Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-30

vate car Ideal" jumped the track and narrowly escaped complete wrecking near Millwood. W. Va By freak Of fortune no one was injured, although the Senator and Mrs. Harding were se- vereiy shaken up.
 For more than 800 yards the car. run ming al the rear of the special, bumped owe rthe ties. crossing on the way lsO foot trestle which spanned a stream !, . at a height of 40 feet.
 Just as the train was brought to staadstin both the front and rear trucks | of the car gave way. and the rear wheels l buried themselves in the gravel close to i the edge of an embankment. The spe- ] cal was running at a speed of more l than 90 miles an hour when the car left i the rass. crossing a switch In the | distance it travelled before stopping it | spiintered many of the wooden ties, a~I ripped up some of the rsSspikea l - ties of the trestie were broken coIh- pietey. Neither Of the two compartment cars carrying the Senator's staff and news paperrnen left the track. and the engi- nrcr did not know of the accident until railroad detective riding on the rear platform of the Harding car applied the erQerrercy air brake. Then the train same 10 a stop with jolt, and the car tilted over slightly as it settled down on tho broken track.
 Senator Harding was seated just in- side Inc rear door when the car left the rans Immediately there was a crash of rass as q flower vase toppled to the floor put tho nominee kept his scat and went or with his conversation As soon az Inc train. stopped he went forward to assure himself that no one was hurt and .hsn climbed down 10 see how badly Inc Car was daraanged.
 d -.rf -F M1wocd. a fcw hundred yards away. soon gathered around the train. and one woman to whom the Senator bid Good nornirr' said 10 him God take care 5f you. Mir. Harding
 -Ife did" replied the nominee, "and we are thankful"
 The accident delayed the Harding lors lurEaEe was transferred from the Abandoned Ideal" to the compartment ar !nirrediately ahead
 Tonight the special. minus the aban- iored ideal turned northwcstward Tor Marion the senator completing his three-day trip with two evening ad- dresses i7 Ohio,
 During the day he had spoken in a hah dozen West Virginia cities and had addressed big afternoon meeting at Ashland. Ky.
 
 nent and governmental economy fea- tured the nominees speeches. and he al % touched on most of the other issues of tho campaign. At Ashland. he con. demned pork barrel" river and harbor egislation and asked for a more eff. ,ientF development of the nations inland waterways, In one of two speeches hs made at Parkersburg. W. Va. he re. oiled 10 Governor Cox's comparison ot ihs slogans America First" ant Deutschland uber Allies" and speakins 70 crowd at the railway station al Mason City. VI Va, he compared his thandoned private car to the American .ar of state.
 Draws Lesson From DeraIIment
 The great car of state" he said. Ego inr forward 10 the fulhllment of nationa engagements. some how got off the tracl last year over in Paris, and it left thinel n very hay order. and I think may b, a crossing the trcstle of internationalisn 1T it had not been for the guard rail oi ronstitutionalism in the senate. to pre- ment us from completely leaving tn, track, we might have had a very SC r.ous wreck for the United States
 50 ! am telling you that instead O trying Co put a broken-up car back ol the track. let us cut 1t loose and go oi and keep our engagebments with tn world
 The allusion Aroused a cheer Anot4, CT shout of approval carne during hi Parkersburg speech when in referring t Governor Cox's discussion of tho Amer lea first" slogan in South Dakota las nirht the republican nominee said:
 "i note by the morning papers tha someone has taken up that slogan an tried 10 compare it with that used b lnc Germans during the war Somehow 0 nHhrr hn hoe nd noted in a colioquy between tn ' uocratic nominee and citizen of Ger ian origin that t was attempted { make tho slogan America first appes as one of selhshness and an .uftimat menace for ua In our relations with tn rest or iae world I do not wnow tha can pronounce correctly the wel-know FloEan Of the Germans. Deutschland ube allies but this meant as I understan, thaf they were th;rN ing of German first
 And I beg 10 remind my countryme that under the spirit Of forty years pra, tice in Germany. under the slogan, Gel many because industriaIly the most emil eut. edueationally the most infuentia progressively. the most notable wei known In Inc accomplishment of art an most conspicuous in widened commerce any people In the world
 You know what rended it all OnI the arrorznce and autocracy of one ma who turned the Influence and popuiari cf a great people into the one trag Fpeciaeie Of all tst5ry And so tai the lesson from Germany. and I warn yo ny countrym~n. let us not have one ma dictatorship In the United States"
 rs End One Wan Government.
 The other West Virginia cities in whi. fN- senator Epoke during the day we Sisterrviiie. RavenEwood. Point Pieasar and Huntington and his two stops in Oh were at Ironton and Portsmouth.
 nearly every address he stressed his d termination to end lone man gover rnent- and to preserve national inteEri from any encroaehment by council foreign powers"
 At Huntington the senator spoke fro stand erected near the railway stati tn crowd which damned the stre Tor block away and cheered the nornin raany times The meeting at Ashia also was In the open. mad the croy ~nich tanned the street for bio way also vas in the open, and the cro- uhlch surrounded the speakers stand oentral Ark was 90 great that hu ireds were out of ear-shot Anctt srowd welcomed tho nominee when arrived. af the railway station and Eas' eheered repeatedly on his ride Inc na~t
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