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.

7/25/2020

Sunday, July 25, 1920

There are no services today at the Trinity Baptist Church because Rev. McAfee is still recovering from his stroke. Instead the Hardings and Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas attend services at the Methodist Episcopal Church. The sermon is given by Bishop Oldham who filled in for McAfee at the nomination ceremonies on Thursday.

In the afternoon, on the front porch, Harding meets an unscheduled delegation from the Knights of Pythias of Indiana, a fraternal organization that stops in Marion on its way to Cleveland. Harding does not give a speech. Harding has been a member of his local lodge since 1887.

This evening, Harry Daugherty heads to Northampton, Massachusetts to represent Harding at Calvin Coolidge's notification ceremonies, which are scheduled for Tuesday.


Sources:
  • "History of Warren G. Harding's Knights of Pythias' Affiliations to be Made Part of Supreme Records." Marion Star. 3 July 1928.
  • "Indiana Pythians at Harding Home Sunday." Marion Star. 26 July 1920.
  • "H.M. Daugherty Is to Represent the Nominee." Marion Star. 26 July 1920.

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