Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-07-06
HARDING GIVEN
ROYAL WELCOME
ON ARRIVAL At
HIS OHIO HOME
Presidential Cam
didate Speaks To Thou
sands of Marion and Other
Citizens of Ohio.
SPEAKS INTIMATELY
WITH TOWNSPEOPLE
Presiding Officer a Demo
cratl Predicts Ohi0an Will
Ride the Democratic Mule
Into White House,

teT MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEAsro wtRsl
Marion, Ohio. July Sit was
as dear friends, and neighbOrs that
United States Senator Warren G.
Harding. the republican presiden-
tial candidate, spoke to the thou
sands of Marion and other Ohio
citizens who today gathered abou,
| his home to welcome his return
1 In response to a welcome ad-
dress 10y ID, r. Crissinger, presi-
dent of the Marion Civic assoCia
! tion, he told them frankly that
| he liked their rejoicing over "A
more than usual tribute to fcl-
low townsman."
"If it is becoming to assent 10
! the praise you bcstow, let it bo
! understood that any preference
ever shown me is wholly and in
Variably due to that consideration
which | have willingly shown to
others, and to an inherited con
viction that it is waste of Gods :
rich endowments to assail and de
stroy when all the flowers of life
| bloom best in the soil of sympathy
and encouragement" he said.
He spoke Intimately with his
! fellow townsmen of their joint eff
forts to make Marion a greater
and better city, their tributes paid
| him on other occasions when he
| had been a victor in political bat
| ties, and especially the tribute OF
endorsement shown him by thu
county at the April primaries He
said if he had to choose between
the tribute paid by his home
county in the primary and that
extended by the Chicago conven-
| ton, he would choose the former
because you knowing me made il
| the finest tribute to which one
may aspire.
| If the admonition Of Mr. Girls
singer, himself a democrat, comes
true, Senator Harding will ride
the democratic mule into tho
| White House next November. 81
admonish you, my fellow citizens,
he said. that he will ride the
democratic mule into the White
House in November as president
of the United states"
Following a recital of Harding
early life from barefoot country
lad, Mr.. Crissnger declared the
senator 'is neither too proud &c
fight nor too proud to work" that
he is no silk stocking" business
man, but a real fellow, man
who thoroughly knows his busl-
ness and does it, and the printer
rule which he always carries Is
his rabbit foot
But Senator Harding did not re
ceive all the tribute. lie was com
pelIed to share it about fifty-fiftl
with Mrs. Harding in the welcom'
| ing ceremonies. How she hat
shared in the trials and triumph'
of her husband were related by Mr.
| Crissinger, who asserted that hCi
"tactful ways will make her a ia
vorite as the first lady of the land.
Hurding's Address.
Senator Harding's address fol
| lows:
Dear Friends and Ncighbors:
| There is a conflict of emotion!
| in responding to your cordial wei
come home. 1t is always good t
come home, no matter whittier ont
has gone or what the revolvlni
| absence.
1T is a little difficult to make
choice among thoughts impelling
For thirty eight years we have
been friends and neighbors here II
| Marion, and only few miles away
are the treasured scenes of birtf
and boyhood. Some Of them have
been recalled and recorded very
recently, with touches of imagina
ton I fear because the real story
is very ordinary one which nigh
be related concerning many of u1
but that doesn't count or in an,
Wav mar the understanding amont
home folk.
! PLAYED the Game Together.
There can be no mistaken ap
praisal of our relationship. 1t 4
too extended, too intimate. too
thoroughly stamped by communit'
interest. You and |, all of us Ma
rionites. have been boosting thi
Marion of ours together for cons d
era bly, more than thirty years. an'
have shared in varying degrees tn
achievements attending its devel
opment. The thought of develop
ment and progress, a desire to fin'
our place on the maps of Ohio in
spired US and there was common
interest in spite of the seeming
selfishness attending rewards. w
were all boosters together. becaus
it is an engaging pursuit. Any dis
tinction which comes to me in thi
connection was due to the acciden
of my occupation as publishe
rather than any spirit peculiarl,
my own. We all played the gam
together, because it was our game
and we boosted Necause She up
building, uplifting, commencing
pursuits in life are the only one
worthy OF any ones committal.
1t is becoming to assent to thu
lpralse you bestow, let 1t be under