Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-28
HECKLE HARDING ON
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
BaltinAorcan Asks Him if He
Would Scrap it and Throws
Crowd in Tumult.

Baltimore, Sept. 2S.-Last night during
hls speech at the Fifth Regiment Armory
here, senator Harding for the first time
in his campaign, was interrupted by a
heckler From lns prepared speech he had
digrcsscd To say:-"I don't know how you
feel about il. but l believe the day of
one-man government In this country is
at au end and his 10000 hearers had
checred loudly.
When the noise died down, man stand
inr in an aisle of the gallery asked slowly,
i'm clear voice, Senator Harding, /
want TO ask YOU whether YOU stand with
senator Johnson in his proposal TO scrap
the league. ;,
~ Answer the question, Mr.. President" !"
man on the floor close to the stage shout
ed, and cheers mingled with shouts of
''Put hun out"
Senator Harding walked to the side Of
the stage. pointed his finger at the gal
lery and replied;
If | believed in one-man government
| could answer the gentleman question. :"
The crowd rose again, cheering Some
one shouted. Another home run," and
II was FIVE minutes before order could
be restored.
II want YOU to know my countrymen, +"
Senator Harding began, but the noise
Was too much.
Wont YOU give me your attention.
he tried again.
Finally, when order was nearly re-
stoned, Senator Harding SAID:
Il know If / should search my heart
that Maryland would be the last State
IN the UNION 10 treat presidential can
didate with discourtesy."
THIS brought friendly cheers from the
crowd which settl ed down to listen to
the speech that had been interrupted,
ushers having led the heckler out of the
building.
While discussing the Jones bill and the
presidents failure to notify foreign pow
ers of the abrogation of commercial
treaties, the Senator was interrupted by
a minutes cheering when he said:
"If | were President of the United
States as | fully expect to be-Id call
Congress together and tell them the rea-
son why ] don't want the trade policy
of tins country 10 be fixed by any other
people in the world"
On concluding his written speech SEN
ator Harding laid down his notes and
pleaded for a Republican Congress.
When YOU elect me President" he
said, do not give me a senate and Con-
gross that Will do my will. Give us a
Republican Senate and a Republican
Congress TO work IN harmony with q
Republican president. That's why ! ask
You Ia vote for my good friend Governor
Weller for the Senate
Il believe the gentleman who interrupt
ed me asked whether | would scrap the
League. The one great failure we made Of
American leadership in the World Wsr
was when one man attempted TO speak
not only for America but the rest Of the
world ~ well ! am at present without a
sisostpc program IN foreign affairs, but
| know one thing: The Democratic
nominee hss said he is IN favor of going IN
the lcNg1ie "a negotiated. AS for me and
my party, | am not IN favor OF going in.
The first thing | II attempt 20 do as Presi-
dent vii bc 60 find a program Of world as
soclatssa and cooperation
Beginning hs sTs,ech IN Baltimore with
complimentary references TO MARYLAND
and the Importance Of It's citizenship in
tho countys industrial growth. Senator
Harding declared the work OF beating
swords into plowshares had been harder
and costlior by the unconcern and inepti-
tude Of governmental practice
Much as the present Administration
has % answer for as 10 its unpreparedness
for Var-even more culpable has been its
deliberate unprcparedness for peace"
the senator went on.
War, however protracted its length
and ruthless Its course, must eventually
come to an enc. Wise craftsmanship will
prepare for the inevitable ending before
II comes, taking counsel as to how the
passing from a wartime TO a peacetime
basis may be effected at least cost. With
characteristic far-sFhtedness, Great Brit
ain appointed committees of reconstruc-
ton SIS far back as 1o16-actually two
years before thesarIistice, at a time when
the end of the struggle still seemed far
of Othersof the Allies took ike measures
of precaution, with the most favorable
results.
Only in. the United States was there
neither provision nor preparation. Not
q plan vas fashioned, not a provision
was made, before-or indeed after-the
arrnrstice, 10 bridge the passing from war
% peace. This was no mere oversight, but
deliberate auodarsce. In September, 1918,
an earnest attempt was made in the
Senate, under Republican sponsorship, to