The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-11-04
SMILE OF CONFIDENCE HE HAS
WORN FOR WEEKS wlDENs
AS RETURNS COME IN.
PRESENTED WITH PRESIDENCY
AS, Throughout the Entire Campaign,
Mrs. Harding Was an Active Fiu-
ure Throughout the Evening.

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he greatest birthday party of his life.
Surrounded by members of his fam
lily and circle of neighbors and per-
sonal friends, he received quietly at
his home here the tribute of the mil
lions who had voted to present him on
his f1rty-fifth anniversary with the
presidency of the United States.
The smile of confidence he has
worn for weeks broadened as he read
the early returns and began to receive
flood of congratulatory messages
Mailing him as President-elect He de-
ferred any formal comment, however,
until the result should have been
established beyond all doubt
During the day he outwardly had
concerned himself very little with the
pending national decision. With Mrs.
Harding he voted during the morning
and then made off for a 40 mile auto
mobile ride and game of golf at the
Scioto club near Columbus. He re-
turned in the early evening, his face
flushed by the raw fall air and his
spirits heightened by the tramp over
tie muddy golf links.
Returns collected by the Associated
Press were delivered to his home dur
ing the evening from the special leas-
ed wire which has been installed with
in hundred feet of his front porch
since the campaign began. He scan
ned the presidential and congressional
returns with an equal show of inter
est, for he has asked the people re-
peatedly for republican Congress to
put the party's legislative program to
statute books.
AS throughout the whole campaign,
Mrs. Harding was an active figure
during the evening about the candi-
dates headquarters. She familiariz-
ed herself with local conditions in
many states and she studied the re-,
turns with an eye for political detail.
The senator's father DR.. George T.
Harding, and two of his sisters, Miss
Abigail Harding and Mrs Caroline
VotaW, also were in the family circle |
and many friends from about town |
dropped in during the evening to pay |
their respects and chat with the Hard |
ings. Outside in the street a crowd |
gathered early, cheering the news OF |
the election returns as it filtered out |
to them.
Harry M. Daugherty, of Columbus, |
who was the senator's pre-convention |
manager and who has been his close |
friend for years was one of those who |
received the election figures here.
Since the Chicago convention he has
served as. a member of the campaign
!
ed the nominee on all OF his speaking
trips, and has been in consultation
with him in Marion far more frequent
ly than any other party leader.
Senator Harding home precincts
gave Harding 373; Cox rs. Four years
ago the senator's precinct had gone
democratic, but reappOintment had
change dprecinct lines.
The first % precincts to report in
Marion county gave unofficially:
4,339; Cox 1874.
While the senator was at dinner
late in the evening a committee Of
the employees of The Marion Star, his
newspaper, called to present him
with a gold printers makeup rule
and he came out on the front porch
and with his voice choking with
emotion thanked them for their devo-
lion.
ST don't know of any CALL" he said
1altingly as tears rolled down his
cheeks, that has aroused my emotions
more than this. I have worked with
you, and l have tried to be honest with
1ou; and God knows l am called t.
I am going to be honest
With eYar> bcdy in the VIC lid. 1 don T
crow if ( Can meet these -e>ponsl'' l.
les FULL but I know that can :u~ct
hem with the same honesty that l
reated you.
e'I am just plain ordinary fellow,
,ut can be on the square, and that's
~ +horn iS fO it - :