Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-08-31
REVEREND INGHAM
EULOGIzES HARDING
Says in Grand View Address That
President Was Fine Character of
Man-Nation Will Miss
Counsels

In an address delivered at Grand
View recently, the Rev Ingham had
the following to say about the late
Presidents:
We do honor to-day to the man
who was our President. We as Amer
leans do well to respect the one
whose memory has been officially
honored by the English Court and
similar recognition by Chile, Mexico
and Peru at least and one whom the
press of several nations eulogized.
From Berlin comes the word Hard
ings death is a blow to us ALL" From
a Paris paper The popularity he at
tanned in our country was sincere
and legitimate" From Italy "His
death is a terrible loss and will not
be easily replaced" A Toxic, Japan,
paper calls him THE greatest lover
of peace; his death is blow to us
ALL" Another Paris paper places him
as statesman in the class with
Gladstone
We honor him not as a Republi-
can and politician. He was both but
| he was a statesman and a Christian
| gentleman, and of the best type in
each class. A politician is a man
leader in getting results in public
affairs. At his best he believes those
results can be secured through his
own party. A Republican in theory
| stands for principles in government.
| A Democrat stands in theory for GER
tain other principles. Both are usu-
| lily right with degree of comprom-
ise, a recognition that one party
oyeremphasizes where the other will
underemphasize. Both parties in
theory are seeking the greatest good
TO the greatest number. Time passes
and opinions are modified, the en-
argement OF national views, the di-
yersification of interests according
to sections will tend towipe out vital
| differentiating of principles or the
Democrats of one section will stand
for the same things for which the
Republicans of another section stand
and party names come to be only
catch words for elections purposes.
rhis will become more pronounced as
varying interests seek their own adj
vantage through government aid.
Outlines Republicans and Demo-
Gratis and politicians lose sight OF
Righteousness in seeking party or
personal success, the lust of power,
The emoluments OF Office or the spoils
that pertain 10 victory. Hence these
names fall into disrepute and while
charity coyerl multitude of sins,
these words cover a multitude OF
sinners and mean only evil to many
people.
Now you see what / mean when /
say Warren Harding was a Repub-
lican and a politician, the best of the
class at its best as | have defined
them. Blft~.he was more; he was
statesman. -
A statesman is a man with large
view and a long view of the philoso-
ply of the history OF nations, his
own nation in particular He must
De a logical reasoner in his study Of
what will be best for the interests
If his own nation in its relation TO
other nations in the present and even
II the distant future.
Warren Harding stood in the
present day judgment of conservative
men as a statesman in his
of the, potentially, most
powerful nation on earth. Even more
we will remember him in his own
generation as an honest, sincere,
friendly man, a Christian gentleman.
We are today too near him, our eyes
are too dim with our grief to fully
recognize the greatness of the spirit
that has gone. To us he fulfills his
own description Of Just folks and
we love the man who makes no claim
% being more than just the common
people. Lincoln once said "God must
owe the common people, he had so
many OF them" To us "just folks,
tut to the student of history he will
itand out as a great man and that Is
low he is regarded by other nations,
Is shown by the quotations already
given. And greatest of all in his
implicitly, for his great heart loved
he common American people. Yet
le never for a moment lost sight of
he place our nation holds as a world
eader.
He was no more controlled by
he claptrap schemes OF dema-
ogues than by the plans of powerful
Almost his first act was to
elect for his Secretary of State, next
D the President, the most powerful
nice in the nation, the man who
ras opposed by certain interests and
ohtical leaders. He chose him be-
ause he needed the biggest man he
Duld find in the handling of the tre-
lendous issues before him. IL took
)urage of a mastery sort to chal-
,nge those interests at the very first
oment of his power. Yet in the
idst of it all he was the same kind
man who on his porch at Marion
ad a welcome for his neighbors as
ell as for the great ones who sought
Inn It was there he won our love.
Personally / confess disappOint-
ent when I knew he was nominat-
l. He was not my candidate. There
e millions of Americans who were
r Governor Dowden, Leonard Wood
someone else who have now the
ost ardent appreciation Of the
emory and services of our late
resident, many millions who were
shocked that he should
I've taken from US just when we
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