New-York tribune., 1920-07-10
]. Frank Hanly Fails to
Get Republican Nomi-
nee to Amplify Stand
on the Liquor Question
Program Completed
For Notification
Senator Lodge Will Make
Principal Address and
W. H. Hays Will Preside
From a stac Correspondent


MARION. Ohio, July 9.-Senator
Harding refused to-day to commit him
self. further than he has done pre-
yiously. when j. Frank Hanly,, formerly
Republican Governor of Indiana and
in 1916 Prohibition party nominee for
President, urged him to take firm
stand in support of national pro-
hibition.
After leaving the nominee, Mr.. Hanly
said he hoped to be able to support
the Harding ticket, but he added: "To
be frank with you, am waiting to see
what the Senator says when he ac-
cepts the nomination"
Major General Leonard Wood wired
Harding to-day that he would come
here from Chicago tomorrow. 1t will
be their first meeting since the con-
vention. The General comes at the
Senator's invitation and will have din
ner in the Harding home after dis
eussion Of the issues in the nominees
headquarters. He will return to Chi
cago tomorrow night. Senator Albert
B. Cummins, of Iowa, is expected to
arrive on the same train with Wood
and also be at the dinner.
Hanly's Statement
Mr.. Hanly, in his interview with
newspaper men, expressed the opinion
that the Prohibition party ought not
to nominate candidate this year. He
referred to Governor Cox as the can
ddate of Tammany Hall. Mr.. Hanly
said:
II came at an invitation of Sena-
tor Harding, extended in response to
request of my own. have talked
over the political situation in Indiana
and have given my views on the po-
litical situation throughout the coun-
try and with respect to the silence of
the Democratic convention and the
silence of the Republican platform on
the prohibition question. Also with
regard to the Eighteenth Amendment
and the Volstead act for its enforce
ment.
II simply presented my views on
those matters to the Senator. We re-
newed our old acquaintance and had
pleasant half hour. 1 did not ask
him to commit himself on these ques-
tions. He made no commitment, but
listened with kindly consideration"
II don't think the Prohibition Party
should nominate a candidate this time.
Their convention is to be held in Lin
coin, Neb., July 81. / shall not attend.
The matter resolves itself into the
necessity for the election of Con-
the present law and must largely be
fought out in the Congressional dis
tricts. That is my personal attitude"
Mr.. Hanly was asked about the nomi-
nation of Governor Cox and replied:
"As Prohibitionist,- I'd find it diff
cult to support Mr.. Cox, the candidate
OF Tammany Hall and the New Jersey
Tammany. / think Mr.. Cox's nomina-
tion was made by them and decided
upon at French Lick, ten days before
the convention. AS far as Mr.. Cox
IS concerned ! merely want to say that
II is difficult for any man holding pub
nc office to escape the influence of
those who put him there"
Senator a Good Listener
In the 1916 campaign Mr.. Hanly re-
ceived between 100000 and 100000
votes, as head of the Prohibition ticket.
he said to-day that his vote wou1d
nave been much larger but for the fact
mat many pacifsts among the Pro-
hioltlonists voted for Wilson in re-
sponse to the slogan, "He Kept Us Out
OF the War"
Senator Harding was asked later.
aoout @ the visit of Mr.. Hanly and said:
Mr. Hanly presented his views as
many others have done. This is get
1'ng to be great listening post"
The nominee was asked to-day about
= statement made at San Francisco by
MRS: Daniel J. Mahoney, the daughter
OF Governor Cox, that Senator Harding.
was relative of her mother, the Dem
socratic nominees first wife, who was
M'ss Mayme Harding. Mrs. Mahoney was
quoted as saying that she had always
tnought of Senator Harding as an uncle.
Senator Harding's only reply was
!nat he had not seen any newspapers
lor several days.
The program Of the notification cere-
monly was agreed upon to-day at a
conference participated in by Senator
harding, General T. Coleman du Pont,
arrangements for the notification, and
Harry N. Daugherty, member Of the
Republican National Executive Com
mittee.
The ceremony, to be held at Garfield
rark, municipal gathering place
about three miles from the nominees
nome, will start at 2 o'clock in the
afternoon of July %. Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts, who is
chairman of the notification commit
tee, will deliver the speech notifying
Senator Harding that he has been
selected as the Republican party's NOM
NEE. Senator Harding's speech of ac-
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