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Show HARDING CULLS I0H FRIEND OFUiFAlER Candidate Silent on Charges Made by Cox on Campaign Cam-paign Fund MARIoN. O.. Aug. 27. Senator Harding declined to comment today on the detailed charges of Republican campaign fund allotments made b Governor Cox last night in a speech at Pittsburg. "I have read It hastily and haven't a word to say,'" said the Republican nominee. "I do not expect to have anything to sa." A negative shake of the head was the senator's reply to questions about the governor's declaration that the Republican nominee personally knew of and approved the allotments enumerated. enu-merated. Senator Harding issued the following follow-ing statement today on the death of James Wilson, former .sec tary of agriculture: ag-riculture: "It was a great shock to learn of the death of former Secretary James Wilson. Wil-son. He was one of the pioneers In modernizing and improving agriculture. agricul-ture. He served in the cabinet longer 0. in mi inner man in ine national history "Two men have won and deserved, the credit for planning, organizing and launching departments of our government. gov-ernment. One was Alexander Hamilton, Hamil-ton, who created the treasury estab- llshment on the linos that have been' followed ever sime. The other WOsj James Wilson who. though not the1 first secretary of agriculture, was the; man who placed tnat department on) the map and made It s model that' almost every progressive government in the world has copied. His death takes one of the great Americans to whom the nation owes a debt of gratitude grat-itude and regard." |