Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1920 — MARSHALL NOT CANDIDATE FOR THE NOMINATION [ARTICLE]

MARSHALL NOT CANDIDATE FOR THE NOMINATION

San Francisco, June 15.—That the republican leaders are less well ( pleased with the nomination of Sen-1 ator Warren G. Harding fbr the presidency tonight than they were | last Saturday was declared by Vice-. President Thomas R. Marshall, on his arrival here tonight to attend the democratic national convention.! The vice-president added that he was not a candidate for the presi-1 dency but on the contrary was about to retire from politics. He, declared that the republicans were , in error if they assumed the election | of Senator Harding was a foregone conclusion. He said also that President Wilson Fid not want a third term, but could be nominated and elected for one, if he did. Of Senator Harding’s candidacy the vice-president said: “The republicans are not so pleased now as they were on Saturday night. Personally I have high regard for Senator Harding. I would do anything for him except vote for him. . The republicans are making ( the mistake of their lives in thinking of the November ejection as a foregone conclusion and of the democrats as a disorganized, defeated party. They are going, to find us very much alive in November. Mr. Marshall decried lavish expenditures of money in connection with presidential campaigns. It was “disheartening’’ he said, adding that he regretted the “republican were not the only guilty ones.” , Of the democratic convention and his own part as a delegate in it, the vice-president said: “•I am here to promote peace and .good will among the democrats at this coming convention. He said so far as the convention was concerned “there is no Irish question arid of prohibition enforcement he de “Nothing is so detrimental to the country as the passage of laws and the ignoring of those same laws. Mr. Marshall’s reference to his retirement was in answer to a question as to whether he was candidate for the democratic presidential nomination. His answer was:! am an old man who has torn his hair for Bryan, slaved for Parker and done his hardest for Wilson and I am almost ready to retire from politics.”