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HE HERMISTON HERALD, HARDING’S SPEECH Auditorium OF ACCEPTANCE IS Monday A NEW KEYNOTE Evening Aug. 2 Republican Nominee at Noti fication Ceremonies Dis cusses Problems Con fronting Nation. Pakas FAMOUS Hawaiians SINGERS DANCERS MUSICIANS Admission: Adult«, 55c Children, 35c Including war tax Big Dance After the Show KULOLIA’S HAWAIIAN ORCHESTRA Printing We give you Job Printing that pleases Whether your needs be letterheads, envelopes, calling cards or posters, your printing will be characteristic of you and representative of your business. BE DISTINCTIVE You might as well be dis tinctive in your printing— it doesn’t cost any more and we will do it promptly and well. Give us an order for the first printed thing you need—use the telephone. The Herald Publishing Company "HOLD HERITAGE AMERICAN NATIONALITY UNIMPAIRED” Advocates Party Responsibility as Distinguished from Dictatorial and Autocratic Personal Rule—In Re ferring to League of Nations, Says We do Not Mean to Shun a Single Responsibility of This Republic to World Civilization—Favors Protec tive Tariff, Merchant Marine, a Small Army, Woman Suffrage and National Budget. HERMISTON, OREGON pass Its declaration for a Republican executive to sign. It is better to be the free and disin terested agent of international justice and advancing civilization with the covenant of conscience, than be shack led by a written compact which sur renders our freedom of action and gives to a military alliance the right to proclaim America's duty to the world. No surrender of rights to a world council or its military alliance, ■io assumed mandatory, however ap- pealing, ever shall summon the sons f this republic to war. Their supreme sacrifice shall only be asked for Amer ica and its call of honor. There is a sanctity in that right we will not dele gate. Disposed as we are. the way is very simple. Let the failure attending as sumption, obstinacy, impracticability and delay be recognized and let us find the big, practical, unselfish way to do our part, neither covetous be- cause of ambition nor hesitant through fear, but ready to serve ourselves, hu manity and God. With a Senate advis ing as the Constitution contemplates, [ would hopefully approach the nations of Europe and of the earth, proposing that understanding which makes us a willing participant in the consecra tion of nations to a new relationship to commit the moral forces of the world. America included, to peace and International justice, still leaving America free, independent and self reliant, but offering friendship to all the world. Humanity Is Restive. It is folly to close our eyes to out- standing facts. Humanity is restive, much of the world is in revolution, the agents of discord and destruction have wrought their tragedy in pathetic Rus sia, have lighted their torches among other peoples, and hope to see America as a part of the great red conflagra tion. Ours is the temple of liberty under the law, and it is ours to call the sens of opportunity to its defense. America must not only save herself, but ours must be the appealing voice to sober the world. Marion, Ohio.— (Special.) — Warren 0. Harding was officially notified here of his nomination as the Republican candidate for the Presidency. His speech of acceptance is, in part, as follows: Chairman Lodge, members of Noti fication Committee, members of Na tional Committee, Ladies and Gentle men: The message which you have formally conveyed brings to me a realization of responsibility which Is not underestimated. -It is a supreme task to interpret the covenant of a great political party, the activities of which are so woven, into the history of this republic, and a very sacred and solemn undertaking to utter the faith and aspirations of the many millions who adhere to that party. The party platform has charted the way, yet, somehow, we have come to expect that interpretation which voices the faith of nominees who must assume specific tasks. Believes In Party Government Let me be understood clearly from the very beginning. I believe in party sponsorship In government, I believe in party government as distinguished from personal government, individual, dictatorial, autocratic or what not. No man is big enough to run this great, republic. There never has been one. Such domination was never in tended. Tranquility, stability, depend ability—all are assured in party spon sorship, and we mean to renew the assurances which were rended in the cataclysmal war. Our first committal is the restora- tion of representative popular govern ment, under the Constitution, through WARREN. G. the agency of the Republican party. HARDING Our vision includes more than a chief executive, we believe In a cabinet of IMSTON highest capacity, equal to the respon It must be understood that toil alone sibilities which our system contem plates, in whose councils the vice pres makes for accomplishment and ad ident, second official of the republic, vancement, and righteous possession shall be asked to participate. The s the reward of toil, and its incentive. same vision includes a cordial under There is no progress except in the , standing and co-ordinated activities stimulus of competition. The chief trouble today is that the with a house of congress, fresh from the people, voicing the convictions world war wrought the destruction of which members bring from direct con healthy competition, left our store tact with the electorate, and cordial houses empty and there is a minimum cooperation along with the restored »reduction when our need is maximum. functions of Senate, fit to be the great Maximums, not minimums, is the call of America. It Isn’t a new story, be est deliberative body of the world. muse war never falls to leave depleted Republican Senators Conscious of Oath storehouses and always impairs the It is not difficult, Chairman Lodge, fficiency of production. War also es- i to make ourselves clear on the ques ablishes Its higher standards for tion of international relationship. We wages, and they abide. I wish the Republicans of the Senate, conscious igher wage to abide, on one explicit of our solemn oaths and mindful of ondition—that the wage earner will our constitutional obligations, when we give full return for the wages received. saw the structure of a world super Greater Production Necessary. government taking visionary form, I want, somehow, to appeal to the joined in a becoming warning of our I devotion to this republic. If the torch ons and daughters of the republic, to I of constitutionalism had not been very producer, to join hand and brain I dimmed, the delayed peace of the n production, more production, honest I world and the tragedy of disappoint- 'reduction, patriotic production, be- I ment and Europe's misunderstanding ause patriotic production is no less a of America easily might have been lefense of our best civilization than avoided. The Republicans cf the Sen hat of armed force. Profiteering is a ate halted the barter of independent crime of commission, under-production American eminence and influence, is a crime of omission. We must work which it was proposed to exchange fqr our most and best, else the destructive an obscure and unequal place in the reaction will come. The menacing tendency of the pres merged government of the world. Our party means to hold the heritage of ent day is not chargeable wholly to the American nationality unimpaired and unsettled and fevered conditions caus ed by the war. The manifest weak unsurrendered. The world will not misconstrue. We ness in popular government lies in the do not mean to hold aloof. We do not temptation to appeal to grouped Citi- mean to shun a single responsibility zenship for political advantage. It would be the blindness of folly of this republic to world civilization. There is no hate in the American to Ignore the activities in our own heart. We have no envy, no suspicion, country which are aimed Io destroy no aversion for any people in the our economic system, and to commit world. We hold to our rights and us to the colossal tragedy which has mean to defend, aye. we mean to sus- destroyed all freedom and made Rus tain the rights of this nation and our sta impotent. This movement is not citizens alike, everywhere under ths to be halted in throttled liberties, We shining sun. Yet there is the concord must not abridge the freedom of of amity and sympathy and fraternity speech, the freedom of press, or the In every resolution. There is a genu freedom of assembly, because there is ine aspiration In every American no promise in repression. These lib breast for a tranquil friendship with erties are as sacred as the freedom of religious belief, as inviolable as the all the world. Ono may readily sense the consci- rights of life and the pursuit of happi enee of our America. I am sure I un ness. We do hold to the right to crush derstand the purpose of the dominant sedition, to stifle a menacing contempt I group of the Senate. We were not tor law, to stamp out a peril to the seeking to defeat a world aspiration, safety of the republic or its people, we were resolved to safeguard Ameri when emergency calls, because secur ca. We were resolved then, even as Ity and the majesty of the law are the I we are today and will be tomorrow, first essentials of liberty. He who to preserve this free and Independent threatens destruction of the govern ment by force or flaunts hrs contempt rep blic. In the call of the conscience of for lawful authority, ceases io be a America is peace, peace that closes loyal citizen and forfeits his rights to the gaping wound of world war. and the freedom of the republic. No party is Indifferent to silences the Impassioned voices of in- ternational envy and distrust. Heed- fare of the wage earner. To us his ing this call and knowing as I do the geed fortune is of deepest concern and disposition of the congress, I promise we seek to make that good fortune o formal and effective peace so e -mane it We do not oppose hut ap quickly as a Republican congress can prove collective bargaining, because that is an outstanding right, but we are unalterably insistent that its exercise must not destroy the equally sacred right of the individual, in his necessary pursuit of livelihood. Any American has the right to quit his employment, so has every American the right to seek employment. The group must not endanger the individual, and we must discourage groups preying upon one another and none shall be allowed to forget that the government’s obliga tions are alike to all the people. We are so confident that much of the present day insufficiency and in efficiency of transportation are due to the withering hand of government op eration that we emphasize anew our opposition to government ownership, we want to expedite the reparation and make sure the mistake is not re peated. A state of inadequate transportation facilities, mainly chargeable to the failure of governmental experiment, is losing millions to agriculture, It is hin dering industry, it Is menacing the American people with a fuel shortage little less than a peril. It emphasizes the present day problem and suggests that spirit of encouragement and as sistance which commits all America to relieve such an emergency. Gross expansion of currency and credit have depreciated the dollar just as expansion and inflation have dis credited the coins of the world. We Inflated in haste, we must deflate in deliberation. We debased the dollar in reckless finance, we must restore in honesty. Will Prevent Unreasonable Profits. In all sincerity we promise the pre vention of unreasonable profits, we challenge profiteering with all the moral force and the legal powers of government and people, but it is fair, aye, it is timely, to give reminder that law is not the sole corrective of our economie ills. Let us call to all the people for thrift and economy, for denial and sac rifice If need be, for a nation-wide drive against extravagance and luxury, to a recommittal to simplicity of liv ing, to that prudeni and normal plan of life which is the health of the re public. New conditions, which attend amaz ing growth and extraordinary indus- trial development, call for a new and forward looking program. The Ameri can farmer had a hundred and twenty millions to feed in the home market, ind heard the cry of the world for "ood and answered it, though he faced tn appalling task amid handicaps nev- r encountered before. Contemplating the defenselessness of he individual farmer to meet the or ganized buyers of his products and the distributors of the things the farmer buys, I hold that farmers should not only be permitted but encouraged to join in cooperative association to reap the just measure of reward merited by their arduous toil. Aid to Farmer Pledged. Our platform is an earnest pledge of renewed concern for thia most es sential and elemental industry and in both appreciation and Interest we pledge effective expression in law and practice. We will hail that coopera tion which again will make profitable and desirable the ownership and op eration of comparatively small farms intensively cultivated, and which will facilitate the caring for the products of farm and orchard without the la mentable waste under present condi tions, America would look with anxiety on the discouragement of farming activity either through the government's neg lect or its paralysis of socialistic prac tices. A Republican administration will be committed to renewed regard for agriculture and seek the partici pation of farmers in curing the ills justly complained of, and aim to place the American farm where it ought to he—highly ranked in American activ ities and fully sharing the highest good fortunes of American life. Becomingly associated with this sub ject are the policies of irrigation and reclamation, so essential to agricul tural expansion, and the continued de velopment of the great and wonderful West. It is our purpose to continue and enlarge federal aid and not in sec tional partiality, but for the good of all America. Budget System Favored. I believe the budget system will ef fect a necessary, helpful reformation, and reveal business methods to govern ment business. I believe federal de partments should be made more busi ness like and send back to productive effort thousands of federal employes, who are either duplicating work or not essential at all. I believe in the protective tariff poi Icy and know we will be calling for its saving Americanism again. I believe in a great merchant marine. I would have this republic the leading maritime nation of the world. I be lieve In a navy ample to protect it and able to assure us dependable defense. I believe In a small army, but the best In the world, with a mindfulness for preparedness which will avoid the un utterable coat of our previous neglect. I believe in our eminence in trade abroad, which the government should aid In expanding, both in revealing marbkets and speeding cargoes. I be lieve in establishing standards for im- migration, which are concerned with the future citizenship of the republic, not with mere manpower in industry. I believe that every man who dons the garb of American citizenship and walks in the light of American oppor tunity. must become American in heart I and soul. I believe in holding fast to every for ward step in unshackling child labor and elevating conditions of woman's employment. 1 believe the federal gov- ernment should stamp out lynching •nd remove the stain from the face of America. I believe the federal gov- SALIENT POINTS IN SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE. 'I pledge fidelity to our try and to God, and accept the * Repun). ♦ < • nomination of the Repúblicas i ; party for the Presidency cf the 1 • United States.” , "The human element comes ♦ J first, and .1 want the employers 7 ; in industry to understand the % ; aspirations, the conviction«, the 1 , yearnings of millions of Amer), y 1 can wage earners.” ! i "The Constitution contem. ♦ ; plates no class and recognizes 1 , no group. It broadly includes Ï ; all the people, with specific rec 1 , ognition for none.” J "We approve collective bar. 2 > gaining.” 2 ; "Gross expansion of currency 2 : and credits has depreciated the I ; dollar. We will attempt intelli. $ > gent and courageous deflation." 1 ; “When competition—natural, 1 > fair impelling competition is 1 ’ suppressed, whether by law, 1 . compact or conspiracy, we halt 2 , the march of progress, silence * > the voice of aspiration and par- ! J alyze the will for achievement.” ♦ > “I promise you effective peace 1 J as quickly as a Republican con- • > gress can pass its declaration 1 ; for a Republican executive to T > sign.” I ; "I can hear the call of con- f > science an insistent voice for Î J largely reduced armamenta T > throughout the world.” 1 , “Our vision includes more than t > a chief executive. We believe in I , a cabinet of highest capacity, J > equal to the responsibilities 2 , which our system contemplates, f • in whose councils the vice-presi- 1 , dent, second official of the re- J 1 public, shall be asked to parti- 7 , cipate.” 1 +++++++++++++++*+**++ eminent should give its effective aid in solving the problem of ample and becoming housing of its citizenship. Government Should Protect Bonds. I believe this government should make its liberty and victory bonds worth all that its patriotic citizens paid in purchasing them. I believe the tax burden imposed for war emer gency must be revised to the needs of peace and in the interest of equity in distribution of the burden. I believe the negro citizens of Amer lea should be guaranteed the enjoy- ment of alltheir rights, that they have earned the full measure of citizenship bestowed, that their sacrifices in blood on the battlefields of the republic have entitled ' them to all of freedom and opportunity, all of sympathy and aid that the, American spirit of fairness and justice demands. I believe there is an easy and open path to righteous relationship with Mexico. It has Seom. ed to me, that our undeveloped and uncertain land infirm policy has made us a culpable party to the government al misfortunes in that land. Our re lations ought to be both friendly and sympathetic. We would like to ac claim a jetable government there ani offer a neighborly hand in pointingout the way. to greater progress. I be lieve* in law enforcement. If elected I moan to be a constitutional president and it is‘impossible to ignore the con- stitution, unthinkable to evade the law, when our every commital is to orderly stw ernment. The four million defenders on land and sen ware worthy of the best tradì- tiens lof a people never warlike in peace-and neer’pacifist in war. They commanded our pride, They have our gratitude which must have genuine ei pression. It is not only a duty, it is a privilege, to see that the sacrifices madesshall be irequttted and that these still suffering from casualties and dis abilities shall te abundantly aided and restored tothe highest capabilities cf citizenship and its enjoyment. American Womanhood Praised. spiration and ths P. in its social and spirit uplifting force------ ual development, is about to be « franchised. Insofar as congress can go I the fact is already accomplishe" Myipart y edict, by my Recorded vote by (personal conviction, I sm comm, tedyto this measure of jus ice. "1 my: earnest hope, my sincere desire that the one needed state vote w quickly recorded in the affirmation, 9 the right of equal suffrage and tm the vote »of every citizen shall be f” and counted on the approaching eie . tion. And! to) the great number of nop women who have opposed in cony, tion this tremendous change in ancient relation of the sexes as 4 plied to government I venture to pl* that they’will accept the full resPC sibility of enlarged citizenship a give to the best In the republic the, suffrage and support This is not °n a fortunate people butia very comm, sense people with vision high but I feet on, the earth, with belief in then selves and faith In God. whether ear ten from without or menace from with In. there is some indefina" “Have confidence voice any I republic; America will go on. / $2511,000 Timber Sold. Spokeme, (Wash — Purchase of nerl ly, 100,000, 001 • feet of white pine "" ber on a tract five miles north of M" aline. Wash . for approximately 525 000 by “they Olio Match company announced here. Washingt on.—The war “PT, has issued instructions for the f«^ division to move from Can»P Iowa, to» Ca mp Lewis, Wash.
