NOTES
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29. Percentages were derived from
election statistics for 1916 and 1920 from World
Almanac, 1921, pp. 682-683.
30. Copy of a form letter by Governor
Charles H. Brough dated Columbus, September
16, 1920. Box 594, Harding Papers.
31. New York Times, October 22,
1920, quoting the Toledo Pioneer.
32. Ibid.
33. Cleveland Advocate, April 10,
September 25, October 23, 1920.
34. Copies of this campaign leaflet are
in Boxes 606 and 610, Harding Papers.
35. Ibid., Mrs. E. Taylor to
Harding, October 23, 1920, Box 606; Frank E. Linny to
Harding, October 26, 1920, Box 585; J.
D. Pierson, Norman, Oklahoma, to Harding,
November 1, 1920; W. G. Peters,
Salisario, Oklahoma, to Harding, November 1, 1920,
Box 610.
36. Ibid., Samuel C. McClure to
Christian, October 13, 1920; Christian to McClure,
October 22, 1920. Box 599.
37. Public Ledger (Philadelphia),
October 19, 1920.
38. Howard Sutherland to Will H. Hays,
August 20, 1920; Hays to Sutherland,
August 27, 1920 (carbon), September 9,
1920. Hays Papers, Indiana State Library.
39. John C. Harding to W. G. Harding,
October 16, 1920; W. G. Harding to John C.
Harding, October 20, 1920 (carbon). Box
518, Harding Papers.
40. Ibid., A. A. Graham to
Christian, October 28, 1920, Box 534; John H. Wilkins,
Tulsa, Oklahoma to Harding, November 1,
1920, Box 610.
41. Ibid. Mrs. S. B. Williams to
Harding, October 27, 1920. Box 607.
42. George Clark quoted in New York Times,
October 17, 1920 and in Philadelphia
Public Ledger, October 19, 1920.
43. Paper strip and picture of Dr.
George T. Harding (Harding's father) enclosed in
letter from Franklin C. Platt, Waterloo,
Iowa to Harding, October 25, 1920. Box 533,
Harding Papers. A picture of a rooster
occasionally appeared on Democratic ballots as
a party symbol.
44. Ibid., Don Cox to Harding,
October 18, 1920, Box 590; H. H. Abee to Harding,
October 31, 1920 (telegram), Box 584;
Frank Williams to Harding, October 28, 1920,
Box 607; S. A. Ringer to Harding,
October 22, 1920, Box 617; W. W. Cowan to Manning-
ton, October 28, 1920, Box 606; James
Curren to Harding, October 27, 1920, Box 691.
45. Cleveland Plain Dealer, August
24, 1920; Jewish Independent (Cleveland), August
27, 1920; New York Times, October
31, 1920; W. E. Chancellor, Warren Gamaliel
Harding, A Review of Facts Collected
from Anthropological, Historical and Political
Researches (The Sentinal Press, n.d.), 23-27, 67.
46. Poster, "To the Men and Women
of America, AN OPEN LETTER," in the Ohio
Historical Society.
47. Dayton Daily News, October
30, 1920.
48. New York Times, October 31,
1920.
49. Poster, "The Truth Will
Out," in the Ohio Historical Society.
50. Poster, "The Harding
Stock," issued by the Ohio Republican State Executive
Committee, on display (framed) in the
home of Warren Marshman, Blooming Grove,
Ohio.
51. New York Times, November 2,
1920.
52. Election statistics from World
Almanac, 1921, pp. 682-683.
53. Davis to Harding, November 1, 1920.
Box 388, Harding Papers.
54. Cincinnati Times-Star, October
31, 1920.
55. Chattanooga Times, November
1, 1920; Paul J. Kresi, Chattanooga, vice-chairman
of Tennessee Republican Campaign Committee, to
Christian, October 29, 1920 (telegram),
October 31, 1920 (telegram). Box 622,
Harding Papers.
56. Samuel Hopkins Adams to Negley
Cochran, Toledo, Ohio, April 12, 1939. Cochran
Papers, Toledo Public Library.
PRESIDENT HARDING
AND HIS CABINET
1. All of these writers essentially
agree on their evaluation of the cabinet but differ
on certain details regarding its
selection. Their major source of information was the
daily press which was often erroneous.
See William A. White, Masks In A Pageant
(New York, 1928); Frederick L. Allen, Only
Yesterday: An Informal History of the
Nineteen-Twenties (New York, 1928-35); Mark Sullivan, Our Times: The
United States,
1900-1925, VI, The Twenties (New York, 1935); Samuel Hopkins
Adams, Incredible
Era: The Life and Times of Warren
Gamaliel Harding (Boston, 1939.) The
latter con-
tains a most highly colored and
viciously slanted treatment in a chapter entitled
"Cabinet-Making," 196-208.