The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-06-18
THE REPUBLICAN
STANDARD BEARERS
SENATOR WARREN G. HARDING
WAS BORN ON FARM IN
STATE OF OHIO.
Legislator and Editor Heads Ticket
His Running Mate Being Governor
Of Massachusetts,. Who Came
From Vermont.

Chicago. - Warren G. Harding
United States senator from Ohio.
who was the choice of the Republi-
can national convention for the presi-
dency, was born on a farm i'm Ohio,
November ?, 1865. His father was the
village doctor.
The Hardings were of colonial
stock, coming originally from Scot
land, settling in Connecticut. removing
later to the Wyoming valley, Pennsyl-
vania. where some of them were mas
sacred. Others fought in the revolu-
tionary war. Warren's mother, Phoebe
Dickerson, was descended from an
old-time Holland Dutch family. and
thus was blended the blood of the
Holland Dutch with that of the hardy
Scotch.
As Warren grew up he learned to
fell trees, chop wood. split rails, plant
and hoe corn, and do all the things
incident to farm life. Those were the
days when farm labors were per-
formed by hand. In this way young
Harding acquired the habit of indus
try.
At odd times Harding worked in the
little printing office in the village
nearby. He became first-class COM
position and interested himself in the
mechanism of the entire plant. When
linotypes were introduced he mastered
the keyboard, so that he finally
mastered the intimate workings of a
newspaper office. from the editorial
room to the press room.
Senator Harding's love for news
paper work has never subsidized and he
is at present one of the owners of the
Marion, Ohio, Star. After Senator
Harding had established the paper on
sound financial basis, he organized a
stock company. distributing shares to
each of his employees, and he and
they still own it.
Senator Harding has twice repre-
sented the Thirteenth senatorial dis
trict of Ohio in the state legislature,
served one term as lieutenant COVER
nor, refusing to stand for reelection,
and he is now nearing the close Of his
first term as United States senator.
One Of his first official acts upon
! reaching Washington was to sponsor
the bill for preparedness which had
the Endorsement of Colonel Roosevelt,
and he was closely associated with
the late president during its pendancy
He was selected a chairman of the
national convention soon after he en-
tered the senate without fractional
strife.
AS public speaker, he is calm, yet
forceful. He has wide vocabulary
and is quick at repartee.
Governor Calvin Coolidge, the nom
inee for vice president, was born in a
typical American town-PlymOuth, vt.
twelve miles from railroad, on July
4, 1872. His family was typical Am
erican family and behind him were
generations of Massachusetts ansces-
tors who had served their country in
every emergency. He was not brought
up in poverty, but enjoyed the COM
forts of farm home, free from lux
uries Early in life he learned the
dignity and necessity of work.
Calvin Coolidge entered politics
actively in his home town, Northamp-
ton, IN 1899, when he was elected to
ho ~ hn hn &c,
made city solicitor and held that Of
| flee for two years. He went to the
Massachusetts state legislature in
| 1907 and 1905 He left the legislature
to become mayor of Northampton.
holding that office two years. He was
then elected a state senator, where he
served four years, during the last two
years of which he was president
that body.
AS governor, Calvin Coolidge, If one
is to judge by the constantly increas-
ing majorlties he received in each
succeeding election, has advanced
rapidly in the estimation of the peo-
pie of the state. He was elected in
1918 for his first term. His reelection
by an increased plurality was prac-
tically conceded when the police Of
Boston left their posts.
After night of rioting, the COVER
nor took command of the situation, re-
stored order with state guardsmen, de-
stroyed every effort of the police to
win their places back, ended for all
time the possibility Of police union
with an outside authority. and faced
the electorate on the issue of law and
order.
He was reelected by plurality Of
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