Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1920 — INTRODUCING MR. HARDING. [ARTICLE]

INTRODUCING MR. HARDING.

American history has been eni riched by email town men. from Ohio such as Garfield of -Mentor, McKinley of Canton, of Fremont, the Shermans of Mansfield. These were all unpretentious gentlemen, but with capacity and fibre [that lifted them to comparative j eminence among rivals of skill and i power. Exactly another such person is Warren G. Harding. He has never coveted great wealth or climbed up on the ruins of other men or posed as wiser, better or nobler than other fellows all about him. People hereabouts who will meet this gentleman today for the first ; time will see a modest, earnest, kindly, approachable individual who will greri them with genial interest .who hopes you will like him, • but who seems in conversation anxious above everything else that you 'shall understand exactly what is in 'his mind. He doesn’t seek to yctate your thought and action, but he will take infinite pains to undeceive you of any misconception as to what he believes and intends to do. He would rather have your disapproval than to win your favy

on a false baste. There is a mysterious something about this man that wins people to him. Down at Washington he is as weH liked as he is at Mtarion, and that is saying a good deal. Much has been made of fee fact that the senators are fond of him. They are. So are fee members of the House of Representatives. He te a man of friendships above everything else. He is a buddy or a chum or a friend of half fee men under fee big dome. Yes, the senators admire him. They respect him. They love him. You never met a man less priggish, less egotistical, less up big-J-and-little-you. Ladies and gentlemen, meet 'a rade, a regular fellow, wife a deep and quiet nature, who will never opponent, never go back on a friend or a cause. Shall we have a President this time without any frills or fuss and feathers or professorial sirs or peremptory orders from the Apone?, Answer, we shall—lndian- 1 apolis Star.