Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-09-10
HEALT AND THE WHITE HOUSE
EXAMINING SENATOR HARDING
BY DIR. William Brady.
Copyright, 1920, National

Copyright, 1920, National
(Note.-The Journal has obtain
ed an article on the physical eX-
animation of Senator Harding, the
first installment of which is print
ed below. There are two addition
al installments, which will appear
in subsequent issues. As soon as
the publication OF the Harding ar
ticle is completed. the Journal will
print, in three installments, an ar.
ticle on the examination of Gov
ernor Cox)
The front porch of the republi-
! can presidential candidate, like the
/ pills and potions of the modern
medical man, is a figure of speech.
The Harding front porch is very
| likely cool and inviting place, at
least it looked that way as l tim
idly glanced at Mrs. Harding and
some of her friends, who sat there
the forenoon | cornered the sena-
! tor in his candidatorium. l even
fancied Mrs. Harding gave me q
second look, for | carried one of
those long low, ral1ish, black bags,
and it is just possible she guessed
my mission to her husband, and,
womanlike, worried a little over
the outcome.
If you are going to see Senator
Harding, however, you pass right
on by the front porch, just as
though a doctor lived there and
you owed him for last years flu
treatment. You keep on for about
thirty PAGES, then execute a left
turn and enter the house, just at
the north, or maybe it is east. of
the Harding home proper. This
house, formerly occupied by a
Christian family, is now overrun by
newspaper people. You can tell
they are newspaper people by the
way they hang around, doing moth
ing at all, just as you find them
in q newspaper office, if you ever
visit such place. No, I'll take
that back They weren't doing
nothing; they were doing less than
that. Here and there, as the smoke
clouds were waited away by some
vagrant breeze (vagrant, not fra
grant, you could discern a serious
looking stenog or ponderous sec
rotary rushing hither and thither,
more thither than hither. After !
had waited about IL hours one of
the latter gentlemen got confused
in the fog, lost his bearings and
brought up in my vicinity. ! re-
minded him that | had an appoint
ment with the senator, and he tried
to stall by intimating that my APP
pointment had been for the day
before, but l threatened to be gid
in my examination unless ! was
admitted forthwith to the august
presence. The secretary retired for
a conference with others of the
staff, and some six days later came
out bowling and scraping to usher
me into the inner candidatorium.
| wiped off my high. intelligent
brow and threw out my chest. put
kept firm grip on my satchel.
That satchel nearly spoiled the
game for me. When / entered the
senator's private office he gave
startled look at the satchel and
hastily consulted the calendar. as
though he had a sudden Fremont
ton that he had figured the time
incorrectly. l wished l had slipped
the stethoscope, sphygmomano-
meter and things into my inside
pocket, as a book agent carries his
prospectus. But I quoted the SEN
ator's anxiety at once by promfs-
ing him his choice of twilight
sleep, chloroform or laughing gas,
and in a moment he was calmly
telling me how hard it is for one
in his situation to avoid overeating
socially.
The Man Is Too Tender Hearted.
In his campaign pictures Senator
Harding looks a wee bit dour and
almost aged. But let me begin
right now to break condolences,
The pictures given out for pub
lie consumption Are not those OF
Senator Harding; they are pictures
of Candidate Harding. Senator
Harding is fifteen years younger
than Candidate Harding, and has a
winsome, smiling. likable counten-
ance, which the campaign pictures
quite failed to catch. Those poster
pictures were selected for some