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Show -J WASIII.N'GON, June 2-1. The nomination nom-ination of Warren J. Harding apparently appar-ently lias been a "Hfo saver" for his senatorial colleague Boles Penrose of Pennsylvania. News of Harding's selection se-lection by tho convention did more to chirk Boies up than all the tonics and nostrums tho MDs have boon able to prescribe during tho past three months. One recent story out of Washington, Washing-ton, hinting that Penrose's "indisposition" "indisposi-tion" has been political rather more than physical, said that if tho old guard-senatorial group was beaten at Chicago then Penrose would indeed be a sick man. Certainly the reverse result tho nomination of a candidate favorable to the old guard-senatorial party leaders had quickly-curative results, re-sults, A dispatch from Philadelphia within six hours of Harding's nomination nom-ination stated that tho Big Boss who had been reported at the -verge - of death during the fight and the fir-st day of balloting at Chicago was "up and about" and Able to Joke over how the "news" of hln condition had been played. The reports that ho had been "very low," Penrose said, were "very amusing." amus-ing." Whether by accidental guess or actual ac-tual knowledge, Thomas II. Evorltt, former business manager of the National Na-tional Popular Government League, qualifies as champion long-distance political prognostlcator. Evcrltt says It was no .guess that he had the Inside facts on an Inflnitoly complicated complicat-ed political Intrigue. Anyway, as long ago as Dec. 17. 1919, he definitely and postlvely stated that Senator Harding would be nominated by the G. O. P. at Chicago and briefly sketched the situation that would bring that result re-sult Writing to the editor of the Christian Chris-tian Science Monitor at Boston, Ever-Itt Ever-Itt said: . "In your editorial 'Looking Forward to the 1920 Campaign," you say. :The Republicans are 'all at sea concerning a candidate.' "For your Information, you aro advised ad-vised that Senator Harding of Ohio will bo the nominee of the Republican Republi-can National convention to be held In Chicago next June." |