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.

10/23/2020

Saturday, October 23, 1920

Still resting from his last campaign trip, Harding spends much of today working on the speeches he will make in Ohio, starting Wednesday; he also approves the final schedule for that trip which will include events in Cleveland, Akron, Cincinnati, and Columbus. The Dayton Herald describes the upcoming week as "the battle for Ohio": "With the consent of their perspective campaign managers, who realize the need for Ohio's 24 electoral votes and the tremendous moral victory that goes with them, both Senator Harding and Governor Cox have elected to make their home state the scene of their final activities, the last 'big push.'"
  • Tuesday - Cox in Cincinnati
  • Wednesday - Cox in Dayton; Harding in Cleveland
  • Thursday - Harding in Akron
  • Friday - Cox in Akron; Harding in Cincinnati
  • Saturday - Cox in Toledo; Harding in Columbus
Sources:
  • "Harding Prepares for His Last Big Fight Next Week." Dayton Herald. 23 October 1920.
  • "Wilson-Spencer Row Alluded to by Harding." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 24 October 1920.
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