The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-07-22
THOUSANDS co
TO MARION TO
HEAR HARDING
Town Has Holiday in
Celebration of Notif-
cation Ceremonies.

Marion, Ohio, July 22.-The Re
publican campaign got under way
today with the formal notification
here Of Warren G. Harding, the
party's nominee for the presidency.
The notification ceremonies,
which brought to Marion most Of
the big leaders of the party and
many thousands Of Harding en-
thusiastists, included an accept
ance speech by Senator Harding in
terpreting the Chicago platform
and declaring the principles on
which he expects the campaign to
be fought out.
The acceptance speech came at
the end of a long program in which
high pitched enthusiasm ruled the
day as the visiting delegations
marched on the Harding residence
in unbroken succession to be re-
ceived by the candidate.
At Z O'Clock in the morning q
noisy aggregation of Marion citi-
zens that looked like half the town
led of with a demonstration that
set a mark for the out-of-town folks
to shoot at. To their bowling ac-
claim the senator played the lead
ing part in a flag raising. pulling
the Stars and Stripes to the top Of
the weather-beaten Mckinley flag
pole sent here a few days ago from
Canton.
Serenade Harding.
Delegation after delegation, with
bands blaring and colors flying.
followed UP to the Harding front
porch as 80 special trains and thou,
sands of automobiles nnlOadedS
Not content with showing them
selves to the nominee, they re-
formed and marched and counter
marched through the city in riot
of noise and color.
Business in Marion was adjourn
led and partisanship was forgotten.
From the senator's home to the
heart of the business section a lane
of tall white pillars marked the
route Of the paraders, and flags and
bunting were displayed in carnival
profusion in every street.
Lunch for Crowds.
Painstaking arrangements had
been made to provide q luncheon
for the crowds and improvised
sandwich stands were everywhere.
Profiteering had been put under the
ban by agreement Of the city's
business men.
One Of the delegations to whose
coming Senator Harding looked
forward with keenest anticipation
was a brass band from Caledonia,
his boyhood home. It had been
pieced together by his old asso-
ciates of the days when he played
the trombone.
The purple, white and gold Of
the woman suffrage cause made its
appearance in the gathering crowds
but q plan of the women to picket
t. notification ceremonies was
abandoned. During the morning
the senator had an appointment to
receive a delegation from the ma
tional woman's party who wanted
him to aid in securing favorable
action by the Tennessee legislature
on the suffrage amendment
Program Is Lengthy.
A feature OF the day was q
luncheon given by DR.. c. E. Saw
yer at his farm on the outskirts
Of Marion, to the members OF the
Republican national committee and
of the notification committee. VIII
H. Hays, the national chairman,
was the presiding onicer ct tho no
tiflcation, which the city had rent
ted Its Chautauqua pavilion. The
program included an invocation By
B!shop William F. Oldham OF the
Methodist Episcopal church, tho
formal notification speech by SEN
ator Lodge OF Massachusetts,
chairman OF the notification COM
mittee, Senator Harding's response
and q benediction by Father JOS
eph NJ. Denning. pastor OF et.
Mary's Catholic church here. A
CLEO club came from Columbus to
lead tho assembiase In singing Tho
Star SnanRied Banner and America,