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Warren G. Harding: Republican Party
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Warren Harding was a handsome, amiable man who looked like a President but hardly acted like one. He won election by a landslide but did nothing with his mandate. A conservative Republican, he favored a return to “normalcy†after Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom program of business regulation. Scandals rocked Harding's Presidency and contributed to his untimely death in office.
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Mrs. Phillips threatened to go public with their affair if the Senator supported the war, but Harding defied her and voted for war, and Carrie did not reveal the scandal to the world. When Harding won the Republican presidential nomination in 1920, he did not disclose the relationship to party officials. Once they learned of the affair, it was too late to find another nominee. To reduce the likelihood of a scandal breaking, the Republican National Committee sent Carrie and her family on a trip to Japan and paid them over $50,000. Mrs. Phillips ... received monthly payments thereafter, becoming the first and only person known to have successfully extorted money from a major political party.
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In 1920, Harding ran for president initially as a favorite son in order to solidify his position in the Ohio Republican ranks. When a deadlock developed at the convention between the supporters of Leonard Wood and Frank O. Lowden... Harding was adopted as the compromise candidate, winning on the 10th ballot. The Republican nomination in 1920 was tantamount to election, as the Democratic party nationally was suffering from unpopular wartime policies and developments. Harding easily defeated the Democratic contender, James M. Cox.
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Harding was selected to deliver the nominating speech for William Howard Taft in 1912, an event that brought the newspaperman national attention. He worked hard during the ensuing campaign, attacking Theodore Roosevelt and the Bull Moose Party as political traitors. This newly won prominence, plus Daugherty’s maneuverings, yielded a Senate seat for Harding in 1914. He made little impact as a legislator, but dependably supported Henry Cabot Lodge on most foreign affairs issues, backed the interests of big business and paid lip service to the cause of prohibition.
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For the next 4 years, Harding concentrated mainly on his newspaper business. In 1910, by a wide margin, he lost a bid for the governorship. Two years later, he presented the nominating speech for President Taft at the Republican national convention. Harding next served in the U.S. Senate (1915-21). In 1916 he chaired the Republican convention and delivered the keynote address.
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In his few campaign speeches, Harding relied mainly on the political effectiveness of bland generalities. Sometimes his statements were deliberately confusing. For example, he promised internationally minded voters that he would support an “association of nations,” while at the same time he promised “America first!” to isolationists. In this way he won the support of influential Republicans who believed in the League of Nations as well as those who opposed it. Harding's inoffensive stand on the league and other issues attracted many voters to the Republican Party. Many other voters, who blamed Wilson for entering the war and for high postwar prices, probably voted against the Democrats, rather than for Harding (see Isolationism).
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