Show Harding Intimates He Will Not Stand F For or p By Robert T T. Small Republican leaders are becoming not a little w worried over tho the freQuency frequency frequency fre fre- quency of reports emanating from rom F l sources more more or less close cose to the ther ther r I r president that Mr bIr Harding is determined determined de de- not to stana stand for tion in 1924 Most of f the leaders are inclined to attribute the reports to a temporary state of mind on the part o of the i president and believe that tuat when the present tangled condition of national nation- nation al affairs Is straightened out Mr Hardings Harding's optimism win wm assert and he Will consent to run for re ro- election A feeling that th the president hanot has ha not been wholly happy in the presidency presidency dency has Washington Washinton for some time Now there Is a reaction throughout the country The report reached Ohio during the primary fight and it was thought it might affect af af- affect the administration ticket nea nead- nead ed b by y Carml Carmi Thompson but the adf administration administration ad ad- f- f ministration sweep wa was wan complete President Tired The president for several weeks past ast has been palpably Urea tired and is very sensitive to criticism The presidency has been more confining than he ever dreamed dream d it might be For many years prior to the election In 1920 Mr Harding had led very much of an outdoor lite life being equally equal equal- ly fond of golf gol and motoring As a senator Benator he was able to live a great deal the outdoors for Sor during during- four years of his term he was In a minority minori minori- ty which had very little to say Bay or do o A man of of- simple of-simple simple manners and simpie simple sim sim- pIe tastes the president unquestionably ably has chafed under many of the restrictions that life in the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse e House HouBe imposes It often has been Bald said of Mr Harding tuat that If It he could have had his way yay he would have spent the remainder of his active days in the senate He was extremely extreme extremo- ly happy there and it was with no little reluctance that he consented to allow his friends TO o place him in inthe inthe inthe the running for the presidential nomination in 1920 More than once during the campaign campaign campaign cam cam- Mr Harding thought of at withdrawing withdrawing with with- drawing drawing- from the race and centerIng centering centering center center- ing his activities upon matters matteri in iu relation rotation ro n- re- re lation tation to the senate History Recalled It will be recalled that on un th the night before his nomination in Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago he filed his senatorial primary papers In Columbus even ven at that late hour there lingered In his mind the question a as to the right com BO BOto to pursue The of or fate soon Boon decided that question fn Co him huu and once nominated he entered into the campaign with tIle the solemn enthusiasm of ot a n man vho ho ho felt the cares of the presidency al already already already al- al ready full upon him Ever since the wore wor Degan began to spread that Mr Harding had told some home o of his friends he would decline to stand for two yea yeav hence all of his utterances both public and private have been sear searched search search- hed h- h ed for some further revelation of If his state of ot mind The politicians profess to have found much In confirmation confirmation confirmation mation of the earlier reports They point to tho the presidents president's L TT speech during Old Home reek m HI Marion Marlon His friends in Ohio found round that Mr Harding diet dla not speak of his experiences in the White House Housa with any degree of elation Instead he publicly stated he would be glad Indeed when the time came that he might return to Marion Marlon and enjoy the freedom of the life lire of the private citizen Not once did the president intimate that he was having a bully time In the White House Since the Marlon Marion trip he has let fall either inadvertently or purposely purpose purpose- ly a number of remarks Insignificant cant in themselves perhaps but which taken collectively appear to reflect a distinct frame of mind To some of his senatorial friends the president is reported to have ave said that nothing could Induce him to give four more years of his life Ufe to the presidency Some senators have taken the remarks seriously others Bay any the tho president was merely Jok jok- ing Boy l lOn On top of all this the pr president sent to Leonard Kincaide a Torre Terre Haute Ind Id high school schoor boy who vho said he lie hoped some day to be president president I dent a letter in which he said I am nm afraid you would not like my Job as much as you think you would It is ia not as happy a n. job as one would imagine While they profess to treat the presidents president's remarks lightly the Republican Re Ro- publican leaders nevertheless are figuring upon what they might do inthe in inthe inthe the event Mr Harding a a serious and really will not stand zor lor tion Some of ot the oid timers old simply will not listen to the idea taut mat the president president president dent will not run ThO They say that every every ev ev- ery rr president wants a second term termas as a n. vindication of his policies In the first Mr Harding on the tho other hand believes that the presidency should be a term one-term affair He would lengthen the term from your tour to six years He believes the president would have more under such a plan than is possible under the system which leads to constant consideration of term second pros pros- I The Indications are today Mr 1 Harding is likely to Keep the politicians politicians politicians poli poli- on the anxious scat neat some sometime sometime sometime time to come |