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Show AFTER WORK ON LENGTH! SPEECH Acceptance Address Telling Stand on AH Issues Will Be Delivered Thursday MARION. July 17 Senator Harding Hard-ing gave h!.s spi e h of acceptance its final polishing tonight and then pre-' pre-' pared for a day of compP (e test from lh,- arduous task of composition which ' has occupied his attention almost -i lusIvSlj for a week. He planned to spe'id tomorrow very QUietl and in the early days of the coming week lo take more time for I recreation. Since he began work on ( his address he has been out of doors I scarcely at all. He said tonight he was feeling tired and cross " from want of exercise. PRINTED T OFFICE Todui the senator worked again as ; in the years gotiv by In close CO-Opera-, lion with the composing room of his newspaper, the Marion b't ir. where tho speech was pui into type for printing the advance copies that will be distributed to tho press A relay of messengers carried copy and proofs between the newspaper office and the senator's residepce and once he paid t visit of Inspection to his compositors. The speech, which will be dellcvord hei- next Thursday at the formal noti- ! flea t Ion oi his nomination for tho presidency, exceeds in length the can-dldulos can-dldulos expectation and will run well beyond the four column limit he orlgl- j nally fixed. It had been prepared with particular caro because he has endeavored en-deavored to have it express comprehensively compre-hensively his stand on all of the important im-portant issues. SEES WILSON TODAY The rni cling tomorrow Detwsen Gov ernor Cox and President Wilson was expected by local Harding managers to put I he spotlight again on tho leaguo of nations and perhaps Lo show up more clearly what lines the campaign on tti.it issue will follow Bl nator Harding himself had nothing noth-ing to say about the conference though he did not conceal his interest In it. The Harding partisans argue that the logical result of the conference will be to develop definitely whether Governor Gov-ernor Cox will stand with the president presi-dent regarding the league or with Democratic senators and others in the pari; who have advised ucceptancc Of the Republican reservations Whatever the decision, the Harding men declare the result wili bo to, Widen the breach over the treaty within with-in the Democratic party. |