The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-22
ARTICLE X. SMASHED
Senator Never to Approve
Militarism if Used as JUS
tees Substitute.
WARNS AGAINST DECEIT
Decries Wilson Mismanage-
ment and Says U. s. Should
Be Model for All Nations.

Special Despatch to THB New York HERALD.
BUFFALO, Oct. 21.--Here at Buffalo
tonight, as at Rochester this after
noon, Senator Harding expressed
pointedly his quiet confidence that he
Will be elected President one week
from next Tuesday--his fifty-sixth
birthday.
II believed When fms campaign be-
gan," he said Tonight in the Broad
way Auditorium to $4,000 enthusiastic
listeners, that I kppw full well the
needs of Americans. To-day / know
more deeply ana incre Intimately, as
any man who is to &c charged With
grave responsibility rust always learn
the hearts OF our people,"
This serene confidence, devoid of
boastfulness and shaded with solem-
nifty, was revealed at Rochester, In the
convention hall there, when he COM
pared Gov. Coxs position on the
League of Nations with his own. say
ing:
"It might be easy enough for a
candidate who Is going TO lose to say
almost anything about the League of
Nations or about any future plans
for America. That man will not have
the task of consulting American opin-
lon. He can say much because he is
not going to be called upon to as
sumo the responsibility"
Denounces Wilson's Covenant.
In his several addresses in western
New York. the last he will have made
outside of Marion. except for a final
weeks brisk campaigning over the Ohio.
battle-ground, Senator Harding devoted
most of his time to denouncing the cove
nant that was presented TO the United
States Senate by the President with the
curt comment Take II or-]eave it,
The cornerstone of his Rochester adj
dresses and of his Buffalo speeches was
this emphatic pledge: IL shall never
submit a treaty with Article x. in It,"
In the two great cities OF the western
part Of the State the Republican candi-
date restated his position on the league
with deliberate positveness. Answering
question submitted TO him In writing
at Rochester: Tell the people where
you stand. Don't pussyfoot any more"
he retorted with his determination that
the covenant OF the league must be re-
jected unless Article X. is wiped out, and
he added Il want TO ask my friend II
this Is pussyfooting?"
He said substantially the same thing
n Buffalo, and in both cities his audi
ences went to their feet with shouts of
approval. There were dssenters. and
one or two interruptcrs, but these quer.
rulous voices were extinguished In the
thunder OF acclaim. In Convention Hal
at Rochester. and in the auditorium here
these hostile hearers would have been
elected roughly had not Senator Har-
ding nterfered, saying. az he invariably
does, that he wanted opponents to hear
him, and that tho only persons that must
he put out are the members Of the Ad-
minlstration at Washington.
Tense Enthusiasm Everywhere.
His meetings In western New York
were similar to the larger meetings he
has had elsewhere, marked by real en-
thusiasn. but mostly by kind of tense
fixed attention and that perceptible half
reverent attitude the people customaril,
assume to a President. Some cheerful
news was given 10 him by the leaders
in the centres of Monroe and Erie coun-
ties and by the State chieftains Charles
u. Hllles now promises a Harding ma
Jority in the State Of more than 300, 900
this for publication. IT Is known
however that the real figures Of the
national and State headquarters are
ater
From Conrad u. Wettlaufer chair
man in Erie. he heard that the county
should give him 5000, aud that wads-
worth for Senator will run not more
than 1900 behind him. From George
w. Aldridge at Rochester, he received
q promise OF 2s.0o0 for Monroe county,
and word from BIZ Barnes was that
Albany county will give him not less
than 30 coo.
Yilles's news OF New York city is in
terestlng as political dope" lie says
that the result of the September polls
shows that Harding will go down to
tho Bronx border with SiI 900 majority
He adds that the expectation IS that
the Boroughs OF Brooklyn and Queens
Republican, viii offset Richmond and
the Bronx Democratie). and that the
siZe of Hardings majority or or Cox's
majority in the whole city depends on
what Manhattan Will do and from
many sources in Manhattan come gay
tales OF tho trading that Is being done
Tor Al Smith and against Cox. Among
Republicans the opinion grows that
Tammany is UP to It's old tricks OF
ditching the party candidate for Prcsi-
dent.
warm welcome In Buffalo.
Senator Harding arrived at Buffalo in
the late afternoon and received a cordial