The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-06-25
Home Town Celebrated.

Home Town Ceoebrates.
Marion. Ohio. June l4.--This little
Ohio city Of nearly 3'.OlO people went
wild Saturday night when 1t learned
that one Of its citizens, Warren g..
Harding. had been nominated for the
presidency by the Republican national
convention. Several minutes before 1t
was ANNOUNCED officially ut Chicago
that Harding had been nominated,
Marion started celebrating when it
considered sure thing. Factory
whistles were blown. church bells
rung and Hartlings friends and neigh
Mrs gathered on the streets in shout
ing groups.
No one was at the Harding home to
receive the news. The house. one Of
the modest dwellings If the city, was
dark.
Harling's father and sister. who
live here. were the centre nf enthusi-
astfc groups Of townSl,pople.
The father. DR.. J. =. Harding. a
physician. received the news of the
honor I" his son on his seventy-sixth
birthday. A sister. Abigail Harding,
tpaches in the Marion school.
The elder Harding received the news
without excitement. He declared he
had not wanted his sol, to ht. nOmi.
mattel, hut now that he il nominated
he would vote for him for president.
Early in the day when Hartling's
nomination appeared assured. the
father told intimate friends he hoped
"Wnrren" would not he nominated. as
SO many presidents and men IN high
Office were aSSa>sinatp,. He said he
did not want his ''boy' harmed. New.
ertheless. 1)r. Harding appeared to he
the l.nppiest man in the world Satur.
day night.
Mrs. Harding was with her husband
at Chicago when the nomination was
made. The Harlings have no children.
Since 1884 the senator has owned
and published the Marion Star. He
has been in newspaper work since he
was -. When here he spends all Of
his time ut the Star Office I'm the act
i've management Of the paper. He is
Il practical printer and delights in
spending hours in his composing room
handling type.
He began his newspaper work on
the Marion Mirror. when 1t was a
Democratic newspaper. at 80 a week.
and was discharged from the staff Of
the paper during the Blaine campaign
because his synpathies were with
Blaine and because he insisted on
wearing the high hat of the Blaine
pnrtiSans.
The Republican presidential nomi.
nee was horn on November .. 1868. Mt
Blooming Grove. Morrow county. Ohio.
10 miles east Of Marion. When a hoy
his family moved to Caledonia. where
young Harding taught school for two
years. He played cornet in the
Caledonia brass hand and later re-
cetved a college education at a little
Baptist college at liberia. Ohio.
When he was 10. Harding moved to
Marion to study law. hut law did not
hold his fancy long. In college he had
been the editor Of the college paper.
and newspaper work thrilled him. 1t
was then that he hogan work on the
Mirror from which paper he was
''firpd."
His political life began in 1890 when
he was elected to the state senate
from the Thirteenth Ohio district. In
1903 he was elected lieutenant COVER.
nor 1T Ohio and was elected to the
United States senate in 1914.
He was married in 1891 to Miss
Florence King Of Marion.
Golf Is Senator Har,iing's particular
hobby. He also is great baseball
enthusiast.