The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-12-07
PRESIDENT-ELECT
REGULAR FELLOW
ONE OF THOSE PLAIN, HUMAN
PERSONS; WON'T CHANGE
IN WHITE HOUSE.

MARION, Ohio - President-elect
Harding left on his vacation trip with
a feeling that the big problems that
will face him in his administration will
be better tackled after a thorough rest
and complete detachment from the
atmosphere of politics in which he has
for so many months been enveloped.
The president-elect leaves behind
as expectant body of townspeople as
ever sent a man to the white house.
Those who have known Harding for
years know his every fault and his
every strong point. are united in their
expressions of confidence that he will
make good" They base it entirely
on his happy faculty of making friends
and keeping them. He has a splendid
amount of tact and good taste. He
makes people like him.
Nobody in Marion except of course
the extreme nero worshippers believe
Warren Harding to be a genius. He
is looked upon, however, as capable
of surrounding himself with good men
anu SettIlB HSIp AIolll tiCHl.
Just Plain Warren"
All summer long he has had advis-
ers galore and while it is unjust to
say he has been influenced altogether
by outside minds for on many occa-
sions he has made decisions contrary
to everybody else's advice, it is a fact
that he has availed himself of such
advice as he has thought good and re-
jected what he thought unwise.
Another thing: The next admins
tration will be a FIRST name" admin
istration. What does that mean? Sim
ply that there will be scores of folks
who will be able to call the new pres
ident Warren" and there will be even
more folks who will be called Harry,
or Dick, or Tom as the case may be
by the president. For Warren Harding
is one OF those human persons who
isn't expected to change when he gets
into the white house. He will not
change as so many presidents have on
reaching the white house. If Mrs.
about things-and everybody seems
deal to say.
She has the happy way of staying
genuine and breathing spontaneity.
There isn't a neighbor in Marion who
has yet seen anything "upstage" about
Mrs. Harding. She was just the same
to the homefolks after the Chicago
convention as before, and she is just
the same after election as she was in
the campaign and it's safe guess that
she will be the same at the white
house.
Chews and Smokes.
There's something delightful about
the personality of the president-elect
which impresses any newcomer. He
makes a much better impression in
his private talks with newspaper men
than his public speeches. Somehow
he feels the restraint of public speak
ing much more than most men do.
Among the most interesting incidents
of the past week have been the talks
between the president-elect and the
newspaper men in the little shack which
has been press headquarters through
out the campaign.
Warren Harding smokes a cigarette
and likes to chew tobacco. That's a
relic really of early days in the print
shop where the idea grew up that
chewing helped to keep the dust down.
Warren Harding is a typical Ameri-
can. He doesn't affect the statesman
like poses which one sees so often in
the attitude of public men. He says
"mebbe" when others might say may
be-" He talks with the drawl of a
countryman rather than the precision
of the drawing room conversationalist.
He tells a good story and enjoys hear
ing one. He knows life in its every
aspect and probably will get along
better with the members of the senate
and house than any president in recent
years because he knows how to handle
congressman.