New-York tribune., 1920-10-19
Harding Says
Failure TO Vote
Is Disloyalty
10000 New Voters Gath
cred at Front Porch Are
Given Lesson in Value
of Republics Franchise
Cabinet Hint to Women
Crush So Great Several
Faint; Candidate Scores
Hyphen and Radicalism
From q stor Correspondent


homes of Senator Warren G. Harding
and his neghbors to-day and heard the
candidate declare that failure to vote
i disloyalty to America. 1t was the
last big day Of the front porch cam
paign.
The 10000 pilgrims who swarmed
here we're youths who are to cast thei,
first Presidential ballots in November
women enfranchised by the ratification
Of the Nineteenth Amendment to the
Constitution and recently naturalized
citizens.
"No like company of new voters ever
met together on the morning of their
entrance INTO the sacred fellowship of
representative democracy and asked a
message from party candidate for the
Presidency" said Senator Harding.
A Lake of Humanity
Nothing like that crowd has been
seen in Marion since notification day
and then the visitors did not mass
themselves into any one part of the
town. To-day, however, most of the
visitors formed into a parade that
marched down Mount Vernon Avenue
and disbanded before the front porch
until the Harding home and half q
dozen Of the nearest houses seemed to
be ahoat upon a lake of humanity !;
voting humanity, moreover. Boys, who
Skinned up into the trees, hung there
like ripe fruit Every university in
Ohio, as we'll as the countless fresh
water colleges of the state, had sent
groups Of It's student body The roof
Of the porch itself was the platform of
their cheer leaders, armed with mega
phones and clad in fiannels and sweat
ers lounder than the cheers they led.
Because OF their organizations. glee
clubs, college bands and general will
ingness with which they responded to
their cheer leaders efforts, the student
groups in the throng attracted the most
attention from the natives of Marion
In his speech the candidate showed
that beneath the apparent levity of this
crowd was purpose to play g part in
the government of the nation. Feeling
that sentiment in his audience, Senator
Harding said:
"I want an America whose people
are watchful Of their government, will
ing to serve it, so it may serve them
want our popular government held
popular in fact as we'll as in name. re-
sponsve to the people and understand
ing their aspirations. / want to serve
as | am asking you to serve. But
above all else, want an America of
good conscience, of righteous intent
Of full understanding Of our obliga-
tons to mankind, but resolved unal-
ohiry 70 ~,
meled, answerable only to God and the
American people"
Many Women Faint
The women in the audience, who will
east their first ballots in November,
learned to-day that a front porch
is potent lodestone for human
ity when it is the theater of a Presi-
Dental campa; gn. SO great was the
crush that before the candidate had
finished his speech. in fact even before
he had begun to talk, a score of women
had tainted. Benches in the back yard
were occupied by individuals in state
OF collapse, surrounded by other folks
nuttering handkerchiefs, calling for
physicians and water. But there was
= message for the women voters in the
nominees speech.
-iSN ~ Stlt women / declare my
faith he said. Great indeed must
be the contribution which you and all
the women of America will make, not
only to move US to wiser sympathy
and tenderness in our own social fab
TIC at home and our humane relation
snlps with other nations and other REQ
PIES, but also to restrain us from. the
Jolly Of wasteful impulse. America
expects you to keep this Republic and
the American home kind and keep
americans sensitive to their obliga-
lions to the world, but watchtul and
hrm IN safegrarding all that is pre-
cious to rs from delusion and menace
Aet Us have the wome7 6 America, by
the conduct OF their citizenship and by
full official recognition Of their grow
ing abilities 10 serve in the admins
fauon OF our public affairs, woven
INTO our political fabric"
IN that sentence many OF the wom-
en- who heard believed there was a
stronger hNc even than when he de-
cNered MS social justice speech that
senator Harding plans 10 have q wom-
an IN his Cabinet
,, Addressing the Young voters Senator
harding SAID: Il mean to ask youth to
serve IN the Interpretation of Amer
Nas new desires and in complete
llnaerstanding which Will reach as near
" Us possible every thread woven into
our national fabric
Denounces the Hyphen
Turning TO the foreign born, includ-
hg groups of every civilized racial
group Senator Harding said that 10
man man can be a good citizen of the United
''stes M who wears hyphen.
NO natter how strong may be the
ues o. sympathy and devotion that
esety man must have for the peoples
" MS origin" he said. mo man is
sOoa eluzen Of the United States who
,Iheafs hyphen or who embarrasses
we country of his adoption by trying
~ involve her officially in contro
asIs'es and causes which are not
''.vrican nv, controversies and causes.
=. We insist that no man or woman
~ loreign blood should seek the com
s: sosts OF our institutions and our pros
Fssa"y or fellowship among our voters
81. si 'ne purpose of overturning our in
o.'uNons, or of wrecking our prosperity
jrs,. 0irupsing our citizenship. Amer
ia gates, with Americas generos-
~, w. nave been open to those who
SSoasht our Offering of freedom and
tse"ocracy. to They always will be open
~ ssomit properly regulated influx
bn,Ose muse who bring 10 us their contri-
s..oh OF new blood and new ideas
WI WIN foreign lands. But it is those
whco hno come to be loyal to America upon
MIA hIosa we must put the first RESPONSE
i'y 70 suppress disloyalty to Amer
hSn, ha, whether it be disloyalty of the
ln,;n lSPneh or disloyalty of the social revo-
Obligation to Vote