Evening star., 1924-01-30
u. S. FUTURE SAFE, SAYS COOLIDGE,
In YOUNGER GENERATIONS HANDS
President ROuses Ohio Society Membership to En-
tfusiasn, With ReUie,U of Lives of Hayes, Gar
field, Mckinley, Taft and Harding.

came from the state of Ohio. / had
known, of course, of the services of the
life of William Mckinley.
Services of Mckinley.
II recall that what struck me most
forcibly in an eulogy / heard deliver
ed on him by our Senator Hoar of
Massachusetts. then an old man.
ever known in Washing ton. none ever
was SO beloved by all classes of peo-
pie. by the representatives of all the
different strata of society, by the
members of the different parties. as
was William Mckinley. 1t was a great
service that he performed in 1896 by
enabling the country after a very
strenuous campaign to elect him
President of the United States on ac-
count OF the principles that he rep
resented at that time, for it was then
there was fought out the question of
whether we were to have a sound
monetary system in the United States
ana that question decided then has
never been seriously raised from that
day until this. 1t was decided def
nlteiy, finally and apparently for
ever. OF course, he has to his credit
me the restoration of prosperity. as we
believe, the lifting of a burden of
oppression from the islands in the
iar Pacific and from some of the
islands in the West Indies.
DO not know that l need to say
anything of the next President Of
the United States that came from
ONO. Undoubtedly you have had il
called to your attention, and un-
douptedly he has had it called to his
attention that he is the only man
VINO was ever President of the United
States and Chief Justice of the United
States.
1T was after he retired from of
| sre. ace. year or two, perhaps, that 1
utsI I began to hear of Warren G.
Harding. | remember his coming 70
massachusetts, and delivering one Of
those marvellous addresses of which
ne was a consumtnate master | think
pelore the chamber of commerce in
, boston, as long ago as 1913 or 1914
l asked then of people thar knaw
hlh whether he We're not a PROMISING
candidate for the presidency. He inn
pressed me that way the very first
time L saw him and heard him sneaIs
AS | recall il. the response 70 that
| INQUIRY was favorable l recall sill
ing a little time with him after his
| ADDRESS and enjoying his marvellous
Ti;otn,rersational powers, realizing "A
pie and in things about him. I cam,
10 know him better after that I,
was in 1915, when l was first a can
a,uate Tor lieutenant governor of
ro usettS' that he came there
again and he and l campaigned to-
gether. ~
spoke i'm Campaign.
recall our speaking one night in
.ne city of Lowell and one Of the
other speakers was that other emf
Ileht son of Ohio, Nicholas Longworth
we three started back to Boston aft
er the meeting and l recall that the
uriNer OF the car. in the perplexities
OF the roads of the old commonwealth
ana the lateness Of the hour. lost
ms way and the first We h.rw ~.
were nearly back to Lowell after
we tnought We had reached Boston
put illustrative of the sweetness Of
fresldent Harding, though the hour
was late and he was tired--I know
"as-he had no complaint to make
he took 1t as n matter OF course al
iedSt as joke. and made the very
pest or 1t as he always did with
every circumstance with which he
round himself confronted. Of course.
saw MN later and to tell you what
remarkable memory for people he
ndu "hen he came to the city of
burlington. where my wife was born
and brought up, one of my bows went
down to the hotel with me and I
was pleased with the opportunity to
Introduce him to the then Senator
Harding va
That went out of my mind and
my recollection. and yet when that
same Roy three or four years later
happened to come in contact with the