The Washington herald., 1920-07-06
HARDING DECLARES
HEsSNO Sl)PERMAN
. IN MARION SPEECH
CONTINUED From PAGs ONE.


no matter whittier one has gone,
or what the revolving fates have
wrought during ones absence.
TT IL q little dfmcult to make Q
choice among thoughts impelling.
For thirty-eight years we have been
friends and neighbors- here In Mar
are the treasured scenes Of birth
and boyhood.
There can be no mistaken ap-
praisal Of our reIationship. It Is too
extended, too Intimate. too thor
oughly stamped by community in
teresta You and !. all Of US. Marion
ties have been boosting this Marion
of ours togsther for considerably
more than thirty years. and have
shared in varying degrees the
achievement. attending its develop
ment. The thought of development
and progress. q desire TO ind our
place on the map OF Ohio inspired
US, and there was common inter-
est in spite Of seeming selnshness
attending reward
I'VE we're I'll boosters together,
because Il n an engaging pursuit
ANY distinction which came to me
in that connection was due to the
accident OF my occupation. as pub
fisher. rather than any spirit Pc
culiarly my own.
Policy Of Friendliness.
IF Il IL becoming to assent to the
praises you bestow let II be under
stood that any preferance shown me
is wholly and invariably due to that
onsideration which have willingly
shown to others, and to an inherited
conviction that II is q waste OF Gods
endowment to assail and destroy
when all the flowers of life bloom
best in the soil of sympathy and
encouragement.
Marion has been unfalingiy gen.
erous toward me. Many of you have
stood before this homo before and
voiced your greetings and encour-
agement There Is running through
my mind recollections OF seventeen
years ago, when you first wished
me well as q State Senator. Seven
years later you came to me again
though the enterprise later ended
in failure. Four years later on you
came once more, and we did succeed,
and I was honored with a commits
sion to the Federal Senate. where
any man might well prefer to per-
form his part In public service. 1t
is impossible to convey my reluc-
tance to leave the Senate, and just
now I have come to realize that ]
am leaving. no matter how the cleo
tions decide
But ! must tell you the things
old Marion county did which are
the supreme compensation to me. 1t
isn't so expressive to applaud VIC
torious candidate, but you test the
metal of real friendship when one
is initiating a candidacy. Last April,
when the primary was invoked
to bespeak Ohio's preference. this
old county gave to me that neigh
borly and friendly support which Is
the nearest approach to 100 per cent
loyalty / have ever seen accorded
to any one. That was the supreme
expression II could have but one.
IL had to choose between that trib-
ute of the home county and the
final vote of the national conven-
.tion. I would choose the home coun-
ty expression of confidence, because
your knowing me made 1t the hnest
tribute to which one may aspire
Frankly. I like your rejoicing
over a more than usual tribute to
a fellow townsman. ] like II be-
cause II is in consonance with our
Marion policy. Perhaps II is in the
minds of some of you to wonder
that we succeeded. And the thought