Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-09-30
HARD|NC'S PRIVATE
CAR IS DERA|LElIj| Fl
Special Train Narrowly Escapes
Serious Wreck in West Vir-
ginia--An Incident in a Day of
Speech Making

ON BOARD SENATOR HARpINGS
SPECIAL TRAIN. Sept Ex-senator
Harding's special train escaped a serious
wreck by hairs breadth to-day as it
was carrying the Republican nominee
across West Virginia on the last leg of
his campaign trip.
Ills private car Ideal" left the rails
near Millwood, a small mountain village,
and with its trucks banging themselves
TO pieces over the railway ties was
dragged across high and narrow trestle
at the rate of 30 miles an hour The
train came to stop beyond the chasm
Just as the rear wheels of the Ideal"
veered off the ties entirely and buried
themselves in the gravel.
The other cars of the train did not
leave the rails and no one was injured.
A defective casting in the front truck,
which Jolted to pieces as the car crossed
a switch. was blamed by train offlcials
for the accident. In its perilous trip
the heavy car splintered ties and snapped
of rail bolts for more than 300 yards,
and two Of the ties in the trestle 1t
crushed entirely.
SPECIAL CAR ABANDONED
To night the special, minus the aban-
doned Ideal" turned northwesiward for
Marion, the senator completing his three
day trip with two evening addresses in
Ohio.
During the day he had spoken In a
half dozen West Virginia cities and had
addressed big afternoon meeting at
Ashland, Ky
Americanism, representative govern
ment and governmental economy, featured
the nominees speeches, and he also
touched on most of the other issues OF
the campaign. At Ashland. he con-
demned pork barrel' river and harbor
legisla tion and asked for a more eff.
/ cient development Of the nations inland
waterways. In one of two speeches he
made at Parkersburg. ". Va. he replied
to Governor Cox's comparison of the
slogans America first" and "Deutsch.
| land Cber Allies and speaking to a
crowd at the railway station at Masor
| City, W Va, he compared his aban
doned private car to the American cal
! Of state.
! DRAWS MORAL FROM ACCIDENT
The great car OF state" he said
going forward to the fulfllment of ma
tional enga gements, somehow got off tn,
track last year over in Paris, and +
left things in very bad order. and
think may be In crossing the trestle o
interns tionalism If It had not been for tn,
guard rail on constitutionalism In tn,
Senate, to prevent us from completed,
leaving the track. we might have had
very serious wreck for the United States
80 I am telling you that instead o
trying to put broken up car on tn
1nf :
keep our engagements with all the world
The allusion aroused a cheer. Anothe
shout OF approval came during his Park
ersburg speech, when In referring to Gov
ernor Cox's discussion of the "Amerl
can first slogan in South Dakota las
night. the Republican nominee said
Il note by the morning paper tha
someone has taken. up that slogan AM
tried to compare It with that used b.
the Germans during the war. Somehow
or other the comparison has appealed t
me- And I noted in a col!oquy betwee
the Democratic nominee and citizen O
German origin that it was attempte
to make the slogan america first" ap
peal as one of selfishness and an ultima t
menace for us in our relations with tn
rest Of the world.
NO ONE-MAN GOVERNMENT
With the rest of the world l do nc
know that I can pronounce correctly tn
wel-known slogan of the German.
"Deutchland tTber Allies but this meant
as I understand, that they were thinkn
of Germany first.
And I beg to remind my countryme
that under the spirit Of forty years prac
tice in Germany. under that slogan, Ger
many became industrally the most en-
inent, educationally the most inf1uentia
progressively, the most notable well
known in the accomplishment of art, an
most conspicuous in wdened commerc
of any people in the world
You know what rended it all Only til
arrogance and autocracy of one man, VIII
turned the influence and popu arity c
a great people into the one tragic spec
. tacle of all history And so take tn
lesson from Germany. and warn yo,
my countrymen let us not have one
man dicta torship in the United States
The other West Virginia cities in whic
the Senator spoke during the day wer
Sistersville, Ravenswood Point Pleasan
and Huntington, and his two stops
Ohio were at Ironton and Portsmouth
. In nearly every address he stressed h
determination to end "one-man govern
ment" and to preserve national integrit
, from any encroachment "by council
foreign powers
SPEAKS IN KENTUCKY
At Huntington the senator spoke fro,
stand erected near the railway static
to crowd which jammed the street for
! block away and cheered the nominee me n
: times. The meeting at Ashland also wa
g in the open and the crowd which SUI
rounded the speakers stand at Centr
Park was so great that hundreds were ol
= OF ear-shot. Another crowd welcome
n the nominee when he arrived at the raj
n way station and he was cheered repea
e edly on Inns ride to the park,
Z Mrs. Christine Bradley South. daugl
- ter of former Senator Bradley, introduce
o Senator Harding at the Ashland meetn
e and in opening his address the candida
I expressed his qualification Of the ado
" tion of the woman suffrage amendment,
n Il do not think I ever saw so maj
O people gathered together before" he sal
: "and take it as a good augury Kentuct
= Is and always ought to be a republica
4 state"
The senator raped the Wilson admi
q istraton for its inslstence lat the sugge
q tion of a foreign power" that Americ;
ships must pay tolls on the Panama can;
In his failure to abrogatc certain CONNIE
cial treaties, he added, President wills
again had ''listened to voice fro
abroad"