The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-06-11
MONDELL SCORES
'ENENY';;PRA|SES
HARDING, COOLIDGE
Need of Republican Majority
Stressed by Permanent
Chairman,
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BIZ LHifed Press
CONVENTION HALL, GLEVE-
LAND. June 11-Frank w. Mon
dell of Wyoming lauded Harding
and Coolidge and scored the Demo
Gratis for their partisan purposes
in a speech delivered as he took the
chair as permanent chairman of the
Republican convention today. Mon
dell, in part, said:
I'VE are met as the represent
atives of a great political party that
has never failed or faltered in its
service or loyalty TO the republic;
that has never proposed nor advo-
Gated an unwise or unsound national
policy and it is our privilege on be
half Of this party to place in nOmi-
nation for the highest office in the
gift of the American people, can
didates who shall measure up to the
finest standards of party leadership
and who shall be entitled TO and, we
confidently believe. will receive the
support Of a large majority of the
American voters at the polls in No
vember.
I'VE meet profoundly appreciative
of wise, patriotic and inspiring party
leadership in the past and earnestly
thankful that the kindly Providence
and the great good fortune, which
gave our party and the Nation Lin
coin. Mckinley. Roosevelt and
Harding, has vouchsafed US as the
wealthy successor of these distin-
guished patriots the confdence-in-
spring character Of Calvin Coolidge.
Harding Lauded
THE American people placed the
stamp of their approval on the
candidates Of the last Republican
national convention by a majority
of more than five and a half million.
Time and events have abundan-ly
justified that paralleled Endorsement
He who was chosen as the party
standard bearer proved his states
manship in the skillful handling and
wise adjustment Of important and
weighty domestic and international
questions and problems.
How we'll he fitted and became
the great office to which he was
chosen, History will write his name
high on the role of able and efficient
executives. but we who know and
loved him best viii cherish most the
recollection of his great and kindly
heart, his tender and sympathetic
soul. The nation mourned him as
one mOurns a brother beloved and
enshrined him in the only endur-
ing hall of fame-the loyal hearts Of
a grateful people"
Confidence in Car
confidence was the keynote of
the sentiment which inspired the
nomination of Calvin Coolidge at
Chicago four years ago.
Confidence in President Coolidge
is the most important and outstand-
ing fact in the political situation TO-
day, and in the presence of inevi-
table differences on questions Of
moment, this confidence is as fine
a compliment TO the American people
as it is to the President; a spoa-
taneoUs tribute to sincere faith, high
courage and honest and unselfsh
purpose.
Never before in our history has
the need and necessity of depend
able party majorities and of definite
party responsibility been so clearly
demonstrated as 1T the very recent
past.
6. 0. p. Majority Urged
Every serious fault of recent
legislation and every failure to com
plete and round out a satisfactory
program could and would have been
avoided had there been dependable
Republican majorities in the Con
gress. The one certain and assured
remedy for such d condition is the
election OF a Congress, Republican.
by a goodly majority, both in name
and in principle.
This Is the open season for weird
claim and wild assertion on the part
of cur friends. the political enemy.
In the moments they can spare
from their fierce family feuds and
rivalries they make a pretense of as
Stunning to believe that they have
successfully laid down smoke
screen through which their transpar-
ent partisan purposes shall not be
discovered, and in the contemplation
of which all of their sins of omis-
sion and commission, of discredited
policies and discreditable administra-