The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-26
DAILY NEWS LETTER
DOPESTERS TRYING TO
 DETERMINE IF HARDING
 IS SEEKING REELECTION
By GEORGE R. HOLMES, International News Service Staff Cor
 

respondent. Washington Oct. 25.-Every so of- ten the national capital gets excited and engages in feVerish speculation as to the plans of Warren Gamaliel Will he be a candidate for a second term
 The rail birds that perch on the fen ces of the race tracks with stop 1 hands have absolutely nothing on the Washington dopesters when it comes to Figuring out a candidate. Every utterance MT. Harding makes either officially or socially; every bus mess venture he may make on the pri- Wate side lof his busy life. as we'll as his writings and his official papers. are coming more and more under searching scrutiny for indications as to which way the winds of 1924 may blow.
 Not long ago the President was talking informally with a number of neWspaper !.I5I, correspondents.
 " ben some of you boys get to be Preside ent'-he began.
 Then he stopped and smiled. a bit sadly.
 The stop watches of the rail birds clicked, and the impression began to be conveyed about that Harding is tired of his job.
 As a mattr of fact he was tired of it that day. He had rbeen fighting rail way executives, labor leaders coal operators. coal miners. and not a few Senators and Representatives and the net result was not conducive to peace Of mind and contentment of spirit
 Now Mir. Harding has given the rail birds another thrill by purchasing the old farm in Morrow County, Ohio. where he was born. It comprises some 25O acres. and with improve ments Mir. Harding plans to make on 1t should prove an admirable retiring birds A''ii however, that MT. Bardings pur, chase of his old homepIace has noth- lng to do with any retirement plans ne ne nay or may not have. MT. Hard long bfore he ever dreamed of oc-- eupyfng the White House. When he moved into No. 1900 Pennsylvania avenue his desire to possess the farm was intensified.
 It is extremely doubtful if MT. Harding himself knows what he will GO two years hence. Many things can happen in two years. Even his closest confldants do not pretend to say with any degree of certainty what will be Tn the Presidents mind in 1924
 They, his confdants, say there have been many times since March 4, 1921, when Warren G. Harding heartily wished himself back in the United hoLdLeS oeIldle, where ms friends his friends and where every casual caller did not have some ax to grind as the reason for his coming.
 It has been one of MT, Harding's chief complaints in the White Houce that the job stripped him of friends And whatever else w. G. Harding, of Marion, O., may be he is essentially a kindly, friendly man. He craves a companionship that was his in the Senate and which is impossible in the White House.
 President Harding lost considerable weight this summer. The weather was notoriously hot and did not make battling against the twin rail and coal strikes any easier. By September he was pretty well Tagged out physically and mentally Then came Mrs. Hard 1ng's nearly-fatal illness as the final straw He lost much sleep and more weight over that, so that, all things consid cred, W. c. Harding has had a fairly strenuous summer, and one not calculated to make him love No. 1900 Pennsylvania avenue overly much.
 There are those among his friends though, who say that any talk of MT Harding's not accepting second term is poppycock. Not only will MT. Harding want 8 second term two years hence, but political conditions are quite likely to demand that he run again, according to these savants
 Beyond all these considerations, however, is one stronger than all others. It is the cold fact that no man has ever turned down a Presi- dentia1 nomination for the second term.