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Show MARK SULLIVAN 1 GIVES IMPRESSIONS ' I BEFORE FRONT PORCH B M ARK SUL1 1 VAN. t opyrlght, 1020, in N'cw 1'orfc i v. niiig I'o-t. MARION, Ohio, Aug. 13. The I Democrats do a good deal of jibing at Senator Harding about his "front porch" campaign, and I understand 'that .-oine elements of the Republican I management also dispute the advisability advis-ability of it. Your correspondent has just witnessed wit-nessed oiu- of ihese front porch occasions occa-sions and is strongly of the Judgment that this method Is, for Senator ilard-1 ilard-1 ing anel for Marion, and under nil the I circumstances extremely effective if I course, it is obvious that the number 'of persons is limited who can come to Marlon In person and share the extraordinarily ex-traordinarily agrei.ib'e impression that we all had on this occasion. Also 'it may be that ihls occasion was not completely practical and contained i some features that would no' be common com-mon to every delegation that will come j to these front porch speei h-s It was a gathering f( the hio stale association associa-tion of Republican editors, and as such had in a sons'- a fratein il relation rela-tion to Senator Harding, but greatly more so than any of the delegations I that are likely ie come. In any event, it would be difficult for a correspondent correspond-ent who h.is necessarily done much traveling in every part of the country to recall any experience vchich ga.e so much the feeling; of having br-cn 1" the heart of America a friendly and wholesome nvric.i I NIDI tfCE l Plt( SP1 Rl I Y To begin with every road of approach ap-proach that leads to the town, is lined during thes? ripening months of the lyear with lh suggestion of substance. I comfort, contentment tall corn, fat hogs-, rich orchards, ripened Wheat, well-kept fields, comfortable farm houses, and Marion itself is In tune with that, the kind of small city that grows up r,s the center of Just such s I prosperous farming community as this lis But the mere physical evidences of .solid comfort and quiet prosperity 'would not alone be enough to ac-I ac-I count for the strong impression of 1 wholesomenes8 and unobtrusive friendliness. A part of that, I think, j came from the lunch that was given tho visitors m Ma.-onic Hull. Meals were- set before the guests by the, thirty o; forty young and middle-aged women, the wives of Marlon citizens. This group of women gave a curiosity i more unified and definite picture than one common! gets from any group ol men whatever Their dresses of white it blue, or checked gingham, with I i ' id thi re i bit ol home embrold- - - " Ii ; erj th limpllcit) of their halrdress- , ; lng, the entire luck of excessive no- ticcabler.ess. so to speak, of self- adornment, was of a piece of the sim-I sim-I pie vases thai were the only attempt H ai decoration, filled with golden glow and pflox, and tiger lilies, and ox-cyec There in Marion, with your i mind rather intent on serious ques-l ques-l tbvns. the feeling came to you thai LH aiiyhow,i you wouldn't hesitate a sec-loud sec-loud to (rust the destinies of the na- tion to these wholesome, self-con- talned, kindly, earnest, competent- looking women. kH i i b v .iv i: t miisi'ih;bb Senator Harding, a little later when the visitors had walked up the shaded HfjB street and? stood In front of his porch j to hear him, shared and got the bene-. bene-. fit in n way of the penetratingly at- tractive atmosphere that had been in. ol. by his women neighbors, and H bj ail the rest of It He fitted into the picture and his speech fitted into It most perfectly of all. When he said, I could call for bul on distinction, ; 1 sn ,i.'i UJte ours to be known aa an IH 'honest people," you had the feeling that he was recommending the nation H what were tho everyday standards of HS oi !i . bi j him. nc sentence '&;4t before that he had said, "call it reac- jBfJj;l tion If need standards of J knteg flH my " And i could not tell whether AM (the appl.uire that came was merely foi sBH the ln ifflrn l ; ,t i.uh im 1 belief, oi was for his way of meeting the charge of Cox that he is a back- ward looking reactionary. Throughout the speech again and again he turned this jibo of Cox's to his advantage. 'I suppose." he salcl I "some people will say 1 am looking ; backward, but If we may look back-' back-' ward to clear our vision we may look j forward more confidently, there is sure progress for a simple living, rev- 'eren: people, fearing God and loving Hl righteousness. It is good to look back ! to make sure cf tho way righteous ! mothers taui.i't and then face the front with renewed faith." The sophisticated may say this is mere platitudes. But the sophisticate ed would never be moved to applaud, as the folk here did applaud, when Harding said, "America needs a bap- tlsm in righteousness and a new con- secratl n In morality:" Senator Hard IBH ticated v::o if he gets all the votes of those who are moved to applaud that kind of sentiment HM SOME! KING L KING. It Is irue that in the whole- speech Hr2 to the uhlo editors there vvus noth- rJO' ML ing of vvhat I'ranKiin Rbosevejt, In praising Cox. Calls "engineering states-manship" states-manship" and. it is equally true that jooner or later, ll-uding will have to W ' let us see. that he undcrbtands that old-fashioned virtues alone are not enough to nualif; .t nnn to take on as J M difficult a job as the next presidency KB o: the liiite.l si.-iten is going to bo. IV :'' I hi gel j to make lit-- I H adventures in the more complex field of economics and international states-manship. states-manship. we can judge htm by his per- W W I or the present it la enough to eay fcjl that an observer he-re gets an lncrc-as- EfjJ ing sense thai Harding is an extreme- WBm mt more likely to follow his own careful FA judgments than to d-fer to those in 'H the counsel, oi i H other advices they press upon him they think he ought to leave his front porch and "jnzz the campaign up a HI blL" |