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.

7/28/2020

Wednesday, July 28, 1920

On the day after the notification ceremonies for the vice presidential candidate, Senator Harding wires Governor Coolidge:
It is heartening to all America to read your sterling speech of acceptance. It adds to confidence in the Republican purpose to repossess the people with their government and it emphasizes my conviction that as vice president you will be asked to make your official services comport with the second highest place in the government of the republic.
The Hardings travel again to Columbus for a game of golf at the Scioto Country Club and dinner with Dr. and Mrs. Edwin Brown at 1680 East Broad Street.

And I find this amusing: In response to the report that the Harding campaign has landed on a 12-word campaign slogan, yet to be released to the public, the New York Evening World, which has "thousands of readers who can write clever slogans," is giving away $110 in prizes, including $25 each to the best slogan for the Harding and Cox campaigns.


Sources:
  • "Dinners." Columbus Dispatch. 29 July 1920.
  • "Harding Wires Governor Calvin Coolidge Today." Marion Star. 28 July 1920.
  • "Have You a 12-Word Campaign Slogan for Harding or Cox?" New York Evening World. 28 July 1920.

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