Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1920 — HARDING PARTY ON WAY TO TEXAS [ARTICLE]

HARDING PARTY ON WAY TO TEXAS

President-Elect to Spend Month Hunting and Fishing at Point Isabel. TO INSPECT PANAMA CANAL Guests Include Harry M. Daugherty, Senators Frelinghuysen, Hale and Davis, and Edward B. McLean —Harding Refuse* Wilson's Offer. On Board President-Elect Harding’s Special Train. Nov. B—Starting for a month’s vacation trip to southern Texas and Partaina, president-elect Harding laid aside the last care of the presidential campaign for an interim of real rest and recreation before he takes up seriously the responsibilities of his coining administration on returning to Marion about Dec. 6. The President-elect has made it known that a compilation of opinions on the association of nations proposal will be his first concern, in preparing for his responsibilities at M ashington, taking precedence ZVen over ills choice of a cabinet. Cabinet he has announced, will noTbe given any thought at all during his vacation. Speaks in Virginia Dec. 5. The special train carrying Senator and Mrs. Harding and their party left Marion, bound for Point Isabel, near the southern tip of the Texas coast, wherewhere the President-elect "ill pass 12 days hunting and fishing. After that he is to make an ocean voyage to the Canal zone, and then back to a port on the middle Atlantic coast. He will speak in Bedford, Va.. on Dec. 5. and will go immediately from thwe to Marlon. Making the trip South by way of St. Louis and San Antonio, the train will reach Brownsville, Tex., Monday moming, and the party will motor from there to Point Isabel, 20 miles away. Point Isabel is only six miles distant from the Mexican boundary and from the southernmost tip of continental United States. Three Senators In Party. Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harding on the trip were Harry M. Daugherty, manager of the Harding precohv ention campaign; Senators Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, Hale of Maine and Davis of West Virginia, and Edward B. McLean, the Washington publisher. His secretary, George B. Christian Jr., and his family physician. Dr. C. E. Sawyer, and a group of secret service men and newspaper men also were on the special train. The secret service detail, assigned to Mr. Harding as soon as he was elected to the presidency, was fn charge of Miles McCahill. formerly of the White House staff at Washington. James Sloan, a former secret service man who has acted as the senator’s unofficial bodyguard during the campaign. will be retained in that capacity in co-operation with the guard detailed officially by secret service headquarters. Declines Offer of Warship. Senator Harding declined the offer of President Wilson to provide him with a battleship for the voyage to the Panama Canal zone, which is tc follow a 12 days’ stay at Point Isabel. In response to a telegram from Secre tarv Daniels conveying the President’s proposal, the President-elect wired he was thankful, but already had closed an agreement to make the trip on a passenger steamer. . It was said at Harding headquarters that a hitch over the sailing schedule had been adjusted and that a proposal to have a liner go out of its regular course to pick up the party at Galveston had been abandoned. Under the present plan the departure will be made from New Orleans, tc which’ point the senator and Mrs. Harding and their guests will go from Point Isabel by rail. The sailing date however, lias not been announced.