"The old guard won. The Progressive and the Roosevelt elements in the Republican national convention were beaten. Warren G. Harding, conservative, old fashioned Republican, who looks like McKinley, acts like McKinley and thinks like McKinley was nominated for the presidency by a convention that was worn out by the prolonged balloting in a sweltering temperature."
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Presidents of the United StatesRepublican Party (United States) politiciansUnited States presidential candidates, 1920Politicians from OhioUnited States presidential candidates, 1916
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As quoted in St. Joseph News-Press June the 14th 1920, ‘OLD FASHIONED TICKET HARDING IS OF THE TYPE OF WILLAIM MCKINLEY by David Lawrence’ Note: The writer here was referring to Harding’s nomination as the Republican Party’s presidential candidate that year, and how his nomination represented a victory for the party’s “Old Guard” conservative wing.
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