Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-07-06
HARDING WELCOMED BY TOWNSMEN BACK ID OLD HOME TOWN Senator Tells MariOnites Their Tribute Pleases Him
 Most. IS FIRST OF ALL A
 CITIZEN OF MARION Wife Shares, Fifty-fifty, In Demon- stratiOn by Residents of All
 Political Faith Who
 Greet Him.

Marion, Ohio, July 5.-It was as Dear friends and neighbors," that Senator Warren G. Harding, the re- publican presidential candidate spoke to the thousands of Marion and othel Ohio citizens who today gathered about his home to welcome his re- turn. The senator and Mrs. Hard ing reached here tonight from Washington.
 In response to welcome address by D. R. Crissinger. president of the Marion Civic Association, he told them frankly that he liked their re- joiicing lover more than usual tribute to fellow townsman."
 He spoke intimately with his fel- low townsmen of their joint interest and efforts to make Marion greater and better city, their tributes paid him on other occasions when he had been a victor in political battles and especially the tribute of endorsement shown him by the count at the April primaries. He said if he had to
 
 his county in the primary and that extended by the Chicago convention he would choose the former "because you knowing me made it the finest tribute to which one may aspire.''
 If the admonition of MT. Crissing- Senator Harding will ride the dem- ocratic mule into the White House next November.
 ''I admonish you, my fellow citi- zens" he said, "thatt he will ride the democratic mule into the White the United States"
 Predicts Election.
 Going farther than predicting Senators Harding's election, MT. Cris- finger said he knew "your enthusiasm and appreciation will prompt your votes to be cast irrespective of party ties so as to make it possible for each of you to extend the right hand of fellowship to Florence Harding as the first lady of the land and to Warren G. Harding as the president of the United States" Following recital of Harding's early life from barefoot country lad, MT. Crssinger declared the Senator "Is neither too proud to fight nor too proud to work. That he is no "silk stocking" business man, but a "real fellow, a man who thoroughly knows his business and does it, and the printers rule which he always carries is his rabbit foot"
 But Senator Harding did not re- ceive all the tribute. He was com pelled to share it about fifty-fifty with Mrs. Harding in the welcoming ceremonies. How she had shared in the trials and triumphs of her hus- band were related by MT. Crissinger who asserted that her "watchful ways will make her favorite as the first lady of the land"
 Senator Harding's address follows:
 Dear friends and Neighbors:
 "There is conflict of emotion in responding to your cordial welcome home, it is always good to come home, no matter where one had gone or what the revolving fates have wrought during ones absence.
 "It is little difficult to make a choice among thoughts impelling. For thirty eight years we have been friends and enighbors here in Mar ion, and only few miles away are the treasured scenes of birth and boyhood Some of them have been recalled and recorded, very recently, with touches of imagination fear, because the real story is a very or dinary one which might be related concerning any of us, but that does not in any way mar the understanding among folk.
 "There can be no mistaken appraisal of our relationship. It is too extended too intimate we have been boosting this Marion of our together for con- siderably more than thirty years, and have shared in varying degrees the achievements attending it's develop ment. The thought of development and progress, desire to find our place on the map of Ohio inspired us, and there was common interest in spite of the seeming selfishness at tending rewards. We were all boost CTS together, because it is pursuit. Any distinction which came to me in that connection was due to the ac- cident of my occupation as a publish CT, rather than any spirit peculiarly my own. We all played the game to- gether, because it was our game, and we boosted because the upbuilding / uplifting, commenting pursuits in life are the only ones worthy of any one's commital.
 Marion has been unfailingly gen. >~-~~o~~~~~~-o~~~~~~~~~~-~
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