Arizona republican., 1920-10-17
HARDING DENIES. CHARGE AMERICA
 WOULD ABANDON ALLIED NATIONS

ST. LOUIS, Oct 1e.-Before a crowd which overflowed the big St. Louis coliseum and greeted him with cheer ing and singing which lasted more than a half hour, Senator Harding to- night closed his last extensive speak ing trip with an address in which he coupled condemnation of embarrassing foreign political entanglements with al plea for extension of the nations for eign trade and commerce.
 Again arraignfng the TiemocIf tic ad- ministration. he declared thai in the last few years there had been t3o much 'meddling" in Europe and too little trade cooperation with Latin Amer ica ann other lands.
 The night meeting concluded one of the candidates most strenuous days of campaigning, during which he spoke in Indiana and Illinois. The league of nations had a prominent place in his utterances. the nominee replying to criticism of his proposal for new world association. At Greencastle, Ind, he asserted "a spokesman of France had been sent to him to- ask that America lead the way in the for nation of a world association and at Effingham, H., he quoted a similar declaration by Stephan Lausanne, | French publicist.
 | In his talk at Terre Haute, Ind, he charged that the administration had ''set aside" provisions of the Cummins- Esch railway bill under which coal cars might be so allotted as to insure ! equable shipping conditions and pre- vent much of the idleness among miners.
 He asked for a Republican congress | to assure team work in the national
 government and to make certain of a | complete reversal of Democratic poll l cies and practices.
 In his reference to an emissary from l France the nominee did not explain
 when or from whom the French re- auest had come. He added. however Lloyd George and Earl Grey had spoker for American leadership in revising tho league covenant.
 The quotation from Lausanne con tained the declaration that the French
 people were ready to give up the league
 covenant if necessary 10 insure Amer
 ica's moral leadership.
 That's the tribute said Senator Harding, of one of the nations whom
 the Democratic nominee says we ar
 trying to desert"
 The senator in his address here , urged extension of American bankinl and merchant marine facilities, couple' with more efficient development of al inland waterways system, as step
 toward development of the nation . foreign trade.
 Mexico. South America, Asia, Afric Q and Australia were designated by tn } speaker as districts offering invitlnl n opportunities for American foreigl h commerce. Establishment of an inter f national financial system and exten l sionsof the merchant marine would al t | in developing trade with the more dis S fant Darts of the world. he said, whil n | a co-ordinating policy of inland water u way development would open the wa O 10 Mexico and South American strikes ,r Quoting statistics of the nations for % eien trade, Senator Harding said tha
 it was apparent Europe could not D - expccted to offer in the future tn IS same market for American goods sh e had provided before the war. Deve Is opment of markets in other parts a | the globe was desirable because u q | demand there was for manufacture g goods which America could most easil .r supply. He cited the British expar sion of foreign financial connection
 as an example of what might be dor
 in that direction.
 Besides the 14.0O0 who won out of the scramble for seats in the Coliseu ye hundreds were in the aisles and ope lv spaces and another great crow i'm blocked the streets about the entranc ,a After his speech, the candidate maC a- a short speech to the crowd outside. a- During the Coliseum speech a ma
 in a gallery shouted:
 "Tell us your two positions on n
 league of nations Cries of Put hi
 out" followed. but the nominee replied ~ No. don't put him out. We're on ." going to put the Democrats out in tn I- campaign"
 Ne Asthe speaker started to outline Us views another man interrupted with to l query about the Hitchcock reservi D. l tions. and. although tho senator shou m cd to the police not to molest the i tcrrupter. they hustled him toward q
 doorway