PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Southland Times, Issue 18849, 15 June 1920, Page 5

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

| THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE. | SENATOR HARDING’S CAREER. ; (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.! ■ (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, June 13. Mr Harding, the Republican Presidential nominee, is a newspaper man, editor and or. ner r.f the Marion Star, Ohio. He is of S ott’r-h descent on his father's side, in ' 1.0,1 Mr Haraing entered the Senate; in 100-4 and IJOO he was elected LieutonantjGottrnor of Ohio, in the Senate he was : a number of (ho Foreign Legations Commit--1 tee. He was an earne.-t supporter of I’res.i----i dent \v'il“on’s nthniniftnition for the pro.-e- ---■ tuition of the war, but later criticised him : severely in the end of the war. Mr Harding advocated pionipt peace-making anil some 1 legitimate co-operation among the nations of the world, which would lessen the danger of war. He onposed the League of Nations . withiut effective reservations. As soon as Mr Harding’s nomination was announced, about two-thirds of the delegates rose up. Hundreds dimmed chairs, and a ; few women waved damp handkerchiefs in ' cn effort to add a feminine touch to the first National Convention in which they had , participated. However, there was no frenzy, | no hj t-smashinp, and no parade worthy of ! mention. In fact there was so little cheer--1 iug that for a few minute? after, the nominI ated delegates and spectators stood In Mess I in the Coliseum.

STATEMENT BY MR COLBY. THE ISSUE CLARIFIED. WASHINGTON, June 12. Mr Colby, commenting on Senator Harding’s nomination ns the Republican candidate for the I'residency, said from the stand:,o;n( of th.e Democrat'* the nomination of Mr I larding wins very admirable, because it f-.-r.ded to clarify and emphasise every' i- I *- sue between the Democrats and the Republicans. LABOUR AND THE REPUBLICANS. A DECLARATION OF WAR. OTTAWA, June 13. Amid tremendous applause, the American Federation of Labour at the annual convention at Montreal adopted a report condemning the Republican Convention at Chicago for turning it- bark upon Labour. Mr Samuel Counters, in reading the report, rdi I various s"ctinns of the Republican I lank. He asserted that the Labour declaration of the Republican Platform proposes industrial enslavement and abrogation of rights. The executive council was directed to submit the report in identical form to the Democratic Convention at San Francisco.