Arizona republican., 1920-09-13

making the same appraisal of the Re 1 publican nominee.
 It was also most interesting to hear | what the attending governors had to l say of Harding in private conversa- ] ton; and I took pains to talk with | most Of them on 8hat line. Two of the l chief contestants with him for the Re publican nomination, Governor Low den and Governor Sproule, separately 1 and spontaneously gave expression to the same thought: That Harding is statesman of the first classs- uniquely adapted in character and temperament to have command of public affairs dur ing a time full of difficulties, that the Republican party and the country are fortunate that he was chosen at Chi cago. and that on the personal side, he is the most charming man they ever met Governor LoWden was emphatic in stating his notion that in permitting Harding to devote a large proportion of his time to a front porch campaign the managers of the party have unwit- tingly concealed one of the great as- sets of the campaign, namely, Hard ings personal charm. And in these opinions the visiting governors were unanimous All of them laid empha- sis on the fact of Hardings personal magnetism and charm.
 It is perhaps not extraordinary that a people given to forming opinions from the reading of headlines should have been so largely smisledI following the Chicago convention, by the bla- zoned statements of hostile special writers who took their cue from in spired sources on the Democratic side and told the country that Harding is simply an amiable Aman of negative character. No mofS distorted mental picture of public man was ever put over"
 HardiRg it must be remembered. was. to q very considerable extent. new" to the country when the Chica go convention met. He had not yet completed a first term in the United
 States senate. His modesty and dis inclination for useless debate had not served to keep his name before the
 public. The people did not know that in the few years he had been in the senate he had become the quiet leader
 of the senate, through the steady
 soundness of his counsel. and that within the past year the senators of all shades of opinion had to turn to
 him for leadership. Tn addition to his
 qualities of leadership, Senator Hard
 ing had another important asset with
 members of congress-; he is one of the
 nose Iovabfe men ever seen in public life.
 You wouldn't expect to find emo
 tionalism in a seasoned member of the secret service. Jimmy" SIcan, who was the White House guardian of Roosevelt and Taft and then of Will son until assigned to detective work in the war, and was given the job of pro- tecting Harding. following his nom ination-"J Jimmy Sloan, who issknown to scores Of the people of Arizona be- cause of his work in the coast country
 during the war-told me that never in
 all his life had he become acquainted
 with a man so thoroughly human" as Harding.
 1 Perhaps it would be scarcely fair to
 the women readers of The Republican l to close this sketch without mention of | Mrs. Harding. If Mrs Harding finds l it a burden and a bore to meet utter | strangers almost daily and to serve ' them with her own hands a t her dining ! room table. for the senator is most ] hOspitable and is given to inviting call 1 CTS to stay for lunch or dinner. she 1 gives no indication of it. Living in a 1 plain two-stOry house of frame. a house 1 that would sell in Phoenix for perhaps ! S10,000, house of plain furniture and well selected books. a 'homey'' house | throughout. Mrs. Harding is a woman of unusual culture, gracious and pleas ing in manner. without the slightest affectation and apparently somewhat shy naturally. She is a very inter
 esting talker. with fine sense of
 humor Tall and of girlish form, she
 has a pretty and intellectual face. No.
 I can't tell you what she wore I am
 of the opinion it was something dark:
 certainly it was simple in style, and
 would give a man the impression that hr faetnft1lIty