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.

8/01/2020

Sunday, August 1, 1920

A New York Times reporter describes today as "a dull Sunday at Harding headquarters." An  Associated Press reporter shares that Senator Harding spent "a Sunday of almost complete relaxation from the cares of the campaign. Most of the day he remained at home resting or at White Oaks, Dr. Sawyer's sanitarium on the outskirts of town. He and Mrs. Harding had dinner with a party of neighbors, and in the afternoon chatted with friends who 'dropped in' for Sunday calls."

And since it was a "dull Sunday," here's some filler: another image from the June photo sessions in Washington:


Sources:
  • "Declares Harding Will Stress League." New York Times. 2 August 1920.
  • "Harding Confers with Mason." New York Times. 2 August 1920.
  • "Hardings Spend Quiet Sunday." Chicago Tribune. 2 August 1920.
Image:
  • "Warren G. Harding photograph." Library of Congress.

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