 When Forbes found out his good friend Warren G. Harding was running for president in 1920 , he traveled to Marion , Ohio and swung the Washington delegate vote for Harding at the 1920 Republican presidential convention held in Chicago . Harding would go on to win the election of 1920 with the motto for America to " return to normalcy " ; giving businesses tariff protection and tax relief , and keeping America out of foreign affairs . 
