New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-01
Opens Front Porch Cam.
Paign With Appeal for
Return to Protective
Tariff TO Aid Production
Levelingg OF Glass
Barriers Advocated
Nominee Assured Many
Democrats Are Enrolled
for Republican Success
From q staff Correspondent

MARION, Ohio, July Removal
of paralyzing tax burdens and a re-
turn to the protective tariff were
pointed to by Senator Warren G..
Harding to-day as measures ncces-
sary for increasing American produc-
ton and lowering the cost of living.
lie also said that changes and moditica-
tons in the excess profits tax ought
to be sought at an early date.
The nominees views were expressed
lii an address to members of the
Harding and Coolidge club of Rich
land County, which thus gained the
distinction of being the first visiting
delegation to elicit formal utterance
from the Ohio Senator at his front
porch
There were about 1000 of the club
members, farmers who had left their
wheat partially harvested. and shop
workers taking Saturday off from the
TN plate mills, the farm machinery.
tractor and furniture factories of
Mansfield and Shelby, the principal
towns of Richland County. with
them came the bands and MANY
Democrats. They packed themselves
INTO the Harding front yard and over
flowed into the street and the. wards
OF the nominees's aeighbors.
Many Democrats Enrolled
I'd Cappeller, who is editor and pub
Usher of "The Mansfield (Chio) News. F."
occupying position in the community
mere similar to i-enator Harding's in
Marion, as publisher of "The Star" in
troduced the delegation. He assured
the nominee that there were MANY
Democrats in the Harding and Coolidge
Club of Richland County, and that
back home were many more who were
gong to support the Republican ticket
at the polls.
One Of the visitors, Mrs Gordon Far
row, came by airplane, piloted by an
army flyer They ran into a thunder
storm on the forty-fve- mile Journey
and had to soar above the clouds to
avoid the danger from lightning. AS a
result they were lost for fifteen min
utes and were delayed in landing.
Most of the visitors came on spe-
cial train but many drove over in
motor cars
1T was an audience that grasped the
full significance of every local allusion
OF the speaker, who spoke as an Ohioan
talking to his neighbors. When he re-
called tireside stories related by his
great grandmother of bowling wolf
packs and other perils of the days
when OHIO was a wilderness most of
his hearers were able to recall similar
stories from the lips of their elders,
and so there was more than the ordi-
nary enthusiasm Of opponents of the
wilson covenant in the applause and
cheers that came when he said: 81 find
the story of their making of Ohio very
fascinating, and drink new inspiration
in recalling the paths they trod and
the works they wrought. The miracle
in developing America has its lessons
and emphasizes our resolution to hold
fast to all the advancement they made
| and go on securely toward all we hope
to be-"
Laugh at 40-Cent Wheat Story
They laughed with him when, in re-
calling the days of 4O-cent wheat failed
from the fields of Richland County and
the adjacent Morrow County, where he
hope that none misQuote him as saying
he believed in Accent wheat because he
had INDUCED his memory. The Sena.
tor took this occasion to refute a cam.
paign assertion that charged him with
having said 81 bushel is enough fol
wheat to-day.
II am not so annoyed at the silly un.
TRUTH" said the nominee, "as | am dis
tressed at the affront to ordinary intel
ligence."
Some one among his hearers shouted
Tell that to Jim Cox." and the nomi
nee promised, al will at the first OPP
portunity."
"Attaboy!' yelled young farmer
whose collar button CLEANED BRASIL.
/ beneath diminutiv4 black neckti,
that is popular on the theory that it il
liked on Broadway.
From rcnln scenes of oldtime price,
the Senator passed to a reminder tina
mounting farm prices, mounting wage
and mounting expenditures a1e insep
arably linked.
There is no living to-day or to-mor
row according to the standards OF yes
tsrday," he said ~
Prosperous Peace Necessary
"Only little while ago our griev
! duCeo ABOUT LdNcS were WnOlly lOcal
| because a half century of Republican
control of the Federal government hel,
US free from direct burdens But tn
changed policy, the Democratic drift
to freedom Of trade, which is interna
tional rather than national, and mount
ing cost of government and finally wa
burdens turned Federal taxation to
colossal burden. No one seriously com
planned while the national cdsis wa
over US, but we must work feadjust
ment for stabilized and osperou
peace"
If there was little discussion in to
days speech of the big iss,fes it wa
because the Senator is holding bac
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