Arizona republican., 1921-08-02
Harding Declares English Race Leads
 Tn World Crisis
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brian, marched in the parade which passed in review before Mir. Harding and his party.
 The presidents hope that Plymouth Rock might become a shrine for all free nations was echoed in brief ad- dresses by William H. Debeaufort, charge of the Dutch legation at Washington and Captain Sydney H Bayley, naval aNtache of the British embassy there. Vice President Cool idge, who was not scheduled to de- liver an address. satisfied the de- mands of the throng by speaking briefly. Secretary of War Weeks also had a place in the speakers stand
 The exercises indeed were turned into an old home week celebration, when at the word of the chairman that they were to be closed the crowd called loudly for Vice President Cool idge, Senator Lodge, Maj. Gen. Clar- ence R. Edwards and Secretary Weeks. President Harding first brought to the front personally the senior senator from Massachusetts. Senator Lodge in brief remarks com mented On the early Americansm of the Pilgrims, pointing out that once they had set foot in the new country they had cut loose from virtually all ties in the old and had begun to love America, notwithstanding it was q wilderness, and to build for the fu- ture.
 The crowd again and again de- manded to hear the vice president and MT. Coolidge also was escorted by 1 the president to the speakers place | He remarked that he spoke here last I December, and said he had nothing | to add to the presidents words to- h; i, | time to the meaning of the Pilgrims 1 to this country.
 1 Again the exercises were called tt 1 a close but the crowd would not hay, l 1t. They clamored for the appear l ance of General Edwards. The gen | eral came forward and said it gay, l hlm much pleasure to be here becaus, some months ago the vice presiden had said that although he wal neither a prophet nor the son of { | prophet, he would predict Genera | Edwards would be back in New Eng
 land in command before many moon | had passed"
 q am here" General Edwards ob
 served, adding that he attributed tn 1 fact to the presence in Washington of men from Massachusetts, "eon | spirators," he termed them, whose ac tiyities with the president of tn United States had brought him bacl | to his fellow Tanks, who. like tn Pilgrims, have never gone back
 Leaving late tonight aboard tn 1 Mayflower, the president and his par ty expect to reach Portland. Me, to morrow morning and there take au tomobiles for Lancaster, N. H., wher they will spend the remainder of tn | week resting at Secretary Weeks place and sightseeing among tn
 White Mountains.
 I If was a pageant of high lights an striking color that the presider watched tonight on the land and wa
 ter stage on the. Plymouth shor'
 Added to the spectacular settin
 were the search lights of the battle
 ship fleets as they played acros
 Cape Cod bay.
 President Harding and his part
 leaned forward from the rear bo
 seats to catch the voice from tn
 rock, prologue of the pageant, as
 proclaimed with no person visible;
 "Of me the rock in the ooze the have made a cornerstone Of the r
 public"
 They maintained their interest, to through the succeeding spectacle | Viking adventure; non conforms ] church folk, harried by King James Pilgrims leaving an old world ar ; landing in a new, with wash day compact, signing, treaty making WI, l | the Indians and running out of rat icals.
 sl Off on the Mayflower. reproduce bark a small light gleamed, and fro : the rock the voice again sounded, 'tf ? path of the Mayflower must forev' he kept free"