The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-11-01
DENOUNCED AS CAMPAIGN
LIE OUT OF FULL CLOTH
J. II. Anderson Receives Tele-
gram From DR.. Cressinger,
Of Marion.

That family tree Of Harding canard
which gained some circulation In this
section Of the country is denounced as
n campaign lie by DIR. Cressinger, pres
ident OF the Marion Civios association.
The denunciation came In response
~ this telegram sent DR. Creasinger
by James II, Anderson, one OF Chatta-
ncoEa'e leading republican lawyers:
"Chattanooga, Oct. SOD. r. Cross.
niger, Marion o.; Report here that
Senator Harding has negro blood. IL
this truef Wire my expense,
u JAMES n. ANDERSON"
Absolutely Untrue,
The teiegraphlc reply to this was Ms
i'Marion, o., Oct. so.--James IT, An
dersor, Chattanooga, Tenn; Answering
telegram, absolutely untrue. Have
known Harding and his people Tor htty
years ana know history OF ancestors,
which dates In unhroken Caucasian
line back 10 issi In England and back
10 fses colonial times. Whole story Is
cruel lie OF whole cloth, Harding
VIII have host line of ancestry OF any
OF our presidents. He win be elected.
81 "DR. CREssiNdER
president Marion Civloal Articulation"
NFFF o. y. TAFT Also Denies.
The story as circulated py nana NJ
%sS oharged Senator Harding had a.
tnInt Of Negro blood" In HIS veins,
while OF course the story was not
credited by any right-thinhing person
uIn mSs PIN TimsSe I edited ~ Charles
,. TAFT, brother Of former President
Taft. TO issue formal denial. which
he did in n signed editorial OF Satur-
days Issue of the star,
Mr.. Taft y bis editorial editorial being ,h o ps
cratic party with circulating this ca
nard, lie says;
.The story liz TO the effect that War.
ron a. HardlnE'n grandfather was Amos
Harding and that he married Mhry
Ann Dixon, a negreas, $500,
The story IL false N every renee r,asr !
ings grandfather was not Amos, but
t,hnrlea Alexander Harding. Charles
Alexander HArdinR'a wife, and the
grandmother Of warren q. Hardink on
tbs. patsrnal side; was Msry Ann , Trnws
crawford. OF Baltimore. and Sophia
stevens. whose family lived In Albe-
marie county, virginia, the Craw.
fords were Of scotchsifish descent, the
family originating In Lanarlsshire, Scot
America In the seventeenth century.
THE crawfords appear all through tns
goneaiogins OF Virginia, and are relete9
Ia most OF the prominent families OF
colonial days In that state, $3.50.
"'rhere was an Amos Hardlns among
warren q. Iiardlng's ancentors. re
WAS not the senator's grandfather, now
ever. but his great.grent -Krandinthcr.
The name OF Mis- wife was not MARY
Ann Dixon, but Phoebe Trlppl who ~.
ionged 10 q well-known colonial famiiy
n Inra ne%s alocum. The lost sister Of wy
ofalng.' Amos Harding lived In the
wyoming valley, Pennsylvania. rom
jiM 10 1900. He came 70 Richlnnd
county, Ohio, early. In the nineteen,h
century, and died thare ~ 1850.
ory Of Inc senator an followHi
The genaaingy OF Senator Harding
BY MI. TAFT 10 be the genuine
one, and supported by proofs Sterts
with Amos. Harding, born less, .hsn
S.SrdInx born 1881; Abraham Harding.
born i7So, and Anna Dalson. his vile,
Abraham Harding. born i72f, married
IluldA Tryon. From the last nhmeu
comes George Tryon Harding. iather OF
tho senator. nov living a. An Ma I,orS,n NO.
born i7st. and Phoebe Trip. whose
son was George Tryon Harding, horn
l70O. who married Elizabeth Madison
ard Of whom was born Charles Ales-
ander Hhrdine, the candidate. grnnu
,s.hsr M Gnsr Ann 4 era~ford who Was
mo daughter OF Joshua Crawford nna
lonhin Stephena, and Of that union
George Tryon Harding was porn Scn-
ator Hnrding's mother was Fnoepo
elizabeth Dickerson, whose lineage
riincs . staTa publication. In connsc-
Ion with the matter treated BY, .Mr. ,
rnft. Senator Hardinga maternal hhe-
lge IL not an Issue.