South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-09-26
~ DIR. WILLIAM BRADY.

The trOut porch or the Te8ubli-
can presidential candidate. like the
Iuis and pouous OF tL- .uoderu
nod,cd, man, is q figure Jl speech.
Ihc Harding front porch is very
likely q cool and inviting place. at
least II looked that way as j t.mdly
glanced at Mrs. Harding and some
OF her friends. VINO SAT theFe the
forenoon / cOrnered the senator iu
49, caudidatOrIum- even Iancicd
Mrs. Harding gave me second
look. for l carried one of those long.
low, rakinsh, DiacI bags and u Us
just possible she guessed my mission
70 her husband and. wOmanhke.
worried "a little over the outcome.
IL you are going TO see Senator
Harding. however. you pass right on
by the front porch. just as though
a doctor lived there and YOU owed
him for last years tia treatment
You keep on for about thirty PAGES.
then execute a left turn and enter
the house just at the north. or may
De 81 is east OF the Harding home
proper. This house. formerly oc
cupied 10y "a Christian family is now
Overrun uy newspaper people. You
can tell they are newspaper people
ly the way they hang around, dOing
nothing nc all. just as YOU find them
in "a newspaper office IL YOU ever
visit such a place. No, TN take that
back They weren't doing nothing:
they were doing less than that. Here
Sud there. a the smoke clouds were
waited away by some vagrant breeze
(vagraut. not frGgrant) YOU could
discern serious looking stenog or
pouderous secretary rushing hither
and thither more thither than
hither After I had waited about
twelve hours one OF the latter gem
tlemcn got confused i'm the fog. lost
his bearings and brought up In my
vicinity. 7 reminded him that I had
an appointment with the senator,
and hc tried 20 stall by intimating
that my appointment had been for
the day before, but I threatened 90
DE rigid iu my examination unless /
was admitted forthwith TO the
august presence. The secretary re-
tired for a conference with others Of
the staff. and some six DAYS later
came out bowling and scraping 20
usher me into The inner candidator-
sum 7 wiDed off my high intelu-
gent brow and threw out my chest.
bur sept q dru grip ON my satchel.
That S2tChel nearly spoiled the
game for mo When 7 entered the
senator's private office he gave a
startled look 40 the satchel and has
tlfv consulted -Ir calc1d1~ Sos
though he had a sudden Fremont
tiou that he bad figured the time in
correctly. wished + had slipped
tho ste.hoscope suhyEmomanomotcr
end things into mE inside pocket.
ss a book agcrt carries his prospec-
tue. But I Quoted the senator's
anxiety ct once by promising him
his choice Of twilight sleep. chloro-
form or laughin- gas and in a mo-
r2ent he was calmly ceiling me how
hard &c Isl for one iu his situation
o. avoid overeatiug socially.
The Man il Too Tender Hearted
Tn his CamuatCn pictures Senator
Harding looks q wee bit Gour ard
Blmosr AGED. But let me begin right
now 20 break condolences. The pic
lures given ont for public cousump-
ton are not those o. Senator Hard
Iug. they are pictures of Candidate
Harding. Senator Harding is fifteen
years younger than Candidate Hard .
Ing and has q WiuSOwn Su Inns Ike
able courtenance which the cam
p4iEu pictures quite failed % catch. .
Those poster pictures were selected F.
Tor some good and sufficient psyche f
lo-ca' reason. The senator himself .
- the type Of man thar attracts chill F.
dren and wins the confidence Of f
womenf0Ik he IS a big-heartci .
man. "a tender-hearted man. You f.
sense that the moment you shake /.
hands with him lie IS TOO rerer- f
Gus for HIS own good. Unless some F..
adviser can prevail upon him % pro- I
tcct himself from the demands OF q
the thousands OF callers through the /
campaicn. the mans kirdliuess SIS +
f.LoIv- 10 prove disastrous Co his .