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Five of the seven House Committees originally nominate men from the Sophomore and Junior classes whose names then appear on the ballot for election to the Committee, while the other two provide for original nomination by petition...
...keynoter and temporary chairman of a national political convention is, as most voters know, the man who starts the show with a long, ardent harangue which is forgotten by the time the first nominating ballot is taken. Nonetheless the Press made a great stir last week when, as a gesture to the West and liberals, the potent Committee on Arrangements of the Republican National Committee picked Oregon's mildly progressive Senator Frederick Steiwer to sound the Party keynote at Cleveland next June. Republican newspapers tried to make the gesture seem important. Democratic sheets gleefully compared the probable content...
...mounted to 4,807 by the time polling places were opened.* At the end of ten hours, the 10,000,000 voters had only succeeded in electing 179 Deputies by a clear majority of votes cast. All the other districts will have to have a second ballot this Sunday when a straight plurality will elect a candidate. Commentators, soothsayers, fortunetellers, numerologists and betting commissioners promptly sat down to make what they could of election results. A few facts were obvious...
...Senators, how say you?" repeated Senator Pittman for the seventh time.. "Guilty," "Guilty," "Not Guilty," "Guilty," came the answers in order. It was going to be as close as the first ballot. Senator Bachman, who had consistently voted "guilty," had left the floor. Just as the roll call was ending he re-entered to cast the last vote, "Guilty." The tally clerks checked and rechecked the result...
...Borah vote did not represent the full Republican strength because the regular Republicans opposed to the Senator presumably did not vote at all in this popularity contest. Not well educated in their own primary laws, only 70 voters out of 100 who went to the polls bothered to ballot for delegates, the only thing that counted. In that vote the Roosevelt delegates won easily. The four Borah delegates-at-large won over uninstructed delegates about 5-to-4. Result: Of Wisconsin's 24 delegates Candidate Borah now counts...