The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1921-03-10
THE ENCOURAGEMENT
Whatever Else He May Be, Warren G..
Harding Always Classifies Him
self as Editor and Publisher.

SGii as EullUT ana IuDIISnef.
Whatever else he may be, Warren
G. Harding always classifes himself
as an Editor, publisher and printer,
proud Of his professional accomplish
ments and training. His luck-charm
and most sacred possession is a
printers rule, carried in his pocket
wherever he goes, and his close friends
say he would rather set a stick of type
any day than grant an audience to an
ambassador.
For more than thirty years Mr..
Harding's bread and butter has been
earned by the Marion Star, whose
responsibilities he assumed undee
heavy mortgage and whose early years
he nOurished at the expense of going
hungry more than once himself. Since
the nomination for the Presidency he
has faced only one public ordeal that
aroused emotions he could not master.
That was the temporary severence Of
ties that bind him to the Star. On
election night when a group of his
employees came to congratulate him.
his voice broke and his big frame was
shaken by sobs when he undertook to
speak of the separation that must be
the price of his triumph
Election day was Mr.. Harding's
fifty-fifth birthday, and all the inter.
ests had been rooted in the immediate
vicinity of Marion. He was born at
Blooming Grove, O., in an adjoining
county, the son Of a country doctor
George T. Harding, who still visits his
patients about Marion in the one-horse
carriage of the old-school practitioner.
The new presidents mother has been
dead for many years and his father is
remarked
Young Harding attended college at
Iberia, O., and then tried school teach
ing for a year before he began his
newspaper career. Always a partisan
and Republican he lost his job as
a reporter by wearing in the presence
OF his Democratic editor a "Blaine
hat" the stove-pipe which was
badge to support James G. Blaine.
Although it was a pioneer news
paper age, Mr.. Harding's mind ran
to progressive notions even in the
day when the Star was still a liability.
He broke with his first partner over
the question of installing telephone
IN the newspaper office, proposal
which the partner held to be imprac
tlcable, extravagant and revolutionary.
Although he retains a controlling f.
nancial interest in the Star, NOW a
successful newspaper, Mr.. Harding
will occupy but titular relationship
to it during his Presidency.
Three times before he has held pub
lie office. He served in the Ohio leg
islature and as lieutenant governor of
the state and six years ago he was
elected to the United States Senate
where he became a member of the
Foreign Relations Committee. In
1916 he was chairman of the Repub-
lican national convention.
In personal appearance the new
PRESIDENT is man to attract a second
look in any crowd. He carries his
two hundred and ten pounds without
a hint of obesity, although he is not
quite six feet tall; and his massive
features round out an impression of
force and distinction. His hair is iron
grey-almost silver grey-making
sharp contrast with the unusallv
heavy black eyebrows that almost
mask pair of calm grey eyes. It is
only In repose that his face takes on
the aspect of severity seen so often
In his photographs. When he talks