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Goes to DeS MoineS Next
Month, Stopping at ST.
Paul and Minneapolis.
PLANS OTHER TOURS.
Hays Says II Was Always In
tended Candidate Should
Go TO Voters.
BV DaUid Laurence.

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COLUMBUS, O.. Ahg. 10 Copyright
ls2o.) Senator Harding will leave the
front poroh for brief interval in
September He will speak at the Ag-
ricultural Fair at Des Molnes, Ia.
early next month. That much is def
mite And when he is en- route west
ward the plan Is 10 have him go
northword TO Minneapolis and ST.
Paul for a speech or two.
These side trips are emphatically
described as set speeches which by
no means contradict the idea OF
front porch campaign, as VIII Hays,
National Chairman, says II was alweys
Intended that the Republican candi-
date should make few big speeches
in important cities Presumably. Sen
ator Harding will use the opportunity
afforded him to expound his doctrines
on matters agrarinn.
Unquestionably Senator Harding's
train will stop en- route so that the
people may have glimpse OF him.
Many Of his friends here believe he
VIII become 80 stimulated by such
contact with the people that ne will
leave the front porch several times
more In the campaign.
HARDING COULD MAKE HEAD.
WAY ON THE STUMP.
Certainty, from a disinterestod
point Of view. there are some things
about the mont porch campaign
which have thus far given a picture
OF Harding. the candidate, which does
not square with Harding the man
Instead Of his own magnetic and
1:i.1s!c Sc.s ss h2 - sGvn u IA tao
Senate, he is represented as a polltl-
cal antagonist picking small flaws in
his opponents armor and Ignoring
the big ones.
For Instance, the statement written
at Senator Hardings headquarters
and given out as nn official expression
Of the candidates views In answer
TO Gov. Cox's speech Of acceptance
conveys one idea that sooner or later
will hurt the Republican campaign Of
1t is persisted in. The Republicans
have plenty OF ammunition this year
without resorting 10 the kind Of ar
gument contained In that statement
about reduction OF governmental ex-
penses.
Briefly, the Harding statement took
Gov. Cox to task for saying the Re-
publican Congress had made no effort
TO reduce taxes and had not modified
the irksome tax laws. II then went
on to picture the economies of $4,000,
coo, 900 which were supposed to have
been effected by Republican Con-
gress in reducing estimates made by
a Democratic Executive.
CONGRESS ALWAYS CUTS DOWN
OFFICIAL ESTIMATES.
Now. In the interest OF truth and
accuracy, and fair play too, the truth
about estimates and appropriations
can be easily ascertained. Estimates
are not expenses. They are merely
paper figures, Every year the Gov
ernment departments calculate the
amount OF money they think they will
need for the ensuing year This esti-
mate Is placed before Congress, which
always takes particular pleasure in
cutting down those estimates.
II doesn't matter what the political
complexion OF Congress is. Demo
cratic control OF Congress has always
been accompanied by a considerable
reduction OF the estimates of the
Democratic Executive and RepubH-
can control OF Congress during Re-
publican Administrations has always
meant the same sort OF pruning of es-
Inmates. 1t Is merely subtraction
on paper OF imaginary sums of
money.
And nobody heretofore has ever
claimed that this reduction process
was a read economy, II It were rock
oned as an economy the Democrats
themselves could argue that in the six
years they had control OF Congress
they too cut down the estimates OF
lie tANAuNiNN uNpaI INtuNnAss lA these
amounts were added up the Demo
Gratis could claim they saved the
country billions OF dollars, but that
would be ridiculous--and the odd part
OF II is that some OF the Republican
leaders themselves who are talking
about paper saving know very well
the whole business is camoufage.
Now, anybody who has been in
Washington In the months following
the war knows the real reason why
the Republican Congress didn't reduce
taxes, or even try H. and Representa-
tive MOndell, the Republican leader
In the House, knew Il when he re-
sisted again and again the efforts OF
special Interests TO reopen the tax
laws for their own beneft The truth
about the taxation question would
have been more convincing In the
opinion of those who know the facts
than the kind OF statement issued
from Marion.
And the truth Is that with the over