Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-11-06
President Elect Plans to
Start Rlovement at
Ouce.
UNDER WAY BEFORE
HIS INAUGURATION
Mr., and Mrs. Harding on Southern
Vacation Trip, Accompanied by
Several Friends and Family Physi-
cian-cabinet Appointments Not to
Be Considered Until Return From
Panama-Invitos Views Of Big Men.
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
On Board President Elect Hard.
ing's Special Train, Nov. 6.-Start.
ing for months vacation trip tc
southern Texas and Panama, Presi-
dent Elect Harding today laid aside
the last cares of the presidential
campaign for an interim Of real rest
and recreation before he takes VI
seriously the responsibilities Of his
coming administration.
Altho his mind already is at work
upon the preliminary details Of his
first administration policy, plan fol
a new association Of nations, Mr.
Harding does not propose to let the
task interfere with his outing. He
has asked several leading statesmen
to prepare their views on the sub
ject for him, but his first conference
to receive advice will not take place
until after he returns to Marion
about Dec. g.
Of First Concern.
The president-elect has made 1t
known that a compilation of opin-
ions on the association Of nations
proposal will be his first concern in
preparing for his responsibilities at
Washington, taking precedence even
over his choice Of q cabinet. Cabinet
appointments, he has announced,
will not be given any thought at all
during his vacation.
The special train carrying Senator
and Mrs. Harding and their party
left Marion at 7:30 this morning
bound for Point Isabelle near the
southern tip Of the Texas coast,
where the president will spend
twelve days hunting and fishing.
After that he is to make an ocean
voyage to the canal zone and then
back to a port on the middle--Atlantic
coast. He will speak In Bedford,
va, on Dec. 5, and will go i'm
Fmediately from there to Marion.
Making the trip south by way OF
st. Louis and San Antonio, the sem
ator's train will reach Brownsville,
Tex, Monday morning and the party
[ will motor from there to Point lsa-
belle, twenty miles away.
Guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. Harding on
the trip were Harry Daugherty, man
ager Of the Harding pre-convention
campaign; Senators Freylinghuysen
of New Jersey; sHale, OF Maine; FL
kins. OF West Virginia. and Edward
B. Mclean, the Washington pup
Usher.
His secretary, George b. Christian
Jr. and his family physician, DR.. G
E. Sawyer, and a group OF secre'
s,rvice men and newspaper men aise
were on the special train.
Ask Big Men to Conference.
Mr.. Harding already has begur
fnIf,llnent Of his campaign promise
to consult the ration,s leading minds
with regard to a neW\association o.
NATIONS. and he hopes that by mex,
March he viii have laid the ground
work of a plan behind which the SEN
tir,ent of the nation can unite.
The announcement followed iona
conference ietwee Senator Harding
and will II. Hays. Neither revealed
what subjects they discussed.
Mr.. Hard.ng's Statement.
The plan for conferences on an as
sociation IF nation" was revealed II
this announcemet from Mr.. Hard
ing's office:
Senator Harding let it be known
today that he IS sending out a mum
Der Of requests for personal and In
formal conferences with men ant
women who have been eminent in tn
discussion of our foreign relations
These conferences will take place
upon his return to Marion in Decem
~ I;,,iI por
sonal, with the main purpose o
learning what policy may enlist unitet
support.
senator Harding means to avoit
any unseemly anticipation, but h.
feels it wholly becoming to get al
expression entirely free from cam
paien bias and to get. it at the earli
est possible day. It is the first stel
toward the meeting Of minds OF whtcl
Z Senator Harding SO frequently spok
during the campaign. He did no
make public any list, because it will
not be complete before his vacation
ends.
"Senator Harding further an
nounced that no consideration woul'
4 be given TO d CStpii1St udi iAE iiAo CI
reation period"
No Names Mentioned.
Altho the president-e ELECT has neve
Eamed publicly any Of those he will
include in his consultations, specuia
ton of a wholly unauthoritative char
acter has resolved persistently abou
a number oS<conspicuous figures VIII
might answer to the description MI
Harding has laid down.
So far as the senate itself is con
cerned this undercurrent Of GOSSIP
has carried frequently the names o
such republican senator's as Lodge
chairman foreign relations commit
tee; Knox, former secretary of stat
and q treaty irreconcilable; Johnson
another irreeoncilable, and Lenroot. ;
leader of the reservationists.
On the democratic side there ha