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Show ELKS DROP IN UPON HARDING Candidate's Front Porch Scene I of Jolly Gathering as Lodge-men Lodge-men Gather MARION. O. July 20. A delegation delega-tion Elks from Flndlay. Ohio, appeared appear-ed unannounced on Senator Harding's I lawn today and with the help of the Republican presidential nominee and n brass band staged a curtain-raiser ; to the front porch campaign. Tho senator s role consisted of a I great deal of handshaking, and a short tulle In which he harked buck to his boyhood when the Marlon band of Which he wus a member, went over to l-.ndlay for a prize competition Wc copped off the prise," he said, and we tame homo almost as proud as we were when we heard tho result ipf the Chicago convention." ill 1KI t PRESENT. About a hundred were In the dele-Igatlon. dele-Igatlon. They were led by Representative Representa-tive k. CUntcole, who asked Senator Harding to come to Flndlay for a homecoming of the Elks, of which he i a member, early in Migust. He re-! re-! piled that lie w ould a I least "drop In and say howdy" if his engagements permitted. "I'm very proud to be an Elk." Senator Sen-ator Harding ft. id, "and I feel that jihe 13 Iks of the United Stales have 1 made B record for patriotism and service serv-ice that Will lemuin Imperishable as long as the memory of the great war I endures." Politics was not touched in the talk 'nor did the candidate make an further fur-ther public statement during the day tn his league of nations tight His friends aro counting on his speech of acceptance Thursday to develop the n Nt step of his campaign strategy against 'the foreign commitments'1 ot I president Wilson. R PORTS GIVEN Tho senator heard reports of political po-litical conditions in the east and west , I fron. "former Gov. Frank B, Willis ol It 'hio, w ho Just returned n om a trip through up-state New York, and James G. Dardcn of New York, on his Way back from the Pacific coast. Mr. ! Willis pionounced the New York sit-i sit-i nation very, very encouraging." and 'Mr. Harden declared he was absolute-1) absolute-1) certain the Republican ticket would carry 'every State of the far west" By their unannounced visit the Fiinil.i Flks stele from the people of Mansfield, hio. the distinction of bc-inR bc-inR the first group of political pilgrims pil-grims to be received by Senator Hard-ling. Hard-ling. A Mansfield delegation is to come ,oti Jul 31 and their visit Is tho first on the official program of the front porch campaigns Harding headquarters were inform-I inform-I ed today that about 2000 would come i from Mansfield, by airplane, motor, land i:iil G. W. Menny will be the air pilot Of the delegation and will shower Madison with Harding and Icooiidge literature, oo |