Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-06-19
The Presidential Nominees
WARREN HARDING

! Warren Harding has always been a
resident of Ohio, which state he has
| represented as the United States Sena-
tor since 1914. In private he is the
publisher of the Marion, Ohio Star.
He was born on farm, near the
the village OF Blooming Grove, Nor
row County. Ohio, November 2. 1865
the eldest of eight children.
In his youth Warren Harding lived
the life of farmer boy, attending the
village school until ID years o. age
when he entered the Ohio Central
College a. iberia, from which he grad
uauted. As editor of the college pa
per he first showed talent for jour
nalism. He was obliged to stop
school now and then and earn money
with which to pursue his college
course. At one time he cut corn,
at another painted barns and still
another drove 4 team and hepled to
grade the roadbed of new railway.
At II he taught district school and
played a horn in the village brass
band.
At odd times he worked in the
village printing Office, in time be
coming an expert typesetter, and later
a linotype operator. He is prac
teal pressman and a job printer, and
as make ny man" is said to have
few equals. The luck piece he has
carried as Senator is the old printers
rule he used when he was sticking
type.
Senator Harding is closely iden-
titled with many large business enter
prises in Marion and other parts o.
the state. He is director of
bank and several large manufacturing
plants and is trustee of the Trinity
Baptist Church.
Mr.. Harding has twice represented
the 18th Senatorial district of Ohio
in the state legislature and served
one term as lieutenant governor. A,
the 1914 election Harding was elected
United Stats Senator by majority OF
more than 100000, running 73,ON
ahead di the next highest on the tic.
ket. In the senate he is member Of
tire Committee on Foreign Relations
Senator Harding married Miss Flor
ence King in 1891.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
Calvin Coolidge of Northampton
Mass, although in public life in his
adopted state almost ever since his
graduation from Amherst college If
1895. was little known outside O.
Massachusetts until the greater part
o. the police force went on strike
in September. 1919. Collidge was
governor of the state. He ordered
out the state guards to patrol the
streets of Boston after night o.
rioting. announced that law and order
would be preserved and declared that
the strikers were deserters and tina.
their places would be filled by other
men.
The strikers never regained thei
positions. Troops maintained order
for several weeks and a new police
force was recruited. The stand taken
by the governor carried his name to
all parts of the country and in his
own state'he was promptly nicknamed
LAW and Order Coolidge"
Calvin Coolidge was born on
farm in the little village OF Plymouth
Vermont, on July 4. 1872.
Governor Coolidge was married il
1905 to Miss Grace A. Goodhue. OF
Burlington. VI. Their two children
are both boys. When he was chosen
governor J. he did not abandon his
modest residence in half of mod
est house in Northampton. but took up
his quarters in single room in
small Boston hotel returning the hun.
dred-odd miles to his home for the
weekend.