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.

7/29/2020

Thursday, July 29, 1920

Another quiet day. Harding joins members of the Republic finance committee, who have traveled to Marion from Chicago, at the Marion Club for breakfast. The committee then marches to Harding's home for an informal visit with the Hardings. "Today's party came down simply to call on Senator Harding, pay its respects and to give those who had not previously met him the privilege of getting acquainted," says Fred W. Upham, the committee chair.

The first Harding slogans submitted for the contest in the New York Evening World are printed. (See yesterday for details.)
  • Are we in it? Yes, we are; Harding, Harding, Rah, Rah, Rah!
  • The Election of Harding and Coolidge: United States Will Again Be Prosperous.
  • We're Out of War--Let's Stay Out by Electing Republican President Harding.
  • He Is the Man of the Hour and the Country Wants Him.
  • Harding here, Harding there, Harding our next President in White House Chair.
  • Senator Harding, Senator Harding, you're a better man than Cox, Senator Harding.
  • Harding's the man that'll use the pan and fry for Uncle Sam.
Sources:
  • "Business Men from Chicago." Marion Star. 29 July 1920.
  • "Twelve-Word Slogans for Harding and Cox Sent by Many Readers." New York Evening World. 29 July 1920.

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