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Show HARDING'S TALK WELLJPVED Nominee Pleased at Reception of His Issues by Minnesota Min-nesota Crowds ON" BOARD SENATOR HARDING'S SPECIAL TRAIN. Sept. 9, On his way home from his first campaign trip, Senator Harding, th- Republican nomlneo for president, declared himself him-self highly pleased today with his reception re-ception by the people of Minnesota, who cheered hH speech at the stato fair yesterday on agricultural Issues and greeted him In tumultuous fash-Ion fash-Ion when ho rode through the streets Of Minneapolis and St. Paul. "I shall not make the mistake of assuming that the great outpouring of people and the magnificent reception recep-tion given us wa merely a personal tribute," said Senator Harding. "It was more than that, and astly more slgnflc.int It was the testimony thHt the people of the country In dclormt-nutln dclormt-nutln to put America once more on the main highway of national progress prog-ress and then to go ahead safrlj unci along right lines. "Perhaps the thing that most grat-1 grat-1 Ifles me was the close attention with j which the wonderful audience at the i fair grounds listened to a speech that I was Intended to present a constructive I program. "It was not an appeal for applause, but a ple.t for thoughtful consldora-! consldora-! lion of a great national problem. Tho people by their reception proved that ihry are thinking deeply ntttut real i things and that la all w need tel know in ordcre to b certain of the future." |