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Show LATE PRESIDEfiT WANTED LEAGUE FlffljSSERTS Harding Always Favored U. S. Participation in World Affair; Political ' Alliance Held Him Back OPPOSED ONLY TO -WILSON LEAGUE- Bwwsa u Care View Freely, Asking Only That It Nor Be Published During Campaign, Cam-paign, Writer Says EAST LIVERPOOL. O. Sep. I (By A P.) Aaaartlan that tha lata President Hardlnc was In favor of American ntry Into tha league of 'ration and that any Iropresalon to " tha contrary given by him waa for political purpoaaa only, waa made by profes.or Irving flahar, notad TT economist, in n" dr prs- parad for dallvorr yeatarday at tha fcaat Liverpool Mathodlat church. Professor Dahar declared ha had , thla Information ftrat from Mr. .. : Harding' own Hp In an lntrvlw My Man la to call tha nation together to-gether and aak thrm to mk ueh amendments aa are neceeeery to eeoure too appro Tai of tha Unltad Statee." - -But.' I said. do you think tha ether nation would accept uch conditioner -Moat certainly." he replied, thay would ba anly too (lad to (at aa In on any terme." POLITIC INTERFERE. Why not." I aaid. "make your stand clearer In tha eampalgnr - Wall,' la aaid. 'a political cara-paKn cara-paKn I Ha a military campaign. t am tha Marahal Foen of tha Republican Re-publican feroaa. It I not (ood tae-tica tae-tica to tall vry dtll to tha opposition. oppo-sition. I want to draw thalr flra I ftrat." (Oovernor Co' epeecb of aoraptane had not yt baan published pub-lished I " -But. t ald. 1 your own party what will Sana tor - aay, for Inatanoar -Oh.' Ha Mid. "Senator doaan't ear. I know him bttr than you do. Whan ha takea hi e.trem tand. he la doing o for political affect. I muat ultimately. I realise, come to a deflnlta program. pro-gram. But with my own force divided on detail, my fire I concern la t (et thoaa fore together. For lha preeent It I nouh to mak It elear that I am a galnat tha pree-ent pree-ent Wllaon league, but for n aeao. elation of natlona of a different art M "In reeponae te question from m aa to bow far my Hp wer sealed, ha said. "X wont call thla talk confidential: but it I personal. I mean you must not (O out of that door and quota ma to the reporters waiting for you ther. But you ara fra. svaa, la Inia rimnalm In tall your friends' Thla I did. tellln(. among other. x-Preeldent. now Chlaf Juatloa Taft, whom I vieilsd tha followln( weak at Polnta au Pie. Canada." at Marlon, O, In July, ins, wnen the then Senator Hardln( waa eon-, eon-, ; ducting hi famous -front porch - csmpalga for tba presidency The letter from President Harding t ' newspaper publisher recently made public through the Associated Presa' (' by Walter Wellman. author and Journalist, In which th president dlacuseed the hope for world a a-octattoo, a-octattoo, led him to Infer, Profee-or Profee-or Fisher said, that the president -never forsake hie Intention to form hh association of nation"" out of th existing league of nations na-tions by securing whatever amend- menu war niceesary to offset th transmutation. -It waa at hi campaign headquarters head-quarters at Marlon that I talked about th league with Mr. Hard-Ing." Hard-Ing." Professor Fisher said. "Although "Al-though I had twice beard him apeak, thla was th first lima I ' had ever met blm personally. DESCRIBES MEETING. Tha day before I hsd Interviewed ' Governor Cox (the Democratic candidate) on th asms subject. I waa Impressed by Mr. Harding' - magna lie personality, good physique phy-sique and handsome face. There waa a buoyancy about him which, . when ! met him at tha Gridiron club In Washington after th crushnlg burden of two year In th Whit Hous had had thalr effect, teamed to be lacking. "W scarcely begun to talk when . he waa summoned out doer for photograph for tha newspapsrs. "Thla la part of th game.' ha laughed. When on hi return, he found rrr standing, ha said, "Sit down, I'm not president yet." "Plunging Into th ub)eet. I asked him wliat hi real atand on tha league and . how be could expect ex-pect to create an entirely new association as-sociation of natlona ' t. CONTROL PUBLICITY.' , ' I "Hs answered, TB tell you. provided pro-vided you will not publish It In this campaign. I muat control th pub- 1 Uclty of my own campaign.' "Then he aaid: 'I want tha t'ntt. ad State to get Into the league )uet a much aa you do." On noting my amassment, Mr, Harding ahowsd soma amusement and then proceeded proceed-ed to reconcile hi amaalng statement state-ment with tha common expression aa to his attitude by adding: "Of course, I'm opposed to ths Wilson league, aa I have alwaya said, but the league can be changed. |