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Show OHIO GLEE CLUB BACKED HARDING LONG AND LOUD CHICAGO, Aug. t. Th tory of a convention glee club which ssng th praises of Warren O. Harding throughout tha 102 Republican Re-publican convention here and which waa credited in om quarters quar-ters with having Initiated th awsll of Harding sentiment whlcn culminated' In hla nomination, was recalled today by local hotel men. From th opening hour of the convention the glee club, composed of a bar handful of Harding supporters, sup-porters, mostly Ohloans, nightly paraded tha corridor of th hotel singing for "a big man for a big place Warren O. Hardlns for president." At first regarded merely as the natural errthuslsam for a astlvs son. th gles club's central Idea grew Into -she convention until the burden of-th song became a reality. When th Harding vote stood around II. the singing Buckeyes did thsir piece with firmer voice. On th opening dsy of the convention con-vention tha musical booming was th principal surface Indication thst th future president waa In town. Th ong seemed almost pathetic In Ito futility. But they" sang on up and down th city block of brilliantly decorated hall night after night, "Harding for preeldent, a big ' man for a big place." I . a , . |