Palisadian., 1923-08-17
G.. O. P. Committee
Tribute to Harding

The members of the Bergen County
Republican Committee met on Wednes-
Gay evening at the courthouse, Hack
ensack, and paid tribute to our late
President, Warren G. Harding. No
business was transacted.
Vice Chairman McClave in opening
the meeting paid tribute to the late
President, after which Congressman
Perkins delivered an eloquent address
cn the life of President Harding, who
had undoubtedly won the esteem of
the whole nation by his honorable and
conscientious conduct while the Chief
Executive. He said, among other
things:
when his history shall have been
written it shall be said of him his
work was to bring the nation back to
what it had been before the Great
War. to bring us back mentally and
spiritually and to bring us back indus
trially.
President Harding was the antithe-
sis of the man on horseback. He was
more like the Prince of Peace. He
was the great conciliator, the settler
of differences, the bringer together of
differences, the bringer together of
friends and the maker of friendships
not a cold and distant and naughty
idealist, not a man who processes to
live in the intellectual sphere, who
tells us how to do it, but the one who
shows us by his own life how to bring
about the result.
president Harding brought the
works and deeds and gave the nation
an opportunity to work out it's individ-
ual and national destiny.
"'In all the land there was probably
no man more fitted to lead us back to
the paths of peace than was our be-
loved President, and through his wise
judgments and counsels, always tenn
pered with the spirit of the man,
America was the first nation and the
only nation to come back to peace
footing in spirit and in deed.
'If we could hear the whisperngs of
every heart in the land we would hear
them say of the President, we loved
him. For love begets love. And all
are convinced that the great heart of
the President was with all the people,
knowing no distinction of masses or
classes
This was always illustrated in his
words and gentle manner in the cero-
monies and celebrations of the memo
ries of our boys lost in the great war.
Three years ago Mr.. Harding S
name was hardly known-today the
loss
Carl NJ. Vail of Ridgewood offered a
resolution, which was seconded by
U. S. District Attorney Walter G..
Winnie. who spoke. Others who spoke
upon the resolution were Mrs. Charles
B. Francisco, vice chairwoman; Mrs.
Charles Stockton, Mrs. w. G. Peters,
General Borroughs and Seymour w,
Sears.
The resolution, which follows, was
passed by a standing vote of the COM
mittee with bowed heads, during
which Taps were sounded by bugler:
still within the shadow of the great
sorrow that has fallen on our land, We,
the Republican County Committee of
the County of Bergen, in the state of
New Jersey, in meeting assembled,
desire to express some measure of our
grief at the loss of our late President;
therefore be it
Resolved, That we bow in reveren-
tial submission to the Omnipotent Will
that has taken Warren Gamaliel Hard
ing from us. We feel keenly the great
loss that has affected the length and
breadth of our own country as we'll as
lands beyond the seas. The great Of
flee to which his fellow citizens ele-
vated' him made him no less a man,
no less a friend no less a counselor.
Beloved of the children, beloved of his
official family, beloved of his oppo-
nents, time will crystalize the mem
ory of a citizen of whom no greater
thing can beSsaid than that he gave OF
his best to his flag, his country and
his fellow men"
On motion the committee took re
cess until Wednesday evening, Au
gust Is, at which the regular business
will be taken care OF.