On the eve of the election, Harding holds a long conversation on the telephone with Will Hays, chair of the Republican National Committee. Mrs. Harding is under the weather and remains in bed until noon.
Later, during a conversation with the reporters on site, Harding is asked if he has a final statement to make on the eve of the election, Senator Harding says, "I have made the best fight I know how to make and I await he result with complacency."
Harding is not concerned by a forecast calling for bad weather. "There was a time when rain on Election Day was considered Democratic weather, but that was before the day of the automobile. This was quite noticeable in the horse and buggy days, when many voters spent four or five hours going to and from the polls, but now, with the automobile, there are few election precincts in which it takes more than half an hour to get to the polls."
Harding's precinct is three blocks from his house in a garage co-owned by two brothers, both lifelong Democrats: "Like many other Marionites, they are 'Harding Democrats.' The windows of their homes display the largest Harding pictures obtainable, and no one knows how much time and gasoline they have consumed in driving front-porch visitors around Marion."
Sources:
- "'I Have Made the Best Fight I Know How,' Harding Says." New York Times. 2 November 1920.
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