Harding, always a party loyalist, supported Foraker in the complex internecine warfare that was Ohio Republican politics. Harding was willing to tolerate Democrats, as necessary to a two-party system, but had only contempt for those who bolted the Republican Party to join third-party movements. He was a delegate to the Republican state convention in 1888, at the age of 22, representing Marion County, and would be elected a delegate in most years until becoming president.Harding's success as an editor took a toll on his health. With an incapacitated president in the White House and less support in the country, the treaty was defeated. Harding appointed four justices to the Supreme Court of the United States. Harding appointed four justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.