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Show THE REPUBLICAN STANDARD BEARERS 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. Chicago. Warren G. Harding, United Slates senator from Ohio, ulio was the choice of the Republican Republi-can national convention for the presidency, presi-dency, Hits born on a farm in Ohio, November 2, 18i!fi. His father was the village doctor. Tlie Hardings were of colonial slock, coming originally from Scotland, Scot-land, settling in Connecticut, removing Intel" to the Wyoming valley, Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, where some of them were massacred. mas-sacred. Others fought in the revolutionary revolu-tionary war. Warren's mother, Phoebe Dfckerson, was descended from an old-time Holland .Dutch family, and thus was blended the blood of the Holland Dutch with that of the hardy Scolcb. 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 per-formed by hand. In this way young Harding acquired the habit of industry. indus-try. At odd times Harding worked In the little printing office in the village nearby, lie became a first-class compositor com-positor and interested himself in the mechanism of the entire plant. When linotypes were introduced he mastered the keyboard, so that he finally mastered the intimate workings of it newspaper office, from the editorial room to the press room. Senator Harding's love for newspaper news-paper work has never subsided and he is at present one of the owners of the Marion, Ohio, Star. After Senator Hardinsr had established the miner on a sound financial basis, he organized a stock company, distributing shares to each of his employees, and he and they still own it. Senator 'Harding has twice represented repre-sented the Thirteenth senatorial district dis-trict of Ohio in the state legislature, served one term as lieutenant governor, gover-nor, refusing to stand for reelection, and he is now Hearing 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 en-tered the senate without factional 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 nom-inee 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 Am-erican family and behind him were generations of Massachusetts ansces-tors ansces-tors who had served their country in every emergency, He was not brought up in poverty, but enjoyed the comforts, com-forts, tif a farm home, free from luxuries. lux-uries. Early in life he learned the dignity and necessity of work. Calvin Coolidge entered politics actively in his home town, Northampton, Northamp-ton, in 1899, when he was elected to the city council. The next year he was made city solicitor and held that office of-fice for two years. He went to the Massachusetts state legislature in 1907 and 190S. He left the legislature to become mayor of Northampton, holding that office two years. He was then elected a state senator, where lie served four years, during the last two years of which he was president of that body. As governor, Calvin Coolidge, if one is to judge by the constantly increasing increas-ing majorities he received In each succeeding election, litis advanced rapidly in the estimation of the people peo-ple of the state. He was elected in ' 191S for his first term. His reelection by an increased plurality was practically prac-tically conceded when the police ol Boston left their posts. After a night of rioting, the governor gover-nor took command of the situation, restored re-stored order with state guardsmen, destroyed de-stroyed every effort of the police to win their places buck, ended for ali 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 ot 125,000. Nominee Happy, Also Grateful. Chicago. Caught at the hotel to which he rushed from the Coliseum after his nomination. Senator Harding made no formal statement, but declared de-clared he was '"very happy" and '"deeply '"deep-ly grateful to his friends." |