Milford chronicle., 1920-07-09
UNCLE TED CONTINUES HIS
STORY OF SENATOR HARDING

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please tell us some more about
Senator Harding" pleaded Ruth as
/ her uncle was trying to take a few
minutes to read the evening paper.
"Any uncle of yours has a fine
| chance to get a minutes rest!" ans
wered Uncle Ted. Il did promise to
go on with the story of the life and
work OF OUR NEXT PRESIDENT
and 1 guess tonight is a good time.
when you stopped last week,
spoke up Jack, you were telling us
about Senator Harding's newspaper.
"The story of that newspaper is
too long for tonight. Jack. | am go
ing to tell you something of Mr. Har-
ding as a business man, his travels,
and the beginning of his political ca
reer. Since he became the publisher
of "The Star" Marion. Ohio, has
grown from a small country town to
a real city of about thirty thousand
inhabitants. Senator Harding has
been responsible to a large extent
for the growth of industry in this
flourishing manufacturing city. Nitn-
ever a new industry has located
there he has been one of the first
men to boost it and to purchase as
much stock as he could to help it
along. For two years or more he was
on the Board of Directors of the
Chamber of Commerce and because
of his business ability he has been
asked to serve on the Board of Di-
rectors of most of the business con-
Germs that have made Marion their
home. At the present time he is a
Of hanlr Hiroqfnr n
several of the largest manufacturing
concerns and trustee of the Trinity
Baptist Church. Being member of
this church he always attends its
whenever he is in the city.
ANY man, kiddies. who expects TO
be President of the United States
must know as much as possible about
the other countries of the world. Sen
ator Harding is well fitted in this
respect, having made three trips to
Europe in the past ten years-nOt for
pleasure but to study the different
kinds of government and their prob
lens. But one thing is certain. he
always returned with a greater love
for his own country and the firm be-
lief that our form of government is
the best ever devised in the history
Of the world. At a time when we
are paying more than twice as much
'or sugar than is necessary because
1f the stupid way in which the sugar
situation has been handled by Mir, |
Wilson and Attorney General Palmer,
t should be interesting to your mo-
her that the subject of sugar is moth |
ng new to Mr.. Harding. Before Mr.. |
Harding took his seat in the United I
States Senate, he made a trip to the |
Hawaiian Islands to study at first |
land the production and distribution |
If sugar. If he had been President |
asst year when it was possible for the |
United States to buy the Cuban crop |
1t a little over six cents pound it /
S certain he would have seen to it
hat the crop was purchased.
"Since Mr. Harding started at the
bottom of the ladder of life with lit
lie or nothing to assist him, he can
readily understand and appreciate the
rOubles and problems which the la
)oring man must face. When he be-
ZONES President he will, as he has in
he past, always given careful thought
md attention to the problems and
claims of men in every station of life.
The people of almost every state in
he country have heard of Mr.. Hard
ng speak. And he has not limited
himself to a speaking tour of certain
,lasses of people. He has addressed,
or instance. a wool growers associa-
ion, a convention of steel and iron
men, farmers institute. an associa-
ion of miners, railroad employees
md groups of labOrers from other
branches of industry. In this way he
las made himself familiar with the
leeds of every sHcriOn OF the country.
Before / start telling you of his
.ctual political career l want you to
NOW of a most remarkable incident
Turing the recent primary elections
or President, held before the Repub-
lean Convention gathered at Chicago.
every man who runs for any political
'fIice, large or small, feels highly
if he can receive a
arge number of the votes in his own
lome. When the ballots were counted
fter the primary election, it was
ound that Senator Harding had re-
eived all but two votes in the town
where he spent his boyhOod days,
nd in the city of Marion all but 165
-Otes, and in the county all but 2S3
-Otes. So you see that where he has
,rown up since boyhood, where he
las gone into business and played
he game fair and square the people
NOW him to be a REAL MAN and
-oted for him accOrdinly. To prove
What they think of him / am going to
cad to you what the president of
me of Marion's largest manufacture
ng concerns says of him. Listen
"'TO the older residents of Mar
ion the life of Senator Harding
is an open book, showing the de-
VelOpment from young manhood
TO mature years; from position
of ObScurity to one of prOmi-
nence; from comparative poverty
to reasonable afiluence, and ON no
page Of that book is there a line I
that his best friend could wish
Obliterated. In later years it has
been my pleasure TO serve with
him on various Boards of Direc-
tors. His counsel and advice
have always been sought and val
ued, and his Judgment on mat
ters OF importance has been in
yariably sound
"That shows what his neighbors
Jack home think of him, and that IS
he way every American citizen will
eel after he has taken his seat in
he White House. His administra-
ion will be an open book and there
will be nothing to wipe out or for
get. The United States today stands
n the same position she did in 1860
md again in 1896. A strong man, a