Privileged Characters (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Privileged CharactersIn the book which he wrote in collaboration with Thomas Dixon, author of The Birth of a Nation, Harry M. Daugherty tells of a six hour conversation which he had with his life-long friend, Senator Harding, some time before the meeting of the Republican convention at Chicago. The Senator was reluctant to give up his sure, comfortable seat in the United States Senate for the uncertainty of a presidential nomination. In the Senate Harding had been safe, amiable and untroubled for some years. He had followed the course of his party religiously and had left it to more restless men to quarrel over its policies and their ambitions. Mrs. Harding, too, was against the move She was known in the circle of their pleasant friends as The Duchess, and she always poured the drinks whenever the Senator and his colleagues and friends were en joying a genial game of poker at night. They all thought it would be nice for Harding to be President, but none except Harry Daugherty seemed to realize how important and how possible it might be.Daugherty tells us in The Inside Story of the Harding Tragedy that in the effort to persuade his friend to take the chance, he mentioned one by one the political disadvantages of the other Republican candidates. Then Harding asked his friend a significant question: Am I a big enough man for the race?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.