The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-08-03
HARDING DESIRE
WAS TO SERVE
FRENCH TELLS OF PRESIDENTS
CHARACTERISTICS = COOLIDGE
is WORTHY SUCCESSOR

| Congressman Burton l.. French o.
this city, who, through long service
| in the United States congress, came
to know Warren G. Harding init
mately, both as a United States SEN
ator and later as president, and who
also knows the incoming president
Calvin Coolidge well, when asked by
the Star-Mirror for an expresseion
gave out the following:
President Harding's most striking
characteristic was sincere affection
for people He loved his fellow man.
Naturally, then, the first reaction
upon people in the death of the presi-
dent is that they have lost friend.
AS a private citizen and business
man, he had employed labor for
thirty years without single dis
employees always devoted to the
success of their employer. Those
who knew him best praised him and
loved him most.
president Harding was dominated
by desire to serve and as president
he had completed numerous programs
for the benefit of the country, the
most notable being the Budget Plan
for National Finances and the reGuc-
ton of National Taxation, a Cooper
atiye Farm Marketing Law and the
Naval Armament agreement. He was
in the midst of other tremendous
rograms-notably program for law
enforcement and respect for our con-
stitution and a method for settling
world disputes through an Internal
ional Court In all, his public work,
President Harding led with gentle
ness and advised with tact but he did
not drive. President Harding will
be remembered as a great president
who ruled by kindness and thus in
the worlds final estimate he will al
WAYS be grouped with two other
of the same type, Lincoln
and Mckinley.
Have Confidence in Coolidge
"One of the outstanding American
traits is the confidence of the people
in themselves and their government
and the calmness of the people un-
Ter great sorrow and disaster. Thus,
The American people in the midst OF
heir sorrow confidently greet their
new president, Calvin Coolidge. Per
have no hesitancy in say
ng that I regard the country as most
'ortunate that with the death of the |
late president, he could have been
succeeded by a man of such great |
and energy, such intense and
inspiring devotion to country and |
such splendid common sense as Cal
lin Coolidge. I have not seen a |
statement touching the policy that |
he new president proposes to follow,
,ut I have not the slightest doubt that |
he policy will be one that will be in
,erfect harmony with that of our late
resident.
''The country may not generally
now that the late President Hard
ne, from the beginning of his term
insisted upon his vice president,
coolidge, sitting at the cabinet table
t all cabinet meetings. So far as |
m aware, this procedure was en-
ireIy new but at any rate Calvin
coolidge, through this generous pol
" of his predecessor, comes into the
residency with an intimate knowl-
dge of every broad program OF the
of his former chief and
nth a knowledge even Of the details
Or the working out of such pro-
rams.
"Our hearts are filled with pro-
)und sorrow on account of the death
f President Harding, but with that
orrow we may have faith in our
ountry and absolute confidence that
ne man who succeeds to the presi-
ency will take to that high office
le ability, vision and courage that
the product of American citizen
hip"