The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-06-17
Harding and Coolidge Nom
mated.


closed its work last Saturday night
with the nomination of Senator War.
rem G. Harding of Ohio. for presi-
dent, and Governor Calvin Coolidge
of Massachusetts, as vice president.
The contest from the start was be-
tween Wood and Lowden. who ran a
Eeck and neck race, with johnson
standing third, hut far behind. The
highest :c;:.. reached -s "0oi 40 Il,
the fourth ballot when he received
3144 and Lowden 289. On the fifth
ballot Lowden was in the lead, with
5O3 while Wood had dropped to 299.
On the sixth they were a tie, with
3114 each, and on the seventh Low
den was the same while Wood gained
} vote. On the eighth Lowden got
307 and Wood 800 Johnson q highest
mark was in the third when he got
148. but gradually lost from that
point until in the eighth ballot he had
only 81. 1t was evident that the
favorite sons" held the balance of
power, and the situation demanded
either compromise between Wood
and Lowden, which would mean plac-
tically a surrender ,of one, which nei.
ther was willing to do, or the selec.
tion Of compromise candidate by the
convention. Lowden was the fret to
recognize the situation, and in the
ninth ballot he released the delegates
pledged to him and the break to
Harding followed. He was recognized
as the man best suited to harmonize
the various elements, and at the same
time represent the principles laid
down in the platform. On this ballot
Harding got 3743; Wood 249 and
Lowden l21. On the tenth and final
ballot it was landslide to Harding
and he got 692 votes. nearly two
hundred more than the required num-
Der. A motion to make the nomina-
tion unanimous received hearty re-
sponse except from the Wisconsin
delegation which had stood "a for
LaFollette allHthrough the fight, and
decided to die with their pet
The choice for vice president went
to Coolidge -oas the 6rety yhasiot. he re-
ceiving 674 votes.
OF course there is the usual di.ap-
pointment on the part of those who
had set their hearts on some favorite
candidate, but the result is probably
the best possible solution under the
circumstances, and to the voters who
are more interested in the triumph of
the principles declared in the plat.
form than in the personal success of
any particular candidate the result
will ke heartily approved.
Mr.. Harding was born Nov. 2,
1866, at Blooming Grove. Ohio. His
father, who is still living in Marion,
Chic, is praciicing physician. At
the. age of 10 Sen. Harding COM
menced working in a newspaper office,
the Marion Mirror, but during the
campaign in which James G. Blaine
was the republican candidate for
president his sympathies were with
Blaine and he insisted on wearing the
Blaine campaign bat. so he was dis
charged from the Mirror, which was
q democratic paper. Since 1884 he
nas been publisher of the Marion Star.
He served two terms as state senator,
one term as lieutenant governor and
in 1914 was elected to the United
States senate, winning by over 1OO,-
600 majority while the state elected
a democratic governor by large ma.
jority. In the senate he is a member
of the foreign relations committee,
and is regarded as man of ability
and good judgment.
Gov. Coolidge first came into ma
tional prominence during the strike of
policemen in Boston. The way in
which he handled the situation mark.
ed him as a man of unlimited courage
and common sense, and he will add
material strength to the ticket.