New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
Calls
On Wilson TO
Check w Waste
Senator DenOunces Effort
to Mortgage u. S. to
Old World i'm His ADJ
dress to Travelling Men
From q star CORRESPONDENT

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MARION, Ohio, Sept. Ex-senator
Warren G. Harding attacked the Will
son Administration to-day for its utter
incapacity to grasp the problems of
peace, for twisting the government into
"a monstrosity Of waste and slipshod"
ness" and for the vain efforts to mort
gage American independence to the Old
World.
The Republican nominee addressed
several thousand travelling statesmen,
who in the fashion of the celebrated
London busmen spend holiday travel
ing to the Senator's front porch. Sem
ator Harding dwelt in his speech on
the failure of the Democratic Admins
tration to curb profteering and on its
hindering interference with the normal
affairs Of American business and prom
ised wide reforms if Ii, is elected.
Administration Methods Assailed
The Senator assailed the business
methods of the present Administration
as "meddling and aurocratic," and
promised that if elected he would bring
to the nation an era Of business stabil-
ity. He proposed policy of common
counsel to suppfant zone man iudg-
ment' and pledged himself to an
"idealism based on such sense that it
does not treat the nations business
with suspicion and contempt"
The commercial ambassadors, as Sem
ator Harding sometimes refers to
them, began arriving early to-day.
They came in special trains and special
CARS from New York, Boston, Philadel-
phia and other Eastern cities. There
was q carload from Chicago and in
diyiduals FROM about every state in
the Union. Some Of them drove here
in the automobiles in which they cover
Y stetf ftsgritoy ~ All of them came pSs4
pared TO attract attention and CARRIED
either noise makers or banners adver-
t!sing their trust in Harding.
When they marched down Mount Ver-
non Avenue this afternoon some of the
travelling men held aloft signs that re-
fiected the resentment of the statesmen
against an editorial published a few
years ago in Governor Cox's newspaper,
The Dayton News. This editorial,
which Governor Cox has disavowed,
characterized travelling statesmen as
parasites.
Statesmen Eager to Back Harding
One Of the signs that greeted the
candidates eyes as he appeared on his
front porch read, Senator Harding,
the parasites, public nuisances and un-
mitigated bores are for you 100000
strong" There were other signs ex-
pressing similar thought and all con-
tanning quotations from the unhappy
editorial in The Dayton News. Incl
dentally, one of the big delegations of
g4lean1pn no from
The New York travelling men carried
a sign that read: New York SAYS:
Harding and horse sense, not Cox and
chaoN'
The drummers brought no less than
four cheer leaders with them, and these
sprightly individuals climbed on the
broad railing of the porch and directed
the singing OF swarm of humanity
that t1iled the Harding yard, the street
and the yards of the Harding neighbors
one aof dozen songs they sang to the
tune "He rambled." One of the verses
follows:
On. we are the peddlers the peddlers
We travel every state
80 From Maine to the Golden Gate
Ch. we are the peddlers, the peddlers,
And we're for Warren Harding and his mate
The speaking was to have started at
q o'clock, but delegations continued ia
errive and the singing continued for
almost an hour after that.
j. II. Kazor, of Bloomington, ILL.,, was
the spokesman for the statesmen. He
told Senator Harding that railroad
transportation was one Of the most i'm
portant problems in the life OF his
visitors. He said they felt that there
were enough of them to entitle the craf{
/ 70 representation on the Interstate
commerce Commission. He said also
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