Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-09-09
NOISY WELCOME
GIVEN HARDING;
AGRICULTURE IS
TEXT Of SPEECH
Says Nation Should Encour-
age Cooperative Market
ing and Take Other Steps
To Assist f arnerS.
THOUSANDS CROWD
INTO TWIN CITIES
Minneapolis and St, Paul
Crowds Line Sidewalks
As the Senator and His
Party Pass Along,

| tBY MORNING JouRhAL SPECIAL LEASED WiRGl
State Fair Grounds, Hamline,
Mimi, Sept. S,-Making his first
| important campaign speech away
! from home. Senator w. G. Harding
outlined his agricultural policy to
an applauding crowd of many
f, thousands today and later was ac-
| claimed vociferously by other
thousands in a string of parades
and receptions in Minneapolis and
st. Paul.
Throughout the speech the great
audience massed in the fair
grounds grandstand frequently an
swered the doc 'arations of the re-
publican nominee with bursts of
handclapping. When the speaker
turned from agricultural subjects
to make an impromptu plea for
preserved nationality and equal op-
portunity, the crowd got TO its feet
cheering and waved him a thun-
derous good bye.
Both in Minneapolis and st. Paul
crowds lined sidewalks of the down
town sections as the senator and
his party passed along in parade
line and wave of cheering swept
about him as he stood in his auto
mobile and bowed his acknowl-
edgements. In each of the twin
cities the nominee shook hands
with several hundred at a public
reception. ....
Stating in carefully measured
words his agricultural program the
candidate declared that. among
! other things. the nation should en-
courage cooperative marketing,
scientifically study price stabiliza-
tion. SO administer the farm loan
act asto reduce tenancy, avoid un-
necessary price fixing, give farmers
greater representation in govern
ment restore railway transporta-
tion to its greatest efficiency, and
revise the tariff to protect against
unfair competition,
The speech was delivered from
the race track Judges stand. where
on Monday Governor Cox address
ed a state fair crowd but the re-
publican nominee made no refer
cnce to his opponent. lie read
from manuscript which he held
in his left hand while with his
right he kept before him the
mouthpiece of a telephone device
for carrying his voice out to the
crowd, A blazing SUN poured down
on him and he spoke rapidly, skip
ping some portions of his prepared
address and departing In many in
stances from his manuscript.
The appeal for Americanism,
which brought the loudest ap
plause, was made after the nomi-
nee had laid his manuscript aside
and was driven home by vigorous
gestures. He recounted how on a
return from Europe some years
ago, his emotions had been aroused
at the sight of poverty stricken
immigrants issuing from under
decks and how a stranger had tod
him mot to worry about those
people"
"He declared 1t was the greatest
day Of their lives" said Senator
Harding "and said he knew
whereof he spoke. because he him
self had come over that way six
years before. And that, my fellow
countrymen, is the story of Amer
ica-a land Of guaranteed freedom
and opportunity And | want 1t to
go on that way, preserving its in
dependence and pointing the way
to the highest civilization for the
world"
The candidate also made several
other short talks during his visit
of four hours to the fair grounds.
In the main they were merely mes
sages OF greetings to crowds that
called on him for a word but in a
speech to groups of boys who had
won prizes for crop raising he took
occasion to reply to criticism of
the senate as a rich mans club"
Many OF the present members of
that body he said, had won their
way forward by merit from the
low'iest beginnings.
Many departments of the fair
were visited by Senator and Mrs.
Harding. Everywhere Mrs. Hard
ing shook hands and exchanged
greetings with those who crowded
around and several times she be-
came separated from the party
while she fingered to talk with
newly found acquaintances