The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-06-14
WARREN G.. HARDING,
REPUBLICAN NOMINEE,
is NEWSPAPER MAN

Coliseum, Chicago. June 12.-Fo
president of the United States, War
rem G. Harding of Ohio.
For vice president, Calvin Coolidge
Of Massachusetts,.
This is the Republican ticket fol-
the 1920 campaign.
1t was chosen in the convention
this afternoon after long drawn out
battle, ten ballots being required to
nominate Harding for the first place
on the ticket.
Harding's vote was 674 ITO near.
ly more than 220 in excess of the
number required to nominate.
His nearest competitor, General
Leonard Woo, received 157 1-2 on
the final ballot.
Hiram Johnson, in third place, re-
ceived 80 As.
Frank o. Lowden, on the final
ballot received IL.
Harding, the junior senator from
Ohio, had the backing or every one
of the old guard leaders in the con-
vention. He was also Favored by
Boise Penrose, who from his sick
bed in Philadelphia issued his or
ders to the convention through Sen
ator Watson of Indiana anc John T.
King of Connecticut.
Starting out with the small vote Of
IS 1-2 votes on the first ballot taken
yesterday, Harding, with the aid of
the masterly leaders of the old guard
faction, steadily won his way to the
top, gaining on each successive bal
lot taken today. His lowest vote was
So 1-2 and was recorded In the third
ballot yesterday.
Warren G. Harding Is editor and
proprietor of the Marion Ohio Star
and has represented Ohio In the
United States senate since Nov. 8,
1914. He is a Baptist, admirer of
the late Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
and of the military genius OF Napo-
leon and the craftsmanship OF Alex
ander Hamilton. He numbers William
Howard Taft among his closest
friends. He was born Nov. 2, 1865
in Blooming Grove, Morrow County,
Ohio.
On his fathers side the Republican
nominee for the presidency is a de-
scendant of the Scots who settled in
Pennsylvania in Colonial times. His
father was physician. His mother
was Miss Phoebe Elizabeth Dickerson
a descendant of the Van Kirk family
OF Dutch ancestry.
Boyhood on Farm.
His boyhood was spent on the farm
which his father conducted in addi-
tion to practising medicine. After at
tending the ''little red school house"
Of the neighboring town until he was
IA he entered the Ohio Central Col
lege at Iberia from which he was
graduated in 1882. He paid most of
the expenses of his tuition from his
own earnings in cutting corn, driving
teams, working as a railroad laborer
and also in painting barns. He also
worked in the office of the village pa
per and there learned the art of set
ting type and making up" forms. In
his graduating year he taught vii
lage school and also played the horn
in the village band.
Became Editor.
When the family moved to Marion
in 1884, the young man, with the as
sistance of his father, acquired a
half interest in the Daily star and as
sumed the editorship of the strug-
Cling little journal. He had been edi-
tor only ten days when the Blaine
and Logan campaign openec in Chi
cago. He became a Blaine enthusiast
and finally told the two printers and
the office boy to get out the paper and
hurried away to Chicago. When he
got back to Marion the sheriff had
closed the shop. He then became a.
reporter on the Marion Mirror at $7l
a week and kept the place until he
was fired for refusal to write an edi-