Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-07-06
| 0. P. NOMINEE
MEETS HOME FOLKS
AT MARION, IND.
(ousands at Ohio City Welcome Senator
Harding Pleased "Over More Than Usual
Tribute to Fellow TOwnsman" = Welcome
Address by Marion Democrat Who Predicts
Election Of Republican Choice for Presi-
dency - Tribute Also to Senator's Better
Half
THE SENATOR'S ADDRESS

Senator Earding's address follows:
! Dear friends and ue1ghbors:
/ There Is conflict of emotions in re-
| spending 70 your cordial welcome
home. II is always good 10 come
home, no matter whittier one has
gone or what the revolving fates
have wrought during ones absence.
, "It is a little difficult TO make i
choice among thoughts impelling.
For So years we have been friends
and neighbors here in Marion ana
only a few miles away are the treas
ured scenes of birth and boyhood.
Some of them have been recalled
| touches of imagination I fear. be-
/ cause the real story IS 4 very ordi-
nary one which might be related
, concerning any of us. But that
! doesn't IN any way mar the under
! standing among home folks.
All Boosters
/ There can be no mistaken ap-
! praisal of our relationship. Il Is
TOO extended. too intimate. TOO thor,
| oughly stamped by community inter-
| est. You ana I. all of Us Marion
I ties. have been boosting this Marion
of our together for considerably
more than so years. and have shared
| IN varying degrees the achievements
attending its development. The
/ thought of development and pro-
/ gress. a desire 20 find our place on
/ the map of Ohio inspired is. and
/ there was common interest N spite
/ of the seeming seltshness attending
rewards We were all boosters to-
! gether because II is an engaging pur-
suit. Any distinction which came 10
!. me IN that connection was due 70 the
accident of my occupation as i pub
: Usher rather than as any spirit pc
cuiiariy my own. We all played the
game together, because il vas our
game ana we boosted because he
upbullding, uplifting, commenting
pursuits IN life are the only ones
worthy of anyone's commltaL. If II
/ is becoming TO assent 10 the praise
you bestow, let II be understood that
any preference ever shown me s
wholly and invariably due 20 that
( consideration which I have willingly
1 shown 10 others and TO an inherited
: conviction that II Is 4 waste OF Gods
rich endowmenIs to assaIl and de-
! stroy when all the flowers of life
bloom best IN the soil Of sympathy
and encouragement.
iar<s Back Many Years
Marion has been unfaIlingiy gen.
| erous toward me. Some of YOU have
| stood before this home before ana
voiced your greetings ana encour-
agement There Is running through
my mind recollections of Il years
ago. when you first wished me well
as a state candidate. Then years
later you came again. though the
ENTERPRISE ended ii failure. Four
years later on you came once more
and We did succeed. and I was hon.
ored with d commission 10 the fed
erai senate, where any man might
well prefer TO perform MS part II
public service. It is impossible to
convey my reluctance to leave the
Senate: and Just now I have came
TO realize that I am leaving, 10 mat
ter how the elections decide. But
the thought I want 20 emphasize,
. with ev-v stamp of gratitude. IS that
you have come with your greetings
again and again, ana yet again. and
you come this afternoon with
manifestation of friendship ana con-
fidence which must ill any human
hear TO overfiowIng. I am so truly
grateful. I feel it all SO deeply, thar
words fail TO convey all the appre-
cation which Is IN my heart.
But I must tell you the thing old
Marion county did which IS the
supreme compensation 70 ne- 1t isn't
so expressive 10 applaud i victorious
candidate. but you test the mettle of
all friendship when one IS initiating
! a candidacy.
Home Loyalty
Last April. when the primary
was invoked 10 bespeak Ohlos
preference. this old county gave
to me that nelghboriy and friend
! ly support which IS the nearest
approach 70 100 per cent loyalty
I have ever seen accorded TO anyone
That was the supreme expression.
If I could have but one. if I had 70
CHOOSE UShNScu L4lal u N4AS
home county and the final vote in the
national convention. I would choose
the home county expression OF con-
ndence- because your knowing me
made il the finest tribute 10 which
one may aspire.
Frankly. / like your rejoicing over
more than usual tribute 10 a fellow
townsrnan. like il because Il IS in
consonance with our Marion policy.
Perhaps il is IN the minds Of some of
you to wonder that We succeeded ami
the thought is not exclusively yours.
even If / have guessed correctly. You
view the great lnstitutio Of Federal
government from afar, in that rev.
ereuce which is the chief security Of
the Republic God help US to r1vet
that reverence more firmly Il will
not destroy IL; il VIII only clarity
that reverence and add to your con-
| fdence If I tell you that after close
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