Evening star., 1920-06-26
HARDING SL|PSOUT
OF CAPITAL T0REST;;
SILENT ON PLACE
Republican Nominee Will
Confer With Gov. Coolidge
Here Wednesday.

Senator Harding. republican nom
| inee for President, left Washington
at noon today to spend rty-eight
hours away from his desk here with
| friends He will be back Tuesday
morning. ready to plunge anew wsinto his
Campaign work.
| The senator said that he was going
| away for rest. and requested that
no mention be made of the place to
which he is going. He was accom-
| panied by Mrs. Harding.
The part that women are to play 1T
| the campaign was discussed with
Senator Harding today at a confer
ence by Mrs. Medill Mccormick, wife
of Senator Mccormick. Mrs. McCor-
mick has been the chairman of the
| women's executive committee of the
republican national committee.
Mrs. Mccormick expressed con.
| fidence following her talk with Sen
ator Harding that the constitutional
amendment to woman suffrage would
be ratified before the November
election She said that the credi,
| for woman suffrage was due primar-
| lily to the women themselves rather
than to any particular political party
| Other visitors today included Leslie
NJ Shaw, former Secretary of the
Treasury, and Alden w. Skinner o
| Los Angeles.
| VIII Meet Coolidge.
| Senator Harding and Gov. Coolidge
! of Massachusetts. the nominee for Vice
| President, will meet here Wednesday,
June 80, for their first conference since
| they were nominated at Chicago They
are not strangers. having met several
months ago while Senator Harding was
! in Massachusetts,.
Chairman Will Hays of the national
! committee made the arrangements for
| the meeting at the suggestion of Sen
ator Harding. 1t is believed that an
! interchange of views between the two
| republican nominees would be profita-
! BILE. Their speeches of acceptance when
they are formally notified of their NOM
| ination next month probably will be
discussed, it is said.
Contributions to BE Limited
The Ohio senator has put damper
on large campaign. contributions. Fol-
| lowing a conference with him yester-
| day afternoon. Col William Boyce
Thompson of New York. chairman of
| the ways and means committee of the
republican national committed an
recommendation the policy inaugurated
| several years ago of limiting campaign
| contributions to $1,000 would be fol-
| lowed this year.
In view of the important influence
which charges and countercharges of
large campaign contributions and ex-
penditures have had upon the pre-
| convention campaign the decision an
nounced is of more than passing in
| tereSt.
Held to $1,000 Maximum.
Through my department" said Mr.
| Thompson, there has been no contrI :
button to the republican national or
| ganization in excess of $1,000. and we
mean to go on with that limitation
Senator Harding wants the financial
side of the campaign cast in har-
mony with the policy of. his pre-
| convention campaign. The senator
spent the least of any of the candi-
dates in the pre- convention period
and takes special pride in. having it
! known that the major portion of his
limited fund came through small con-
tributions from neighbors and friends
in his home town.
In addition to his conferences yes
terday, Mr.. Harding played a round
of golf with Senators Hitchcock OF
| Nebraska, who is candidate for the
| democratic presidential nomination
Hale of Maine, and Elkins of West
Virginia.