The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-31
Circulation OF Malicious
Story Brings Attack
From Taft Paper.
ENEMY HARD PRESSED
Even Names Mentioned i'm
Allegations Proved TO Be
Incorrect.
HARDINGS AN OLD FAMILY
Assault on Nominees Ances-
tors Denounced as Act Of
Desperation.
AN OLD FAMILY

Special Oss,otc,. 10 Tux NEW YoaK HxnAls.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 30.-The follow
ing appears in the Timcs-Stdr, owned
by Charles p. Taft. actively support
ing Harding So far Senator Harding
stands by his determination not 10
answer OIL to take any cognizance OF
the affair. He figures that IL he once
began TO reply he would be kept at It
throughout the four years of the
Presidency:
fifty years ago personal scandal
and whispered lies against the candi.
dates played considerable part i'm
American politics. Until this year
Il seemed that we had been getting
away from that sort Of thing. The
Presidential campaigns Of the pres
ent century have been fought out
chiefly in the open, with arguments
about principles and the characters
and intentions of candidates holding
the centre Of the stage. This year
the Democrats have tried to turn the
clock back fifty years They have
attempted to revive that spirit OF
un6erhanded partisanship which was
quite usual in America in the days
when blackguards attacked the an
cestry Of the mother Of Abraham
Lincoln and said that Lincoln himself
u-as illaoitimata
Dare Not Speak Openly.
Most OF the energy Of the under
ground section Of the Democratic cean-
paign has been devoted to the circu-
lation OF n lie about Harding's an-
cestry. No responsible Democrat has
dared repeat II in the open, but many
Democrats have passed It around,
hand 10 Il. There are few voters
in Hamilton county who have not r-n
up against this sneaklng propaganda
in one form or another, and who have
not had somebody whisper in their
ears in strict confidence that there
zig really something in that story
about Harding
"The story is 70 the effect fnst
Warren G. Harding's grandfather
vas Amos Harding and that he mar
ried Mary Ann Dixon, negress.
"The story is false in every re-
spect It even has the wrong names
for Harding's grandparents. The
Senator's grandfather was not Amos
tut Charles Alexander Harding.
Charles Alexander Harding's wife,
and the grandmother OF Warren G.
Harding on the paternal side. was
Mary Ann Crawford. She was the
daughter OF Joshua Crawford or
Baltimore and Sophie Stevens. whose
family lived in Albemarle county,
Va. The Crawfords were OF Scotch.
Irish descent. the family originating
in Lanarkshire, Scotland. The first
Cf the family came to America In the
seventeenth century. The Crawfords
appear all through the genealogies
\ cf Virginia and are related TO most
of the prominent families Of Colonial
days in that State.
Well known Colonial Family.
There was an Amos Harding
emong Warren 6. Harding's ances-
tors lie was not the Senator's
grandfather, however, but his great
great-grandfather. The name Of his
wife was not Mary Ann Dixon, bue
Phoebe Tripp. who belonged to a we'll
known Colonial family Of Pennsylva.
Slocum, THE Lost Sister Of wyo.
ming" Amos Harding lived in the
Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania from
1777 to 1900. He came to Richland
county. Ohio, early in the nineteenth
century, and died there in 1899
"As a rule. Americans object %
lies. and particularly TO that type of
lie which flourishes only in the dark.
Unless the character Of our people
has changed, they will show on eieer
ton day exactly what they think Of
the subterranean campaign the Dent,
ocrats have waged during the last
three weeks. s
"a political campaign that canp5s
be run in the open. free press ~
America is not TO the credit OF any
party or candidate.
"We give below Hardlng's family
tree. II is an ancestry OF vnlch ~
American might well be proy1 We