The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-08-16
Spirit of Dead President
Still Leads Nation De-
clares Randall.
A REAL PEACEMAKER
Declares Harding's Fame Is
Established by His Gain
ing of Peace for Pacific.

"And let US now again re-dedicate
ourselves to the ideals that he lived
so that our nation shall stand and en-
dure as it was built upon the founda-
tions of long ago. Then will civiliza-
tion endure and God live in the souls
of men,"
This was the closing part of the
message brought to thousands Of Ke-
noshans Friday afternoon by Attorney
Clifford E. Randall at the memorial
service held in Library Park to pay
tribute to the memory of former Pres
ident Warren Gamaliel Harding. With
clearness and eloquence the speaker
pointed out the greatness of the dead
chieftain, emphasizing how he had
risen from humble birth to the high
est position in the world and while
occupying this had shown himself to
be a great statesman and leader.
The address in full follows:
Death Saddened Nation.
"a tower is fallen, star is set!
Alas! Alas! for Celin.
The words of lamentation from the
old Moorish ballad, learned in boyhood
days, must have risen to many lips
when word was flashed that Warren
G. Harding was dead. Hows oever ex-
pressed, the thought came spontane-
ously and everywhere. The cry OF sor-
SOW came from men and women of all
conditions, high and low, rich and poor,
from the learned and the untutored,
from the multitude who had loved and
followed him and from those who had
opposed him. And through all the
expressions of grief ran a golden
thread of personal feeling which SO
rarely CLEANS in the somber Journalism
of public grief.
A few days ago Warren Harding an
swered the reckoning of the unwel-
come nger-death-and at this
hour his earthly tenement of clay is
being laid to rest among his home
folks.
A Day of Retrospection.
We meet to render honor to the dead,
to the great American whom we mourn.
This is a day of memory7-a day OF
retrospection. With bowed heads and
reverential mien, We lay aside our du-
ties and pause on the threshold OF the
future. AS we pause, we involuntarlly
turn our gaze backward along the Wis
tas of the past, not to find material for
regret, but to survey those things IN
the life of our departed president
which are beautiful and to recall those
virtues that we may emulate.
To eulogize Warren G.. Harding as
ordinary eulogies are written, to pay
the usual commonplace tributes to his
memory, to approach an estimate OF
his character with cold and pompous
formality would be unsuited and UNI
seemly, for Warren Harding's life was
devoid of self-cons ciousness and at
fectation and withal was not common
place. Yet he had that simplicity Of
manners and made of life which is the
browning result of the highest culture
and the finest nature. Like Oliver
Cromwell, he would always have said,
"Paint me as l am"
Rose from Humble Birth,
Born in an obscure hamlet near
Marion, Ohio, some S5 miles away from
the birthplace Of President Hayes,
Warren Harding began his earthly ca
reer the year of the close of the Civil
War.
Inc poverty "a LIS pd1 SIlGo1 40 WSAA
as the condition of the times, forced
young Harding to work with his elders
at the arduous labor of the farm, and
his endeavors to gain an education
were interrupted by enforced periods
of working to obtain funds to continue
his schooling.
Gradually Rose to Prominence.
The high lights of his career are
the owning and editing of the Marion
Daily Star since 1884; his service for
two terms in the Ohio state senate;
as ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of Ohio; as
United States senator from Ohio; and
his election as president of the United
States by the greatest popular vote
ever given any candidate,
he detailed story of his career Is
familiar to all and need not be retold,
but we must not forget that Harding
rose from an humble beginning, the
son of a country doctor, to the height
of success. He was not born of the
purple" Yet he came by "the peoples
unbought grace to rule his native
land"
Tribute to American Institutions.
The story Of his achievement excites
our imaginations, but we must remem-
Der that such success is not unusual
in this nation Of free institutions and
equal opportunities, for here no ban
is placed upon ability, and the height
to be attained depends only upon the
energy and effort Of the individual.
So starting without aid of fortune,
without any early advantages except
such as are enjoyed by boys with par
ents in ordinary circumstances, but
with a resolute and resistless spirit,
he forged ahead from the beginning
and by force Of his own ability and
industry became a successful journal
ist and an American statesman. How
eloquently his life argues for free
America and its institutions.
And so we find that when Harding
was chosen president he selected ten
cabinet members, seven of whom start
ed life without economic inheritance
and began their careers as manual
laborers.
Chosen president Immediately fol-
lowing the close of the World War,
he came into Office with problems
awaiting his administration that have
been rarely equaled in the history Of
our country.
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