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.

10/21/2020

Thursday, October 21, 1920 (NEW YORK)


Rochester, New York

"Probably not since the day the armistice was signed had there been so large a crowd surging through the main streets of the city; not since that exciting day nearly two years ago did business so nearly cease to function as it did around noon...; not since that day had the people been remined so forcefully that a new manner of living is in sight, that a new regime is about to begin..." (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)

Buffalo, New York

"Before of an audience of 10,000 to 12,000 persons at the Broadway Auditorium...Senator Warren G. Harding...delivered the closing address of his speaking tour... At the mass meeting...at an earlier reception and in the course of his passage through the streets from railroad station to hotel and later from hotel to auditorium, Buffalo gave Senator Harding a most enthusiastic reception..." 

Sources:

  • "In Buffalo." Marion Star. 22 October 1920.
  • "In Streets, Hotels, Hall Republic Candidate Is Cheered at Every Turn." Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. 22 October 1920.
  • "Senator Harding Against League, But Wants Peace." Buffalo Enquirer. 22 October 1920.

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