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SIXTH PRESIDENT
TO DIE IN OFFICE
Harding Also Third Executive
From Ohio to Expire While
Serving.
By the Associated Tress.
NEW YORK, August 3.—President
Harding, the twenty-ninth President of
the United States, was the sixth Presi
dent to die in office and the third ex
ecutive from Ohio so to die.
William Henry Harrison was the first
to die while President. He died April
4. 1.541, at Washington, after serving but
one month of his term.
Zachary Taylor died at Washington
July 9, 1850, after serving one year
four months and five days.
Abraham Lincoln was shot by an
assassin at Ford’s Theater, Washing
ton, April 14. 1865, dying the next day.
He had served four years, one month
and eleven days.
James A. Garfield was shot while in
the Pennsylvania station at Washing
ton, July 2. 18S1. and died at Elberon,
X. J„ September -19, 1881. He had
served six and a half months.
William McKinley was shot twice,
September 6, 1901. while in the Temple
of Music at the Pan-American Exposi
tion at Buffalo, N. Y". He died elgh.
days later, having served four years
six months and ten days.
President Harding, who died last
night at San Francisco, had been chief
executive two years four months and
twenty-nine days.
hardMcouapse
MUCH LIKE WILSON
Each Breaks Down on Trip
to Urge U. S. Co-Operate
for World Peace.
j Ry the Associated Tress. #
I There was a sriking parallel he
j tween the circumstances led
|up to President Harding’s fatal ill
ness and those which preceded the
j physical collapse of President Wil
j son during a western speaking trip
j in 1919.
I Mr. Wilson had left Washington with
j the avowed purpose of carrying to the
] people the gospel of peach as he con
ceived it to be bound up in American
participation in the league of na
tions. In the case of President Hard
ing it was well known among his
friends that he went into the west
determined to explain to the people
his conception of world peace as
hinging on American participation in
the world court.
When he canceled the remainder
of his trip at Wichita, Kan., Mr.
Wilson had traveled 8.200 miles in
the heat of late summer and had de
livered more than forty speeches.
When Mr. .Harding: surrendered to
the order of his physician at San
Francisco he had traveled 7,500 miles
and had made upward of .sixty
speeches.
j By another strange freak of cir
cumstanue. each was near to an acd-
I dent, near Seattle. Just before he re
[ viewed the .Pacific fleet there during
: his trip a launch bearing the Presl-
I dent and Mrs. Wilson away from the
[Seattle pitr was rammed and nearly
overturned by another small boat,
while in the case of President Hard
ing the naval transport Henderson,
bringing him and Mrs. Harding back
from Alaska, rammed a destroyer just
outside Seattle harbor.
When he was taken ill Mr. Wilson
was 62 years old. Mr. Harding was ST.
ILLNESS LAST JUNE'
LIKELY FATAL SIGN
I
President Kept in Room at Kan
sas City Under Care o(
Mrs. Harding.
By the Associated Pre*H.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.. August 3.
A slight indisposition. . which might
have been a precursor of the fatal
j illness of President Harding, prevent
ed filling several engagements made
for him here June 22. The President
was advised by Dr. Sawyer to remain
in his room.
The President's lips 'were swollen
and his face scorched by sunburn.
His body was covered with a rash,
which was attributed to strawberries
which he had eaten.
In the ITesidenfs hotel suite Dr.
Sawyer advised the Chief Executive
to conserve his strength for his
speech that night.
Mrs. Harding was at the time
placing ice packs on her husband’s
face and parched lips.
’T’ll take your place,” she informed
the President.
Mr. Harding protested. because
Mrs. Harding had recently recovered
from a severe illness, but she over
rode his objection. Accompanied by
Dr. Hubert Work, Secretary of the
Interior, she filled the afternoon pro
gram prepared for her husband.
FUNERAL OF PRESIDENT
TO BE HELD IN CAPITOL
iContinued from First Page.)
establishments. Soldiers will march i
past the hearse with their arms at ]
present, and the officers will sit their |
horses like statues, with swords at |
salute. They will wear official mourn- |
ing badges and have the organiza
tion colors draped. The Army. Navy j
and Marine Corps are making prepa- |
rations today for designating the I
units that will serve as escort of
honor to their late commander-in
chief.
Impressive services will be held !
under the Capitol dome, where the |
remains of President Harding will I
lie in state on the historic sarcopha- ]
gus throughout the night with a j
military guard. Those with cards i
will file past the body, paying their j
last tribute of respect to the Presi- I
dent.
Escort to Go With Body,
Religious services will be held in
the rotunda immediately after the ar
rival of the remains. Thereafter and
during the remainder of the day the
body will lie in state until it Is time
to take it to the railroad station.
When the cortege moves to the rail
road station guns will be fired at the
navy yard. Fort Myer and other mili
tary establishments in the vicinity of
the Capitol. At the same hour, the
bells of local churches and whistles
at government plants and fire engine
houses will continue until the depar
ture of the train.
An escort of cabinet members, rep
resentatives of both houses of Con
gress, the Supreme Court, and officers
of the Army and Navy selected to
compose a special guard of honor,
will accompany the remains of the
President to.Jhda last-resting place-, -*
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ’C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 3. 1923. .
Hotel’s Gayeties
Hushed by News;
Crowds Vanish
By the Associated Press.
SAX FRANCISCO, August 3.
Pew large crowds ever left a
building more quietly or more
quickly than did the assemblage
of diners and dancers whe were In
the Palace Hotel when President
Harding died on the eighth floor
of that building last night.
An orchestra was playing and
hundreds were dancing in the
rose bowl room when an assistant
manager entered and held up his
hand. The music stopped. "La
dies and gentlemen,” said the ho
tel official, "It is my very sad duly
to inform you that the President
of the United States just passed
away."
The dancers, almost in silence
sought their wraps and departed.
An equally dramatic scene was
enacted in the hotel lobby, which
was crowded with those going or
leaving the dining rooms or the
dance floor. Chief of police O’Brien
who had remained in the hotel
since early in the week to be
available in case of need, walked
out of an elevator which had just
carried him from the presidential
suite, and with dimmed eyes,
asked the crowd to disperse.
"I ask you to go home." he
said. "It is. God knows, only a
small favor to ask you.”
HARD DAYS AHEAD
FOR NATION’S NEW
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
(Continued from First Page.)
the policies laid down by the admin
tration or should use his own
judgment. After the death of Pres
i ident McKinley Theodore Roosevelt.
| entering the White House, evolved
| policies of his own.
| More pressing than any of the prob
lems today arc the distress of the
| farmers in the agricultural states
[ and the threatened tie-up of the
| anthracite coal mines-. The need of
prompt action to meet these situa
tions has been evident. The late
j President Harding was urged by
members of Congress to call a ape
-1 cial session of the new Congress to
1 handle both these matter.*. He gave
| no sign, however, that he would issue
j such a call.
| President Coolidge conies from a
1 section of the country that suffered
■very greatly from the coal strike of
[ 1922. He has had it impressed upon
i him at home that something must be
done to avoid a repetition of the con
ditions that existed last winter and
spring Mr. Coolidge’s promot action
!at the time of the police strike in
Boston, in 1919, leads to th? belief,
it was said here today, that he will
■ meet the coal situation with firmness
should it develop.
| Those senators and representatives
who have urged a special session of
j Congress to aid the farmers lave ad
[ l ocated government insurance of a
i minimum price for wheat and other
[crops. Those who know Calvin
j Coolidge sav that they do not be
lieve he Would fall in with such a
plan. This does not mean he is uu
| sympathetic with the farmer, but that
the means proposed for the farmers’
relief does not meet his approval.
I
Course on Conn.
Mr. Harding had announced his de-
I termination to bring about, if pos
sible the adherence of the United
i ,
1 Mates to the world court, with reser
i Nations that would make enlangle
[ ment with the league of nations Im
j possible. His last public statement,
j in fact, dealt with this question. Tills
j determination had threatened to split
| the republican party. What .course
( President Coolidge will pursue with
regard to the worid court remain to
be seen.
Mr. Coolidge. it will be remembered,
was a great friend of the late Sena
tor Murray Crane of Massachusetts,
who believed in the ratification of the
Versailles treaty, with reservations.
But whether Mr. Coolidge will favor
entrance of the United States further
into world affairs also remains to be
seen.
An overshadowing problem in many
of th* states is the enforcement of
the national prohibition law. Presi
dent Harding had announced himself,
firmly on this question and it is ex
pected that Mr. Coolidge will carry
out the policy of strict enforcement
urged by the late President. Mr.
Coolidge’s reputation for love of law
and order is known.
Railroad Problems.
The transportation question is slat
ed as one of the foremost to come be
fore the next Congress. Mr. Harding
had given his adherence to the pro
posal that the railroad systems of the
country should be merged into a num
ber of great competing systems. Mr.
Coolidge is thoroughly familiar with
the subject.
Revolt in Ural.
The political situation created in
the republican party by dissatisfac
tion with the administration because
it has failed to bring about prosperity
in the agricultural districts is another
matter the new President and titular
bead of the republican party will have
to face.
The revolt in some of the northwest
ern states resulting in the election of
two farmer-labor party senators in Min
nesota and in the sending of radical
senators and members of the House
from several other states has created a
very deep impression in political circles.
Whether Mr. Coolidge will be able to
stem this tide of party revolt is decid
edly questionable.
A matter of which Mr. Coolidge must
consider and determine at no late date
is whether he is to be a candidate to
succeed himself. The late President
had been regarded by republican lead
ers as practically sure of renomination.
But now the field has been thrown open
to all the republicans, of various de
grees of conservatism and progressivism,
who seek the presidency.
MOURNING DEAD CHIEF.
NEW PRESIDENT LEAVES
FOR CAPITAL AT ONCE
(Continued from First Page.)
custom during the three weeks they I
had spent here, thinking the Presi- |
dent well on the road to recovery. I
The elder Coolidgo received the
messenger who brought Secretary 1
Christian’s telegram, hurried upstairs
with it and read it to Mr. Coolidge in
bed. The new President rose imme
diately, attiring himself in a black
suit to meet the reporters he knew
were coming.
The honking horns of automobiles
arriving with the news gatherers
roused most of the population of Ply- >
mouth Notch, and some of these clus
tered on the porch of the Coolidge
home.
The elder Coolidge. plainly dis
tressed at news of President Hard
ing’s death, but as plainly proud of
his son, went out and apprised them
of what had happened. He declined
to talk to the newspaper men, refer
ring them to his son.
The elder Coolidge, who adminis
tered the oath to his son by virtue of
his office of notary public, is a re
tired farmer. He lives alone in the
house In which his son became Presi
dent. ministered to only bja a house
keeper.
Trousers were first issued to Bri
tish infantry just a century ago; be
fore, that soldiers or©-breeches*- . -
WHEN THE PRESIDENT DIES
~T"' '
The Vice President automatically succeeds him.
The office of Vice President remains vacant. The President Pro
Tempore of the §enate becomes the permanent presiding officer.
The cabinet tenders its resignation.
Flags on all government buildings all over this country, on
embassies and legations in foreign lands, and on the United States
ships at sea are put at half-mast.
The President's body lies in state in the Rotunda of the Capitol.
A great state Juncral is arranged, in which diplomatic repre
sentatives of foreign countries participate.
Messages of condolence afie received from the nations of the
world.
The President's body is buried wherever the immediate family
wishes.
The Vice President, automatically becoming President, imme
diately takes the oath of office without any ceremony.
There is not necessarily any extra session of Congress.
The wheels of the government machinery continue uninterrupt
ed except for a period of respect during the hours of the funeral.
There has never been an instance where a cabinet officer be
came President through the death of a President. The Constitution
provides the following order of succession, should the contingency
arise—Secretary of State, Treasury, War. the Attorney General, the
Postmaster General, Secretary of the Navy, Interior, Agriculture,
Commerce and Labor.
Nation Mourns for 9
Body Starts so D. C. Today
(Continued from First Page.)
those that came out were plainly
greatly distressed.
Hoover Grief Stricken,
One of these was Secretary Hoover,
whose face was blanched and his
eyes dim. All he could say to news
papermen was that there would be a
statement soon. At 7:45 o’clock it
was announced (hat there would be
a formal statement within a few
minutes and at 7:51 o’clock it was
issued. It said:
“The President died instantaneously
and without warning while convers
ing with members of his family at
7:30. Death was apparently due to
some brain development. probably
apoplexy.
"During the day he had been free
from discomfort and there was every
justification for anticipating a prompt
recovery. '
< Signed)
•<’ E. SAWYER. M. D
"RAY LVMAX WILBUR,M. D
"C. M. COOPER. M. I>.
"J T BOONE. M. D.
■ HUBERT WORK. M. p.”
This was followed by a second bul
letin which made the flat announce
ment that death was due to apoplexy
and that Mrs. Harding. Gen. Sawyer
and the two nurses were in the room
at the time.
One of the Associated Press repre
sentatives. who have been on watch
ever sime the President was brought
to San Francisco last Sunday morn
ing. heard Mrs. Harding's appeal for
the doctors, saw the secret service
man hurry down the hall in search of
Dr. Boone, and at 7:29 o’clock sent a
bulletin traveling over the wires to
all parts of the country telling of the
call for the physicians, and then fol
lowed with bulletins giving more de
tails of what wa# occurring in the vi
cinity of the presidential suite. Thus
newspaper editors were aw-are of
something impending failly twenty
two minutes before the announce
ment of death was made.
When the death announcement was
made it was flashed to all points of the
nation by the Associated Press by
telegraph and telephone, and to the
most distant parts of the world by
cable and radio. Thus it was that
np w rpape r s were on the streets in
New York with announcement of the
passing of the republic’s chief before it
became at all generally known about the
hotel.
Confusion Follows.
The announcement was followed
; momentarily by confusion in the
vicinity of the presidential suite, but
; soon the trained members of the ex
[ eoutive staff took charge, the physi
. eians conferred and later issued their
detailed statement as to the cause of
death, and the cabinet members meet
ing together decided upon and sub
mitted to Mrs. Harding for approval
the plans for the return trip to
Washington.
Messages were dispatched, telling
of the sad news, to George B. Chris
tian. jr . the President’s secretary,
who had gone to Los Angeles to
speak for the President at a Knights
Templar meeting, to the other cabinet
members, and to Calvin Coolidge. the
Vice President, who early today took
the oath of office at his home in Ply
mouth. Vt„ and became the head of
the nation.
The detailed statement by the phy
sicians described the changes in the
President’s physical condition dating
from last spring, when the President,
following a long period of overwork
and great strain, was confined to his
bed with an attack of influenza. This
attack was more serious than the
general public ever realized, and its
effects had not been entirely dissi
pated when ‘he present trip was
started in June, despite the five
weeks’ vacation spent in Florida and
Georgia in March and early April.
Had Suffered Since Spring.
The President, it was revealed, had
been subject to some attacks of ab
dominal pains and indigestion, and
there had for some time been evi
dences of arterio-sclerosis. enlarge
ment of the heart and defective action
of the kidneys. The statemtit then
recited that the executive had suf
fered an acute gastro-intestinal at
tack. associated with abdominal pain
and fever, on the return trip froming.
Alaska, and told how he had insisted
on going through w ith his program
in Vancouver, B. a week ago
Thursday, and at Seattle a week ago
yesterday. The statement then told
of the cancellation of the proposed
trip into the Yosemite, of his arrival
here Sunday morning, and traced his
varving condition during the week.
"Most disturbing of all.” it said,
"was the rapid and irregular breath
ing, suggestive of arterio-sclerosis of
the brain vessels in the region of the
respiratory center."
The physicians reviewed the favor
able conditions exls-tfng just prior to
the apoplectic attack and concluded
by saying;
"He was resting comfortably in
bed and conversing with Mrs. Hard
ing and Gen. Sawyer when he died
instantly without a word or a groan.”
The best explanation of the death
of the chief executive may be found
in these words by Lieut. Commander
Joel T. Boone, assistant to Dr. Saw
yer. as the President’s physician:
"The President had a most splendid
afternoon,” he said. "When I left
the room for dinrfer, I commented:
’Doesn't he look splendid?’ Then all
at once he just went like that .”
Dr. Boone snapped his fingers. "Just
like that, something snapped; that’s
all.”
The physician's statement follows:
"Last spring, following a long
period of overwork and great strain.
President Harding was confined to
his bed with an attack of influenza,
which was followed by a few noc
turnal attacks of labored breathing.
His recovery was slow, and he had
not fullv regained his normal strength
and health when he started out on
the trip to Alaska. He had also had
some attacks of abdominal pain and
Indigestion, and at times he had some
pain associated with feeling of op
pression in the chest. For some
years his systolic blood pressure
had ranged around 180. and there was
evidence of some arterial sclerosis,
enlargement of the heart and de
fective action of the kidneys except
for fatigue and the fact that his
heart and blood vessels were some
years older than the rest of his body,
he was in reasonable good health.
"On the return trip from Alaska he
had an acute gastro-intestinal at
tack,'associated-with abdominal pain
and fever. In spite of his illness he
insisted on putting through his pro
gram of sneaking in Vancouver and
Seattle. He had considerable diffi
culty in completing his addresses in
Seattle because of weakness and pain.
Because of this he was persuaded to
come directly to San Francisco, and
arrived at the Palace Hotel Sunday
morning. July 28. He dressed anil
walked to the automobile from the
train. Sunday evening a consulta
tion was called because his tempera
ture had risen to 102 and his pulse
and respiration were abnormally
rapid. The abdominal difficulty hail
by this time become localized in the
gall bladder region, but there was a
general texemia with fever and
leucocyteais. A central broncho-pneu
monia soon developed on the left side.
It was accompanied by short circu
latory collapses and cold sweats and
an irregular pulse. Most disturbing
of all was the rapid and irregular
breathing, suggestive of arterio
sclerosis of the brain vessels In the
region of the respiratory eenter.
"Under treatment marked Improve
ment in the pneumonia and circula
tory* disturbances took place, and
Thursday, August 2. he was free from
fever and pain; the acute lung con
dition was practically gone. He was
resting comfortably in bed and con
versing with Mrs. Harding and Gen.
Sawyer when he died instantaneous
ly. without a word or a groan.
"We all believe he died from apo
plexy or a rupture of a blood vessel
in the axis of the brain near the
respiratory centers. His death came
after recovery from the acute illness
was in process. It might have oc
curred at any time. One of his sis
ters died suddenly in the same man
ner. (Signed)
"(*. E. SAWYER. M. D
"RAY LYMAN WILBUR, M D.
■•<’. M. COOPER. M D.
’"J T BOONE. M D.
"HUBERT WORK. M D
Hastily summoned members of the
President’s party, led by Secretary
Hoover, had hardly left the room
which now had become a death cham
ber before the cry of newsboys call
the extras rose from the streets
far below.
Mingried with these calls was heard
the soft crying of a woman. t It was
not Mrs Harding, though.'for, as
much as she desired to give expres
sion to the greatest j?rief that ean
come to a woman, she met the situa
tion calmly.
Secretary Hoover left the room just
before the news of the President's
death was announced, and in answer
to inquiries from a small group of
newspaper men. said:
"Boys. I can’t tell you a thing.”
He spoke in a voice that was
choked and his expression denoted
deep and sudden grief. after
the first announcement was mad? the
corridors at the President's suite be
came filled, nearby with members of
the President's official party, and
farther away with newspaper men
and others, mostly city, state and
federal officials, who had heard of the
news.
Hotel officials, among tjie first to
whom word of the tragic event was
given, immediately had the great blu i
presidential flag with its gold seal of
the United Slates hauled down and
then raised again to half-staff,
Uanre Stops.
A minute or two later an assist
ant manager rushed into the Rose
Bowl room, where a dinner dance
was in progress, raised a hand and
stopped the orchestra’s playing. An
nouncement of the death of the
Executive followed, and the dancers,
their gay dress a sad contrast to their
expressions of gravity, gathered into
little groups, obtained their wraps
and departed.
The news passed from lip to lip.
Some guests, more curious than their
fellows, gathered in groups at the
ends of the corridors leading to the
presidential rogms and stared down
the hallways at the screens which
shut off the view of the suite where
the forty-ninth President of the
United States lay silent in death.
Several minutes of the President’s
last quarter of an hour alive w'ere
devoted, a-s had been much of his
life, to childhood and its interests.
Two little girls came to the Presi
dential suite just before 7 o'clock
with flowers, seeking to present them
to the President.
Mrs. Harding, who shares the Pres
ident’s lifelong love of children, gra
ciously came from the sick room to
speak a word to the two tots, and ac
cepted their gift. Returning to the
President, she took with her a few
of the blossoms, and these were in
the room a few minutes later when
he died.
Even after the President vvas dead
the telegrams which have been com
ing ever since his illness, all express
ing hopes for his recovery, or grati
fication that he had made such satis
factory progress, were continuing to
A minute or two after his death, a
messenger brought in a large bundle
of them.
Several of the state and national
figures, who hurried to the presiden
tial suite to express their sympathy
and leave condolences, later issued
formal statements on the President's
death. »
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down and not being a candidate for
renomlnation'.
Decided to non Again.
But as it fell out and time wore
on President Harding, like pther
Presidents, decided he wanted al sec*
ond term. Early in 1923 there was
a great deal of speculation as to
whether he would be a contender.
There was also some momentary
speculation among some political
leaders as to whether the party
would not be making a valuable
strategic move if it selected another
candidate.
But mature deliberation among' the
old heads in the regular wing of ; the
party developed a unanimous decision
that if the republican party were to ask
the American people to continue it in
power for another four years it flmst
do so on the record of the Harding ad*
ministration and. therefore, necessarily,
ask for the re-election of Harding, be--
cause, they reasoned, to fail to ? re
nominate Mr. Harding would be a fail
ure to Indorse the works of the party.
Mr. Harding up to that time had per
mitted no authoritative word of his in
tentions to get out and a delegation of
the leaders went to the White House to
find out about them.
Ask for Decision.
■’Warren." said the spokesman, who
was a friend and colleague of many
years’ standing, “you've got to make
some announcement of your intentions.
These "fellows who are opposing your
nomination are grooming this one and
that one, and before we know it our
wing of the party won't have anvbodv as
a candidate and we’ll lose political ad
vantage."
Boys.” said the President. “I have
not made up my mind. I expect to
make some speeches in the west and
elsewhere some time soon, and if the
reaction is favorable I'll carry on.”
But that assurance failed to satisfy
the committee of friends and advisers,
and they continued their arguments
that Mr. Harding should make an
announcement. A refusal to run for
a second term. Qiey argued, was a
confession of failure. The matte, of
his nomination they considered se
cure by the processes of party ma
chinery. Blaine, idol of the country
at his time, they pointed out, could
rot wrest the nomination from Har
rison.
Recall Roosevelt Failure.
Theodore Roosevelt himself, with
all his hold on popular favor, was
unable to take the regular nomina
tion away from President Taft in a
republican convention because of the
processes of party machinery. Mr.
Harding’s renomination they consid
ered certain if he wanted it; election,
they told him. would, of course, be
affected by the events of the inter
vening time.
"All right, fellows." responded Mr.
Harding, with a characteristic wave
of the hand and the intimate ex
pressions of friendship that he al
ways used in speaking with old as
sociates. "I’ll carry on. that's set
tled; I’ll carrv on. Tell our fellows
that."
A few days later Senator James
E. Watson of Indiana, one of the
administration spokesmen and party
whips, made the announcement in
the Senate that if "Warren Harding
wanted a renominalion he was going
to have it and that it was idle to
discuss a prospective contest. ’*
Expected Re-Election.
Following - that declaration the
President was an open and avowed
candidate for renomination and elec
tion, and within a few days of his
departure from Washington he told
a friend in a conversation in hia
study at the executive offices that.
barring some unexpected develop
ments. he expected to be renomi
nated and re-elected.
“Unless something unforeseen comes
up." he toid this friend, "such as a
disastrous business panic, a period of
great depression or something of that
sort. I don’t see anything that will
prevent my renomination and re-elec
tion."
Word had come to him that one of
the men who was looked upon as a
principal contender had said he found
himseif without an issue upon which
to run. and a close friend of the same
prospective contender declared that
he would undertake to guarantee that
the former would not go into a single
state on the stump as a candidate
seeking delegates to the convention.
The men who had been the principal
financial backers of the contender re
ferred to had become devoted friends,
and. in fact, parts of the Harding ad
ministration machinery, and the
clouds all appeared to be out of the
sky.
Other Sipport Found.
At the same time another western
senator, a power in republican af
fairs. not because of his party regu
larity nor his adherence to the Hard
ing program, was using all his per
sonal influence to keep the foremost
prospective contender against Mr.
Harding out of the field and was tell
ing all his friends, much to their sur
prise. that he was for Harding.
"There must be no repeatal of
1912,” this leader said. “No demo
crat must be elected because the re
publican party cannot agree. We
must take Harding for another term."
Then just as everything seemed to
be smooth sailing for the nomination
Mr. Harding made his declaration for
entry of the United States into the
world court, and that swept over a
stage which everybody thought was
finally set and tumbled everything
into confusion.
Some Saw Big Mistake.
The friends among the stalwarts
who had urged Mr. Harding to de
clare himself for another term told
him he had made a great mistake;
those who had won for themselves
the soubriquet of "irreconcilables"
because of their opposition to any
participation by the United States in
the affairs of Europe sent to Mr.
Harding a declaration of war.
The contender who had once told
Mr. Harding’s friends and supporters
that he feared he found himself with
out an issue on which to fight the
i President for the nomination sought
out the same men and told them that
his previous declaration to them was
"all oft” and that he believed he had
found the Issue; that he was out for
the republican presidential nomina
tion If a little further Investigation
convinced him he had a chance to get
it. and that he probably would enter
every state having a presidential
preference primary seeking delegates.
Sent Harding Information.
Naturally that upset the Harding
friends and advisers and how much,
if at all. It upset the President's
plans is not known in Washington
because he was in Alaska when the
development came about, but word
was sent to him informing him fully.
All these developments threw po
litical plans awry, and now the sad
and sudden death of the President
gives them another twist. Vice
President Coolldge becomes Presi
dent; whether he will ask a nomina
tion at the hands of the coming con
vention, as did Theodore Roosevelt !
after the death of McKinley, remains
for the future.
Whether the party chieftains will
wish to use their available machinery
to accomplish his nomination is yet
to be decided; the events of the next
few months while Mr. Coolidge oc
cupies the presidential chair may
take the decision out of the hands of
the politicians.
Moat Indorse Party Record.
The leaders still feel they must go
before the country with an indorse
ment of the accomplishments of the
Harding administration.
The best informed feel, they will
most likely choose to do it with some
member of that administration; some
one who'had stood close to and for
the Harding policies.
The late Tom Platt made Theo- j
dore Roosevelt a vice president with !
the openly announced purpose of j
putting him out of the way, political
ly. He made him a President! and one j
of America's national heroes. The t
case of Coolidge is not analagous, but I
it is similar.
Coming to the convention of 1920 i
with delegates pledged to his nomi-1
nation for the presidency. Mr. Cool-;
idge polled no high ballolt and was '
soon almost lost sight of in Un
scramble between Gov. Lowden and I
Gen. Wood. When the leaders ini
that race collapsed and Harding from 1
the field shot through a winner. !
Coolidge was still lost, sight of
among the leaders, but not among the
delegates.
Delegates Choose ( Milder.
The party leaders placed in nomina- j
tion for the vice presidency Senator i
of Wisconsin, expecting him to j
go over. But the delegates remembered !
Coolidge and forced his nomination, i
They recalled his record as governor of [
Massachusetts and the fate of that !
moment in a steaming hot convention J
hall on a June day has made him a i
President of the United States.
• The same event sidetracked a young. '
square jawed, sandy haired senator I
from Wisconsin, an avowed enemy of I
UaFollette—kept him from attaining the '
most powerful office in the world.
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Pays Tribute to Character of Pres
ident Harding.
PARI*. August 3.—When informed
of President Hardings death Col. Ed
ward M, House said:
"I share deeply the grief of every
American who knew President Hard- j
ihg. He was a kindly, lovable char
a< ier. and held the confidence and I
affect ion of Sill our peopl e."
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| Mind Dwelt on Possibility.
Straightened Personal Af
fairs Prior to Trip.
By the Ascftcintcd Press,
j SAX KRANCISCO. August
President Hardin? had a premonition
that his - illness was to be fatal, ac
cording to a statement by Elbert E
j Remsberg. his brother-in-law, to
! newspaper men.
Mr. Remsberg said the thought of
death has been present in the ex
ecutive's mind very often since h*
was brought here last Sunday an-t
that several times he spoke of th->
fact that several members of his
family had died at about his age.
MADE NEW WILL.
Mr. Harding Reorganized Invest
ments, Also. Before Starting.
B.t tht Associated Prcg?.
1 MARIOX, Ohio, August C.—Dr.
George T. Harding, jr., brother of the
late President, said today that before
starting on his western trip the Presi
dent placed his personal affairs in
shape much as though he might have
j feared he would never return alive,
j Through friends and members of his
immediate family, the President, be
! fore starting for Alaska, made a new
j will, reorganized his financial invest
ments, sold his newspaper, the Marion
Star, and disposed of the farm, re
cently purchased. near Blooming
] Grove, on which he spent his earlv
I boyhood.
! The farm was deeded to George T
I Harding, tid. son of his brother. Dr.
j George T, Harding, jr., of Columbus
j and Worthington. Ohio. The 280-acre
I farm had been in the possession of the
| family for years, and it was the Presi
dent's wish that it remain in the fam
ily. It was given to the nephew with
the understanding that Warren G.
and Dr. George Harding, jr,, would
j retain a life interest in it.
| Dr. George T. Harding, jr.. and his
j father said they did not know what
I plans Mrs. Harding would make, and
| did not know whether she would re
turn to Marion and make this city her
! home
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