Show HARINGS WORDS AND HIS VOTES candidates record to put it mildly Is one of marked inconsistency FACTS HARD TO RECONCILE republican nominee has on n at least two occasions talked one way and voted another opposed woman suffrage let all good republicans who find bad it difficult to reconcile senator hardings attack upun upon the league of natio nations as with his speeches and votes in favor of the covenant as interpreted by the lodge reservations note the fact that tho gen gentleman theman of often ten talks one way and votes totes another for example he informed the senate on several occasions that lie he was not a prohibitionist and that ho he had no faith in the attempt to bring brine about righteousness by constitution or by statute to make his position entirely clear he said at one time that if t prohibition hibi tion should become the law of the land he would tavor favor an appropriation to andem indemnify nafy those who suffered financially by the process yet he voted to submit the eighteenth amendment to the states and to pass the e enforcement a bill over tile presidents veto following the peculiar workings of the candidates mind to their illogical co conclusions we find that he be was tori cally in opposition to woman suffrage especially as a war measure all these sex and class appeals worried him nevertheless he voted to submit the nineteenth amendment to the states and at the present moment he is making a determined effort to convince the suffragists that he was one of their earliest and most devoted friends new york world |