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Show ST. LOUIS GIVES I G. 0. P. NOMINEE i GREATILCOI Harding Says There Is Too; Much Meddling in European Eu-ropean Affairs SAYS FRANCE HAS SENT SPOKESMAN TO HIM Revision of Leaciue Into Mew World Association Possible, Possi-ble, He Declares I ST. LOUIS, Mo.. Oct 16. Before a crowd which overflowed the big St I Louis coliseum and greeteil him with cheeiing and slngiiiR which lasted more than a half hour Senator Har- IdliiR tonight closed his last extensive speaking trip with an address In which, he coupled condemnation of embar- rassing foreign political entanglements Iwlth a plea for extension f the nation na-tion s foreign trade and commerce Again arraigning the Democratic administration, he declared that In the : last few years there had been too much modelling' In Europe and too IlttU trade cooperation with Latin-America a"nd other lands. STRENUOUS IW The nlRlit meeting concluded one o f trie candidate's most strenuous days ol ampalgnlng -during which he spoke in Indiana and Illinois. The league of licit inn- had a prominent place in his utterances, the nominee replylg to : criticism of his proposal for a new world association At Ureen Castle ; Ind , he asserted a 'spokesman" of France had been sent to him to a-sk that America b ad the way In the- for- I relation of a world association and at Effingham, Illinois, he quoted a slmi lar declaration by Stephen Lausanne. French publicist. In his talk at Terre Haute, Ind.. he eharged that the administration had "set aside" provision of the Cummins- Ksi h rallwaj bill under w hich coal carriers car-riers might bo so allotod to Insure I equable shipping conditions and prevent pre-vent much of the idleness among miners He asked for a Republican congress to assure team work in the national government and to make certain of a complete reversal of democratic policies poli-cies and practices. NO N AM E MENTXONED In his reference to an emissary of Prance the nominee did not explain when or from whom the Psench re-oiiest re-oiiest had come. He added, however. Lloyd George and Earl Grey had spoken spok-en for American leadership In revising the league covenant. The senator, in his address here, uioccd cUua-sion of American bonklnf? aim merchant marine facilities, coupled coup-led with more efficient developmen: of an Inland waterways system, as steps toward development of the nation's na-tion's foreign trade Mexico, South America, Asia, Afri-db Afri-db . ml Australia were designated by the speaker as tllstricts offering inviting in-viting opportunities for American for-e-ign commerce. Establishment ot an international financial system and ex-'ii-idii .,t tb. merchant marine would aid In developing trade with the more distant parts of the world he said, while a coordinating policy of Inland waterways elev elopment would Open the way to Mexico ami South American republics. Ii: I LOP M 1RK.1 I s Quoting statistics of the nation's foreign for-eign trade Senator Harding said thai it was apparent Europe could not be expected to offer in the future the same market for American goods she had provided before the war. Development Develop-ment of markets In other parts of the globe was desirable because the demand de-mand there was- for manufactured goods which America could most easily easi-ly supply He cited the British expansion expan-sion of foreign financial connection as in example of what might be done in that direction. Besides the 14.000 whei won out in the scramble for seats in the coliseum hundreds we re in the aisles ami open spaces and another great crowd blocked block-ed the streets about the entrance After his spe Ii the candidate made a short speech to the crowd outside DurlnR the coliseum spee i h a man I in tin gallery shouted, "Tell us your tw o positions on the league of nations. " ! Cries of "Put him out followed, but tin nominee replied : .N'n lon t put him out. We're only j golnx to put the Democrats out In this I campaign " " POLK I OUST HECKLER. As the speaker started to outline his views, another man Interrupted I with a query about the Hitchcock reservations res-ervations and although the senator houted to the police not to molest the interrupter, they hustled him I toward the doorway. Mr. Harding gave u Promise that he never would submit ihe treaty to the senate "with Article X In It" and the crowd cheered. Another man asked What he would do without article ten and in reply the candidate outlined his purpose to organize a world asso- , I elation, Leaving St. Louis, Senator Harding's train began a direct run to Marlon. DISCI ssio.N o CO M TEHKE HAUTE, Ind., Oct. 16. I "Favoritism" in the distribution of coal cars, due to failure to enforce I provisions of the Cummins-Esch law,, was blamed by Senator Harding In a I speech here today for much of the present confusion In the oal situation ! and for the inability ,,i coal miners1 in some localities to obtain constant I employmi in . The senator praised the law as one of the most beneficial enacted for coal miners, but said features of it had been let aside" by the administration so that some of the most injurious practices prac-tices of the past were permitted to continue. We wrote into that legislation," he saiil "one provision to which I want to call your attention We wrote in a provision which wus Intended to emancipate Coal mlnhiK and the octal miners from one ol the most injurious practices that has grown up in any amerlcan Industry. We enacted the first statutory provision requiring equitable distribution of cars for transportation trans-portation of coal. LAW NOT ENFORCED. ' "We provided that in case of cur shortage, cars should be distributed among mines equitably, regardless of whether some mine held railroad contracts con-tracts or not. But the present ltd ministration, min-istration, following u policy that lias seemed to be one of its Specialties, t Continued on Pace Tmo.i St. Louis Gives G, 0. P. Nominee Great Welcome (Continued From Page one.) promptly et aside and refused force the specific prolsion ol tin- law in order to continue thi old policy 01 giving favored treatment to contractors contract-ors lor railroad coal. The interstate commerce commission assumed to set . SSlde an-1 nullify I he specific provlalon1 we had made for equitable car distn-l bution and to continue tn- old system of favoritism to those mines holding contracts lor railroad t- ira. There was absolutely no Justification for this, for tho commission had no authority what-evei what-evei to thrust auide the specific man-, date of the law When 1 become president and a Republican Re-publican administration assumes I he duty of enforcing the laws, this law 1-: goinj; 10 oe eriiorceu. Proviouslj the nominee had touched i on the same subject in a rear platform plat-form speech at Brazil, Ind , and Jusl before his departure from Indianapolis earlier In the day he had talked a( I Ifl in. tei with John L Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of Amerl- C"' TiRE.DY APPROACHi;i). GREEN CASTLE, Ind.. Oct 16. Replying to criticisms of his proposal for an association of nations, Senator Sena-tor Harding said in a rear platform pee b hi re today that he already hail been approachced "Informally" by a representati vo of Prance who asked that tin- i nltod Stales lead the way to a world fraternity. '1 notice in the- morning papers," said the Republican nominee, 'that the secretary of state has said that the kind of world association 1 am proposing pro-posing cannot be made with anybody except tho nations now out of the prej -Ident's league Secret iry Colby speaks for the state department of our own America- and he ought to be prudent and thoughtful about what he says, i FRANCE IS ASKING. "But he aays that America under ai proposed association can only asaocl-l ato with the central empires and Turkey and a few other nations with whom we are engaged in war. Why, my countrymen. France Is asking, Franco has sent her spokesman to me Informallv, aikinp America In it.- ii w realization of the situation to lead thi way for an association Of oatloni Knu'land ha said through Lloyd ;.'-.rgo and Karl Grey that America must revise and amend and make the league of nations possible. "If there is to be a Jeague of nations na-tions of the world. It ouKht to be one jblg enough and broad enough to take-in take-in all the nations of the world, else one group will be organized and arrayad against another.' |