The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1920-08-27
HARDING AND COOLIDGE.

presidential candidate of the Repub
lican party.
Senator Harding is typical of the
opportunities of America. He was
born poor. His father a struggling
physician in a tiny Ohio hamlet
Young Harding worked his way
through school and college. He
worked during the Summer months
at farming, at railroad building, at
teaching, at house and sign painting
and at printers case, to earn the
money to educate himself.
When he came out of college-he
went to little, unknown college in
Ohio, which is no longer in exist
ence-he taught school and worked
as a printer until he took over the
stock of liabilities of little local
sheet which had more obligations than
type fonts.
Intensely practical and exceedingly
ambitious, young Harding worked
night and day to build up that paper,
and today he has the Marion Daily
Star as fine small town daily as is
Cuc COuHCIy.
Harding is self-made. He has
grown from a farmer lad into a man
whose wise judgment and counsel
have been courted by the biggest men
in his party.
AS an example of the old saying
that every American cradle is the po-
tential birthplace of a president,
Harding stands pre-eminent.
Through all his steady climb Hard
ing has never lost sight of his early
struggles. He has always felt. the
deepest sympathy and understanding
in the efforts of the working classes
to better themselves. He has the
closest personal sympathy and under
standing with the farmer element be-
cause he has been farmer. Since he
has grown to power and eminence,
he has been in contact with the classes
that administer the country's indus
tries, and he has learned their prob
lens and their difficulties. So heais
equipped mentally to weigh and bal
ance in the scales of his cool judg-
ment the rights and wrongs of each.
In his public life Harding has ever
been governed in all his decisions and
votes by this cool judgment and abil-
ity to put himself in the other fellows
place. He has not forgotten his ex-
periences as a laborer and farmer,
and his votes have reflected his SYM
pathy and understanding of the needs
of the masses. He has never cast a
vote against the interest of the peo-
pie, and he has fathered and sup
ported all of the important measures
aimed to better the conditions of the
laboring classes. Among the legisla-
tive acts he has supported may be
mentioned the child labor law, the
minimum wage law, the civil service
retirement law, the rehabilitation of
industrial cripples law and the wo-
mans bureau of the Labor Depart
ment.
He has voted for woman suffrage
and supported the cause in states
where ratification was doubtful, US
ing his eloquence and his influence
for the cause Of suffrage.
Indeed every act of his political
career is marked by progressiveness
and far-sighted realization of the i'm
portance of political developments.
Harding is Republican of the Lin
coin and Mckinley type. Like these
great figures of the past he believes
in the Importance of cooperative &C
ton in deciding the great issues. He
has consistently decried the egoism
of autocratic methods of government.
He has always said that the great
strength of the Republican party lay
in it's willingness to profit by wise
counsel, and he has declared fire.
quently that a presidents cabinet
should enlist the biggest men in the
party instead Of sawdust puppets to
bob their heads to presidential orders.
Only by having men of such caliber
can government really succeed, and
when he is elected to the presidency
and takes his seat in the White House
next March 4th, his cabinet selections
will show that his practical knowledge
of men will enable him to build up an
organization such as surrounded Lin
coin, Mckinley and Roosevelt, all Re-
publicans who believed in this great
fundamental policy.
Harding personally is the embodi-
ment of the finest American manhood.
He is a good fighter, but clean
fighter. He is a good friend, but
even friendship has never stood in the
way of his duty. He is an able man
as his every private and public act
proclaims. He is good man, relige- |
Gus and tolerant, gentle, kindly |
husband and good neighbor.
In Ohio they love him. They will
tell you that success has never gone
to Harding's head and that he is the
same genial, generous, keen witted
companion that he was when he was
just the editor the Marion Daily Star.
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