Evening star., 1920-07-09
HARDING PROMISED
BULL MOOSE VOTES
w. F. Brown Tells Nominee
Roosevelt Followers for
G. 0. P. Ticket.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

MARION Ohio, July 9.-Walter F.
Brown of Toledo, Harding's floor man
ager during the Chicago convention.
brought to the nominee last night as
surance that Roosevelt followers from
all sections of the country had an
nounced they would support the re-
publican ticket to the limit in the
coming campaign. Mr.. Brown himself
was an ardent Roosevelt man in 1872
and chairman of the Ohio progressive
committee.
He spoke particularly of dinner
held in New York last week by some
twenty-five former Roosevelt leaders
from various parts of the country. at
which it was voted unanimously to
support Senator Harding and Gov.
Coolidge. Mr.. Brown strongly urged
the whole hearted support of the
ticket Chairman Will Hays of the
republican national committee was
present. Others attending were Por-
ter Emerson Brown of New York. Maj.
H. S. Hooker of New York. who was
a vice chairman of the Wood cam
paign committee in Chicago; William
H. Childs of New York, Elon H.
Hooker of New York. Theodore
Roosevelt, jr.; E. A. Vanvalkenburgh
of Philadelphia, John c. Shafer of Chi
cago, Lawrence Abbott of New York.
James r. Garfield of Cleveland. David
c. Goodrich of New York and Thomas
H. Chadburn of New York.
Senator Visits His Paper.
Mr.. Brown is a candidate for the re-
publican nomination for senator from
Ohio and is running in opposition
to Frank Willis, who nominated Sem
ator Harding at Chicago. Senator
Harding and Mr.. Brown said the Ohio
situation was not discussed, but that
the conference dealt only with the
national situation. Mr.. Brown came
here particularly to inform Senator
IJa~ 1--WE Of ha ir1a a
old bull moose.
For the first time since his return to
Marion Senator Harding yesterday
visited his own newspaper plant, the
Marion Star. He shook hands with
his employees, all of them old friends.
Leo Miller, printer, worked for the
paper when Harding first bought it
in 1884.
Il am going down to make up the
paper some day when the rush of work
let's down at the Office here" Senator
Harding told the newspaper CORE
spondents later. II have always felt
the thrill of makeup time on an aft
ernoon newspaper.
Predicts Mud Singing.
Senator Harding has kept hands off
in the race for the senatorial nomi-
nation He is convinced the repub-
llicans will carry the nation and carry
Ohio, but he expects fight in Ohio.
with plenty OF Inuu u-SilnSlnS on the
democrats part.
The democrats will probably throw
an enormous amount of money into
the campaign in Ohio" he said. I'm
the 1916 campaign they spent lot of
money in the state. And the repub-
licans did not wake up to what was
going on until too late"
E. Mont Reilly of Kansas, one of the
original Harding men. was a visitor
at the headquarters today He pre-
dicted that Kansas would go for
Harding and Coolidge by 10000 and
that Missouri also would give it's cleo
toral votes to the republican nomi-
nees by $1,000 or more.
| Mrs. Edward B. Mclean of Washing
ton came to Marion this afternoon to
visit Mrs. Harding. Mrs. Mclean.
whose husband owns the Cincinnati
Enquirer, which has in the past been
| a strong democratic newspaper, came
| here from Cincinnati.
Senator Cummins of Iowa will be
| here Saturday night to attend the con-
ference between Senator Harding and
Will Hays.