A Note on My Harding Research

The information I posted during 2020 mostly covered Warren Harding's front-porch campaign from his home on Mt. Vernon Avenue in Marion, Ohio. The campaign officially started on July 31, 1920, and ended on September 25. The plan was to post daily on events that occurred exactly 100 years ago that day, but I shared other information as well. You'll have to read bottom-to-top if you want to follow the campaign from Day 1.

I used the open web for some of my research but also information accessible by using my library card or my subscription to www.newspapers.com. The most useful resource was the Marion Star, which was owned by the Hardings at the time of the campaign. I also browsed online copies of other newspapers like the New York Times, the Washington Star, and the Dayton Daily News, which, in 1920, was owned by Harding's Democratic opponent, Governor James M. Cox. I also posted information from other newspapers that covered Harding's trips away from Marion during the campaign.

Another great resource I used was Dale E. Cottrill's The Conciliator, a 1969 biography of the president that expanded an earlier bibliography of Harding's speeches. An online version is available at the Internet Archive, but I used a hard copy borrowed from the State Library of Ohio.

Readers should not construe anything posted here as a political statement on my part. I just like Harding as a historical topic.

7/24/2020

Saturday, July 24, 1920

Harding spends the morning catching up on his correspondence, telling the press:
I am gratified over the many expressions of approval which have been spoken. It is very pleasing to be assured that I have correctly spoken the Republican interpretation of the platform.
The Hardings and two friends then travel to Columbus to play golf at the Scioto Country Club.

Harding playing golf somewhere 
(not necessarily the Scioto Country Club)

Also in Columbus, Governor Cox announces what the New York Times describes as a "speaking campaign which promises to outdo any effort put forward by a presidential candidate in the past." The tour will begin after his notification ceremonies, scheduled for August 7. "I shall visit every State which is not Democratic beyond the slightest doubt. There is no other kind."

Sources:
  • "'Fore!' Senator Harding Drives a Wicked Ball on Scioto Club Course--and Wins." Columbus Dispatch. 25 July 1920.
  • "Greatest Tour of Any Campaign Planned by Cox." New York Times. 25 July 1920.
  • "Senator Harding Is Pleased Over Wires." Marion Star. 24 July 1920.
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