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.

8/09/2020

Monday, August 9, 1920

A low-key start to another week. Plans for members of the Society of American Indians, an organization formed by students at Ohio State, to meet Senator Harding today are postponed until August 18th. Instead Harding spends the day meeting a number of callers, none of whose name registers a century later.

Conditions are different in Tennessee however, as expressed in a political cartoon published today on the front page of the Washington Star: "Who said all eyes were on Ohio!"
Don't forget, readers of the New York Evening World are still competing to win the slogan contest:
  • Harding Speaking on His Porch Stands Like Liberty With Her Illuminated Torch.
  • Mr. Harding of the Buckeye State, Our Next President; Contented We Wait.
  • Thirteen Letters in His Name, but He'll be President Just the Same.
Near Hyde Park, New York, Franklin Roosevelt participates in his nomination ceremonies.

Sources:
  • "Assemblymen to Call Here." Marion Star. 9 August 1920.
  • "Contesting Readers Strive for Slogans with Winning 'Pitch.'" New York Evening World. 9 August 1920.

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