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March 31, 1920
The Chattanooga News
Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee
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Senator Warren G. Harding delivers a speech in Cleveland on March 31, outlining cardinal principles for the Republican presidential platform, emphasizing national defense, military training, peace, constitutional freedom, and opposition to government ownership.
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HARDING'S PLATFORM
Cleveland, O., March 31.-Senator Warren G. Harding, Ohio's candidate for the republican nomination for the presidency, spoke here last night regarding his candidacy, stating some of the cardinal principles which he would have in the republican platform.
"No one man can make a party platform," the senator said. "The covenant of our party must be the deliberate and harmonized convictions of representative republican thought, digested in national councils.
"We might well pledge ourselves never again to be so unmindful of our national defense. We ought to have an ample navy as our first line of defense. We ought to more than keep pace-we ought to lead the world in the development of aviation and be stronger in the air than we are on the sea. We ought to have an ample army.
"I believe cordially in the benefits of military training and pledge my countrymen ever to be mindful of our national defense. I would make available to young American manhood the physical discipline that comes of military training and have the nation bear the expense, but I would have the acceptance voluntary.
"We ought to resolve to do everything possible to get away from abnormal conditions of war and seek the stable ways of peace. We ought to declare for the unshackling of both business and citizenship and restore our boasted freedom under the Constitution. Every extraordinary war statute ought to be repealed.
"We ought to declare the republican party unalterably opposed to government ownership and nationalization of industry, or any other compromise with insistent socialism which proposed to fix our goal within the limits of mediation."
Cleveland, O., March 31.-Senator Warren G. Harding, Ohio's candidate for the republican nomination for the presidency, spoke here last night regarding his candidacy, stating some of the cardinal principles which he would have in the republican platform.
"No one man can make a party platform," the senator said. "The covenant of our party must be the deliberate and harmonized convictions of representative republican thought, digested in national councils.
"We might well pledge ourselves never again to be so unmindful of our national defense. We ought to have an ample navy as our first line of defense. We ought to more than keep pace-we ought to lead the world in the development of aviation and be stronger in the air than we are on the sea. We ought to have an ample army.
"I believe cordially in the benefits of military training and pledge my countrymen ever to be mindful of our national defense. I would make available to young American manhood the physical discipline that comes of military training and have the nation bear the expense, but I would have the acceptance voluntary.
"We ought to resolve to do everything possible to get away from abnormal conditions of war and seek the stable ways of peace. We ought to declare for the unshackling of both business and citizenship and restore our boasted freedom under the Constitution. Every extraordinary war statute ought to be repealed.
"We ought to declare the republican party unalterably opposed to government ownership and nationalization of industry, or any other compromise with insistent socialism which proposed to fix our goal within the limits of mediation."
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Historical Event
Biography
What themes does it cover?
Moral Virtue
Justice
What keywords are associated?
Republican Platform
National Defense
Warren G Harding
Military Training
Constitutional Freedom
Anti Socialism
What entities or persons were involved?
Warren G. Harding
Where did it happen?
Cleveland, O.
Story Details
Key Persons
Warren G. Harding
Location
Cleveland, O.
Event Date
March 31
Story Details
Harding speaks on his candidacy, advocating for strong national defense including navy, aviation, and army; voluntary military training; return to peace and constitutional freedoms by repealing war statutes; and opposition to government ownership and socialism.