Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1920 — HARDING NOT AFRAID TO WORK-DOES OWN TASKS [ARTICLE]

HARDING NOT AFRAID TO WORK-DOES OWN TASKS

Marion, O. —Warren G. Harding is not afraid of work. When he has a task to accomplish he buckles down to the job and hammers away until it is satisfactorily finished. His friends point to this trait as one of the commendable things that characterize the Republican nominee. He revealed this fact recently when he set himself to wort on his speech of acceptance, delivered on the occasion of the formal notification of his nomination, July 22. The senator did not call in stenographers or clerks to take his dictation. Instead he went to a quiet room in his home, took an ordinary black pencil and a pad of paper and proceeded to turn out the speech. He worked for over a week in this fashion, and when he had finished it is said that few changes were required in the original manuscript. “I wrote the speech as I used to write for my newspaper,” said the senator. "It’s a habit of thirty years’ standing. I write as I think.” He has never learned to use the typewriter.