New-York tribune., 1920-09-27
Harding g Tells
Why He Should
Be President
Represents Party That Cam
Command Services of the
Abless Mem to Assist i'm
Government, He Asserts
Defines Real Progress
Cooperation i'm Interest of
Business and Agriculture
Held Essential POLICY

Senator Warren G. Harding, writing
on why I Should Be Elected Presi-
dent," in The Christian Herald for oc-
tooer z, forecasts under q Republican
Administration an era of practical
progressivism. when government will be
more ousinesslike. more competent and
more satisfactory to the country.
~ there were no other reason, I
should be elected President because the
Republican party, which I represent,
can summon to serve with me the most
competent men in the executive, legis-
latlve, judicial and diplomatic depart
ments OF our government" writes the
Republican nominee. at is important.
therefore, that the majority which
votes for me also votes for Republican
members of House and Senate. so that
there shall be a united governm ent.
capaple OF restoring to the people of
cne united States an efficient admin
lstratlon of their affairs. conducted ac-
cording to their will, representing them
to an Administration of exclusion.
aloofness, personal wilfulness and
i should be elected President be-
cause ! am seeking to become the SER
want OF the people, pledging myself to
make no bids for popular favor by rosv
promises that cannot be kept. or. If
Kept, would result in taking the rights
and income of all the citizens to confer
special benefits upon single class.
Demands Real Progressiveness
II and those who will vote for me
Will stand behind true prooress;ye
measures for America. But we will
distinguish between the mere progress
slve label and the package that con-
talns the useful article.
II being progressive means being
IN favor of extending the functions Of
government to take in the ownership
and operation of any business, better
and safer done by American private
initiative, then the majority of US
Amerlcans are not progressives.
III beng a progressive means being
ISM, then | and the overwhelming ma
Jorlty of Anne ricans are not progress
sives.
II BENG "a progressive means CEN
tralizing of government in one man,
or building up an autocracy with the
sign democracy Tapping over the door,
then we are not progressives.
IF being progressive means trying
to prop up League Of Nations that
has been SO badly built that even now
foundations must be provided, then we
are not progressives.
Il should be elected President be-
cause | and those millions of free
American citizens who will be behind
me are not the kind of progressives
that our opponents are defending and
desire to initiate.
II should be elected President be-
cause | and the American citizens who
will vote for me, and for whom | speak
row, are progressves Of a different
kind.
1--WE believe that we do not want
more government in Washington. but
better government. This is being prac-
tlcal progressives.
I'VE believe that we do not want a
crumbling. tottering, imperfect League
OF Nations, but one built upon new
and sure foundation, if it be Gods will
to allow us to create an association to
prevent war and foster amity. This
is being practical progressives.
Urges Remedy for Strikes
we believe that we do not want any
more feather-dustering around the
rights and obligations of American
labor and of American business. We
believe that the government, to prevent
strikes and lockouts, should create
adequate machinery to be used wren-
ever the parties to industrial disputes
desire to use it, not by compulsion but
by their own volition, and that this
machinery should also act to brief and
report to the people of the country the
sworn evidence as to the facts of in
dustrial disputes. This is being prac-
tical progressives.
1--WE believe that America business
and American government have always