New-York tribune., 1920-11-03
Rest i'm Texas
Next Move in
Harding Plans
President-Elect to Go to
Point Isabel for Two
Weeks as Guest of Col.
Scobey, Lifelong Friend
Will Visit Panama Next
Senators Frelinghuysen,
Hale and Elkins Will BE
Among Those i'll Party
Rrom q StaN Correspondent


MARION, Ohio. Nov. 2.-President-
elect Warren G. Harding is planning
to leave Marion with Mrs. Harding and
trainload Of "buddies" either Friday
night or Saturday morning for Point
Isabel, Tex. That is as far as he can
get from the front porch and still re-
main within the borders of the United
States.
But it isn't far enough, and after
about two weeks in that region of
dengue fever, rattlesnakes, scorpions,
tarantulas, hot tamales and armadillos,
but which is nevertheless uninfested
with Republican office-seekcrs, the
President-elect will take his playmates
to New Orleans and sail from there
for the Panama Canal Zone.
All through the campaign, when peo-
pie have observed the Senator in deep
thought and have wondered just what
article of the League of Nations he
was frowning upon, it is more than
likely he has been thinking about
Point Isabel and the things his pal
Colonel +. E. Scobey, now of San
Antonio, formerly Sheriff Of Marion
County, Ohio, has told him about that
Gulf resort with its superb tarpon fish
ing, its $50 Mexican inhabitants and
dOV whites. ne senator promised
Scobey the night he was nominated in
Chicago that he would 20 to Point
Isabel, and to make the promise more
binding he said he would 60. win or
lose.
Has No Axes to Grind
rms Colonel Scobcy may be from
lc%as, but he is not to be classified
with Colonel House When he laughs.
n
mighty polished boots and finishes by
shaking his double chin and knitting
ms bushy gray brows. He never says
'Don't quote me" He Just takes it
for granted he won't be quoted All
he wants from Senator Harding is to
be allowed to feel that neither politics
nor high office has altered the close
friendship that has existed between
them in all the years since young
Warren Harding first came to Marion.
Scobey declares that ali the State Of
Texas will endcavor to convince Sena-
tor Harding that there is nothing too
good for him. The Hardings will stay
IN cottage at Point Isabel owned by
K. 3. Creager. n banker Of San Antonio.
Three members of the United States
Senate are going to be aboard the
special train that takes the President
elect to Point Isabel. Even Governor
oox would concede that they do not
represent any Senate oligarchy. They
with Senator Harding, have long
formed one of the happiest golf four
somes that ever teed off. There are
Senator Joseph Freylinghuysen of New
Jersey, Senator frederick Hale Of
Maine and Senator Davis Elkins of
West Virginia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward B. Mclean, of
Washington and Cincinnati (Mr. Nc
Lean is the publisher of the Washing
ton Post and Cincinnati Enquircr),
also are going, as are MIR. and Mrs.
Malcolm Jennings, of Columbus, Ohio
Mr.. Jennings was formerly associated
with Senator Harding in the publ
cation of the Marion Star. Dr. and
Mrs. c. E. Sawyer, who have accom-
panied the Hardings on all the speak
ing trips of the campaign, will be in
the party; so will George B Christian
jr., the President-elect's secretary, and
some secret service men. who have
just been assigned to the duty Of
guarding the next President from