The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-22
file Town Crowded With People Today When
Senator is Told That He Has Been
Nominated 11
CEREMONIES ARE VERY IMPRESSIVE
otifcation and Acceptance Speeches in Gar
field Park This Afternoon After Day
of Activity.

He hoped then to rest before going
to Garfield park.
The ceremonies take place in the
large open pavilion in the center of
the park. AS it seats only 1900, the
greater part of the crowd was COM
PEELED to stand outside.
Following was the program:
Will H. Hays, national chairman,
presiding.
Star Spangled Banner, sung by Re
publican Glee club, Columbus.
Invocation by Bishop William f.
Oldham, former pastor of Broad street
Methodist church, Columbus, now sta
toned in South America.
Speech of notification by Senator
Lodge. s5 -,as;,s iy| :. ia II
Speech of acceptance by Warren q.
Harding.
Singing of America by audience.
Benediction by Father Joseph NJ.
Denning. ST. Mary's church, Marion.
The early morning was bright, cool,
but the day promised to be warm.
One hundred members of the fa-
nous Hamilton club, of Chicago, ar
rived as the second delegation shortly
after eight o'clock Their president,
Robert w. Dunn, informed Harding he
had been elected as honorary member.
On their heels came one hundred
ing a dozen women, the first to greet
Harding today.
New York's delegation arrived about
$3.50 a. m. Among the marchers
were Frank Hitchcock, former mana
ger for General Leonard Wood and
William r. Wilcox, national chairman,
during the Hughes campaign.
Other prominent visitors are Theo-
dore Roosevelt, Jr., Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge; General r. Coleman Du-
Pont. of Delaware, and Will H Hays.
Following Senator Harding's recep-
tion of the national women's party,
delegation, $50 men from Fostoria
Ohio, arrived, wearing red, white and
blue hats and led by a boy band.
Toledo's delegation was next, then
Franklin county and Union county.
BY 1890 o'clock delegations were
arriving so rapidly that they formed
"a practically continuous procession.
Local arrangements, however, had
been SO completely organized that no
congestion developed.
Senator Harding early in the day
abandoned any idea of making speech
es to all the different delegations,
contenting himself with shaking hands
with the leaders.
suffragists swoop Down.
MARION, O., July 22.-Militant suf-
fragists swooped down on Warren G..
Harding today. somewhat piqued be-
cause the candidate issued his appeal
for action on suffrage by the Ten
nessee legislature on the eve of their
arrival Militants had not counted
on this sudden move by Harding, but
they went through with their pro-
gram anyway and asked the candi-
date to use his Influence for ratifi-
cation
One hundred women, members of
the national woman's party, repre-
senting fifteen states, marched in
procession, carrying banners, up to
Harding's front porch, headed by
Alice Paul. national chairman. Mrs.
Bertha G. Moller, of Minneapolis, was
in charge of the delegation.
Mrs. John Gordon Battlee, presi-
dent of the Ohio Woman's Repub-
lican club, introduced the two speak
ers, Miss Sue S. White, Tennessee,
state chairman Of the national wo-
mans party, and Mrs. Fl. o. Have
meyer, New York.
"We have come to you, as leader
of the republican party, to ask you
to do everything in your power to
urge republicans in the Tennessee
legislature to keep faith with their
party's platform pledge by giving an
unanimous republican vote in Ten
nessee on August g." Miss White
said. referring to the special session
which is to meet on that date.
"Wiu you, Senator Harding, grasp