Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-23
HARDING SSPEECHBRLVGS
HARlNOVYTOG OPRANkZS
I'VE Con Go to the Country on 1t and Win, -
Is Universal Verdict of Party Chiefs
on Acceptance.

| ton. The arrangements for feeding and
caring for the comfort Of the visitors
had been perfected in great detail 1t Is
safe to say that never before has little
city handled a crowd of visitors more
than double it's own population so well.
A comparatively small percentage
of the throngs were able to hear
Senator Harding's acceptance address,
but thousands marched past his home
and che"red as they went.
Seated on the stage at Garfield Park
were the members of the national
committee and of the committee ap-
pointed to notify the presidential
nominee. There was opportunity for
| the organization OF a club made up
of republican. national chairmen and
former national chairmen. Will Hays.
the present chairman. was present. Of
course, as were Frank Hitchcock, who
ran TaftS first campaign; Charles D.
Hilles of New York. who ran the
second Taft campaign, and William
r. Wilcox. who officiated for Charles
| Evan Hughes four years ago.
District Is Represented.
The District of Columbia was rep
! resented by Edward F. Colladay, re-
publican national committeeman, and
president of the Republican League
of State Clubs Of the District; Charles
c. Glover, the Districts representa-
tive on the committee of notification;
| AoeiluCl j. coCOlN VICE CIdlIL idH VI
the republican state committee of
the District; Judge Everard Brierer
| of the Republican League of State
| Clubs; DR.. NJ. F. Finley. Mrs. Mary
Logan Tucker, J. r. McCarl. Dorothy
| B. Johnston of Los Angeles and
| Washington, D. c.. and from Mary
| land there was Galen L. TAFT the
chairman of the republican state COM
mittee, and Mayor Broening of Balti-
more.
Mr.. Colladay expressed keen salts
faction over the speech of acceptance
by Senator Harding.
"It demonstrated to wonderful
degree" he said, 1.-The power of Sem
ator Harding to electrify an audience.
1t showed the personal magnetism of
the man, and his earnestness and
sincerity SO affected many of his
friends that they had tears in their
eyes at the close of the address His
address fits the case in every par
road problem, of labor and capital.
of the league of nations and of the
Mexican question was admirable. The
keynote of his speech was America
first"
General Exodus Takes Place.
Mr.. Colladay, Mr.. Prescott and 9TH
ers here from Washington left Ma
rion last night for home. AS mat
ter of fact, there was a general ex-
odus all during the late hours of the
afternoon and early evening. By II
| o'clock the city had almost resumed
it's normal appearance.
4 One "old Roman" received a warm
welcome in Marion yesterday-Theo-
dore E. Burton, former senator and
now a candidate for the republican
nomination for representative from
Cleveland. In way Senator Burton
may be said to be responsible for
49, I1ov two nOyIv
the republican candidate for the pres
idency Six years ago the term of
Senator Burton as senator was expir-
ling and he determined not to seek
nomination. Had he gone after the
Northumberland he probably would
have been nominated-and elected
Senator Harding would not have been
senator, nor in position to press
his claims for consideration for the
presidency.
There was one group here yester-
day that was not satisfied with the
Harding speech-the National Wom-
ans Party. Miss Alice Paul. the ma
tional chairman, put out statement
in which she said:
"Suffragists can feel only dissatis-
faction with Senator Harding's refusal
in his reply to the woman's party del
egation, and in his acceptance speech,
to take positive stand for the carry
ing out of the suffrage plank in the
republican PLATFORM" Miss Paul said
this afternoon.
Women to Follow Harding.
"The suffrage plank is the only one
in the platform which Senator Hard
ing and his party have the power to
carry out without waiting until elect
ed. to national Office because of the
fact that their party is already in con-
troll in several legislatures which have
not yet voted on suffrage. If Senator
Harding refuses to live up to the suf-
frage plank and contents himself
merely with earnestly hoping and
sincerely desiring how can he ex-
pect the country to take seriously the
other planks in his PLATFORM
Miss Paul added that arrangements
would be made to have members of
the National Womans Party on hand
wherever Senator Harding was to
speak during the campaign to remind
him of the need of obtaining the nee
essary thirty-sixth state.