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Show I I SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM, UTAH THE REPUBLICni SENATOR WARREN G. HARDING WAS BORN ON FARM IN . STATE OF OHIO. Legislator and Editor Heads Ticket, His Running Mate Being Governor of Massachusetts, Who Came From Vermont. G. Warren Chicago. Harding, United States senator from Ohio, who was the choice of the Republican national convention for the presidency, was born on a farm in Ohio, November 2, 18C5. Ilis father was the village doctor. The Hardings were of colonial stock, coining originally from Scotland, settling in Connecticut, removing later to the Wyoming valley, Pennsylvania, where some of them were massacred. Others fought In the revolutionary war. Warrens mother, Phoebe Dickerson, was descended from an e Holland Dutch family, and thus was blended the blood of the Holland Dutch with that of the hardy Scotch. As Warren grew up he learned to fell trees, chop wood, split rails, plant and hoe corn, and do all the things incident to farm life. Those were the days when farm labors were performed by hand. In this way young Harding acquired the habit of indusold-tim- try. At odd times Harding worked in the in the village s comnearby. He became a in the himself interested and positor mechanism of the entire plant. When linotypes were Introduced he mastered the keyboard, so that he finally mastered the intimate workings of a newspaper office, from the editorial room to the press room. Senator Hardings love for newspaper work has never subsided and he is at present one of the owners of the Marion, Ohio, Star. After Senator Harding had established the paper on a sound financial basis, he organized a stock company, distributing shares to each of his employees, and he and they still own it. o Senator Harding has twice represented the Thirteenth senatorial district of Ohio in the state legislature, served one term as lieutenant governor, refusing to stand for reelection, and he is now nearing the close of his first term as United States senator. One of his first official acts upon reaching Washington was to sponsor the bill for preparedness which had the indorsement of Colonel Roosevelt, and he was closely associated with the late president during its pendancy. He was selected a chairman of the national convention soon after he entered the senate without factional little printing office first-clas- strife. As a public speaker, he is calm, yet forceful. He has a wide vocabulary and is quick at repartee. Governor Calvin Coolidge, the nominee for vice president, was born in a typical American town Plymouth, Vt. twelve miles from a railroad, on July 4, 1872. His family was a typical American family and behind him were generations of Massachusetts ansces-tor- s who had served their country in every emergency. He was not brought up in poverty, but enjoyed the comforts of a farm home, free from luxuries. Early iq life he learned the dignity and necessity of work. entered politics Calvin Coolidge actively in his home town, Northampton, in 1899, when he was elected to the city council. The next year he was made city solicitor and held that office for two years. He went to the state legislature in 1907 and 1908. He left the legislature Massachusetts to become mayor of Northampton, holding that office two years. He was then elected a state senator, where he served four years, during the last two years of which he was president of that body. As governor, Calvin Coolidge, if one s to judge by the constantly increasing majorities he received in each has advanced election, succeeding rapidly in the estimation of the people of the state. He was elected in 1918 for his first term. His reelection by an increased plurality was practically conceded when the police of Boston left their posts. After a night of rioting, the governor took command of the situation, restored order with state guardsmen, destroyed every effort of the police to win their places back, ended for all time the possibility of a police union with an outside authority, and faced the electorate on the issue of law and ' order. He was reelected by a plurality of 125,000. Harding Nominated ferred to ns a friend and heir of the departed The balloting began on Friday night and four ballots were taken at that time. On these ballots General Wood was the leader, with Governor Lowden a fairly close second. After the first ballot a motion to adjourn was made, but was promptly voted down by a combination of the Wood and Lowden delegates, who felt that their only chance to win lay in preventing furBy WRIGHT A. PATTERSON. plank on Mexico and a plank on Ire- ther conferences of the party leaders. land. In the end the Irish were over- Another effort to adjourn was made For President: looked entirely, as nothing the lead- after the second ballot and a roll call Warren G. Harding, of Ohio. ers were willing to do was satisfac- of the states demanded. It, too, was For tory to that element that was demand- voted down by the same combination Calvin Coolidge, of Massachusetts ing a strong resolution acknowledging of delegates. At the close of the the freedom of the Irish "Republic. fourth ballot Senator Smoot advanced For hours the resolutions committee, to the front of the speakers stand and Convention Hall, Chicago. The nomination for president was made on headed by Senator Watson of Indiana, moved an adjournment. A roll call the tenth' ballot. The vote on that fought back and forth. Appointed at was agalu demanded, but the demand ballot for the men who had been the the session of Tuesday, it was expect- was Ignored and an aye and no vote candidates was : Harding, ed to report at 11 oclock Wednesday called for. B$th sides in the controleading and the Coliseum was packed versy exerted all their lung power In Wood, 647; 80 157; Lowden, 12; morning to Johnson, capacity at that hour. A few other an effort to enforce their will on the After it is all over, that Is the news formalities were completed, and an chairman, but after a conference of the it took five strenuous days to pro- adjournment taken to 1 oclock of senate leaders on the speakers stand, duce ; that is all that the great mass of Thursday. Again the crowd came the chair ruled an adjournment had( the public will remember. But for back. The convention convened, Car- been voted. those who had a part in the contest it dinal Gibbons offered an invocation, Back to the council rooms went the will be an experience to be remem- and the convention adjourned to four leaders, and to these rooms were sumbered for' a lifetime, and the conven- oclock. With a never ending Interest moned the men who were directing the tion of 1920 will go down in the his- the crowd was again back at four fights of the candidates. Efforts were tory of the Republican party as one oclock only to wait for two long, made to bring about some sort of a of the hardest waged battles of the sweltering hours for the fight on the compromise that would result in a partys existence. It was a battle of platform which they were anticipating, nomination on Saturday morning. But which the audience saw but little that but which did not materialize. The threats, promises and appeals in the was spectacular; a show that did not fight had all been made behind the interests of party harmony were all measure up to the expectations of the closed doors of the council rooms, and in vain. The three candidates, Wood, thousands who had begged and fought with the exception of the presentation Lowden and Johnson, who were leadfor and purchased tickets, and who had of a minority report by a member of ers in the voting, refused to give place to to any one on whom the senatorial Jammed themselves into the' great the committee from Wisconsin, building session after session, swelter- which no particular attention was leaders could agree. They wanted to ing and roasting, and always antici- paid, there was no evidence that there let the delegates fight it out on the had ever been a disagreement, and floor of the convention and continue pating something worth while. the balloting until the delegates had expressed their choice for the first place on the ticket without any influence being exerted on the part of the party leaders, and temporarily won. When the first ballot was taken at the session of Saturday morning it showed but little change from those of Friday night. Through the first four ballots of Saturday, General Wood and Governor Lowden were running neck and neck and on one ballot were tied with 311 votes each. Again there came a demand for adjournment and again the Wood and Lowden forces combined to prevent it, but without result. After another another consultation at the back of the speakers stand between half a dozen senatorial leaders the session was adjourned despite the protests of a large part of the delegates. Almost instantly there flashed through the great building the rumor that the leaders had decided on Senator Harding as the man if they could force his nomination, and they were going to try. Could they do It? Did the leaders control enough delegates to name the leader of the party ticket? The general. verdict was that they could, that the unrestricted delegates would do their bidding. Senator Johnson and General Wood refused to release their instructed delegates, and on the ninth ballot the Illinois delegation stayed Senator Warren G. Harding Governor Calvin Coolidge with Governor Lowden, the Pennsylvania delegation stayed with Governor The public did not see the real fight, the platform was adopted with less Sproul, and the New York delegation as they were not admitted to the coun- than half a dozen dissenting votes. continued to split among several cancil rooms where the differences of conFriday gave promise of being a red didates. At the end of that ballot testing candidates were ironed out, letter day for the audience and the or where the varying opinions of dif- fight for the coveted bits of beauti- Senator Harding lacked 120 votes of to him and it was ferent factions were being reconciled fully engraved cardboard waxed hot enough fornominate a leaders were time the thought so that a platform that would fit all and heavy. At y in the to fail, until Governor Sproul going elements might be produced. The un- morning, when the session opened, was known to have released the Pennusual conditions of the time had pro- every seat was filled, every aisle was duced a wide range of Ideas. Men dif- jammed with an expectant multitude. sylvania delegation to Harding, and fered radically on important points It was to be a day of oratory, and it with that the effort to climb Into the on the tenth upon which the party must go to the was. The first order of business was Harding wagon started, and final ballot. the end all InIn public as a unit if it is to have a the call of the states for the naming were but structed released, delegations chance of being successful in Novem- of candidates for the nomination for of them declined to change their many ber, and It was not an easy task to the presidency. Arizona yielded to find the common ground upon which Kansas and Governor Allen took the last registered vote, and the final balall were willing to stand. Every day platform to name General Wood. The lot was announced as given at the of the five brought its threat of a bolt audience heard what Governor Allen head of this account. All through the on the part of some faction, and these had to say, and attention was given to balloting 24 Wisconsin delegates had threats brought adjournment after the seconding speeches and to the persistently registered their votes for Senator LaFollette, and when, after adjournment, after sessions lasting speech of Congressman Rodenberg on the last ballot had been announced from but a few minutes to an hour or behalf of Governor Lowden. When was moved to make the nomination it so, in order that the new conferences Judge Wheeler of California, started unanimous these 24 delegates voted new efforts might to present the name of Senator Johnmight be held and be made to satisfy opposing elements. son the audience had had enough of against the motion. It took but a short time to select It was the league ofnatlons plank oratory. The distinguished CaliforGovernor Hardings running mate. that proved the greatest stumbling nian referred to the league of nations block. The irreconcilable of the sen- plank as Senator Johnsons plank, and Governor Coolidge, Senator Lenroot of ate, lead by Senator Johnson, would both delegates and the audience ob- Wisconsin, Senator Gronna of North not listen to anything that favored of jected. He referred to the campaign Dakota, Governor Allen of Kansas, an indorsement of the league of na- funds of other candidates and there and Colonel Anderson of Richmond, tions, with or without reservations. was a roar of disapproval. He fought Va., were named as candidates for the Another element, lead by Nichols Mur- back, and the audience and the dele- place. There was but one ballot, ray Butler of New York, insisted upon gates fought with him. From that Governor Coolidge receiving 676 votes, an Indorsement of the league with the time to the close of the long seven and the ticket was complete. The ReLodge reservations, and on Wednes- hours and more of nominating speeches publican convention of 1920 was a day morning it seemed that nothing the orators might quite as well have thing of the past. could prevent a split on this plank. said nothing, as the audience heard Chairman With some difficulty It was at this time that the political nothing of what they snid. Despite Lodge, whose voice was gone, mangenius of Elihu Root was called upon. the efforts of Chairman Lodge, the aged to hold the delegates together The cables carried the troubles of the commotion continued until the last long enough to pass the usual resolucontestants to Europe, where Root is orator had named the last of the eleven tions of thanks to the officials of the convention and to the City of Chicago, assisting in the organization of an In- candidates whose names were placed and then the Republican convention ternational court, and the cables before the convention. of 1920 came to an end. The manageA feature of the nominating and ment of the convention hall really debrought back a solution that satisfied Senator Johnson and his followers, and seconding speeches was introduced by served thanks, for the seating, the which the others were willing to ac- Mrs. Robinson of New York, a sister policing and other arrangements were cept In the Interests of party harmony. of the late Theodore Roosevelt. In the best ever seen In such a gather, There was difficulty again over the seconding the nomination of General ing. The Coliseum was handsomely labor plank, and again compromise Wood she referred to him as a friend decorated and well lighted and the was resorted to, to prevent a split of her brother, and from that time on comfort of the delegates and guests was as well looked after as could be Much the same thing la true of the practically each candidate was re expected. Lift off Corns! Doesnt hurt a bit and Frearone costs only a few cents. 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