The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-11-08


Especial Despatch to The Reformer.l
Copyright 1920.
MARION, O., Nov. S.-President
elect Harding left on his vacation trip
with a feeling that the big problems that
will face him in his administration will
be better tackled after thorough rest
and complete detachment from the at
mosphere of politics in which he has for
50 many months been enveloped.
The president-elect leaves behind as
cxpectant body of townsfolk as ever
sent a man to the White House. Those
who have known Harding for years, know
his every fault and his every strong point,
are united in their expressions of con-
ddence that he will make good" They
base it entirely on his happy faculty of
making friends and keeping them. He
has a splendid amount of tact and good
taste. He makes people like him.
Nobody in Marion except, of course,
the extreme hero wOrshipperS, believes
Warren Harding to be genius. lie is
looked upon, however, as capable of sur
rounding himself with good men and get
ting help from them. All summer long
he has had advisers galore and while it
is useless to say he has been influenced
altogether by outside minds. for on many
occasions he has made decisions contrary
to everybody elses advice, it is a fact
that he has ayailed himself of such ad-
| vice as he thought good and rejected what
he thought Unwise.
| Another thing; The next administra-
| ton will be a first name" administra-
| ton. That simply means that there will
| be scores of people who viii be able to
cali the new president Warren and there
| will be even mere folks who will be
| aa3l
may be. Warren Harding is one of those
| human persons who isn't expected to
change when he gets into the White
House. He will not change as so many
presidents have on reaching the White
House if Mrs Warren Harding has mucl
to say about things-and everybody
seems TO be agreed that she win have 9
great deal to say. She has the happy way
of staying genuine and breathing Spon
ltaneity. There isn't a neighbor< in Mar
ion who has yet seen anything up-stagt
Iabout Mrs Harding. She was Just thu
same to the home folks after the Chicag,
convention as before and she is Just tn,
same after election, and it is safe to CUES
| that she will be the same at the Whit
! House.
There is something delightful abou
the personality of the president-elect
which impresses any newcomer. H
makes a much better impression in hi
private talks with newspaper men thar
in hrs PUBLIC speech. Somehow he feel,
the restraint of public speaking nucl
| more than most men do. Among tn,
! most interesting incidents of the pas
week have been the talks between tn,
preSident-elect and the newspaper men il
| the little shack which has been pres,
headquarters throughout the campaign
Warren Harding smokes a cigarette
and likes to chew tobacco. That's relic
really of early days in the print shop
where the idea grew up that chewing
helped to keep the dust down. WarreI
Harding is a typical American. II,
doesn't affect the statesmanlike poses
which one sees so often in the attitude
others might say may be-" He talks
with the drawl of a countryman rather
than the precision of the drawingroom
conversationalist. He tells a good story
and enjoys hearing one. He knows life
in its every aspect and will probably get