The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-14
HARDING APPEALS
 ID SOLID SOUTH
 RECONSIDERATION
Attacks Administration For Conduct of Affairs at Home and Abroad and Promises "0ne Policy of Helpful
 Protection
By Associated Press

By Associated Press
 Chattanooga, October 1a-To the voters of the democratic south, Senator Harding tonight addressed an appeal for earnest consideration of republican principles and gave a promise that republican success in the election would mean the same policy of help full protection to all American produc- etion, north or south"
 In speech at the auditorium here, the republican nominee suggested diversified politics" as the thing re- quired to remove the last trace of sec- tionsI misunderstanding. He empha- sized that his party had no policy for one section that it did not preach for all sections alike, and prophesied a day when the inserdependence of all communities would be fully understood.
 The democratic administration he attacked for it's conduct of affairs both at home and abroad. President Will Congress, even at the expense of vio- lating pledges of his own party plat. form, and finally had attempted to force acceptance of the League of Nations covenant by depriving the Senate of it's constitutional powers.
 Arriving here early in the forenoon, the candidate spent virtually the whole day in an automobile tour of the sec ton about Chattanooga made historic by the battles of Missionary Ridge Lookout Mountain and Chickamauga. Tn his address he referred feelingly to the experience, declaring the day had given him new appreciation of the signifi canoe of the civil war in the making of America. He added that an ambiguity in the federal constitution had been responsible for the war and voiced hope that no similar catastrophe would be courted by accepting a league covenant containing score of antiquities"
 ARE REUNITED NOW
 Looking back now in the concord of union" he said, we note no diff ference in patriotic love of country north or south: rather a misunder- standing as to the meaning of it. II little matters now apout grievances, about early differences, about the aem- bittered disappointments. It little mat ters now how difficult and tardy was the rebuilding of the temple of the reunited republic. The supreme fact is that we have rebuilt, that we are re- united. I..
 "All that north and south ever needed was understanding with one another. We have that understanding now. We have learned to respect your I Jo ness of inherited sentiment. We have high regard for your judgment, and meet your fealty with our own. in cAn- mon love of country and devotion to the republic.
 We are not wholly of one mind in our party devotion, but it will be grand day for America when our par tisan differences are buried in the con- cord of new understanding. If repub- ican policies are good for the north, they deserve the earnest consideration of the south. Diversified agriculture has been our salvation in the north land; it brought the dawn of new day under southern skies. Maybe diversified politics would be equally helpful,
 Highways of steel improved roads and avenues of exchanging commerce have intersected the old Mason-Dixo line un- til it is only historical, memory. Your commerce is American commerce. Your industry is American industry. Your pro- duction is American production. Your farm products and farm products are esential to American life. We are interdependent and the republican party proclaims the same doctrine of agricultu- ral good fortune in the south that it does in the north. It breaches the same policy of finance north and south. It breaches the same policy of a helpful protection to ~,t, ,nrfl, A,,tH
 COTTON PROTECTION
 We believe in protecting cotton and cotton seed products of the south and wheat and wool in the north. We believe in protection for peanuts south and pota \ toes north, We believe in southern fac tories and northern factories selling to America first, and we acclaim an indus trial south as one of the esentials to the ideal republic.
 reliant agriculturally. self-reliant poiit- ically. That is why insist that we shall never accept a League of Nations with the material heart of a military alliance, to rule the world by force of arms North and south fought because the states of the south thought they had the right to withdraw from the Union. The north thought the Union to be indissoluble. Then came the ensanguned conflict over an ambiguity in the constitution. There are score of antiquities in the pres- idents covenant, and he would not toll crate their carification by reservations.
 'I have d deep and abiding faith in American institutions and in the funda- mental principles upon which they rest. The people. by their constitution have carefully enumerated the powers of their governmental agents. Neither agent is superior to the other and neither owes any degree of responsibility to the other. For either to invade the field of atcion delegated to the other is to usurp the authority of others. During the life of the present administration this condition, which the constitution inhibits. has arisen again and again. Congress, while exception mere echo of the executive. time respecting the state Of the union as the constitution ccntemplates; he told them what to do.
 SINGLE TERM BILL
 'The democratic platform of 1912. for example, declared for single term and a bill was actually introduced, and I think reported to the Senate. to carry this platform declaration into effect. But the President not only compelled fits abandonment, but accepted a renom- .ination.. The same platform declared in favor of exempting Amercian ships passing through the Panama canal from the payment of tolls and the present executive in specific trems during his first campaign accepted and approved the declaration. but a democratic Con- ureSS was eomDelled by the preSideut to