Milford chronicle., 1923-08-10
The Life Work of Warren GamaIieI Harding

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Rose to Victory Through Defeat
In 1910 Harding received the Repub
lican nomination for Governor of Ohio
but was defeated by Judson Harmon
Democrat. His nomination was
brought about largely by George B
Cox, Republican leader, who caused a
break in deadlock by swinging his
support to Harding to avert a threat
ened stampede for Representative
Nicholas F. LOngworth, son-in-laW of
the late Theodore Roosevelt. Harding
took his defeat at the election philo-
sophically and kept on running his
newspaper.
In 1912 came the split in the Re-
publican Party and the candidacy OF
Roosevelt for President on the Pro-
! gressiVe ticket. Harding made
speech renominating President Taft at
the 1912 convention. In supporting
Taft in the campaign he attacked
Roosevelt vigorously in his paper and
on the platform.
His nomination for United States
Senator in 1914 came in spite of him
self and almost against his wishes,
the situation in this respect being
much the same as that preceding his
nomination for President. A strong
element of the Republican Party ask
ed him to be a candidate for the Sen
ate; but Foraker, who had been re-
tired in 1908 by the election of Dem
ocratic Legislature, was ambitious for
comeback" Despite differences at
times, they We're personal friends of
long standing. Harding was so reluc-
tant to become candidate that he left !
the State for two months on hunt |
ing trip to Texas. The Republican |
leaders favoring him were insistent,
however, and Harding on his return
went to Cincinnati to see Foraker and
tell him he was a candidate.
Harding won the nomination by a
substantial margin and was elected
Senator by plurality of 100000, run
ming $4,000 ahead of the next highest
candidate on the ticket.
His election to the Senate really
marked his entrance into national pol
tics. Before that time he was COM
Daratively unknown outside of Ohio
md it was not until after his cleo
ion that his brief biography appeared
n the publication, who's Who in
America"
Impressive Bearing in the Senate
During his early years in the Senate,
larding occasionally attracted the at
ention of visitors by his speeches.
handsome and large, with an impress
i've bearing, pleasing voice and digni-
= of gesture, he made his reputation {
S a speaker by his effect on his au- l
fences rather than on newspaper '
eaders. For several years after he en- D
'red the Senate he was generally ov- s
rlooked by the press, or received d
,aTt attention. p
Senator Harding was little known l.
the country when he was put for c
ard to make the keynote speech" at n
e Republican National Convention u
Chicago in 1916, and was mentioned n
a possible dark horse" for the "
His friends predicted that II
would make great speech, and d
ere was even the prediction that he II
lght repeat the feat of William ]. n
yam in Democratic convention and
n the nomination by sheer power of te
atory. OF
1t is no disparagement of Harding hl
say that his speech fell short of his OF
ends expectations. 1t was consider
an excellent speech in many ways, oN
t the task of showing that President 10
llson's Administration had blunder- su
in its dealings with Germany with 10
t giving to understand that the Re- ge
blican Party intended to reverse IN
at policy by going to war proved te
} difficult. Like Hughes, nominated la
little later on as the candidate for ga
esident, Harding failed to outline We
Republican policy boldly or clear ne
He received a few votes in the con-
ltion, but the lack of defniteness Sc
his Keynote speech" prevented him wa
m becoming a Presidential possi- ex
ty that year although he struck Gle
urately the keynote of the oratory Lo
t marked the subsequent losing pal
publican campaign. uri
Supporter of War Measures no
nee the country was at war, Sena-
Harding was a strong advocate of @ col
war measures "a supporter of Pres ndii
1T Wilson's war policies and a crit aIt
f ObstructiOnists. He was impatient naC :
I'll legislative delays in carrying -,
war policies. In an interview in I@ne ne
New York Times of August 12, aiti
7, he said that the United States dI
drifting toward a war dictator W., MO'
and that he favored it. When he Int
asked if this was not an un-Am- vi
an idea, he said: ing
Whether it is or is not American, MAJ
Ill be made American once the con- ClsI
IN is an established fact, but at the iile ii
e time let me answer your ques- the
more fairly by short glance at
history as 1 see it. While I am II
Ter historian nor constitutional ,,or,
er it appears to me that the ex- 6o91
nee of the founder of our nation. II r
, George Washington, had con- a+or
I'd himself that in times of Cation vote
'ises supreme power 81 I'd be cbu,
ID in one head and re- Pra.
sibility as well asa |Wer 1or
Id be vested there tch- +bor