The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-11-06
HARDING SPECIAL
ROLLS TO ST. LOUIS
TOWARD VACATION
(By Associated Press)

ON BOARD PRESIDENT ELECT
HARDlNG'S SPECIAL TRAIN, Nov 6.
Starring for a months vacation trip
to southern Texas and Panama, Presi-
dent-elect Harding today laid aside
the last cares of the presidential cam
paign for an interim of real rest and
recreation before he takes up serious
ly the responsibilities of his coming
administration.
Although his mind already is at
work upon the preliminary details of
his first administration policy, a plan
for new association of nations, Mr.
Harding does not propose to let the
task Interfere with his outing. He
has asked several leading statesmen
to prepare their views on the subject
for him, but his first conference to
receive advice will not take place until
after he returns to Marion about De-
Cember 6.
Complies Opinion.
The president-elect has made it
known that a compilation of opinions
On the association of nations proposal
will be his first concern, in preparing
for his responsibilities at Washington,
taking precedence even over his choice
of a cabinet. Cabinet appointments he
has announced will not be given any
thought at all during his vacation.
The special train carrying Senator
and Mrs. Harding and their party left
Marion at $50 this morning, bound
for Point Isabel near the southern tip
OF the Texas coast. where the Presi-
dent-elect will spend twelve days hunt
ing and fishing After that he is to
make an ocean voyage to the canal
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middle Atlantic coast. He will speak
in Bedford, Va. on December 5. and
will go Immediately from there to
Marion.
Goes via ST. Louis
Making the trip south by way Of st.
Louis and San Antonio, the senator's
train will reach Brownsville, Texas.
Monday morning and the party will
motor from there to Point Isabel, 20
miles away. Point Isabel is only six
miles distant from the Mexican boun-
dary and from the southeast tip of
continental United States.
Guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Harding on
the trip were Harry M. Daugherty,
manager of the Harding pre-conven-
ton campaign: Senators Frelinghuy-
sen of New Jersey. Hale of Ma inc, and
laws vi west NllSll1lot, anu EuWdIu
B. Mclean, the Washington publisher
His secretary, George B. Christian.
Jr, and his family physician, DR.. c.
E. Sawyer, and group of secret serv-
ice men and newspapermen also were
on the special train.
Secret Service Present
The secret service detail, assigned
to Mr.. Harding as soon as he was
elected to the presidency, was in
charge of Miles McCahill. formerly of
the White House staff at Washington
James Sloan, former secret service
man who has acted as the senator's
unofficial bodyguard during the cam
paign, will be retained in that capac-
ity in cooperation with the guard de-
tailed officially by secret service
headquarters.
The first crowd to greet Mr.. Hard
ing as president-elect was at Bellefon-
taine, O., where the train stopped to
change engines, and the senator came
near being left behind whom he got
down on the station platform to shake
hands. The train had started away
slowly, but the preSident-elect had to
walk the ties for more than a 100
yards to get aboard