Evening star., 1920-06-23
PROCTERPLEDGES
H|SA|D TO HARDING
IN COP. CAMPAIGN
Senator Resumes His Regu-
lar Office Hours and
Meets Leaders.

Senator Harding, the republican
nominee for President. today re-
sumed his Office hours at the Senate
terrupted for two days by his con-
ferences with the subcommittee of
the republican national committee at
the New Willard Hotel
Among those calling upon Senator
Harding today were Senator Freling-
huysen of New Jersey and John Hays
Hammond, director of the League of
Republican Clubs.
Senator Frelinghuysen is secretary
Iof the republican senatorial cam
paign committee. When he left Sen
ator Harding's office he expressed alb
solute confidence in the victory of
the republicans at the polls in No
vember. Senator Frelinghuysen was
a supporter of Gen. Wood at the ma
tional convention. but he is entering
into the campaign to elect Harding
and Coolidge and a republican Sen
ate with enthusiasm.
He called also on Senator Poindexter
of Washington, who is chairman of
the republican senatorial campaign
committee. The senatorial committee
will have headquarters in New York,
Calder will be in charge, and in
Chicago. where Senator's New and
Mccormick will be located. Head
quarters may be maintained here also.
with Senator Poindexter in charge.
Senator Harding received a letter
today from William Cooper Proctor
of Cincinnati, manager for Maj. Gen.
Leonard Wood in his campaign for
the presidential nomination, in which
Mr.. Proctor promised the senator his
loyal support.
Cable From Paris.
Senator Harding today received a
cable from Paris, ting the
republican party upon his nomination.
from Miss Helen Cannon and Mrs.
Ernest LIE Seure. daughters of Repre-
sentative Cannon.
A telegram from the Utah State
Press Association, in annual conven-
tion at Salt Lake City, extending con-
gratulations to Senator Harding, also
was received.
To Mrs. Harding, wife of the nomi-
nee, came telegram from Mary Set
tie Sharp, at Greensboro, n. C., which
read:
Speaking on behalf of the republi-
can women of North Carolina, as a
vice chairman of the national ways
and means committee and as the first
woman candidate in our state, permit
me to greet the future mistress of the
White House, and to assure her of our
loyal and enthusiastic support of the
candidacy of her distinguished hus-
band"
Z Senator Harding has discovered who
originated and carried out the plan
to shower down postcards bearing
likenesses of himself upon the heads
of the delegates during the stampede
of the convention to Harding. He
Sc id today that he had been interested
to know and that he had only just
discovered that it was young man
of the name of Andrew B. johnson
of Columbus, Ohio, who was in the
service during the war and to whom
Senator Harding had done some little
favor. He is now an inferno in
Chicago hospital
Will Leave July 3.
Mr.. Johnson discovered a large
package of the postal cards at the
convention hall. Under the rules they
could not be distributed Carrying
the package he made his way to the
iron rafters above the delegates and
showered down the cards until it
looked as though Harding's pictures
were filling the air.
He lost his watch and coat doing
it." said Senator Harding today
Senator Harding will leave Wash
ington probably on July 8 to go to
Marion, Ohio, his home, it was said
today. There is to be a homecoming
and Fourth of July celebration at
Marion, which he has been asked to
attend.
Senator Harding today received a
letter from Theodore Roosevelt, jr..
congratulating him on his nomination.
The country needs some one who
will with comprehensive knowledge
of governmental machinery. restore
to the various branches their proper
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