Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1920-07-15
THE FRONT PORCH, CAMPAIGN

The fhONI fOftSn' SAmfhlGN
The front porch" campaign Of
deliberate utterances" will meet
with nationwide approval, declares
the republican publicity association
in the following statement just issu-
ed:
"Soon after his nomination at
Chicago Senator Harding announced
his intention of following McKin-
ley's course and conducting his cam
paign from the front porch of his
home in Marion, Ohio. Tremen-
dous pressure has been put upon him
to alter his program so as to include
addresses in at least a few of the big
cities, but he has reiterated his de-
termination to abstain from any
swings around the circle and to con-
fine himself to prepared statements
and addresses issued from his
home.
1.-The country is calling for DELHI
crate utterances," says Senator
Harding, "and that is why the 'front.'
porch method appeals so strongly to
me-" In making that statement
the candidate touches the very es-
sence of the sentiment that will
bring him victory at the polls. The
people are tired of the hysterical
campaigning and the hysterieal gov
eminent that has marked our history
for seven years, and that has brought
the nation so close to disaster. They
hail with enthusiasm the opportunity
presented by the change in admins
tration to return once more to the
conservative, deliberate government
under which the country prospered
throughout the decades preceding
the Wilson accession. Senator
Harding is true to the spirit of his
party and answers the longing of
the people when he frames his course
thus early along deliberate lines.
"The democratic campaign of 1916
was emotional to a degree, and the
democratic administration, particu-
larly that of the last four years, has
been a sustained appeal to the pas
sions and sentimentality of the peo-
pie. Sentiment won over reason in
1915, when everybody yearned for
unbroken peace but at the same time
kenw at heart that it was newt
able. Since then men and women
have become very canny. D1sil-
lusioned at every turn by long
train of broken pledges on the part
of the Wilson regime, they have
learned to submit to logic every new
doctrine that is presented for their
determination. In the coming cam
paign sensational appeals will fall
upon barren ground, while the can
didate who confines himself to APP
peals to the intelligence of the vot-
ers will win their confidence and
support.
"That is what Senator Harding
proposes to do. Deliberately pre-
pared public statements on the issues
before the country, alternated with
addresses from his porch to visiting
| delegations from various organiza-
tions or localities who may call upon
| him, will very likely be his summer
program. BY so doing the people
will receive much more specific and
| definite information on what they
may expect from Harding admins
| tration OF the government than they
would from series of extempor-
| aneous speeches at various points,
which would be largely repetitions of
each other. Again. his utterances
| will be free from rowdy interrnp-
tons which so frequently mar polit-
| ical gatherings in public places and
serve only to lower the dignity of
the meetings with no compensating
benefits whatever.
| "Never in its history was the
country more prosperous, more con-
tended, and more respected abroad
than during the Mckinley admins
tration. 1t is equally certain that
never before was the nation so fnan-
cially burdened. so torn with con-
| fiicting emotions, and so cordially
disliked by the rest of the world as
| now, after seven years of Wilson
ism. The adoption by Senator
Harding of McKinley's campaign
policy is the first, although but one,
of the many similarities that will
mark the presidential careers of the
| two men"