms" ;" The republican
party, he asserted, "has proposed in
its platform and developed in the
uttermces of its leaders, a program
which contemplates equal opportun-
ity for all" and recognizes the vices
Of exploitation and prohteering.'
Stand on League.
AS to the league of nations issue,
Senator Harding summarized his
party's position as follows:
THE republican party proposes
such an association of nations as will
most effectively further the aspira-
ton for worldwide and permanent
peace without sacrificing any part OF
the independence of the American
nation. 1t believes America can and
must, bear its full part in the respon-
sibilities of the world, but it always
believes that America alone must de-
eide what that part shall be.
Senator Harding's statement fol-
lows:
"In asking the suffrage of the
American electorate this year. the re-
publican party has in mind both the
record of service from its beginning,
whereof it is very proud, and the
vision of opportunity for service IN
the future which its spokesmen have
presented during this campaign. We
are asking that 4 great responsibility
be imposed upor US. 1t is a respon-
sibility that must be measured BY
both the gravity of the crisis thai
confronts the world and the inca
oacity with which the present admin
istration has met the problems OF
the last few years. Onerous as IS.
the responsibility we seek, our party
has no thought of evading. for Ii
never has been guilty of that.
Only Course Open.
Domestic, economic and adj
ministrative politics had brought this
country to the danger of disaster
before the outbreak of the war in
Europe. The vast expansion of ou,
export trade and demands upon our
producing facilities, which came with
the war, saved US from immediate
precipitation of that disaster. But
chat phase has new passed. and moth
ing but a return to those construc-
tive and progressive policies which
have always characterized the repub-
licap administration can save US from
early realization of danger that con-
sronted US at the middle of 1914.
"FromSthe beginning of the war in
Europe, the democratic administra.
ton steadfastly refused to prepare
for the national defense in case we
should be involved. In 1916, when il
was apparentsto most people that our
country was in imminent danger oil
being drawn into the struggle. the
democratic party made its campaign
on the boast that it had kept us out
OF war and the promise to continue
to keep us out. Thus when we found
ourselves at last in the struggle, we
were utterly unready for it. and our
participation cost immeasurably
more than it should have cost.
An administration that, when all
the world was in conflagration re-
fused to realize the importance of
preparedness. of course could not be
expected to realize while we at war.
the necessity of preparing for peace.
SO we entered into peace quite as
unready for it as we had been for.
war. Our economies were disor-
organized, our debt enormous and
our foreign commerce1devoted large
ly to supplying the necessaries of
war.
People Denied Peace.
Instead of settling itself to rem
edying these conditions, the admin
istration has devoted itself from the
day of the armistice to promoting
a project of world reorganization IN
which America should bear the larg-
est responsibilities of guaranteeing
new scheme of things. Instead of
making legal peace as soon as actual
peace had been won. the American
people alone OF all warning nations.
were denied by their government, the
privilege of a return to the legal
status of peace and to the enjoyment
of those rights which they had tenn
porarily surrendered under the cir
cumstances of war.
SO long as war was on, republi-
cans upheld the hands of the admin
istration, forgetting party consider
ations and gave their vote in support
of war measures far more generous
ly than did their political oppo-
nents. Yet an autocratic admins
tration repaid this loyalty with the
demand, in the campaign of 1918.
that republicans be removed from
every position OF influence and in
power That demand the country
rejected. 1t was the first time in
the history OF this nation that an
administration had been defeated in
the midst of foreign war. That