Show HARDING DECRIES SUFFRAGE Nominee Attacks Efforts to to Create Impression It Is Partisan Issue Br BT T Prea Marion Marlon lon o 0 JuI July Senator H Senator Harding Hara Harv Har- Har ding In a statement tonight resented what v ho he characterized as persistent misrepresentations cf ct tho the Republican Attitude towards woman suffrage suf suf- frage frage and said to that party belonged the tho credit for tor that reform ever having a a. chance chanc for tor success He deplore however efforts to make political capital out of or tho sit sit- and said he hoped ratification would bo ho accomplished before Novem Novem- her ber no matter whether a Democratic or Republican was waR the thirty thirty- sixth to approve tho the suffrage amend amend- rn ment mentA en tEven t. t Even 1 If a a. Democratic state shall finish the tho business the record will still sun show that twenty nine Republican and seven soven Democratic states made up the roll of honor Senator Harding sald that j Is 18 c- c good cod od enough enouch t for r us M My patience j Is sorely tested sometimes some some- lim times s over oer tho the persistent misrepresentations misrepresentations of or the Republican par party Its state Governors and legislatures In Inthis Inthis inthis I this n of womans woman's suffrage I Whether nether It emanates from mere mischief mischief mis mis- chief makers or from partisan desires I I 1 cannot help resenting It We must Insist on having fair rail treatment of tho the party part without whoso whose persistent support I I the great reform would never havo have had a chance chanco of ot success I Record I h Cited CUd A A Republican Senate and a I l lipan lIcan cnn Ho House se submitted the tho constitutional constitutional amendment for equal suffrage A Democratic Senate had previously refused to submit It It Twenty-nine Twenty Republican and six D Democratic states have hae ratified It Six Democratic states have rejected tho the ratification resolution and another Louisiana has Louisiana has just refused to give It consideration One Ono Republican state just just one Delaware has Delaware has rejected Tho first eight states to ratify I were Republican states When hen in 1919 In tho the Republican Senate Senate Sen Sea ate finally mustered tho the necessary majority majority ma- ma to submit the tho amendment there were thirty-six thirty Republican and only twenty Democratic senators voting for tor forit forit it but there were seventeen Democratic Democrat Democrat- ic and only eight ht Republican senators voting against it Whether In tho the Senate or House In Congress or state legislature tho the record record record rec rec- ord shows that the Republicans have been the persistent and effective sUpporters supporters supporters sup sup- porters of this measure In such circumstances cir clr- I circumstances that are arc thoroughly familiar to everybody It everybody It ItIs Is simply amazing that Democratic managers should now have the audacity i It ity to be that they are arc the I friends on whom tho the cause must de depend depend do- do i pend POnd If It Is to succeed I Desires Ratification Atlo For myself and for tor th the tha Republican party part I earnestly desire that ratification tion may be accomplished in time Um to give S1 the whole bod body of or American women the tho ballot next November No I Iam Iam Iam am wearied with efforts to mako partisan partisan par par- advantage out of ot tho the situation I 1 hope there thero will wilt be ratification and andI I 1 do not care caro ro a fig whether It Is Is' se secured secured so- so cured through a Republican or Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic state slate I 1 will rejoice If North Carolina will do it or if Tennessee will I do It Just as I would rejoice If It a. a I Republican state did It There will bo glory Glor enough for tor the Republican party no matter whether the thirty-sixth thirty state Is Republican or not If It an any word o of mine could possibly possibly bly bo be Influential with an any Republicans Republic Republic- ans sits in tho the North Carolina legislature or in tho the Tennessee legislature that word vord v rd would bo be vote for ratification and dont don't worry about who gets tho credit of putting It over o It Tricolor ImproTi d Senator St Harding spent tho the forenoon I working on his speech of acceptance but bul later entertained at luncheon A. A P P. I Moore publisher of or the l Pittsburgh h I Penn Leader and It R. P. P Wolfe publisher pub pub- lisher of tho the Columbus Ohio Dispatch d ar-d JournaL Later ho conferred for Cor nearly nearh an hour with Mr r. r Wolfe VoICe who said ho he had ma made e on only I a friendly call as 18 he hc and the senator had been personal person person- I al friends for tor a long IonS time Tomorrow tho ho t senator mator plans to deoto dc- dc I to lo his principally voto oto his attention speech which ho now hopes to have I completed b by Saturday I When Mrs Harding sought to obtain ln a a. French na flag today to suspend from the porch of her homo home In observance of oC Ulo day tiny a search of the city showed that none could bo secured Undismayed Undismayed m cd how however cr she at once hurried downtown where she ho purchased ed blue white and red bunting and on her re return return re- re turn home homo quickly made a a. flag six feet teet 1 long which was nas hoisted to the tho top of or orI front frontIni tho the tho the flagpole attached to porch 0 P I Ini Tm Jm entitled to celebrate day not only on account of or tho the historic as associations associations as- as I of tho the American and French I peoples but m my grandmother w was s French Mrs Harding said I |