The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-09
''SAVE U. S. SOUL"
Senator Harding Pleads fcr
Adherence to Constitution.
Presidential Possibility Adj
dresses Crowd OF 1000 Here.
URGES U. S. INDUSTRIAL COURT
OhiOan RapS Administration
and Wilson's Treaty Stand.
Denies Report He Compared
Roosevelt to Aaron Burr.
URGES U. S. INDUSTRIAL COURT

Kansas took a closeup view of Sen.
Warren C. Harding at the auditorium,
Monday night, when he told Va crowd
OF nearly 1000 men and women Of
the issues in the approaching presi-
dental campaign and pointed scorn-
fully to the sins and shortcomings of
the Democrats He told his Topeka
crowd that the nation was watching
the operation of the Kansas Industrial
court act and urged that -after-the-
war policies of the states and nation
be placed in the hands of friends of
the constitution.
There was a warmth and earnest in
terest in the Topeka reception of Sen
ator Harding. who is himself in the
presidential fight before the Republi-
can national convention in June. APP
plause came as the Ohio senator
raped. the Democrats <or war eXtrav
agances and inefficiency. His criti-
cism of the president for inconsistent
stands on the peace treaty and League
of Nations was supplemented with a
demand that America adhere closely
to the constitution. He defended work
of the Republican congress and its
position on the League of Nations.
Mentions aaron Burr" Story.
For the first time on his present
speaking trip, Senator Harding gave
heed to a story to the effect that in
an editorial in his paper in 1912 he
had compared the late Colonel Roose-
welt with Aaron Burr. He praised the
life work Of the Colonel and asserted
it would be as difficult to succeed
Colonel Roosevelt in his work as to
give to the nation second Lincoln.
He admitted he had opposed Colonel
Roosevelt in the 1912 campaign-op-
posed him openly and Vigorously
but that such opposition was not of
he fTfFt rot IN hNr n
The big thing" said Harding, was
that Theodore Roosevelt was keen to
wipe out the differences of 1912-now
buried beneath eight years of regrets
and look with hope to party tri-
umph thru united endeavOr in 1920.
IF he had lived. he would have been
our Republican nominee by acclama
ton"
Sectionalism Wiped Out.
Senator Harding declared the war
had, effectively wiped out sectionalism
He said the old lines of the North and
South had vanished and that the new
president might far more easily come
out of the west than ever before.
"Who knows" he said in a spirit
that was accepted as a reference to-
Governor Aliens prospects. but that
Kansas or California-or even a state
in which | am a bit more personally
interested-may furnish the new pres
ident? Geographical lines have been
ubliterated."
lettering to the Industrial prob
lens confronting the nation, Senator
Harding again referred to Kansas
This time 1t was a word of praise for
the new industrial court enactment.
Urges National Labor Court.
t'Our government will fail in its
duty" he said. ''if it does not institute
some Just tribunal to guarantee the
laborer his just dues. Your governor
has taken a step in the right direction.
made himself Il national figure and
conferred the attention of the country
on Kansas"
For President wilson's sincerity in
the League of Nations fight, Senator
Harding referred to the presidents
recent threat to throw aside the en-
fire pact He discussed the presi-
dents action with an evidence of Bit
ter irony.
president Wilson said if we didn't
accept the treaty in its entirety, we
would break the heart of the world"
said the Ohio senator. Then only
recently he threatened to throw the
whole pact aside--regardles of the
heartaches of the world. Yet L feel
it is better TO break the heart of the
world than to destroy the soul of
America. Our nation must be pre-
served as a nation-not made com
plant or a suppliant state in super
government for the benefit of Eu
rope.
p Senator Harding was introduced by
Senator w. F. Schoch. president of
the Shawnee County Republican club.
Mrs. Harding, z. Mont Reilly of kan
sas city. and r. D. Armstrong, wash
ington newspaper man, were in the
party which arrived in Topeka Mon
day evening. They were rendered an
informal reception at the National
hotel. Senator Harding and his party
left today for Denver.