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TTIE MORNING O K IIG O N I A N. VRIDAT. OCTOUER 1, 1920 3 HARDING WIS WAY A TO PEOPLE'S TRUST Candidate's Manner of Speech Inspires Confidence. CAMDOR CARRIES APPEAL Talks rclicrcil Willi Earnest ncss Hut Without VHtmicncc Always Oct Popular Response. BY MARK SULLIVAN, f rrtrvrti!it by the V(W Turk Kvning PiM b.v ate. Inc. Published by Arranse- V.S ROL'TK WITH SKXATOR HARD JX(, Seit 30. (Special.) Every hour n:- (J wo when Senator Harding's train "caches one of tue smaller cities it .-tops an-1 Harding, standing on the tar plait'orm, addressee the crowd. On aeh of these occasions I have gorn .nto the crowd and listened to the speech, trying to estimate the man ind trying also to estimate how the .Tiai itium seem to tliese crowds of American folks and to give readers aom m hi n of the same opportunity. I an. going to print the bulk of one of tliese speeches, one of the most char-act- ristic, in which Senator Harding sat.' : " iovcrnment is a very simple thing after all. Jt Is not the work of some superman. Nor does it presuppose that some extraordinary individual directs our it stinies. Government Is your affair, worked, out through per fectly rifriprt! human beings who ougin to c-v-cute your will. '"i his government is your govern mr.rt, not that of somebody who is plutid in office. The way government Is oo'iducteti in a republic like ours is that political parties meet and give expression to those principles and po'ices which they think will work out the best results for all our people, and then you base your judgment on I the partios by what they propose to do in their platforms, and if you think one party is going to serve you best in your relationship with one another you vote that party into power, and we who are candidates are only spokes men for the party temporarily. llrpuhliean Parly HcmpoihIm. "You clothe us with authority, and We are pleased to execute your will. And one reason 1 want the republican party to rule once more is because we are res-ponsi ve to the will of the people of the United States and do not try to tell you- that what one man thinks is necessary (applause). "I make no criticism of any one. 1 only want to say to you that the re publican party has sensed the aspira tions and the convictions and the con science of the American people in this vary trying time in American world affairs (applause). 1 "Civilization is in a fluid state. War las turned everything more or less upside down. Things have - become unstable. We have had fevered pros perity and the world must recover its normal way once more. We want the republican party to be charged with this responsibility because we believe we have the capacity and certainly the intent to carry out your will in the conduct of the government. (iovrrnmrnt Simple Thtug. "As I said at the outset, government Is a very simple thing. Government is only the regulation of our relation ship to one another. The govern ment's first task is the protection of "the minority against autocracy or the domination of the majority that sometimes forgets the rights of the minority. And I am preaching the gospel of popular representative gov ernment in the United States gov ernment that does not know any class anywhere in all this republic (ap plause, and "that's right"). "We must all be concerned in the common welfare, and 1 promise you that if I am elected president of the United States (applause and cries of "good" and "you will be elected all right") I will never appeal to one group because it is momentarily powerful, but I am going to try to appeal, as I have always tried to do. to the conscience and the deliberate Judgment of all , the people of this land, and if God gives me the way to sec it. 1 am- going to do my part as your chief executive toward translat ing the popular will of America into law and in the administration of the affairs of this republic (applause). "I am very happy to see you all this morning. As I have said, I want you to know me. and 1 am delighted to know you We are going to work to gether for the good of the United fctates and we are going to hold America first in all our thoughts and in all our actions." (Applause.) Hen rem" Confidence Won. The irmn began moving off and b'enator ll.irriing concluded by saying: i wisn i couia talk to all these children. ! hese boys and girls who ire growing no in the best land in ihe world, and there isn't any reason on the face oi the earth why they ihuu-lil not avail themselves of all the many opportunities which our country offers. 1 am sorry that I have not time to :;ay more, but 1 want to thank you for t-oming down to greet us and to wish ; ou w ell." ( Applause.) The read' r, of course, can estimate the speech as well as 1 can, both as an index to the mind of the speaker nd as to its probable effect on an udienco of average Americans. In a mall community you must think of it as delivered with earnestness and .et without vehemence by a speaker vhose appearance and manner make ilmost as much appeal to the instinct tor confidence as, let us say those of a typical evangelical oishop. Probably the over - sophisticated reader aim me over-citif led reader till say mere is nothing new in it nd those wno. are very much in earnest about new issues will find it disappointing, but if anyone doubts tiat it expresses both a personalitv and a point of view that is sympa thetic and consoling to great multi tudes of averuge Americans who have b;en more than a little disturbed by tie recent course of the world; if any one doubts that, he would be con vinced by following this party through tie country for, a day. e an mi .e a gooa aeai or fun o Harding for coining or digging up fioin an obsoyte dictionary the word "lomiaely." but if you would suspect lat-ditiR of so subtle an artfulness we light now conclude that he had in vented this device for calling con spicuous attention to a condition wiich lie wants to identify himself 'III, which, whether for good or 111, opresses the present mood of the A ncrican more accurately than any ol these other more novel Ideas "hich some of us speak of as aspirations. appointed by President Nickerson of the labor council.' If Governor Cox is depending on the working- girls to give him the victory in Oregon at the coming election he Is doomed to disappoint ment, judging from the results of a straw vote taken among the girls of the two plants of the Hirsch-Weis Manufacturing company yesterday. The girls in these plants voted three to one for Senator Harding in pref erence to Governor Cox as their can didate for president. The vote among the girls stood 24 for Harding and 8 for Cox. Two voted for Debs. The men of the same plants, also included in the vote, showed an even greater preference for the republi can nominee. Ten cast ballots for Harding and but two for Cox. This made the total vote in the two plants 34 for Harding and 10 for Cox. The vote at the two" plants was light, owing to the fact that an ef fort was made to limit it to actual voters only. Of more than 100 girls employed in the two establishments, some are too young to vote, others have not resided here cr.g trrough and still others had failed to register, a decided preference for the repub lican candidate and were not back ward in telling of their preference. "What do I look like?" one inquired when asked to vote her preference for president. "I am a republican and have always been one," she declared. The women considered the question of the presidential race as they shoved goods through the various sewing machines in the factory or were busily engaged in piling com pleted garments. In spite of this many of them showed a good knowl edge of the question at issue, indi cating that they were voting as their convictions dictated. "I am not for liquor and so 1 am not for Cox." asserted one who threaded her machine and prepared to shove another garment into its maw as she spoke. I'rrMOnal Intrrewl Kelt. Another declared the present ad ministrat'in had failed to do any thing for her and .she intended to give her support to the republican administration "I hope wc get a chance to see what the republicans can do for the work ing girl," she said. Another declared she had supported Wilson at the last election, hut that she was sick of Wilson policies now. "We thought he was keeping us out of war." she declared, "but he wasn't." Another held that the present ad ministration was worrying too" much about Kurope and' European condi tions and was not paying enough at tention to the people at home. "What we' need is a government that cleans up at home first," she continued. One woman declared her sentiments for Cox is no uncertain terms. "We need a man who is for the people, and I think Cox is the man," she declared. The men in the factories commented little upon their voting, but the ma jority of them did not hesitate in ex pressing their preference for Harding. One declared he intended to support the laboring man's candidate, but that he did not know who that man was. A feature of the vote taken at the two factories was the fact that a straw vote taken there previous to the last presidential election indi cated a Wilson victory. A poll of the office in the Selling building likew ise, resulted in a sweep ing victory for the republican candi date. Of S3 votes cast 61 were for Senator Harding and only 18 were for Governor Cox. Three votes were cast for Debs and one for Christenscn. Selling ote Significant.. The offices in the Selling building are mostly held by physicians and their employes and the vote taken showed the sentiment of that class to be strongly for the republican candi date. The women voting in the build ing registered almost as strongly for Senator Harding as did the men. In the Selling building vote 35 men voted for Harding and 9 for Cox. The vote among the women was 26 for Hardin? and 9 for Cox. Very few refused to vote, the majority of the refusals being among women who said they had not registered. Th comment made in this poll was strongly for the republican candidate. The sentiment was generally ex pressed that Harding was the man who could be more fullv trusted at the helm of the government at this period. One physician who expressed a pref erence for the democratic candidate declared that "we might be able to get light w ines and beer." Harding (Jenrrally Strong-. Polls taken at the Portland Flour ing Mills company and among the pro prietors and employes of the whole sale produce firms on Front street likewise showed a strong sentiment in favor of senator Harding. The Portland Flouring Mills company vote stood i tor Harding and 15 for Cox and the Front street vote 83 for Hard ing and 29 for Cox. At the Portland Flouring Mills 41 men voted for the republican candi date compared to 9 for the democratic candidate. The women, voted 17 for Senator Harding and 9 for Governor Cox. The Front street masculine vote was 74 for the republican candidate and 26 for the democratic. The wom en along Front atreet. showed Hard ing to be a three to one favorite. Nine of them voted for Harding and J for Cox. The democratic; candidate was the favorite in the vote of the day shift at the Benson hotel. Six men voted for Cox and one for Harding'. COX SPEAKS NINE TIES III KANSAS' Senate Oligarchy Harangue Is Continued. LODGE COMES IN FOR RAP Democratic Nominee Says Senator Is Xarrovt-.MinJed Bigot Who Wrote Hymn of Hate." 7 N O HAT WICHITA. Kan.. Sept. 30. Domestic and international subjects were min gled with the paramount league of nations issue by Governor Cox in nine addresses today in Kansas, with the finale of the candidate's state campaign a large meeting here to night at the Forum. Besides the league, the governor gave his views on the Mexican ques tion and the. Russian problem and amplified his discussion of prohibi tion. Many of his remarks were in spired at what he termed "town meet ings" informal talks with his audi ences, in which he invited question ing. "Oligarchy' Aurain Denounced. The governor again denounced the 'senatorial oligarchy." characterizing Senator Lodire of Massachusetts as the "arch conspirator of the world" and a "narrow-minded bigot, the man who wrote the hymn of hat against Woodrow Wilson." He also flayed the arrest of a man who interrupted Sen ator Harding's Baltimore speech and asked: "Is this America or Russia?" Asked how the leagjie would be more effectual than The Hague" tri bunal in preventing war, the gover nor said: "The four greatest wars in history happened under it (The Hague tribu nal! and it lasted only 15 years the Boer war, the Balkan war, the war between Russia and Japan, and the world war." 1 he governor continued: "Some- body had sense enough to lock it up during the war. I will tell why it failed: Theodore Roosevelt called at tention to it there was no police power behind its decrees." Oklahoma Speeebea Billed. leaving here early tomorrow the governor was billed for a number of speeches in Oklahoma. In response to a question on Mex ico, the governor referred to state ments of Senator Harding regarding "protecting" American citizens and interests, and added: "It's one thing to talk about protecting American! citizens no matter where they might be. but when an adventure goes into a hornet's nest and knows where he is going, the United States ought not to send a brigade of soldiers with him." Governor Cox was quizzed regard ing prohibition at Hutchinson and Newton and again characterizing Sen- ! in that body ator Harding as a 'brewer." declared Michigan. that the senator had upon senate pro-i "Because the democratic admir.is- hibition measures "voted wet 32 times ! tration wrote into the lows of the jfill " every knox hat is guaranteed by the knox trade-mark it bears. should, by chance, anything go wrong with it, in a day, a week, or a year, the wearer is entitled to a new hat. OIL ichel men's furnisher and hatter - exclusive but not expensive 331 Washington street, near broadway Hlllllllllllr OH O 1 RUE DE LA PAIX CANDIES STREET FLOOR r- I I wo o J "Merchandise oF cMert Only" An Attractive Sale Hit of I $2.00 to $50.00 can order be brought to the world and because the failure of the league will cause us to revert to Interna tional breeders of war. "Because the democratic candidates despise the appeal to racial bigotry. "Because the republican party lead ers have unblusjiingly appealed to the disloyalists of the United States and are unashamed to hold their power in the United States senate by reason of the vote of a man found guilty of violating the law in obtaining his seat Senator Newberry or and dry two times." The governor added that under similar circum stances he would have duplicated the senator's dry votes. A man asked why President Wilson vetoed the Volstead enforcement law and the governor replied sharply: He gave his own reasons. And let me add, Wilson isn't running for pres ident this year; Cox is running for president." No DlMreftpeet Intended. When applause subsided, the gov ernor added that he intended no dis respect "to the man who will take his place in history with Thomas Jef ferson and Abraham Lincoln.' Russia, the candidate declared, should be admitted to the league as soon as its requirements could be met. Asked regarding the league's attitude toward Russia if this nation was a member, the governor replied: "The league would be compelled to keep hands off Russia and permit the Russian people to work out their own salvation, and Russia will." Germany, Turkey and all other non member nations, the speaker added, should be invited in when possible. To his audiences in Kansas agricul tural communities the governor reit erated his plan to place agriculturists in more governmental positions, again defended the causes for the non-partisan league movement, advocated re peal of many war taxes and modifica tion of "most" others and promised federal regulation of tha meat pack ers and cold storage interests. CROOK'S WORK REPORTED Foreign Rooming House Owner De frauded of $-5. Some unknown young crook with a mustache patterned after Charley tnaplin is being sought by the police for mulcting foreign lodging house owners by Impersonating a deputy sneritr. According to a report received yes terday at the police detective bureau Louis Filippi. lodging house propri etor at SO1- North Second street, com plains that the man flasheu a deputy sheriff's star and sheaf of papers on him late Wednesday and demanded $23 for taxes. Filippi says he was not aware that he owed anything for taxes, but the stranger was so insis tent and made his star show so prom inently that the money was paid over to him. The police report says that the man is attempting to collect money from others in the north end by the same method. He is described as being about 25 years old, 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighing 150 pounds. He wears a brown suit of snug fit. HARDING STILL IN LEAD Continued From First Past.) Tli cut down tihe feminine vote to a n,all fraction of the actual number women employed. any of the women voting showed COX GIVKS JO KEASOXS 1V11V Deinoeratii Nominee Anneals for Vote of Ex-Service 3Ien. Nl-rw YORK, Sept. 30. Ten reasons why former service men .should sup port the democratic national ticket, prepared by Governor Cox, were made public tonight by the democratic na tional committee. The ten arguments were Included by the democratic presidential candi date in the following letter to the Argonnc Post Weekly of Des Moines, Iowa: "Beoause they have constantly talked the broadest principles of pro gressive development, conforming to the spirit of the century for indepen dent political judgment. "Because its candidates have never said and never believed that senti ment recently uttered by Senator Harding when he said 'too much is heard of independence in politics.' "Because in this year the democratic party represents the honor of the country: because it believes In keep ing faith with the living, and faith with the dead; faith with our allies and faith with our foes. 'Because the democratic party stands for a league of nations, the ex isting league, to end war; to compose differences by adjustment of wrongs through the processes of world opinion. "Because - only through the league country the federal reserve act, the farm loan act and other pieces of leg islation that enabled It to muster the resources of the country at a critical time, so that all Americans, regard less of party, might win the greatest of all wars for humanity and for high principles. "Because. notwithstanding that many conditions are not ideal, Amer ica is at this hour the safest place in which to live, the most desirable and the best from every standpoint, and because it will come through pro gressive evolution to a still higher plane of development, despite the at tempts of reactionaries like Senator Harding to stop it." WOMEN CLASH OVER LEAGUE Republican Worker Charged With Deliberate Perversion. NEW YORK, Sept. 30. Mrs. George Bass, chairman of the women's bu reau of the democratic national com mittee, in a statement issued at head quarters here today asserted that Mrs. Arthur Llverraore, chairman of the republican women's state execu tive committee, had deliberately and willfully perverted the Knglish lan guage in her attack at Somerville, N. J., last night upon the league of nations and Its provision in relation to traffic in women and children. Raymond B. Fosdick, former secretary-general of the league of nations, in a statement toniglft denied that Article 23 of the league covenant was an attempt to "legalize the traffic in women and girls." Mr. Fosdick said that for eight months he had charge 'of this particular activity" of the league and that the work "was aimed at the ultimate (suppression of the traffic in women and girls." Article .? was placed in the cove nant, he declared, at the solicitation of the American Social Hygiene as sociation, the International League for the Abolition of the White Slave Traffic and similar organizations. VOTE TREND TO HARDING (Continued From First rage.) secret of Harding's great following among the women. It is the stars, sr.y s Professor Mej'cr. According to Mr. Meyer, Senator Harding's nomination at 6:15 P. M., Chicago time, 7:15 planeTary time, could not have been more propitious. Also, says the professor, it was Venus' hour, indicating that Harding will probably get the women's vote. The nomination of Cox, on the contrary, Meyer says, was accomplished on the worst possible time. He predicts many disesters for the democratic candidate, including the loss of the most of his support at the eleventh hour. A SAMPLE LINE of shades and shields 200 pieces from the Deardsley Stu dios all hand-decorated on extra heavy parch ment pig sfcr'n finish). 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