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.

9/19/2020

Sunday, September 19, 1920

This morning the Hardings greet Akron members of the Grand Army of the Republic (G. A. R.) who are headed to a national encampment in Indianapolis. Because it is Sunday there are "no bands, no flags, and no speech making," according to the Star.

A G. A. R. member will tell the Akron Beacon Journal this when he returns from Indiana: "On our train leaving Marion on Sunday a week ago we had 448 passengers and a straw vote showed only 15 of them for Cox... I tell you the whole country is sick of Wilson and his league of nations and there is no question but what Harding will sweep the country..."


In today's Columbus Dispatch, an editorial cartoon by Billy Ireland is published that references a number of international issues affecting the presidential campaign but that haven't been specifically referenced in this blog:
Billy Ireland - The Washtub
Sources:
  • "Akron G. A. R. Members to Go to Encampment." Akron Beacon Journal. 17 September 1920.
  • "Akron G. A. R. Veterans Here." Marion Star. 20 September 1920.
  • "Major Taggart Finds Sentiment of Country Is for Warren G. Harding." Akron Beacon Journal. 27 September 1920.
  • "The Washtub." Columbus Dispatch. 19 September 1920.
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