The Holly chieftain., 1920-06-17
Harding Is. Nominated

| line and kill off the Harding boom.
Some tried to get WOod-Lowden-
Johnson agreement to adjourn till Mon
day without making nomination.
There also was conference be-
tween Johnson and Harding support
ers in which the Ohioan's supporters
tried without success to have the re-
naming Johnson strength swung to
Harding.
1t was the parley between the Har-
ding and Lowden men, however, which
| apparently bore the most fruit when
the balloting began again.
LOwden at, the end Of the ninth had
only 121 votes left out of the 307 with
which he ended the eighth, and Gen
eral Woods strength had fallen from
200 on the eighth to 249 on the ninth
Johnson dropped from 81 to 50.
As the tenth roll call began dele
gates quit Lowden. Wood and johnson
right and left, and the big hall was in
almost continuous applause as state
after state announced accession to the
Harding standard.
1t was reserved for Pennsylvania to
add the crowning touch of enthusiasm.
When the Keystone state was reached
the Ohio senator needed thirty-two
votes to nominate him and Pennsyl-
vania gave him sixty.
1t was Governor Sproul, himself, the
candidate of his state on every pre-
ceding ballot and mentioned many
times as a possible dark horse to break
the deadlock, who announced the big
Pennsylvania vote for Harding.
E,,tA ho Val; F,r
first time since the balloting began,
he made his way to the Pennsylvania
standard, and, amid cheers, released
the delegates from longer supporting
him. Then he took a poll, got the
floor and threw in the winning Har-
ding votes.
A demonstration Of several minutes
followed, most of the delegates and
spectators standing and cheering while
procession carrying large pictures of
the candidate and standards Of some
of the states that supported him took.
up it's march around the hall.
But it was too, tired convention
after the gruelling excitement Of two
sweltering days Of balloting to long
keep up such demonstration.
Harding Was Printer.
Warren G. Harding has always been
Il resident of Ohio, which state he has
represented as United States senator
since 1914. In private business life
he is publisher, Of the Marion, Ohio
Star.
He was born on farm near the
village of Blooming Grove, Morrow
County, Ohio. November 2. 1865, the
eldest OF eight children. His father,
George 7. Harding, was a country doc
tor whose forebears came from Scot
land. Before going to Ohio the Har-
dings were residents Of Pennsylvania,
where some of them were massacred
by Indians. Others fought in the Rev.
Olutionary war. The mother of War
scended from an old-time Holland
Dutch family, the Van Kinks.
In his youth Warren Harding lived
the life of a farmer boy, attending the
village school until IA years of age,
of Iberia, from which he was gradu-
ated. AS editor of the college paper
he first displayed a talent for journal
ism. He was obliged to stop school
now and then and earn the money
WIN "uiSh " puISue Ills COllSSe
course At one time he cut corn, ut
another painted barns, and at still an
other drove team and helped to grade
the roadbed of new railway. At IT
he taught district school and played
horn in the village brass band.
At odd times he worked in the vii
lage printing office, In time becoming
an expert typesetter and later limo
type operator. He is practical press
man and job printer, and as ''make
up man" is said to have few equals.
The luck piece he has carried as a
senator is the old printers rule he
used when he was sticking type.
In 1884 DIR. Harding moved his fam
lily to Marion. A short time afterward
the father purchased for Warren Har-
ding 1.-THE Star" then a small paper.
On the paper Warren Harding per-
formed every function from devil to
managing editor. All the years the