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...renomination for the Vice-Presidency. Vice President Curtis won, 634 ¼-to-401½. Only in 1912, when Theo dore Roosevelt split the Party and paved the way to a Democratic victory, had the G. O. P. renominated its previous ticket. It would not have occurred on the first ballot had not the Pennsylvania faction switched its 75 votes from General Ed ward Martin, State chairman, to Curtis at the last moment...
...Joseph ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert and from Mississippi under Negro Perry W. Howard. Postmaster General Brown, President Hoover's political organizer, had been working to weed out these national committeemen ever since the administration promised to "clean up the G. O. P. south" in 1929. But after a ballot behind closed doors the national committee voted to seat Messrs. Tolbert and Howard, first sign of Old Guard recalcitrance to White House suasion...
...Roosevelt, if nominated, can't be elected," was a widespread sentiment upon which James A. Farley, the Governor's campaign manager, last week started to war. He predicted that at Chicago his candidate would get 691 votes on the first nominating ballot which would be increased to the necessary 770 by switches before the roll was completed. Leaping ahead to the election itself Manager Farley optimistically .declared...
...your issue of May 23 you state the following: "The fact remains that no man in U. S. history has ever refused his party's highest call to duty." Was this not the case in the campaign of 1888, when the Republican leaders after the fifth ballot at the National Convention sent a cable message to Elaine who was at the time visiting Andrew Carnegie in Scotland, asking him to accept the nomination and the reply was: 'Too late. Blaine immovable. Take Harrison and Phelps...
Confidence- No President ever sat in the White House and waited for renomination with more complete confidence than Herbert Hoover. Of the 1,154 convention votes his managers counted on his getting more than a thousand on the first ballot- enough to renominate him practically by acclamation. His lone opponent, Dr. Jo- seph Irwin France, onetime Senator from Maryland, had under definite pledge only a ridiculous...