The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1920-06-17
HARDING AND COOLIDGE
WILL LEAD REPUBLICANS
Standard Bearers of q. 0. p. Are Ty-
pieal Americans-Oregon Man
Nominated Coolidge for Vice Pres
idency.

Warren G. Harding of Ohio re-
ceived the republican nomination foT
president of the United States on the
10th ballot at the Chicago conven-
tion and Governor Calvin Coolidge
of Massachusetts was unanimously
chosen as his running mate. The
vice-presidential nominating speech
calling for Governor Coolidge was
made by Judge Wallace McCammant,
OF Oregon, one of the delegates from
this state.
Warren G. Harding, United States
senator from Ohio, and Republican
nominee for the presidency, was born
on his grandfather's farm, where his
father then resided, just outside the
village of Blooming Grove, Morrow
county. o., November 2, 1865. He
was the eldest OF eight children.
He is the son of DR.. George /,
Harding, who at the time of War
ren's birth was the village doctor.
The Hardings were of colonial
stock, coming originally from Scot
land, settling in Connecticut, remoy-
ing later to the Wyoming valley,
Pennsylvania, where some of them
were massacred. Others fought in
the Revolutionary war. Warren 3
mother, Phoebe Dickerson, was de-
scended from an old time Holland
Dutch family and thus was blended
the blood of the Holland Dutch with
that of the hardy Scotch.
Helps on Farm
The country roundabout where the
Hardings located was mostly wood
land. His grandfather owned small
tract of land and was neither better
nor worse off than his neighbors,
They were all engaged in cutting
away the timber and transforming
primatiye forest into cultivated
farms.
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. In this way
young Harding acquired the habit OF
industry.
He attended the village school un-
til fourteen when he entered ONO
Central college at iberia, from which
he graduated. During his college
course he was editor of the college
paper, where he first displayed
nose for news" Like all boys OF
that day he WAS obliged to work dur
ing vacations to pay for his tuition
He cut corn, was an amateur paint
er and drove team In the grading OF
the r. & o. c. railroad which was
being constructed through that com
munity.
At seventeen he was teaching
school and "tooting a horn" in the
village brass band.
At odd times Harding worked in
the little printing Office in the village
nearby. He became first class COM
positor and interested himself in the
mechanism Of the entire plant. When
inotypes were introduced, he. mas
tered the keyboard so that he finally
mastered the intimate workings OF
newspaper Office from the editorial
room TO the press room.
When he was nineteen, having
completed his college course, his fa-
ther, DR.. Harding, seeking wider
field. removed to Marion, O.. the
county seat of an adjoining county,
where he still resides, and despite
his seventy-six years, is in active
practice of his profession.
Buys Newspaper
The Star was a struggling daily in
a backward county seat of four thou
sand inhabitants. Young Harding
wanted to own it, however, notwith-
standing the fact that it was diillcuit