Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-06-13
NOMINEES FATHER
 THINKS HE'LL VOTE FOR CANDIDATE SON
Marion, Ohio, Goes Wild With Delight As News
 Comes

Marion, Ohio, June 12.-This littl, central Ohio city of nearly 36 ooo neo. Die went wild With joy and entbusi asm tonight when it was learned tbs, one Of its citizens, Warren G. liar. uihg had been nominated for the pres. ldency by the republican national con. vention.
 Minutes before it was announced of. flclally at Chicago that Hardinp had been nominated, Marion started cele- pratlng what is considered a sure | thlhg. Factory whistles were footed church bells rung and Hardinp,. friends and neighbors gathered on the streets in shouting, laughing groups.
 No one was at the Harding home to receive the news
 Harding's father and sister who live here were the center of enthu- slastic groups of townspeople who discussed excitedly the developments.
 The father, Dr. J. P. Harding. q practicing physician, received the news of the honor to his son on his 76th anniversary. He seemed highly elated, as did his sister, Abigail Har- ding who teaches English in the Ma rion school.
 The elder Harding received the news without excitement. He de- clared he had not wanted his son to be nominated but now that he is nom- mated, he declared 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 many men in high offices are as- sassinated. Nevertheless Dr. Harding appeared to be the happiest man in the world tonight.
 Senator Harding is a successful newspaper publisher.
 Since 1884 he has owned and pub lished the Marion Star. He has been in newspaper work since he was 19, when in Marion he spends his time in the activemanagement of the paper He is practical printer and delights in spending hours in his composing room handling type.
 Is Newspaper Man.
 He began his newspaper work on the Marion Mirror, a democratic newspa- per, at $9 per week salary and was from the staff during the Blaine campaign because his sympa- thies were with Blaine and because he insisted on wearing the high hat of the Blaine partisans.
 The republican presidential nomi nee was born on November 2, 1865, at Grove, Morrow county, Ohio, IS miles east of Marion. When boy his family moved to Caledonia, nine miles nearer Marion, where young Harding taught school two years. He played a cornet in the Caledonia brass band, and later received a col lege education at little Baptist col Iege at Oberia, Ohio.
 When 19 Harding moved to Marion to study law, but law did not hold his fancy. In college he had been editor of the college newspaper and newspa- per work thrilled him. It was then that he began work on the Mirror.
 His political life began in 1899 when he was elected to the state senate from the Thirteenth Ohio district. In 1903 he was elected lieutenant govern or of Ohio and was elcted to the Unit ed States senate in 1914
 He was married in 1891 to Miss Florence Kling of Marion.
 Golf is Senator Harding's particular hobby. He also is great baseball fan.
 He is a great home man and likes nothing better than to sit at his own fireside entertaining friends with the help of Mrs. Harding. He takes great pride in the fact that he has never had any labor trouble at his newspa- per plant
 Senator Harding is trustee of the Trinity Baptist church of which he is a member and upor whose services he regular attendant when in Marion.