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Show refusal to run for a read term, they argued. i a coo f.aelo of falrure. i Ths matter of hla nomination nomi-nation thsy considered ascur by tha process of party anachlns. Blaina. idol of tha country at Jils tlma. they pointed out, -eould not wraat tha nomination from Har rlson, and Theodora Roosevelt him-aalf, him-aalf, with ail hla hold on popular favor. waa unsbto to take tha regular nomination . away . from President Tart in. a Republican convention becauee of tha proeeaaea of party machinery. Mr. Harding' renomtnatlon they eonaldered certain cer-tain If ha wanted It; election. 'they told him. v would, of ourae, be affected by tha event a -of tha Intervening In-tervening time.1 " "All right,, fellow." responded Mr. Harding, with a characteristic ware of tha hand and tha intimate expressions of friendahlp that, he alwaya seed in apeak Ing with old associates. "I'll carrv on: that's mnwm TO ENTER 1 824 ; PARTYCOTiTEST Battle for Republican ' Nomination Expected to Enaue Next Year as Re-' Re-' suit of Death of Harding COOLIDGETO BE , - ENIGMA IN RACE ment In tha flret eighteen month of President Harding' oeeupancy of the prealdential chair, and en many occasions he expressed to cloae friend hi wonderment why anybody wanted to be president with It trials and tribulations and 'the thankieasnesa of the Job," In on moment of disgust and discouragement President JJardlng had aald to a cloae political friend and aasociate, who had been held in reserve In the dark horse list during the convention of 120: "IH you want this Job next time? If you do. It's your a Car aa I am concerned; I'll be for you." But hia frienda urged him to put dlacoragement aside '. and carry on. aire. Harding also always- urged him to put away thoughta of stepping down and not . being a candidal for re-nomination. re-nomination. WANTED SIC0N0 TERM. But as It fell out. and tlm wore on. President Harding, like other presidents, decided ha wanted a m " i i e i rts. I , i ! ! ! . y'.V. .... , ,- . J.-.. ; j i -. '.. . . d' i ; , , V "V -V - -.,- i--y . ( iv - v . ' n Mttld, I'll carry on. TU - our fallows that" A fw day lalor Ranator Jainaa E. Watpon of Indiana, one ef tha admlntatratlon apokeaman and party whlpa, mada tha annoufica-mnt annoufica-mnt tn tha aanata thai If "War-ran "War-ran Hardtnr wantad a ranomi nation na-tion ha waa oln to havo It, and that It waa ldl to discuaa a pros-' partlvo contaat." Following that daelaratloa tha praatdefit waa an epan and arawad candldaxa .Jor ronaminaUon. .And , alao t Ion, and within a faw day of his .daparturo from Waahlnjton ha told a frland In a conversation In, Kla atudy at tha azacutlva offleaa that. baiTlnc aotno unVapactadl da-1 i , ' ; ChiefUint of G. O. P. Mar Uie Machinery to Back Hi Candidacy aa Ad-V Ad-V ministration .. Leader S WASHTNOTOy, Aof. I fBy JL. A. P.) Praldnt Harding' dfath throwa iaw romplaxitlna Into tha political situation within tha TU-pttbltcan TU-pttbltcan party which undoubtedly ' wll) hava far raarhlnv raflartlnnt ' In tha national con van tl on of naxt yaar. It Brabahlr will turn what minv sacond term. Early in l2t ihara was a craat daal of apaculation aa to whather ha would bo a eon-tondar. eon-tondar. Tharo was alao soma momentary apaculatton among soma political laadars as to whether tha party would not bo making a valuablo st rat agio mova If It ta-lected ta-lected anothar Candida ta. But maturo daltharatlon among tha old heads In tha regular wing of Ths'-pm ty - tfaTolopad a -unanl-moua daclsion that If tha Republican Repub-lican party was to aak tha Amar-t lean people to con tin ua It In powwr for anothar four yaars It must do so on tha rocord of tha Harding administration. and therefore velopmente, ha expeoted to N I renominated and elected, r I "Unless something - unforeseen eomeg up. ha told thla friend, "such as a disastrous business panic, a 1 period of great depression or some- I thing of that sort. I don't son any I thing that will prevent my renoml- I nation and reelection." rota aicoME friknds. Juat at tha aame time word had come to htm that one of tha men who was looked upon as a prlncl-j pal contender had said ao found himself 'without . an Issue upon' i which Jo run. and a clone friend of I tha name prospective eon tender sent word that ha would undertake to guarantee- that tha former would not g0- into a single atata on tha stump as a candidal seeking delegates dele-gates to tha convention. Tha men who had been ths principal ft nan- rial backer of tha contender referred re-ferred to bad become devoted frienda and In fact parts of the - , expected to he merely a ratification ratifica-tion meeting Into a contest for the Republican presidential nomination, Vwith the stalwart conservative Ha-. Ha-. publican forces aligned on the one sloe and the force a represented by earte leaders as Senators Johnson ef California, Borah of Idaho and tafolltte of Wieconala on the ether. Six monthe ago the re- -pemtnatlea of Pi-eel dent Harding . wltbe-ut any substantial contest seeane4 sins u red. One of tha men. ,whe waa regarded as his likely principal exponent for tha nomination, nomi-nation, hai eonfeesei to a eol-hwgue eol-hwgue and "friend that he found btmaelf wtthoUt an laaua. - The president's pronouncement for entry of th United States Into the world oourf. however, altered the eitnatton aufcertaily, and during dur-ing the laet faw week a there haa come definite Information through the mvetorioue cbinela by which political cap tat ne maintain their intelligence syeteme that all waa t going to be aa clear sailing aa had been expaetad In fhe fte-puhilcan fte-puhilcan national convention of 124, and that there might be onteet after alt. TH ANKLES. JOI Thr were day of dtaomrrage- necesaaiily ask for the reelection of Harding, because, they reasoned, rea-soned, to fall to renominate Mr.1 Harding would be a failure to Indorse the works of the party. Mr. Harding up to that time had permitted no authoritative word of hla intentions, to get out, and a delegation of th leaders went to the White Houee to find out about them. . "Warren. said ths spokesman, who waa a friend snd colleague of many years standing, "you've got to make soma announcement of your Intentions. These fellows who are ppposlng your nomination are grooming this one and that one, and before we know It our wing of the party won't have anybody any-body as a candidate and we'll lose political advantage AWAITED RECEPTION. ' MBoa aaid the president T haven't made op my mind. I expect ex-pect to make some Speeches In the Weat and elsewhere aome time soon, and If the reaction la favorable favor-able I'll carry on." . But that aesurance failed to aatlsfy the committee, of friends and advisers, and they continued their arguments that Mr. Harding should maks sn Announcement: a Harding administration machinery, and the cleude all appeared to be Out of the eky. r Another Weat em senator, a power pow-er In 'Bepubllcanaaffatrs, not be cause of bis party regularity nor his adhsrencs to the Harding program, pro-gram, at the same time waa using of that moment In a steaming hot I convention hall on a July day has made him president of fne United States, The eatna event sidetracked side-tracked a young - aqoare-lawed. aandy-halred senator from Wisconsin, Wiscon-sin, an avowed enemy of LaFol-lette, LaFol-lette, and kept hlsn from attaining the moat powerful office la , the world. - . PARIS. Aug. t. When Informed of President Harding's death. Colonel Colo-nel Edward M. House said: "I hare deeply the1 grief of every American who knew President Harding. He was a kindly, loveable character and held the confidence and affection of all our people all hla personal Influence to keep the foremost prospective contender against Mr. Harding out of the field and ail telling all hla friend, much to thsir surprise, that h -wsa (or Harding. Ther must be n repeatal of till," thl leader said. "No Democrat Demo-crat must be , elected because th Republican party cannot sgrea. We must taka.UardlDgr for another term." , - The fust a everything seemed to be Smooth sailing for the nomination. nomina-tion. Mr. Harding mad his declaration declara-tion for entry of the United tatee Into the world eourt and that swept over a stag which . everybody thought waa 'finally , set. and tumbled everything Int' contusion. fcOURT ECOME ISSUE. ' Th friend ameng the stalwart who had urged Mr. Harding te declare de-clare himself for aaotner term told him he had made a great mtatake; those who had woa for themselves the sobriquet of "Irreconcilable,'' because of their oppoattloa te any participation by the United Htgtea in th affair of Europe, sent to Mr, Harding a declaration of war. and th contender who had once told Mr. Harding' friends and supporter sup-porter that he feared be found himself without an lssu on which to fight th prealdent for th nomination, nomi-nation, ought out th earn men and told them that hi prevtoue declaration to them wa "all off," and that he believed he had found the Issue: that he waa out for the Republican prealdential aomtnatlon If a little further Investigation convinced con-vinced him ha had a chance to get It and that be probably vreuld enter en-ter every atat having a prealdential prealden-tial preference primary, seeking delegates. Naturally that upset the Harding friends and adviser and how muib. If at all. It upset th president's plan I not known In Washington because he waa In Alaska when the development came about, but word wa sent 10 him Informing him fully. C0OLID0E IS PROBLEM. All the dsvelopmenu tnrew poll po-ll t leal plana awry and now the sad and sudden death of the prealdent give them another twist. Vic President Coolldg become president: presi-dent: whether he will ask a nomination nomi-nation at the hands ef the -coming convention a did Theodora Hooee-velt Hooee-velt after the tteeth of MrKtnley remain for th futures Whether th party chieftain will wlah to use their available machinery te achieve hi nomination I yet to be decided; the event of the next few month while Mr. Coolldg ocoupie th prealdential chair may taka the declelon- out of tha hand ef th politicians. Ths leaders still feel they must go before the country with an endorsement of the accomplishments accom-plishments of th Harding administration. adminis-tration. Th Seat Informed feel that they will moat likely choose to do It with aome member of that administration; som on who had stood eloss to and for th Harding poliel. Ths late Tom Piatt mads Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt a vies prealdent with the openly announced purpose of, putting him out of ths way politically. politi-cally. He made him a prealdent and one of A in erica's national heroes. he-roes. The case of Coolldge Is not analogous but It la similar. Coming te The convention ef 11 with delegates dele-gates pledged to hi nomination for the presidency. Mr. Coolldge polled ro high ballot and waa soon lost sight of In the scrambl between Governor Lowden "and Oeneral Wood. When Ins leader la that race eollapeed and Karaing, from v the. field, shot through a winner. Coolldge waa still loet sight of. among the leadera. but nut among the delegates. The party ieadere placed la nomination for the vice preeidency. Senator Lenroot of'Wia-conem.- expecting him to go o-er. But the dalegatee remembered Coolldge and forced his aomtnatlon. They recalled hla record aa gover-aor gover-aor of Massachusetts and tha UK ' tr |