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.

10/25/2020

Monday, October 25, 1920

Senator Harding will keep a low profile until he leaves on Wednesday for his last campaign trip, this time through Ohio.

The Marion Board of Elections issues this statement today: "All shops, so the board understands, will be shut down the afternoon of election day. This gives the shopmen a chance to vote in the afternoon which means that every woman not employed in office or factory must vote in the forenoon. We requested the women to register in the mornings. Some of them did, but the most of them waited until evening in order to have someone to go with to the polls. If you don't comply with the request of the board to vote in the morning, there will be hundreds of electors in the city unable to vote. Ladies, if you are not employed, please vote in the forenoon. You must have your mind made up just how you are going to vote. Go to the polls, give your name, get your ballots, vote them as you have made up your mind, and then get out. No visiting at the polling place or within 100 feet of it."

Sources:

  • "Women Urged to Vote in Morning November 2." Marion Star. 25 October 1920.


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