New-York tribune., 1920-09-27
Senator Departs ON His
Second Speaking Trip;
Will Talk ON Marine
i'm Baltimore Tonight
Shares One Ohio
Date With Cox
Nominees to Appear ON
Same Platform Oct. 4
at dwelling Ceremony
From a star CORRESPONDENT

MARION, Ohio, Sept. Ex-senator
Warren G. Harding departed tonight
OF his second campaign speaking trip.
The Republican candidate will speak in
Baltimore tomorrow night ON his hopes
for great American merchant marine.
He will speak in Wheeling, W. Va,
Tuesday night, and in Ashland, KY,
Wednesday. The front porch campaign
ends with Senator Harding confident
that he will win sweeping victory.
Senator Harding and Governor Cox
are scheduled to sit down together at
lunch on October 4. at Spiegel Grove,
near Fremont, Ohio. An announcement
of this forthcoming meeting of the two
candidates in their home state was
issued by Harding headquarters to-day.
Senator Harding and Governor Cox
will speak from the same platform at
Spiegel Grove at the unveiling of a
memorial tablet in honor of the San
dusky County soldiers who lost their
lives in war.
Both Guests of Colonel Hayes
The two Presidential candidates, ac-
companied by their wives, will be the
guests of Colonel W. C. Hayes, son of
former President Rutherford B. Hayes,
at his home.
The date is the ninety eighth ami
versary of the birth of Rutherford B.
Hayes. The ceremonies will mark the
unveiling Of a bronze tablet in the
Hayes Memorial Library, in Spiegel
Grove, State Park. The tablet contains
the names of seventy soldiers Of San
dusky County who lost their lives in
the war with Spain and the World War.
beautiful parkway is being con-
structed in the State Park as me-
mortal to the Sandusky County SOL
diers, comprising a driveway about one
hundred feet wides perked. and with
will be planted buckeye trees, each
tree bearing tablet with the name Of
deceased soldier.
The State Park comprises largely the
old Rutherford B. Hayes estate. One
Of its ornaments is the Hayes me-
mortal building, in which the tablet is
to be unveiled.
Colonel and Mrs. HAYES came to
Marion to-day and were guests at the
Harding home, perfecting arrangements
for the ceremonies.
Invitations for the occasion have
been sent out widely. The Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical Society
and the Soldiers Memorial Parkway
Commission of Sandusky County have
the arrangements in hand.
Parade to Precede Exercises
The formal exercises at which the
two Presidential candidates will speak
will take place at / 80 D. m. in Spiegel
Grove, following parade headed by
the navy recruiting band from the
Great Lakes naval recruiting station
and veterans of the World War and the
Spanish sh-Americen War. Captain An
drew Kline, ninety-six years old, San
dusky County veteran of the war with
Mexico and also Of the Civil War, will
take part. Members of the G. A. R.
also will appear in the procession in
automobiles.
The meeting will be called to order
by A. E. Slessman, chairman of the
Parkway Commission, who will present
former Governor James Z. Campbell
to preside.
Governor Cox will be presented first,
deliver his address, and be followed by
Senator Harding. 1t is hoped that the
commanders Ill Cuiel VI Vic ". "A. W.,
of the Spanish war veterans and the
World War veterans also will speak
briefly.
Plans had been made for Governor
and Mrs. Cox and Senator and Mrs.
Harding to arrive at Fremont October
3 and remain overnight. The Oriental
Room in the Hayes mansion was to be
set aside for Governor and Mrs. Cox,
while the Hardings were to occupy the
Washington Room. Other speaking
engagements, however, will prevent
Senator Harding from going to Ere
mont before October a.
Silent on Letter to Johnson
Concerning Governor Cox's charges
that Senator Harding had written a
letter to Senator Hiram Johnson pledg-
ing himself to scrap the League of Ma
tions, Senator Harding said this after
noon:
II have nothin. to say to anybody
on the subject OF foreign relations that
do not say in public utterances. 1t
is only fair to Senator Johnson to say
that he never asked me to do So"
The last front-porch delegation came
this afternoon. There were about
twenty former newsboys of Senator
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