Arizona republican., 1920-10-11

nett, a Democratic politician. who later sold his office and practice to Dr. Virtue.
 Tt was a pretty bum job." pr. Ben- nett told me one night a couple of weeks ago. when I met him on the streets of Mount Crilead. But the doc tors estimate was attributed to .par- tisan antagonism. for the doctor is one of those who can see nothing good in any Republican. Yet the next day, when I stopped in Iberia and saw the handiwork of Mir. Harding 35 years be- fore. I was compelled to admit that whatever the prejudice of Dr. Bennett might be he was not disqualified to pass judgment on mural decoration as practiced by Mir. Harding in his col lege days. The attempt at graining was something fierce" and I am as good Harding man as ever sailed the seven seas.
 Dr. Virtue. however, believes that if Mir Harding had continued in that field his name would now stand beside those of Blashfield. Kenyon Cox. Rogers, Blum. Crowninshield and Violet Oak ley. Tn the view of the doctor, when Mir Harding went into journalism. and later to be lured into politics. a great artist in embryo was murdered.
 
 ism. it is not generally known that he took up that amid the multiplicity of his activities at Ibera, presumably af- ter all the barns had been painted and the grade of the T. & O. c. had been carried so far beyond Iberia that MT Harding could not follow it.
 With Frank l.. Miller, then a fellow 1 student and now a resident of Iberia | Mir. Harding started a paper called Int | Spectator. It was to be published oc' casionally. Metsrs Harding and Miller | canvassed the county seats for mile: around to secure figures from publish | CTS At last they awarded the contrac for publication to W. c. Beebe, then al now the proprietor of the Union Reg istes. a Democratic weekly published at Mount Gilead.
 The friendship of Mir. Miller and Mir Harding has been uninterrupted, s' much so that after the latter's nomi nation word was brought to a famil, of Republicans, of extensive connection in Gilead township, that in the event O the election of Mir. Harding Frank Mil Ter would be made secretary of state I Word was brought to Mir. Miller tha l in consequence of this story this fam fly had all declared for Cox But tn dissidents were brought back into tn fold on assurance from Mir. Miller tha in no circumstances would he accep that portfolio. as his private bushes demanded his attention.
 I have mentioned the name of W. G Beebe, the publisher. have know him intimately for more than 40 year: I never knew what the "G" stood fo and never wondered; I supposed fo some Christian name. But he con fided to me ir a whisper recently tha it was "Gamaliel.' He said that tha had always been kept family secre and but for the fact that Mir. Hardin had recently brazenly Haunted to tn world that he too. had been so handi capped. the Eeebe secret would neve have been revealed.
 Regarding ''Gamaliel," on the nigh before "traveling mems day" at Marion September 25, when 39 trains of tn Knights of the Gripsack from all part of the United States were convergin toward the front porch. I sat on tn piazza of the Globe hotel at Mour Gilead listening to a discussion anon a half score of commercial traveller All of them were Harding men. TheT was in the group an objecting Demo crat of some other vocation, who no and then raised his voice in protest At length enc or the party inquired
 What does the c. stand for?" Ar other was not quite sure, but believe
 he had hcarc that it was Gabriel whereupon the lone Democrat observes
 Well, he'll not blow his trumpet in tn white house next March"