The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-31
HARDING TELLS
$4,000 IN OHIO
HE is EMBOSSED
Hurls Back COx's Charges
Amid Cheers at Two Co.
lumbus Meetings.
CLEARS LEAGUE ISSUE
Pledges to Start Work on
New One if Elected: to
Consult Women.
HIDDEN MALICE REACTS
Windup of Campaign Shows
Trend for G.. O. P. Pervades
States Chief Cities.
HIDDEN MALICE REACTS


Cor,rrMsus. Ohio Oct 30.--"1 am I'M
pledged; am unowned l am Embossed
with these straightforward words Sen
ator Harding closed his campaign for
the Presidency tonight here in the cap
ital of Ohio.
Last night in Akron Gov. Cox. divert
Ing from his customary line OF attack,
noukht to say that Senator Harding was
the selection Of small, powerful and
selfish group OF men, Without mon.
tioning Cox by name. something that
senator Harding has sedulously refrained
from doing because Of his belief that the
campaign turns upon issues and not upon
personalities, the Senator took pains to
toll his own State folk that there was
never a prospective President so I'M
t5ammeIled. SO unpledged as himself.
Eight thousand persons in Memorial
Hail went to their feet to meet this
statement of independence and ten thou
sand whom Senator Harding addressed
in the open street in an overflow meeting
Applauded the sentiment Columbus. the
very centre of Ohio, gave Harding fine
and wholesome reception. confirming. so
far as superficial appearances can do
the trend Of the whole State in the
campaign.
An unusual sentiment seemed to be
especially observable. There was in the
air q palpable reaction from the hidden
malice that has been directed at Harding
recently In this State. Unless all signs
are wrong there has been an arousement
Of genuine popular resentment against
tho tactics and methods employed ir
this State by the Democratic managers
and the majority indicated by the Gin
ctnnati Enquirer of 100000 does not now
seam unlikely.
Woman Cha OF Meetinr
Here in Columbus tonight at Me-
mortal Hall a woman, Mrs ]. G. Bat
telle. was chairman of the meeting. On
the stage with Senator Harding In the
grand windup rally OF the campaign
were Frank q. Willis. candidate for
Senator, and Harry y. Davis candidate
for Governor. When Mrs. Battelle pre-
sented Senator Harding the audience
arose and applauded for four minutes
II was one of the best meetings that the
Presidential nominee has had through
out the campaign.
f; The most striking thing that Senator
Harding told his audience at Columbus
was that he was the most unbound, UNI
pledged, untrammelled candidate tina,
was ever offered by the Republican
party for President.
This was a new line OF discussion
that the Senator took. Possibly IL
sprang from the attack which was
made on him by Gov. Cox at Akron
last night. He did not say so. The idea
10 obtained merely by implication. AT
all events Senator Harding emphas sized
more positively than at any other time
In the campaign that in nomination.
IN front porch avocation, In road speech
making and in general fields he was
utterly free and independent
To take one declaration only: ~ am
mpledged; I am unowned; I am un-
bossed'
Quite naturally there was an out
burst Of applause from his Columbus
audience at this. Obviously pleased, the
Senator resumed:
" have not made a promise excent
one which is not in the Republican
platform. This promise Is that we are
going to write into the written con-
scfence Of America a notable programme
Tor social Justice in the United States. -
The audience. at least 10000 intent
Columbians, composed doubtless Of Dem
ocrats as well as Republicans seemed
to want declaration on the League of
Nations. There were hecklers In the
galleries. as was plainly clear to OBJ
servers who sat under the lee of Senator
Harding
Denies vaRueness on League.
E1cShllhb IdS DtGOIne commonplace
and even tiresome. so that the occa-
sional voice that was raised without au-
thority and certainly without logic
passed with small comment but the
Senator took this opportunity to say:
MY countrymen, they tell you here
in Ohio that / am evasive and vague
and some say even shifty about the
League OF Nations Let me ask you
this: Can I make myself clear IL 7 say
I shall never submit to the United States
Senate any form OF League Of Nations
which contains any form of Article X T?
do you people who sit down here
really know what the peace treaty and
the League OF Nations Is all about? I
assume that in your busy lives and in
your general duty of making a living
and providing for your wives and chill
dren, all Of which things take UP the
time of most of us men and women,
YOU have scarcely had time TO an
siyze tho technicalfties OF this remar-
able document. So, II you will permit
me, let me say this-that the League
of Nations. IL Article X. must be in
cluded in II. is the most direct threat
and menace OF war that civilization has
ever known.
What happened at Versailles? The
creditor nations OF the world sat down
to save the world as they knew 1t. They
forced certain conditions. These boun-
daries. these conditions are familiar to
YOU, or should be. II Is no secret that
both boundaries and conditions can be
enforced only by the military Powers
by the young sons of America, partic-
ularly; In other words, to paraphrase
the great thought uttered by President
Lincoln, the world Is made half slave,
half free. That. my countrymen. In in
tolerable.
THAT is not my idea of world peace or
of the mission that America should have
toward directing world peace do not
want world peace based upon n military
alliance, upon an Article X. upon an
Arrangement which strangles the aspira-
tions OF small. free nations. upon any
human desire which Is similar to the
impulse that gave us our own American
Independence.
III want a world understanding which
IA based upon mutual liberation, upon the
big, broad, free lines of human aseocia-
ton. And on this very topic my country
men, pledge you this:
That II am elected President I will
frst OF ell attempt to get at my back
as your leader the combined and not
The partisan opinion Of our whole
America 7 will call to my assistance
tho mos competent nud thr most patri-
ptic mi.ds OF t''e ountiy do not