Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, NOVEMB. 9, 1920. THE NEW PRESIDENT OF AMERICA.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2200, 9 November 1920, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, NOVEMB. 9, 1920. THE NEW PRESIDENT OF AMERICA.

MR. WARREN .1. HARDING is 57 'years of :)!>■('. J|(> onlomt life ns newspaper employee, ;ind then, with his father's assistance. bought Du; Marion Diiily Slur, ;i slruygling' lit tie paper, which ho energetically sol to work lo [mild up. It became a prosperous ami powerful Journal with a hiy iulleuouce, and is now “more

widely piloted than any other paper outside Ihe great cities.” Harding was a member of Ihe Ohio Senate (Tom l!)l)0 till .11104, then heeamc Lieutenant -Governor for two years. In 101.0 he was nominaled as b’epublican candidale for the Governorship, but was defeated. He Ims represented Ohio in the Semite since 1015, his term as Senator expiring next year. He is described as essentially a loyal party man, id'great strength of character, and a greijf ability to make and retain friends. A recent biography says; “The Republican nominee is sensitive to (he good opinion of the public. While sclf-approhativeness is a marked element in his composition, his caution is not from fear of loss of favour, but rather from his abiding desire to be always found on the rigid side of publie questions, and approved by believers in Justice; and the ‘square deaf erilics see in Ibis a laCk of aggressiveness. But it is quite similar to the altitude of Lincoln and M’Kinley.” in his election campaign Mr Harding declared himself as a champion <>f parly government as against personal government, as conceived by Mr \\ ils«n. In the Senate debates last year be opposed the League of Nations, but voted for the ratification of the Versailles Treaty with the Lodge reservations, though, as he lias once declared, “with grave misgivings.” Defining his international policy in ihe course of his election campaign, Mr Harding declared that whatever action lie might take in international affairs would be taken in co-opera-tion with the Senate, and promised “formal aful effective peace as quickly as a Republican Congress can pass its declaration for a Republican Executive to sign.’ W hen the peace bad been secured he purposed. with the advice of the Senate, a new approach to the nations of Europe providing for mutual understanding in them, but one which eould not possibly be misinterpreted us a pledge that the United States would take part in any wars under any circumstances exeept as it might freely decide for itself that duty demanded such action.