The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-19
$4,000 NEW VOTERS
ON VISIT TO HARDING


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! citv of course, but It tended toward noon
to centre at the front porch. BY noon
time dozen bands, as many drum
thumpers and fife teasers, were tearing
the air on or near the Senator's rostrum.
while the nervous individuals OF a
crowd of 1000 were squeezing and strug-
Cling to hold a hard won foothold.
While all this preliminary assembling
was going on Senator Harding worked
In his private Office in the headquarters
adjoining his own home, the window
open and the screen door permitting
adventurous persons to catch fair
glimpse OF him. How he ever kept his
mind fixed on speech writing and corr
! respondence through all the amazing
din passes comprehension.
AS he topped off his speech OF the day
putting the finishing touches 10 1t, and
as he read the letter the President sent
to him asking whom and what he meant
| by saying at Greencastle, Ind, that
a spokesman OF France had come to
him to ask informally that America
take the lead in new plan Of world
association, the crowd outside was maxi
I
National Convention, than which there
is no whicher
Half a dozen speakers who forever
shall be nameless in the public prints
were usurping the front porch to air
their settled notions on the fate OF the
nation and the glories Of the G. Q. p.
and the answering bursts of laughter
and explosions of cheering were enough
to unseat human reason. Now and
then the Senator looked up to laugh and
comment that 1.-THE boys and girls seemed
to be having a pretty good time" which
was stating the fact conservatively.
Parading Under Difficulties.
The parade, for of course there was a
parade, was scheduled to land at the
front porch at $3.50 P. NJ, but when
25 900 persons attempt to form and get
into motion with orderly ease in city
the size of Marion strange things occur.
Whole delegations were crowded out,
pushed so strenuously by over eager RI
walls that they were fortunate to stay
put in Marion county. Others. seeking
leadership of the parade. got shunted to
the tail and voiced their complaints
with becoming emphasis.
The truth is the city wasn't big enough
or the streets wide enough for the DEM
onstratioh that was attempted. If you
you try to vision a parade of 100000
forming somewhere in and around
Washington square for a swing up
Fifth avenue you will approximate the
scenes and sounds and hurly-burly Of
this early afternoon in Senator Har-
ding's town. The processioners got I
the front porch eventually. although
many of them were tardy and had to
take what Senator Harding said for
granted because they could not struggle
near enough to hear his actual words
Probably $4,000 people heard his ad-
dress, visitors from Ohio, Pennsylvania,
West Virginia, Indiana, Kentucky and
Illinois for the most part. OF these it
is safe to say that 5000 were new voters
of the feminine sex. There were also
several thousand college students from
fifteen or twenty universities and coll
leges of Ohio, the State University. Ohio.
Wesleyan, Kenyon. Wittenberg, Oberlin.
Miami and many more who added a
touch Of color to the show with the violent
colors of their caps and their banners.
and who certainly contributed to the up
roar with their smashing cheers.
| When the Senator stepped out upon
| the front porch n little before 2. NJ,
Mrs. Harding at his side, and tele-
! graphing with smile and eyes the
charming spirit of her own welcome,
there was an outburst of enthusiasm
such as has not been heard in Marion
since notification day. 1t was a big
noise. the kind that goes up in Madison
Square Garden when the folks are es-
pecially glad TO see anybody. and the
kind that was detonated in the Jeffer-
son County Armory at Louisville the
other night when Senator Harding got
his welcome from the Kentuckians.
The college boys ripped out their rah-
raining blasts. The women cheered
with soprano vim. The Ohio neighbors
from farm and small town just yelled.
The totally of the greeting was i'm
mense and 1t pleased the Senator as
much as any shout that has been raised
for him the country over.
Avoids Rancor in HIS Speech.
In return he made a long address,
one that had been thoughtfully and
deliberately prepared AS always, he
avoided rancorous controversy with the
/ political enemy. AS always, he refused
| to appeal to class or group. The occa-
I sion inspired MIN 70 a deep sentiment
of patriotism rather than to partisan
argument.
"All true Americans are thankful to
God" he began. that ours is the great
est and the most dependable republic
of orderly liberty in the world; that
we are possessed OF and blessed with
Constitution which has guided us
through every storm of passion and
which stands to-day the supreme char
ter to which we all give our solemn al
legiance. More dear than any material
| possession, we hold the memory of
Americans who have represented that
unselfish allegiance and who have ex-
pressed for all America the aspirations
and the conscience of a great people.
With us the names of Lincoln and
Roosevelt will remain eternal.
II look with eagerness, with expecta-
ton and with unalterable faith toward
/ the future OF our Republic. II Is in you.
young men reaching to fun citizenship.
and In the women now fully sharing in
the conscience. the Justice and the pop