The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1916-09-27
Sioux City Journal: The Journa

Denison Review, Denison, Iowa.
Sioux City Journal:The Journal
hasn't taken the trouble to give Har-
ding clean bill Of health because it
didn't believe a man who polled over
100000 votes in the republican primary
carrying 81 of the 80 counties, needed
much in the way of a bill of health
from any newspaper. The Journal has
harped somewhat on the primary ar.
gument because it believes it to car.
ry strong appeal to all republicans,
even though they may not happen to
like Mr. HardinaS record, or any
Z specific question. The Journal knows
there Is any doubt of it's ability to give
him clean bill it will be glad to allay
IT, III Fgs
The Journal can testify as to Har-
ding with more direct information than
Bishop Stuntz was able to bring to-
9 bear The journal has not only
known Of Harding, but has known
him intimately for twenty years. It's,
acquaintanceship began when he was
a boy working his way through col
legeand accepting modest stipend
from the Journal as its college re-
porter. It.has since observed his work
as a iawyer, as a citizen, and as re-
publican candidate.
Harding is a good lawyer, he has
every attribute of successful attor-
ney. That he has not scored more
CONSPICUOUS success in his profession
is obviously due to the early inclination
toward the public service.
Harding is good citizen. He is
more than that, he is q model citizen.
He is liked by everybody in Sioux
City outside of one newspaper office
and q few homes in which distorted
comprehension 'of the politics of the
day has led to his misjudging. His
note Is good at any bank, and his
credit at any store His family life is
ideal. His sneighbors both esteem and
like him. His personal habits are be-
yond criticism. Incidentally he is. q
good Methodist, as Methodists CO.;
Harding is q good politician. He is
good republican. The political
school from which he graduated had
no use for demagogy. 80 Harding has
not sought to win popularity by jump
ing on public utility corporations or
corporations generally. When the re-
publican party was for the mulct law
as a temporary measure Harding was
for the mulct law. Now that his party
has again decided that the interest of
temperance can be served by prohibit
tions Harding is for prohibition.
There, never was a successful politi.
clan who did not make some cOnces-
sions to expediency, and Harding is
"a successful politician. Politically,
Harding is for the square deal. He
believes that fairness is a good rule
to- apply to a corporation or labor
union. Under no circumstances would
he take the side Of the saloon against
the home or OF the predatory corpora
i. ton against the public. If he Is held
in equally high esteem by large bust.
ness interests and by farmers and lab.
orers 1t is because all have learned to
rely upon his intelligence and his sense
Of fairness.
Harding has an old fashioned con-
victipn that there is too much law and
too Mftfe, conference.-the much poll
tics and too little economy in the state
government. II is high time this idea;
was becoming fashionable again.
In the governors chair Harding will
try to.promote the public good by Civ.
ing afsqnare deal, no more and no less
to every interest. corporate or other
wise whose activities may come under
state supervision. The most and the
least which any interest may expect
of him Is fairness as he sees it. 4
This is only rough sketch of Har-
ding asrthe Journal sees him at close
range The bogy Harding, of whom
the Scranton journal has heard
through his political enemies-the
man who Is trying to debauch Iowa
boys with whiskey and sell Iowa tax.
payers into slavery to the public utili.
ty, corporations, is not known in Sioux
City. He exists only in the evil mag
inings Of would be bosses whose col
lar he refused to wear, who would not
hesitate to defeat Harding by lying
about him.