| Show DEATH OF PRESIDENT HARDING I 1 it was a depressing shock to the country and the west in particular to learn early in the morning of the ad instant that president harding had suddenly died in san francisco the evening before at people had read the evening newspapers and were made happy by the report that mr harding was considered to be on the high road to recovery from his attack of ptomaine poisoning and slight attack of pneumonia that had aggregated his case president hardings life was snuffed out in the twinkling of an eye by a sudden stroke of apoplexy and while his good wife was reading to him as he sat in his chair beside her only a few weeks before president harding hardin on his tour of the west and alaska had been a visitor in salt lake and other portions of the state of utah where he had come in close contact with the people As a result of his visits in western states he became impressed with the wholeheartedness of the people their loyalty to the country its institutions and laws when suddenly stricken he was in a position to grasp more fully than ever before what the potentialities of the boundless west really were and he was better prepared to underhand under sand its needs and requirements and to see that it received a a full measure of consideration when its affairs were being looked into by the heads of the nation because of his illness president harding only a few hours before the unexpected and final summons came had given to the press a speech that he had intended to deliver in san francisco which expressed his views on world subjects and particularly the need of and his advocacy of a world courato court to dec decide de and settle international affairs he never had even an opportunity to learn how the world appraised his views it was probably just as well A few hours after the presidents death vice president calvin coolidge had been sworn in as president so that when the morning of the third ushered in another business day there had been no check in the tide of affairs of state which shows how systematically the count rys business affairs have been adjusted this is a wonderful country of ours and we should guard its institutions with jealous care may continue to carry on in the pursuit of happiness and freedom that the guarantees so that at no time can the death of a single t person or a sudden disaster of any kind disturb the equilibrium of our national existence |
