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Show HE BEPUBLO STANDARD BEARERS 6ENAT0R WARREN G. HARDING WAS BORN ON FARM IN STATE OF OHIO. Legislator and Editor Heads Ticket, His Running Mato Being Governor of Massachusetts, Who Came From Vermont. 'hii-ngo. Warren II. Harding, Vnilcil Si si I os sonalur from Ohio, who was I hi.' rlmii-e of I ho Kepubli-can Kepubli-can national conveiilion for the presi-ih'iic.v, presi-ih'iic.v, was born on u farm In Ohio, November 2, 8li.". Ills father was the village doi:lor. The Huntings were of colonial Mock, coming originally from Scotland, Scot-land, settling In Connecticut, removing later to tlie Wyoming valley, Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, where some of them were massacred. mas-sacred. Olliers fought in the revolutionary revolu-tionary war. Warren's mollier, I'hoebe 1 McUerson, was descended from an old-time Holland Dutch family, and thus was lilended tlie blood of tlie Holland Dutch with that of the hardy Krotch. As Warren grew up ho learned to folj trees, chop wood, split rails, plant and hoe corn, find do nil the things incident to farm life. Those were tlie days when farm labors were performed per-formed by haud. In this way young Harding ucquired tlie habit of industry. indus-try. At odd times Harding worked in the little printing office in the village nearby. He became a first-class compositor com-positor and interested himself in (be mechanism of the entire plant. When linotypes were Introduced he mastered the keyboard, so that he finally mastered the intimate workings of n 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 Harding had established the paper on a sound financial basis, he organized n jstock company, distributing shares to each of his employees, and he and (hey 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 jis lieutenant governor, gover-nor, 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 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, 87l'. His family was a typical American Am-erican family anil behind him were generations of Massachusetts ansees-tors ansees-tors who had spi'Ved their country in every einerjreney. He was not brought up in poverty, but enjoyed the comforts com-forts of a farm home, free from luxuries. lux-uries. Karly in life he learned the dignity and necessity of work. Calvin Coolidge entered politics actively in his home town, Northampton, Northamp-ton, in IS1.!'.), when he was elected to the city council. The next year ho was made city solicitor and held that office of-fice for two years. He went to the Massachusetts state legislature in 1907 and 1!0S. He left the legislature to become mayor of Northampton, holding that office two years. He was then elected a state senator, where he nerved 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, has 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 of Hoston 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 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 ol 125,000. |