Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-30
HARDING TAKESUP
| VARIOUS PROBLEMS
| WAITING At MARION
Voice Is Tried by Twenty
Speeches Made Outdoors
ION Three-Day Trip.
By the Associated Press.

ION Three-Day Trip.
By the Associated Press.
/ MARION Ohio. September 90
Back in Marion after his second trip.
Senator Harding went to work again
today on various campaign problems
awaiting attention at his headquar-
tiers.
Except for one or two motor trips
to speak at. Ohio. cities. he plans to
leaves for swing into the middle
lweSt.
| Twenty Speeches on Trip.
/ :, Twenty speeches in Pennsylvania,
MARYLAND. West Virginia. Kentucky
and Ohio were made by the republican
nominee during the three-day trip
from which he returned early this
tof doors, and his voice today showed
the effect of the strain he had placed
4 upon it. He said he felt in fine trim,
however, and had enjoyed his visit to
the states to the east and south.
One of the candidate's conferences
today was with Senator A. B. Fall of
New Mexico, who came to Marion on
the Harding special train. Senator
Fall was chairman. of the Senate sub
committee which investigated Next
can affairs, and he went over the
Mexican problem. in detail during his
talk with Senator Harding. 1t was
safd he probably would remain in
Marion for several days.
-if,ericanism. representative GOV
ernment and governmental economy
featured the nominees speeches yes.
terday, and he also touched on: most
OF the other issues Of the campaign
At Ashland. he condemned pork bar.
rel" river and harbor legislation and
asked for more efficient develop
ment of the nations inland water.
Was. In one of two speeches. he
made at Parkersburg. W. Va. he re.
piled to Gov Cox's comparison of the
slogans America first" and "Deutsch
land uber- allies" and speaking to g
crowd at the railway station at Ma sor
city. w. Va. he compared his aban-
dened private car to the American
car Of state.
THE great car of state" he said
l"going forward to the fulfillment OF
national ENGAGEMENTS. somehow go
off the track last year over in PRS
and it left things in very bad order
and l think maybe in crossing tnc
trestle of interna tionalisnl If i: hat
not been for the guard rail on con
stitutionalism in the Senate, to pre-
went us from completely. leaving tho
track. we might have had a very
.
so am telling you that instead
|iof trying to put a broken-up cal
back on the track, let US cut it loose
and go on and keep our engagement:
with all the world.
"America First Approved.
The aIlusion aroused cheer An.
other shout of approval came during
his -Parkerssurg speech. when in re.
ferring to Gov. Cox.s, discussion Of the
America first" slogan in. South Da
kota. the republican nominee said:
Il note by the morning paper thai
some one has. taken up that slogan
and tried to compare 1t with that uset
by the Germans during the war
Somehow or other the comparison ha.
appealed to- me- And I noted in Z
coiioquy between the democrat til
nominee. and "a citizen of German
origin that it was attempted to max,
the. slogan America first, appeal a,
one of selhshness and an ultimat.
menace for. US in our relations viii
the rest of the world. I do not know
t'that- lean pronounce correctly ~ths
well known slogan of the Germans
Deutschland Cber 'Alles,' but thi:
meant; as L understand. that the.
were thinking of Germany first.
And I beg to remind my country.
fyears'- practice in Germany. under
that slogan, Germany became indus
trialIy the most eminent. education.
ally the most Influential, progressive;
ly the most notable, well known il
the accomplishment. of art and moS
conspicuous in widened commerce Of
any people in the world.
you know. what rended it all. Only
the arrogance and. autocracy. of ont
man. who. turned the influence ant
| popularity of a great people into Tho
ione tragic spectacle of all history
And so I take the lesson from Ger
| many, and l warn you. my country
men let, us not have one man die
tatorship in the United States"
xEY other cities Visited.
The other West Virginia cities ir
which the senator spoke during the da.
were SIstersville Ravenswood, Point
Pleasant and Huntington. and his two
stops. in Ohio were at Ironton and Ports
| mouth. In nearly every address ht
stressed his determination to end zone
man government" and to preserve ma.
tional integrity from any encroachmen'
"bs- a council Of foreign powers
| At Huntington the senator spoke
| from a stand erected near the railway
station to a crowd which janmed the
| street for block away and cheered the
nominee, many times. The meeting a.
Ashland also was in the open. and the
crowd which surrounded the speakers
stand at Central Park was so great
that hundreds we're out of ear-sllot. An
other crowd welcomed the nominee When
he arrived at the railway station and
he was cheerea repeatedly on his ride
to the park.
introduced by, Women.
Mrs. Christine Bradley South, daugh-
ter of former Senator Bradley. intro
dueedS Senator Harding at the Ashland
meeting and in opening his address the
Candidate expressed his qualification
at the adoption of the woman suffrage
amendment.
Il do not think I'eyer saw SO many
people gathered together before, ne
said. land take it as a good augury
Kentucky is and always ought to be a
republican state"
Tho senator raped the Wilson admin
istration for its insistence lat the sug-
eestion Of foreign power that Ameri-
can ships must pay tolls on the Panama
Canal In his failure to abrogate GER
tain commercial treaties, he added.
President Wilson again had listened to
voice from abroad"