Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-07
OFF TO TELL D-WESTERN
 VOTERS HIS STAND
Republican Nominee Spends Quiet Evening at Chicago
 After Making Speeches

Chicago, Oct. 6.-Warren G. Hard. ing stopped over for four hours ir Chicago tonight on his mid-westerr speaking trip, but spent the time quietly in a downtown hotel, resting Although no speech and no forma reception were planned, the candidate did not escape popular attention. A crowd at the railway station cheered him when he arrived late in the after noon and another crowd was gather ed about his hotel. Earlier in the day, during his trip from Marion, he had been cheered by men and women at several Ohio and Indiana cities and made short speeches at Lima, o. Decautu, Huntington, Grown Point and Hammond, Indiana, touching on numerous issues of the campaign Leaving here late tonight, the Sen ator will make the first prepared speech of his trip at Des Moines, at 8:20 tomorrow morning, spending two hours in conference with local re- publicans before making his address A pronouncement on the league of nations, probably embodying reply to recent Democratic utterances will be the principal theme. He will leave at noon and speak at night in Omaha Nebraska.
 Accompanied by Mrs. Harding, he dined privately at the hotel as the guest of Senator Harry s. New, chair man of the Republican speakers bu- reau. It is understood that among other things the question of the speaking dates in the east for late October were discussed at confer ence.
 Harry M. Daugherty, the senator's pre-convention manager, was among those present.
 Wants C. o. P. Congress
 The league of nations, business stability, an increased production and the election of Republican congress were among the many issues discuss ed briefly by the nominee in his speeches on the trip across Ohio and Indiana. At nearly every stop he re- ferred to the preservation of Ameri- can nationality and reiterated his pledge that while he was president no council of foreign powers would ever send American soldiers to war.
 At Lima and again at Hammond the senator declared he wanted to maintain the present high standard of wages, but on condition that pro- duction was kept at high efficiency
 "If am elected president, I am going to stand for the policy that fur nishes American markets first for American products. You rejoice in the new standard of compensation and I rejoice with you, but you are grieved about the high cost of living While men may talk to you about reducing the cost of living, yet it can be effectively reduced only in one way and that by giving the best eff ciency that is in you so as to reduce the cost of productioin'.'
 Many children were in the crowd at Decatur and Senator Harding told them that on their account. he want ca to keep the nation free from en- tanglements which would impair its ideals and it's integrity. It was his ambition, he said. to assure, "for these boys and girls the same kind Of 9 United States that I looked forward to when was in the public schools"
 People Want Change"
 In making a plea at Huntington for a federal administration that "would get down to real business methods in the conduct of government, the candidate declared his belief that the people wanted change and were going to get it.
 "And if you are going to put the Republican party in power in the ex- ecutive branch." he continued, 'I want to ask you to make sure you put in power also in the executive branch and send my friend Jim Wat son back to the United States Sem ate"
 Taking his cue from some one in the crowd at Hammond who told him that 4,O0O men from that city were in the army during the war the senator said:
 "I want to say to you service men in the audience. want the govern men to show you the gratitude of the American people. I believe it ought %o No louo or, SNra in dup tiYno if