The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-11-13

CONTINUED from rage j.
Iy false and unfounded. Each State
chairman in turn should commune
cate with each county chairman and
the county chairman pass the denial
on to their district workers. This will
enable them 10 deny the statement
upon information received directly
from you. Further letters and tele-
grams justify the report made you
yesterday upon result of election"
The editor Of a journal in the mid
culars alleging that Warren G. Hard
ing Is Of Negro ancestry. Circulars
contain alleged genealogy purpOrting
1 10 come irc rTS G0 a,IeS az co.Sbs
APPARENTLY addressed only to Demo-
Gratis. Story has reached rural Sec
tions and communications are begin
ming to come in asking for explana-
ton"
Another message said: "Genealogy
been circulated here purporting to
show Harding descendant from Ne
grOes, both sides, three generations
back, giving authority Chancellor. of
Wooster. Ohio. His father mulatto,
mother white. Advise me facts" From
another State came this: Democratic
ter mailed from Indianapolis to Demo-
cratic workers and now being cir
culated as follows: Genealogy Of War
rem q. Harding-George 7. Harding
erts. great-grandmother. black; Char
les NJ. Harding, grandfather black:
Mary Crawford, grandmother. white;
George 7. Harding. father, mulatto;
Prof. william Il. Chancellor, Wooster
University, Ohio. Envelope contain
ing circular bears no return address.
Democrats on streets making in
quiry of Republicans: Are you GO
ing to vote for a "nigger?"
Cincinnati. Nov 1.-THE following
editorial appears in the Cincinnati
Times-Star. under the caption, THE
Truth About Harding's Ancestry"
sub caption. ,'FalsehOod Circulated by
Democrats Is Absolutely Without the
Slightest Foundation of Fact Here Is
Record That Nails Sneaking Propa-
ganda."
The editorial apears over the sigma
lures OF Charles +. Taft, publisher,
and Herbert Taft, editor.
Fifty years ago personal scandal
1 and whispered lies against the can.
didates played a considerable part in
! American politics Until this year IL
seemed that we had been getting
away from that sort OF thing. The
presidential campaigns Of the pres
ent century have been fought chiefly
in the open with arguments about
| principles and the characters and in
centre Of the stage.
Underhanded Partnership.
This year the Democrats have
| tried to turn the clock back so
years. They have attempted TO revive
| the spirit OF underhanded PARTISAN
ship which was quite usual in Ameri-
ca in the days when the blackguards
attacked the ancestry of the mother of
Abraham Lincoln and said that Lin
coin himself was illegitimate.
Most Of the energy. Of the under
/ ground section Of the Democratic
| campaign has been devoted to the
circulation OF lie about Harding's
/ ancestry. No responsible DemScrat has
| dared repeat IL in the open. but many
/ Democrats have passed II around,
| to hand. There are few voters in
Hamilton county who have not run
up against this sneaking propaganda
| in one form g. another. and who have
not had somebody whisper in their
ears in strict confidence that there
/ Is really something in that story
about Harding"
Facts Of Harding Ancestry.
The story ~ TO the effect that
| Warren G. Hardings grandfather was
/ Amos Harding and that he married
! Mary Ann Dixon. a Negress. The story
/ is false in every respect II even has
/ the wrong names for Haroing's grand
parents. The Senator's grandfather
was not Amos but Charles Alexander
| Harding. Charles AleXander's Hard
ing's wife. and the grandmother Of
/ Warren q. Harding on the parenal
/ side. was Mary Ann Crawford. She
was the daughter OF Joshua A Craw-
/ ford OF Baltimore. and Sophia Stevens
whose family lived in Albemarle
county, Virginia. The CrawfOrds were
/ Of ScOtch-Irish descent. the family
| originating in Janarkshire. Scotland
| The first Of the family came to Am
erica in the 18th century.
The Crawfords appear all through
/ the genealogies Of Virginia and are
related to most Of the prominent
There was an Amos Harding among
| Warren g. Hardings ancestors. He
! was not the senator's grandfather
however. but his great-great-grand-
father. The name of his wife was
not Mary Ann Dixon. but Phoebe
Tripp. who belonged to a well known
| family of Pennsylvania and was a
/ cousin of Frances Slocum. The Lost
Sister OF Wyoming
Amos Harding lived in the Wyo-
ming valley. Pennsylvania, from IVY
to 1900. He came TO Richmond coun-
~. Ohio. early in the 18th century
and died there in 1889.
Not n Drop of Negro Blood
LAS a rule Americans object to lies
and particularly to that type of lie
which fiOurishes only in the dark
/ Unless the character of our people
has changed they will know on cleo
ton day exactly what they think Of
/ the subterranean campaign the Demo-
Gratis have waged during the past
three weeks
"A political campaign that cannot
/ be run in the open. free press of
1 America is not 10 the credit of any
PARTY or candidate. We give below
/ Harding'E family tree. 1t is an an
/ cestry OF which any American might
/ be proud. We shall be glad 10 an
/ swer questions about any OF the men
| or women whose names are given and
are prepared to prove that there was
/ not a drop OF Negro blood in anyone
| Of them.
Charles II. Taft. publisher; Her
| bert Taft. editor"