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.

10/20/2020

Wednesday, October 20, 1920 (OHIO)

Senator Harding heads out on a short campaign trip to Jackson, Ohio, and Rochester and Buffalo, New York. His train leaves at 7:30 a.m., and the party is expected back in Marion Friday morning.

Jackson, Ohio

Senator Harding "before a crowd of many thousands of iron, furnace, and coal mine workers and hill folk from three states, returned to the battles of William McKinley and tariff protection for the iron and steel industry... The senator talked at a barbecue and burgoo given by Jackson Republicans at which is was said $5,000 work of sides of beef were consumed." (Marion Star)

Harding shares the stage with Frank B. Willis, candidate for senator, and Congressmen and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth.

Columbus, Ohio

The Harding train stops in Columbus to pick up the Republican Glee Club.

Sources:

  • "Harding Meets Jackson Folks." Marion Star. 21 October 1920.
  • "Off for Two-Day Speaking Trip Today." Marion Star. 20 October 1920.

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