New-York tribune., 1920-11-03
Hardings Maores Are Counted Hundreds of T thousands

ono OF the most important Of all. He
was an edrnest supporter Of President
Wilson's Administration in the prose-
cuton of the war, and later criticized
it severely.
Just before we entered the war a
Democratic Senator asked him wha,
sort Of plight he thought the country
would be in if Roosevelt were Presi-
dent.
"lf Theodore Roosevelt had been
President" replied Mr.. Harding, "the
Lustania would never have been sunk
and we should to-day be living under
the guarantees of peace rather than
trembling on the verge of war"
Later he introduced into the Senate
an amendment to bill which, if
adopted, would have permitted Colonel
Roosevelt to organize division of
volunteers and lead it to France.
Prompt Peace Making Urged
At the end Of the war Senator Har-
ding was an advocate of prompt peace
making, and of some legitimate cooper
alton among the nations of the world
which would lessen if not wholly avert
tho danger of further wars. But he
was opposed to the adoption of the
covenant of the League of Nations with
cut effective reservations. In urging
the adoption of such reservations he
said in the Senate in September last:
international arbitration and a
world court for justiciable disputes
appeal to all who think justice is sus-
tanned in reason rather than in armed
disputes The establishment Of an
agency for the revelation of the moral
judgment Of the world can never be
amiss. These things might we'll have
come out of the combined consciences
of the nations awakened to new ideas
amid the sufferings Of war, and they
will yet come. But it does not require
super-government to effect them nor
the surrender Of nationality and indie
rendence of action to sanction them"
Campaign for the Presidency
Senator Harding was early recognized
to be one of the foremost candidates
for the Republican nomination for the
Presidency this year, and when the
convention met he was among the three
or four favorites. On the first ballot,
1t is true, he received only 65ha votes,
and did not rise to third place until
the seventh, when he had lO5 votes
On the eighth he rose to 1873 "; on the
ninth he received much Of the support
that had been given to Governor Low
den, and got 374l2; and on the tenth
he was nominated, with 692 s. a choice
which was at once made unanimous.
During the campaign he remained
most of the time at home, receiving
multitudes of visitors and making
frequent addresses from the porch Of
his home. He made q notable trip
toward the Northwest, going into Min
+l.o : \
ward, especially visiting Kentucky
West Virginia, Pennsylvania and New
York State.
His Domestic Life
Senator and Mrs. Harding live in
pretty homo on Mount Vernon Avenue
Marion, Ohio. The furnishings of the
house are rich and TASTEFUL but there
is no sign of Gaudiness. Many little
and are used as decorations in Mr.
Harding's "den." Books are every
where to be found-in the library and
out Of the library.
Their wedding, which occurred in
their early life, was the elimination Of
pretty romance. Miss Florence King
was the daughter of Amos II. King
one of the foremost and richest bust
ness men of Marion. 1t is related that
when she was born her father was dis
appointed because she was not q boy
and consolcd himself by bringing her
up more as a boy than a girl. She was
fond of horses, dogs and outdoor life,
and took much interest in her fathers
business. In her early teens, when she
had to leave school, on account OF
threatened loss Of eyesight, she became
her fathers chief director and pal. She
rode horseback with dad" travelled
about with him, and made up to him in
every way She could the loss of her
mothers companionship, Mrs. King
being more or less of an invalid.
Miss King was popular and attrac
tive and was much sought in society
and by marriageablc young men. Nat
urally, her parents were ambitious for
her to make the brilliant match which
she deserved. But she had notions of
her mind that she herself was to be
the Judge of her future husbands
worth. One evening at social gather
ing she met one whom She thought
would measure up to the standard; q
young newspaper man who had recently
come to Marion to run The Daily Star.
But her father did not agree with her.
Young Mr.. Harding was not yet sufli
ciently successful with the paper
But the young couple knew their own
minds and preferred them to the minds
of others, and in due time their en-
gagemcnt was announced. Mr.. King
persisted in his disapproval. and told
his daughter that if she married Hard
ing he would cut her off without q
dollar" She disregarded the threat
and on July s, 1891, she married Hard
ing, and her father kept his word. SO
the Hardings had TO begin married life
in humble quarters, at which some Of
the brides rich friends raised super
cilious eyebrows. But she simply made
up her mind all the more firmly that
she was right and that she would one
day show them all what sort of man
she had married. And she did.
Three Killed in Rail Crash
AUBURN, Nov. 1.-Two enpineera