Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-11-10
HARDING PARTY
ON Way TO TEXAS
President-Elect to Spend Month
Hunting and Fishing at
.... Point Isabel. 81
TO INSPECT PANAMA CANAL
Guests Include Harry N. Daugherty,
Senators Freiinehuysen, Hale and
Davis, and Edward 3. Mclean
Harding Refuses Viii
sons Offer.

i On Board President Elect Hardins's
Special Train, Nov. S.-Starting for Il
months vacation trip TO southern
Texas ana Panama. Presidcnt-elect
Harding laid aside the last care OF
the presidential campaign for an III
term of real res; and recreation be-
fore he takes up seriously the respon.
sibiities of his coming administration
on returning 10 Marion about Dec. T.
The President-rlc"g has made II
known that compilation of opinions
on the association OF nations proposal
will be his first concern, in preparing
for his responsibilities at Washington
taking precedence even over his choice
of cabinet. Cabinet appointments,
he has announced, will not be given
any thought AT all during his vacation.
9 Speaks in Virginia Dec. S.
The special train carrying Senator
and Mrs. Harding and their party left
Marion, bound for Point Isabel, near
the southern tip of the Texas coast,
whercwhere the President-elect Will
pass ~ days hunting and fishing. AZ
ter that he is to make an ocean Voy-
age TO the Canal zone, and then back
| 10 Al port en- the middle Atlantic coast.
He VIII speak in Bedford, Va, Oh Dec,
s, and will go immediately from there
TO Marion. ~ So,
Making the trip South by way Of
st. Louis and San Antonio, the train
will reach Brownsville. Tex, Monday
corning, and the party will motor
from rfi,ere 70 Point Isabel, 20 mites
away. Point Isabel is only six ihiles
distant fran the Mexican boundary
| and from the sOuthernmOst tip Of con-
iinental United States. ..' r.. @r
Three, Senators IN Party.
Guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Harding on
the trip were Harry NJ Daugherty,
\ manager of the Harding preconyeR-
ltion campaign; Senator's Frelinghuy-
sen of New Jersey, Hale of Maine and
Davis of West Virginia, and Edward
D.. Mclean, the Washington publisher.
His secretary, George b. Christian.
Jr.,. and his family physician, DR. &.
f.. Sawyer, and a group Of secret serv-
| ice men and newspaper men also were
! oh the special train 4 ..-, r..
The secret Service detail. assigned
10 Mr.. Harding as soon rs he was
elected 10 the presidency, was in
charge Of, Miles McCahin, formerly Of
the White House staff at Washington.
James Sloan, Il former secret service
man who has acted as the senator's
unofficial bOdyguard during The cam
| paign, will he retained in that capacity
In cooperation. with the guard de-
| tailed officially 10y secret service head
| quarters.
Declines Offer Of Warship.
! Senator Harding declined the offer
| of President Wilson To provide him
| with battleship for the voyage tn
| the Panama Canal zone, which is To
| follow T. days STAY NJ Point Isabel.
| In response 10 Il Telegram from Score.
tary Daniels conveying the Presidents
proposal, the President-clect wired he
was thankful, bur already had closed
All agreement to make the "Trip ON 4
passenger steamer
II was said n Hardin" hrudquar-
tiers that hitch over the sailing
schedule had been adjusted ana that
Il proposal TO have liner go our Of
its regular course to pick up the party
| at Galveston had been abandoned. Tn
der the present plan the departure
will be made from New Orleans. 10
which point the senator and Mrs.
Harding and their guests will 20 from
Point Isabel by rail. The sailing dare.
however, has not been announced.