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Show CHEER HARDING I AT BlllTliRE ; Heckler in Great Audience Drowned in Applanse of Supporters BALTIMORB, Kept. :8 Before a throng which taxed thi capaclt) ( the Baltimore armory and VOloed lis i approh.it ion In repeated crashes f ap-plause, ap-plause, Senator warren Q Ifardlng, I ontiineii Iumi night his polloy for sound business and rehabilitated American Industry . Ever) place In the Armory was taken tak-en and many wore standing when Sen otor Harding arrived. At his appear ant 0 th'1 audience rose and cheered for two minutes and then renewed tho j ovation after the hnnd had played' ihi- S'tar-Sp.uiRleil Uanner." Thenom-! inee man) times was Interrupted with cheering and when he concluded he wns wni aw iy with a great roar of applause The address was th fourth tu be made by Senator Harding, in Haiti-more Haiti-more he was received by a cheering throng at the railroad station. Wat tumultously acclaimed along ride through the ell and was personally welcomed Py hundreds who fllrd by to shake his hand at a public reception. re-ception. I t LMin I s ELCOW 1 introduied by General Pellx Agnus publisher of the Haltimore American Senator Harding got his second tumultous tumul-tous meeting of the evening meeting j when he arose to speak It wai mon than a minute before the crowd j was quieted. ! Early in the address. Senator Hard j ing had his first experience with heckling heck-ling when s man arose in the gallery nnd askrd wh'tli.r he had "sr-ra ppeii. I the league of nations The nominal 't I reply was an unaccepted challenge io debate the league with his Interrogat-! Interrogat-! or nnd the crowd applauded. The senator was speaking of one man government," w hen the lnterrup- lim tame. "I want to ask," said the heckler, 'whethei yoti have Scrapped the league and whether you Stand foi Senator Johnson in his position?" II :nIN(. VNSWERS. Cries of ' Put him out," mingled with demands that the nominee ana wer ihe cpiestlon and Senator Harding raised his hund for silence. ' I understand what prompted that question." said Senator Harding, and i wani to aaj that if i were In favoi of one man government in this republic, repub-lic, then I would ho able mvself to answer yonr miestlon. I don't know Whether I should turn my attention fioin th.se thousands to address myself my-self to you personally, but if you will eome to Mil.- platform I will divide lm time with you to discuss this question " A tumult in the audience followed during which ihe he. kler disappeared from the gallery He did not appear on the platform, however, and Senator Sena-tor Harding went on with his address with this preface: I know Maryland wolild bo the last plai n to w hich a presidi ntlal candidate WOUld be met with discourtesy j rlo noi want to interriijt th continuity of nn discourse and with your consent I will proceed with my line of thought " MAW ML HAI.L More cheers followed this declaration, declara-tion, but the senator s voice did not eirrv to the farthest corners of the great auditorium, and a humdrum of1 conversation and Shtlfltng f et ke.,t up. Vacant patches began to appear among the seats In the most distant galleries, nnd many of thn.;e ). standing filed out of thP hall At the coneiusion of his prepared address the nominee replied more at length to the heckler's Question "I might have answered him molO ftenslvely," said the senator. ."He wanted to know whether 1 had promised prom-ised to scrap the league. The on. ffreat failure to make the most of Americas leadership In ihe World was due to the fact that ono man attempted attempt-ed to speak, not only for America i,. t tor the remainder of the woi Id as wen I shouldn't do th il FAV'ORS ASSOCIATION tho'T Plrii!SiLy ,runk to sa to ou cons,,,, '7," 'V,h1'u 8 Binle Program constructive in character about r.r association as-sociation of nation- j d0 know ,',,-, n. tlnng d.-fmiteh. however; The 1 " nocratlc nominee for pr ,ild, lU T'LhC ta ? favor of folng ;,,t0 tho league as it WQ8 fashioned ui Vor-sall Vor-sall es I n. not In favor of go.n" i-ito that league. When i m elected presl-rt presl-rt thing i n ln( ,0 ;a to try and find a plan for an aasocl -'.' 1 ": ' -"hind which all jt America will stand. The senator al.vo departed f r m his Prepare,! man ,v,.lpt n his reference to President Wilson'., failure to'ab-o-gate certain cornnjercia treaties ,jn- If I were president," he -e;d I |