The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1921-03-04
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what she believed To be an attempt
10 belliile her husband. Airs. Warren
0pllarding snapped out these words
TO me as fhc stood In her front yard
out IN Marion. ohio. one morning
last fall
The campaign was at It's height
stump speakers were painting the
Republican presidential candidate "a
puppet going through a public per
formance that was manipulated from
behind the scenes by clever poliii.
clans.
Mrs Harding. accustomed rs shc
was To the open fighting Of hot
politician campaign. could not ro'
strain her resentment under what
ahe earnestly felt waA n gross inlns
iioe TO the man at whose side she
had struggled beginning hack in the
days when she was clrcnlannn mana.
ger for her husbands newspaper
The new President and his wife
are today at the zenith of career
that has consisted largely of hard
work A. hoy Harding painted
barns for farmers living In his
neIghborhood IN Morrow County,
Ohio. As young man he mbbcd on
the old Marion Democrat and was
fired for being too outspokenly Re.
publican In his politics. Early middle
life found him struggling with his
own little newspaper, trying 10
squeeze living out OF II. In tlose
days. Mrs. Harding, daughter Of
Amos King. Marions rich man. spent
her DAYS at the newspaper office
She manascd the newsboys. counted
the papers off OF the press for them
collected subscription money and
kept sharp eye for new business
She is a hustler by instinct and as a
girl insisted on earning her own pin
money by giving piano lessons.
Then Harding was elected to the |
governor OF Ohio. was defeated for
state legislature. became lieutenant
governor. ran for the U. S. senate
and came back ard today enters the
White House as the twenty-ninth
~ sldent OF the United States.
60 Mr. Harding who hal seen her
hubbard tolling through these years
could not bear to have him robbed Of
the credit she felt was due him.
But their success has not made
them proud. There is simplicity in
President Harding. He is plain
man from a small middle western
town. who considers his rise in the
world due more to hard WORK than
TO genius or brilliancy. And he goes
into the White House feeling that
way about hlmself.
"The country has been almost
wrecked by great men, he said,
talking TO some OF his friends one
night recently. 81 believe the world
needs good old-fashioned horse sense
now. more than it ever did before
and if can bring some of that good
sense 10 bear on our problems | be.
lleve | will have made a genuine
contribution TO the country's wei
fare
That is the frame of mind in
which this man from Ohio passed
through the White House doors to.
day and took up one of the most
difficult Jobs in the world. 1t is
that frame Of mind which sometimes
causes people who do not under
stand him to say he is weak and un-
certain of himself. But his advisors
know better than that.
The inside history of the cam
palgn and the selection OF the cabi-
net disclose several instances of
flrmress once his mind has
been made up
During the campaign Harding was
all of one hot summer day
in an upper room of his headquar-
ters house at Marion with half a
dozen party leaders. COX was then
starting on his western tour and the
Harding forces were apprehensive
Of its effect. Harding's advisors were
urging him to make a similar trip.
'rhe candidate was opposed to it.
They argued earnestly, Harding
backed up against the wall with his
party advisors circled around him.
Late in the afternoon newspaper cor
were called in. The at
mosphere was tense. 1t was apparent
.hpt the session had been heated.
Boys Senator Harding began 1--WE
nave been discussing the question o.
speeches, as you know.
fcu can put this in vour paper
There will be few speeches in
eyeral states during the campaign.
3ut we are going to stick to ule
rnnf norch for the most nart"