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Show PRESIDENT TO MAKE SWING AROIINI COUNTRY HARDING SAYS I PLANS TO PAY VISIT TO WEST Political Advisors Believe j Executive Can Aid Party and Nation HELP SENATE RACE Nine of 15 Democrats Seeking Seek-ing Re-election Reside Out Here BY GEORGE R HOLMi s International News ServfCI Staff or-roeM)udent. or-roeM)udent. (Copyright, 1922, by International News Service. ) WASHINGTON. June 10. President I Harding has virtually decided upon "a swing around the country" that will take him to tho Pacific coast and into a great number of western states b-fure b-fure the November elections, it was 'learned tonight i No date has yet been fixed for the trip, but It probably will be in September. Septem-ber. By that time it was hoped, con-! con-! gress will have finished the most Important Im-portant of Its task and gone homo to see about being re-elected. And also !by that time the primary fights In jthe west will hu'. c been settled, so that Ithe president will not be subjected to : possible embarrassments by tho pul-illng pul-illng and hauling of rival Republican factions In the states through which he would pass. The president Is understood to have icluctantly abandoned all plans for going go-ing to Alaska, as planned. Congress bids fair to run steadily until September Septem-ber and he does not feed that ho bhould absent himself from the country coun-try while congress Is still wrestling with that trinity of trouble: tariff, bonus and ship subsidy. TltUP DVSI i' wvr The Insistence that Mr Harding make a swing around tho circu.t has come principally from senators and representatives from the west who 'have pointed out he lia not Ik-ii v I of the Mississippi since his election land that It la due to tho great west Iwhlrh did so much to roll up that seven sev-en million majority that be pa vis!'. Political advisers of tho president ulso have recommended that he msJce 'thn trip. While they do not Intend that Mr Harding shall make the mN-i take of Mr. WUson in 191S when he demanded that the country send hlml buck a congress of his own political! fuith. they nevertheless believe and have so Informed Mr. Harding that It is up to him as the titular bead of tho party to strike the keynote of the con-gTcwwion-al campaign. The three successive shocks administered admin-istered to the party bj the large victory vic-tory In Indiana, tho Plnchot victory' in Pennsylvania and tho surprising Brookheart victory ln Iowa have also served a part. It is understood in prompting the president's favorable decision f u.mi i m P.i nt Party leaders and dozens of visitors that daily como to the White House have Impressed upon Mr HardlnjT that the country especially tho agricultural agricul-tural sections of the west aro filled wlrh unrest and Insurgency. In proof they have pointed to Indiana and Iowa and oven to Rock-ribbed Republican Pennsylvania For President Harding to make a I swing through tho groat producing v'est. making a number of speeches land shaking a lot of hands would th i party leaders believe, not only quiet some of tho Insurgency that exists 1 within the Republican ranks, but also (it would huve a beneficial effect on : the country generally. It Is also significant fact that has not been overlooked by the party this fall, nine of them come from states west of the Mississippi. Thee are Ashurst in Arizona. Culbertson in Texas. Hitchcock In Nebraska Jones In New Mexico. Kendrlcl; in Wyoming. King ln l tah. Myers In Montana, Pitt-man Pitt-man in Nevada and k' cd In Missouri, j REPUBLICANS CONFIDENT Barring family bitterness the Republican Re-publican fool thev have captured allj these seats save possibly Texas. In fact tho Republican leader con sider them In Texas and Missouri to be "normally Republican" ground, the Democrats who now occupy the sent merely being here because In 19H5 tho G O. P. war, still recovering from the disastrous split in 1912. Thoro are also two Republican senators sen-ators from west of th- (Mississippi up for re-election this year Johnson in California and Poindrxtor. In Washington. Washing-ton. The latter L facing a stiff fight both ln tho prlmarle-' which are on (Continued on Iao Two.) HARDING SAYS PLANS TO PAY VISIT TO WEST (Continued from Page One) September 12 and In tho olectlon to follow. It has been years since President Harding has been west. He did not go to the coast during his campaign for presidency because his party managers man-agers did not consider It necessary Now they bellevo he should shake the dust of the more or less effete east from his feet, and 'go to the people." |