New-York tribune., 1920-06-23
son to accept the Vice Presidential

9oli - dCCept tNe NiCc-FreSldentlal
nomination.
Senator Harding had not seen the
article, but after hearing its substance
he said:
ut is utterly imaginative; wholly
untrue. There was nothing even ap,
proximating it,"
Among the callers to-day were Sena-
tor Medill Mccormick, of Illinois, and
Oscar St-als. of New York, former Sec
rotary of Commerce and Labor, and
who was an advisor of President Will
son at the peace conference. Mr..
Straus, after a talk with the nominee.
said:
Senator Harding is conservative
progressive, whose views are large and
constructive, American to the core and
yet fully mindful of our international
duties and obligations TO make the
peace of the world more secure. As a
progressive, it will afford me the great
est pleasure to contribute my best serv-
ices to his election.
"biils'' Sunday, the evangelist, has
written from his home in Hood River,
Ore, pledging his 400 per cent
support"
Governor J. A. A. Burnquist of Min
resota wired Senator Harding:
wv Whatever | can do in Minnesota or
elsewhere for you will be gladly done"
James R. Garfield, Secretary of the
Interior under Roosevelt and a Wood
man, and Carmi Thompson, once sec
retary to former President Taft, also
called on the Senator
before National Committeeman Ha-
mon, of Oklah oma, departed after the
conference he said that 1,50O clubs of
young men were ready to work for the
election of Senator Harding.
1.-The Republican League Of Clubs is
gong to form a club in every ward in
the country.' said Mr.. Hamon II am
the honorary director of the organiza-
more will be organized. ! am a great
believer in clubs They get the young
fellows interested"
The delegation Of twenty-six suf-
fragists who called on Senator Harding
expressed complete disappointment
with his position on suffrage.
Senator Harding told them he was a
strong sutfragist, but he declined to do
anything to force or hasten action on
the part OF the governors of either
Connecticut or Vermont that would
obtain the thirty sixth state for rati-
tication of the suffrage amendment.
Many of the Senator's feminine call
ers, who were led by Miss Alice Paul,
chairman of the National Woman s
Party, had pinned to their smart after
noon frocks silver badge fashioned
in the likeness Of grated prison
door. This is the war cross Of the
party, and indicates that the wearer has
served time in prison for diligent
sutlragist activities. Most of them
earned this privilege by picketing the
White House.
Senator Harding received the delega-
ton IN his quarters in the Senate
Office Building, going there from an i'm
portant conference with Chairman VIII
II. Hays and other members OF the
q dozen OF the women made pleas to
the Senator. urging him to ask the
governors OF Vernon, and Connecticut
to call special sessions of the legisla-
lures to ratify the suffrage amendmo ont
to the stitution.
AS the door Of the Senator's Office
opened and the women filed past him
into the corridor, Mrs. Ben .gna Green
kslb, member Of the state board of the
Texas branch Of the Woman's Party
and secretary Of the National Farm
Woman's Congress, raised her hands
over her head in a gesture Of despair
and said: "It's the same old buck"
Another OF the delegation, as she
shook hands with Senator Harding,
shook a foretinger at him and admon-
ished him to change his stand.
This IS what Senator Harding had
told them:
~ need not tell you OF my interest
in the consummation of the women's
suffrage. l voted for it in the Senate,
and a vote records a Senator's purpose
quite as faithfully as anything he
may do.
Nothing would please me more than
to have a ratification made effective to
give American womanhood full partici-
patton in the elections of next Novem-
bcr. This desire, sincerely spoken,
docs not conflict with my detcrmina-
tion that | could not, with propriety
attempt to force any state executive
TO hasten action in violation Of his
own sense of duty. There is a point
at which full executive authority may
approach trespass on the rights Of
states. and | should not want to tres
pass if | bore the commission of
authority, and I realize full we'll that,
so far. am only party nominee. In
the latter capacity | would not wish
my party to believe me inclined to
trespass or to assume to WELD a
club. If any state executive should
ask my opinion about extraordinary