The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-11
DAILY NEWS LETTER
HARDING AGREEABLE TO CABINET SPEECHNIAKING:
 WON'T STUMP" HIMSELF.
By GEORGE R. HOLMES. International News Service Staff
 COrTeSD0ndant

Correspondent.
 Washington. Oct. 11-Whi1e Presi- dent Harding is not taking much per sonal part in the campaign, members of his Cabinet are digging in" all over the country with speeches to aid the return of a Republican Congress in November.
 Muck of the aid being given candi- dates by Cabinet officers is of a per sonal rather than political nature; at least the political angle is secondary.
 Secretary of War John w. Weeks is much in demand for political apeechmaking. The big, amiable Sec retary was in the Senate for six gears before becoming a member of MT. Harding's official family, and his old friends there are quick to call upon him when they need help.
 Another in considerable demand is Secretary of Labor James J. Davis. Before he became a Cabinet member secretary Davis was known as
 liner, It is commonly said that he is a member of more fraternal or ganizations than any man in public life, and he has acquaintances from coast to coast. He once said he first names.
 Senators and Representatives trade speeches in much the same manner that small boys trade marbles.
 You come over and help me- and then I'll come over and help you next week!' is common expression. Also: Jim Hoozis owes me a couple of speeches, doggone him. and he's got to pay me back the last of this monthi"
 President Harding himself is en- tirely willing that his Cabinet shall make all the speeches it desires to aid the party, but he doesn't think the United States to go on the stump and exhort the voters to return him Congress of his own particular 1ik- ing:
 to a Tennesseean who had asked him to make a speech in that State, q don't think it's good ethics for the President of the United States to go partisan mission. After all, the President of the United states is Pres -ident of the Democrats. too"
 What MT. Harding did not recall publicly, but, what probably was in his mind, too, was the resentment that sprang up throughout the coun- try over the famous appeal Wood row Wilson made in 1918 for the re- turn of a Democratic Congress. The country promptly responded with a Republican Congress that did consid- erable wrecking to the last two years of MT. Wilson's administration.
 President Harding thinks that one of the greatest trials and tribulatfons
  Chief Executive is the frequent mis- representation of his views that find their way into the newspapers.
 Reporters obviously cannot see MT. Harding after every caller has left the executive offices in order to find out what the call was about.
 They must rely, therefore. on what the caller chooses to say. Sometimes the caller will "sptll a big story" More often not, but in any event, the reporters are necessarily forced to rely to a great degree on the facts as stated by him who has just conferred with the President. Usually it is safe enough; occasionally not.
 Some not overly ethical person will call at the White House and talk with MT. Harding for a while about matter in which they both are ir- terested. When he emerges from the conference room he is surrounded by reporters, and in some instances the President is known to have been badly misre presented.
 A few days ago, following a par ticuIarly fragrant case of thls sort, who cover the White House for reme- dial suggestions.
 The President is placed in an em- barrassing position by such inctoemts: nus 1t has once gotten into the newspa- pers except by an official denial, which is tantamount to calling his visitor a liar-a rather harsh pro ceeding.
 The National woman's party, thorn in the side of many a politician, is nothing if not thorough.
 In obtaining title a few days ago to it's new national home, the Wo- mans party formally and Iesally agreed to have no men around the place in any official or salary-receiving caipa city and that everyone, from the oh atrman to the furnace-tender, must ba of the sometimes gentle sex. Cop Serves as Horse
 to Haul Drunken Man