Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1920 — HARDING MUCH LIKE THE GREAT WILLIAM M’KINLEY [ARTICLE]

HARDING MUCH LIKE THE GREAT WILLIAM M’KINLEY

Warren G. Harding, old-fashioned republican who looks like McKinley, acts like McKinley and thinks like McKinley, was nominated for the preidency by a convention that Was worn out' by the prolonged/balloting in sweltering temperature, , Senator Harding is a man who improves upon acquaintance and nobody will know until the campaign is well under way whether or not the American people after- all are inclined toWard a man of the Harding type. He is conscientious and honest. He has a splendid reputation for rugged Americanism. Washington correspondents recalled his famous speech on the night war was declared against Germany. Senator Lodge and others took up the Wilson cry that it was a war for democracy and humanity, Senator Harding politely took exception. He said he was voting for war not because of that but simply because American rights on the high seas were invaded. That seemed to him the only justification for war. It is the bitter anti-Wilson feeling arid the fear of a Wilson dynasty through the election of McAdoo Which will keep the republican party together. The suggestion of Harding was backed by a recollection of the splendid nomination speech made by Governor Willis of Ohio, who pointed out that New York and Pennsylvania and the other Eastern states were safe, but that Ohio had gone Democratic in 1912 and 1913. This, he argued, should mean a summons for Harding, who had carried the state when he ran for senator in 1914 by an overwhelming majority. The Democrats may be impressed by the Ohio argument, too, as Governor Cox has three times been elected on the Democratic ticket in Ohio. Certainly the selection _of Harding would seem to insure Cox a place on the ticket. He says he will not run for vice president, but that’s what all contenders for first place say. If a poll of persons at the Republican convention were taken it would probably show a prediction that McAdoo will be the Democratic nominee. References were made to him in the nominating The selection of Coolidge for

vice president was a clever move for while labor doesn’t like him because of his attitude in the police strike in Boston and the Democrats would appeal through McAdoo for the labor vote, it must not be forgotten- that President Wilson himself sent a message of congratulation to Governor Coolidge on the day of his election, and Republican orators will make skillful use_ of that message. . * Harding and Coolidge is a good republican ticket and that’s what most of the delegates think the American people want. “Back to the good old» days of Republicanism” and “down with Wilsonism” are the slogans of the Republican strategists who ran this convention, and who enter, the race absolutely confident of victory in November.