The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1920-06-17
Biography of the Nominee

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Biography of the Nominee
Senator Harding has been COM
pared to the late President Mckinley"
says the Washington Post, quoting "a
prominent Ohio Republican" who hap
pened to be in the capital. "The COM
parison is excellent. Harding is OF
the Mckinley type-safe, sound, cour-
aeeous, and always ready to listen to
counsel"
A bulletin etitled Senator Warren
G. Harding, of Ohio" has lately come
from the press. It takes up in some
details the Ohio candidates career
and personality, about which, as the
introduction mentions, it is proper for
the public to know when a man is
put forth by those who believe in him
as a candidate for high office" 10
quote frorm this bulletin:
"Warren G. Harding, United States
Senator from Ohio, was born on his
erandfather's farm, where his father
resided, just outside the village OF
(Blooming Grove, Morrow County,
Ohio, November 2, 1866. He was the
eldest of eight children, some Of whom
have achieved more than ordinary
distinction; one in medicine, one as a
uublic-school instructor, and one as a
missionary in foreign field.
"He is the SON of George T. Hard
ing, then the young village doctor,
who found no night too dark and
dreary and no journey too long to
traryel the almost impossible roads
of that day to 60 to the relief OF a
suffering patient, however poor and
unable to pay for the services rem
dered.
"The Hardings are of good old
Colonial stock, coming originally from
Scotland, settling first in Connecticut
removing later to the Wyoming VAL
lev, Pa, where some of them were
massacred and others fought In the
Revolutionary War. The mother OF
Warren, Phoebe Dickerson, was de-
scended from an old-time Holland
Dutch family, the Van Kinks; so that
, in Warren G. Harding is found the
Intending of the blood of the hardy
Holland Dutch and the fearless, alert,
and liberty-loving Scotch. The coun-
try round about was mostly woodland
when Warren was born. His grand
father owned q small tract OF land
and was neither better nor worse OH
than his neighbors. They were all
engaged in cutting away the timber
and transforming primitive forest
into cultivated farms. In those early
days every child must contribute hls
share of toll in overcoming the OBJ
stacles of nature in this Transforming
process. AS Warren grew up, ne
learned to fell trees, chop wood Spit
rails, plant and hoe corn, and DO all
things incident to farm life when crops
were raised between roots ano
stumps, and the labors Of the farm
were xprformed by hand. He early
acouired the habit of industry.
"No tabled goddess lowered over
the. chamber when he was born. he
was lust a natural, healthy, robust
how of humble but honest and pious
narentage, endowed with the suprem'
est gifts of nature-good, hard, com
mon sense, a rugged constitution, q
sunny disposition, ard a heart full o'
the milk of human kindness.
at was not all toll in those days
md Warren delighted in all the coun'
trv and village sports. None better
than he loved to haunt the old swim
ming-pool in Milestone Creek, which
ran near by, and none could dive deep
Ger or swim farther. Among MS
school fellows on the village green NJ
was a prime favorite and the leader
of the gang. At sixteen ne was 8
I man both in stature and in strength
the older boys dared not bully him
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