New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
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MARION, Ohio, June 12.-This little
central Ohio city of nearly $4,000
people went wild with joy and enthu-
siasm tonight when it learned that
one Ct its citizens; Warren G. Harding
had been nominated for the Presidency
by the Republican National Convention.
Minutes before it was announced
officially at Chicago that Harding had
Deen nominated Marion started TO cele-
Dfate what 1T considered sure
thing. Factory whistles were footed.
church bells were rung and Hardine's
friends and neighbors gathered on the
streets in shouting, laughing groups.
No one was at the Harding home to
receive the news. The house, one of
the modest dwellings of the city, was
dark.
Harding's father and sister, who live
here, were the center of enthusia site
groups Of townspeople, who discussed
eXcltedly the developments of the day
at the Chicago convention.
Father Has Joyful Birthday
The fathers DR.. j. P. Harding,
practicing physician, received the news
OF the honor to his son on his seventy
sixth birthday. He seemed highly
elated. as did sister, Abigail Hard
ing, who teaches English in the Marion
High School.
The elder Harding received the news
without excitement. He declared he
had not wanted his son to be nomi-
mated, but now that he was nominated,
he said he would vote for him for
President
Earlier in the day, when Harding's
nomination appeared assured, the
father told intimate friends he hoped
Warren" would not be nominated, as
50 many Presidents and men in high
ONCE are assassinated. lie said he
didn't want his boy" harmed. Never
theless, DR.. Harding appeared to be
the happiest man in the world tonight
Ms Harding was with her husband
at Chicago when the nomination was
made. The Hardings have no children
Senator Harding is successful
newspaper publisher. Since 1884 he
has owned and published "The Marion
Star" He has been in newspaper work
since he was nineteen. When in Marion
he spends all Of his time at "T'he Star"
Office in the active management of the
paper. He is practical printer and
delights in spending hours in his COM
posing room handling type.
Discharged as Blaine Partisan
He began his newspaper career on
"The Marion Mirror" which was
Democratic newspaper, at 50 week
salary, and was discharged from the
staff of that paper during the Blaine
campaign because his sympathies were
with Blaine and because he insisted
upon wearing the high hat Of the Blaine
partisans.
The Republican Presidential nominee
was born on November 2, 1865, at
Blooming Grove, Morrow County, Ohio,
just nineteen miles east of Marion
When boy his family moved to Gale
donia, nine miles nearer Marion, where
young Harding taught school for two
years. He played cornet in the Gale
donia Brass Band, and later received a
college education at little Baptist Col
iegc at Iberia, Ohio.
When he was nineteen years old
Harding moved to Marion to study law,
but law did not hold his fancy long In
college he had been editor Of the col
lege paper, and newspaper work thrilled
him. 1t was then that he began work
on "The Mirror" from which paper he
was fired"
His political life began in 1889, when
he was elected to the State Senate
from the 18th Ohio District. In 1903
he was elected Lieutenant Governor OF
Ohio and was elected to the United
States Senate. In 1914
He married in 1891 Miss Florence
King, Of Marion.
Golf is Senator Harding's particular
hobby. He also is Il great baseball fan
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