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.

9/26/2020

Sunday, September 26, 1920

The Hardings are visited in the morning by four Slavic street musicians from Cleveland, who perform several songs on their violins. Mrs. Harding invites them into the house for a waffle breakfast.

The Hardings spend the afternoon reminiscing with members of the Harding Newsboys' Club, a group made up of over a hundred former carriers of the Marion Star:

Webb C. Hayes, son of the late president Rutherford B. Hayes, is also in Marion today to extend an invitation to Harding to be a guest at the dedication of a solider memorial at Spiegel Grove in Fremont, Ohio, on October 4. Harding will share the platform with Governor Cox.

The Hardings, and a party of campaign staff and journalists, leave Marion on three special cars for the second trip outside Ohio. They are due in Baltimore, Maryland, at 3:16 tomorrow afternoon.

Sources:

  • "Extra! Old Harding Newsies Make Call." Marion Star. 27 September 1920.
  • "Harding Starts on Eastern Trip." Burlington Free Press. 27 September 1920.
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