The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-06-25
HARDING, COOLIDGE AND
VICTORY
What the Platform Lacks the CaRdi-
dates Supply

What the Platform Lacks the CaRdi-
dates Supply
While conceding the sterling integ-
rity, the great ability and the many
other admirable qualities possessed by
the other candidates, we feel con-
strained to say that the Chicago con-
vention could not possibly have made
two better selections than were made
in naming United States Senator War
rem G. Harding of Ohio, as the Repub-
lican candidate for President, and
Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massa-
chusetts as the Republican candidate
for Vice President at the coming ma
tional election. The attitude of both
candidates on the questions of the day
are we'll known and approved by ma
jority, not only Of the delegates to
the Convention, but ,bysthe voters as
WELL Both have had considerable ex-
perience in official public life and have
distinguished themselves therein.
Senator Harding has been IN the
newspaper business since 1884 and
is editor of the Marion Star, published
by the Harding Publishing Company,
of which he is president. He has
twice been State Senator from the
ninth Ohio district, and served one
term as Lieutenant Governor of Ohio.
He was elected as United States Sem
ator November 3, 1914, and his term
of office will expire March 3, 1921, the
day before he will be sworn in as
President of the United States.
Senator Harding is chairman of the
Philippines Committee of the Senate,
and member of the following Commit
tees: Commerce, Expenditures of the
Treasury Department, Foreign Rela-
tions, Pacific Islands and Porto Rico,
Public. Health and National Quaran-
tine, Standards, Weights and Meas
ures and Territories. He has display
ed conspicuous ability in every posi-
ton which he has been called upon to
fill
Senator Harding has been consist
emily opposed to the policies of the
present Administration, especially as
applied to the League of Nations. He
is an ardent believer in the principle
of adequate Tariff Protection for the
upbuilding and maintenance of the
supremacy of American standards of
labor and industry. Any defects in
the platform on the important issues
of the day will be more than counter
balanced by the personality and Amer
icanism of Senator Harding.
The record of Governor Coolidge is
well known. His admirable stand in
the matter of the police strike of Bos-
ton resulted in his triumphant re-elec-
ton as Governor. IsHe is man of
great ability, of firmness of character
and is capable of filling any office
within the gift of the nation.
AS might have been expected, the
Administration papers have hasten
ed to criticise the nominations. What
they have had to say is the best evil
dence of the panic into which the &C
ton of the Convention has thrown
them. The severest criticism which
they have been able to make, however
is that the naminees have not ha0
sufficient experience. 1t is true that
neither one has yet occupied the pres
idential or vice presidential chair. 1t
is also true that General Grant had
never distinguished himself as a
General until the Civil War created
the opportunity. Nor had Abraham
Lincoln, the greatest of all our Pres
idents, had any more qualifying ex-
perience than has Senator Harding or
Governor Coolidge. 1t is noticeable,
however, that not one of the opposi-
ton papers have ventured to attack
the character of the candidates. On
the contrary, the New York Times
says editorially, in it's issue of June
18th:
at is fortunate that a word is to be
said against the character of either
candidate. They are irreproachable."
That is graceful acknowledge
nfent and we trust that the Republic
can papers may be able to make the
same graceful and truthful conces-
sion with regard to the nominees of
the San Francisco Convention.
The nominations mean that we shall
have an era of nationalism, instead of
internationalism, that we shall have
as the Head of the Nation a man who
thinks for america First" and not
even of himself first. They mean
that we shall have as President man
who, while he has mind of his own
and has great firmness and determi-
notion, yet who shall not attempt to
dictate to and usurp the prerogatives
of the law,naking and treaty-makine
branch of the Government. They
mean that we shall have a clean man
OF outstanding character who shall
command the confidence and respect