A democratic leader, William Gibbs McAdoo called Harding speeches "an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea." Their gloom was effective, since Harding remained unclear statements about the League of Nations, in contrast to the passionate crusade of the Democratic candidate, Roosevelt, Governor James M. Cox of Ohio and Franklin D..
Thirty-one distinguished Republicans had signed a manifesto reassure voters, a vote for Harding was a vote for the league. But Harding interpreted his election as a mandate from the League of Nations.
Harding, near Marion, Ohio, born in 1865, was the editor of a newspaper. He married a divorcee, Mrs. Florence Kling De Wolfe. He was a trustee of the Trinity Baptist Church, a director of almost all important issues, and a leader in fraternal organizations and charitable organizations.
He organized the Citizens' Initiative Cornet Band, both Republicans and Democrats rally: "I played every instrument but the slide trombone and the E-Cornet," he once remarked.
Harding uncompromising Republicanism and vibrant speaking voice, plus his willingness to let the machine bosses set policies, led him far in Ohio politics. He served in the Senate and as lieutenant governor and ran unsuccessfully for governor. He delivered the address of President Taft at the Republican nomination in 1912. In 1914 he was elected to the Senate, he voted found "a very pleasant place."
Ohio, an admirer, Harry Daugherty, began Harding to promote the Republican nomination in 1920, as he later explained, "He looked like a president."
Thus a group of senators who control the Republican National Convention established in 1920 as the top candidates, turned to Harding. He won the presidential election with an unprecedented landslide of 60 percent of the vote.
Republicans in Congress quickly got the presidential signature on their bills. They eliminated wartime controls and slashed taxes, a federal budget, restored the high protective tariffs and imposed tight restrictions on immigration.
By 1923 the postwar depression seemed to be to make a new wave of prosperity, and newspapers hailed Harding as a wise statesman carrying out his campaign promise - "Less government in business and more business in government."
Behind the facade, was not all that impressive of Harding Administration. Word of the president began, that some of his friends their official positions for their own enrichment was achieved. Alarmed complained, he said, "My ... friends ... they are the ones that I always walk the floor nights!"
Looking wan and depressed, Harding journeyed west in the summer of 1923, which he maintained with the Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover. "If you knew of a great scandal in our administration," he asked Hoover, "would expose the public for the good of the country and the party or would you bury?" Hoover urged to publish, but Harding feared the political consequences.
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