New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-20

old fashioned to get back to the Con-
stitution, but l can we'll believe it will
be wholesome change from the con-
ditions we are experiencing at the
present time.
Il have said something heretofore
about party sponsorship in govern
ment. l do not think any intelligent
person can have misconstrued my
meaning. When l speak of party spon-
sorship | mean that sponsorship which
belongs to political party for the de-
termination Of policies and the fixing
of program for the highest service to
the American people. I want to have
done with personal government in this
country. | want to put an end to au-
tocracy, which has been reared in the
name of democracy. l want a govern
ment of laws rather than Of men.
To End Dictation Here
Il want representative popular gov
| want an end to dictation in Amer
lea, and the resumption of the rule
OF dependable public opinion, uttered
through the representatives. of the peo-
pie chosen for that explicit purpose.
There has been a fevered tendency of
humanity in recent years to complete
ly alter everything which has gone be-
fore. We have that new cult in Amer
lean politics which proclaims every
thing that is is bad and suggests that
everything that is to be will be divine.
I'VE had a period of popular resent
ment Of the existence our courts and
for time there was the suggestion
that we should submit their decisions
to pop'lar sanction, else they should
not abide. There isn't very much
choice between venomous assault on
the integrity of the courts and the mo-
mentary clamor about eliminating the
Senate from the responsibility in Fed
eral government.
Il do not know whether the idea is
one imported from the peace council
at Paris, or whether it is reflex of
the mob mentality which has broken
out in revolution in various places in
Europe. Our business is to hold Amer
lea stable. Our task is to preserve
popular representative constitutional
government in America.
"'nhe particular task of the Repub-
lican party is to appeal to the conf
dence OF the people of this Republic
and to assure them if we are returned
to power we mean to restore the eX-
ercise of the fullness Of rights to the
various branches of the government,
and not make America the pawn of an
Individual, or the playthng of party,
or the plumber of the profiteers, who
were developed under the rule of that
party which now inveighs most loudly
against them.
Aspirations Of America
ut is not very difficult to construe
the aspirations and ambitions of Amer
lea. 1t is not very hard to know what
is IN the thoughts OF the great mass of
Americans who constitute the resistless
undercurrent of forward American life.
Americans want the preservation Of
their liberties.
"They want the assurance of tran
quillity and security. They want to
dwell in peace at home and know only
friendly relations with all our neigh
bors throughout the world. They want
fair chance for every man and woman
in this Republic and they want that
fair chance amid conditions which
rewarded as they merit it. No one
worth while in America wants the
adoption of anything approximating
the rule of ruin in Russia, or the
impractical things of the well-meaning
dreamer at home"
Rights To Be Defended
'lf l am elected President of the
United States and it is within my
power there will never be a surrender
Of that which you have handed to the
generation of to-day" Senator Harding
told a delegation of Hardin County
Civil War veterans who called on him
this morning.
Forty veterans, each wearing a badge
inscribed "Hardin County Soldiers 81
to So made up the delegation which
came to Marion in automobiles.
"Yo on didn't enter the war to free
the slave, although that was becom-
ing ideal. You didn't go to war be
cause you hated any group in the
South or to establish any new concep-
ton of justice. But you entered the
conflict because you found the Union
was threatened; you wanted to save
the Union and nationality.
There have been variety Of
opinions as to why your grandsons
went 20 war. Your sons went to war
with Spain for humanity. Some have
said that your granjsons went to war
for democracy and some that they
went forth to insure that there would
be 10 more wars in the future. If we
went TO war for democracy shouldn t
we have gone in when it first started ?
And if we went to war to insure that
we have gone in before so many mil
lions had been sacrificed?
The simple truth is that your
grandsons went to war when Congress 5
made the declaration because our ma
tionality and rights had been threat
ened Then it was possible to call the
song Of 70 ba+tlo