The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-10
HARDING WINS
MINNESOTA CROWD
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State Fair Audience Is Sym
pathetic and Enthused
By Address
COX SHINES BEST
DRIVING RACE HORSES
Harding Held Crowd BY His Speech -
Makes More Decisive Hits In Mime
apolis and st. Paul = People Look
On Him as Winner.
By DAVID LAWRENCE.


Especial Despatch to The Reformer
Copyright 1920
ST. PAUL, Mimi. Sept. l0.-Senator
Harding made hit in Minnesota. DEM
ocrats who saw his reception in the Twin
Cities will hardly begrudge that state
ment, and Republicans will privately adj
nit that the senator did ever so much
better than they expected. He was to
them pleasant surprise-a dignified
figure with plenty Of human qualities to
catch the imagination of crowd ready
from the outset to like him.
Comparison Of the reception given
Governor Cox two days earlier and that
given Senator Harding is not difficult
for the conditions were almost exactly
the same. Both candidates talked at the
same state fair. The Democratic nomi-
nee faced a hostile crowd, the Republican
nominee stood before reverent, almost
affectionate audience They liked Hard
ing's pictures before they saw the man.
They were ready believers in his philos-
ophy Of anti-Wilsonism, they We're born
and bred Republicans and felt satisfied
Republican stock and would do
Governor Cox, on the other hand, won
friends and made some votes He left
good impression. but as one Republican
expressed it even George Washington
couldn't carry Minnesota on the Demo
cratic ticket this year The Democratic
nominee won more applause when he
drove horse around the race track than
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did get rousing reception when he
spoke at the auditorium at night.
Senator HaFding's first experience away
from the front porch was on the whole,
q big success. The National Republican
Committee selected good place for the
experiment The Twin Cities are more
than eager for normally" and most
people here who cheered Harding imagine
he will bring some sort of change in
economic conditions that win relieve them
Of present day worries.
Both Governors Cox and Senator Hard
ing were asked not to talk politics at
the state fair The Democratic nominee
spoke on his candidacy therefore only By
implication The Republican nominee
was in the hands of friends on the state
fair board and took all sorts of liberties,
pledges. And the crowd relished it,
They understood his discourse on agri-
culture, liked the tone of his voice and
the cut of his jib, and gave him the kind
of greeting that was unmistakable
both in warmth and sincerity.
Over in Minneapolis the senator cap
tured the town even more decisively.
STREETS that turned out handfuls to see
Woodrow Wilson a year ago were packed
from store window to curb. Some of the
natives say Theodore Roosevelt alone
got such a reception in Minneapolis Ger
tainly the writer can testify that Min
neapolis, while generous in its applause
at Wilson meetings, never stopped work
in mid day to the extent that thousands
of people did this time for Senator Hard
ing.
Similarly in St Paul in the evening,
the Republican nominee stood in the
state capitol and shook hands with thou
sands of people. For two hours the eager
Republicans waited for chance to greet
Mr.. Harding 1t reminded one of White
House receptions of ancient days when
long lines of guests waited patiently to
shake the hand of the chief executive
What does it all mean? The writer
asked a Republican friend whose iudg
ment isn't as partisan as his political
utilization might Indicate He said it was
the desire of the people to greet new
presidential figure. Indeed, it suggested
in its psychology the long -live-the king |
which comes out of the body |
politics when there is a change in rulers |
in other lands.
Eight years is long time for a man |
to be president of the United States and |
greeting to Harding was
that of a Republican stronghold eager
to see the citadels of government com
manded again by Republican soldiers.
They came prejudiced in favor of Hard
ing and came away more than satisfied |