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...Governor Clement Calhoun Young. In Massachusetts, Walter I. Butler, onetime welterweight boxing champion of New England, is out for the Republican Senatorial nomination against Villiam Morgan Butler, onetime chairman of the Republican National Committee. But in no State is the confusion of similar or identical names on a primary ballot greater than in Nebraska where a reform law prohibits any distinguishing mark or address after a candidate's name...
Nebraska's primary occurs Aug. 12. Seeking the Republican nomination as State Auditor are C. A. Marsh and George W. Marsh, while Frank Marsh wants renomination as Secretary of State. Also out for the State auditorship on the same ballot are L. B. Johnson, Fred H. Johnson, Fred Johnson. Fred E. Ericson and Charles E. Ericson are Republican candi- dates for State Treasurer. John Curtis seeks to succeed John E. Curtiss as chair-man of the Railway Commission. In Omaha Robert Smith, to be renominated as clerk of the district court, must defeat Robert L. Smith...
Quick to denounce the candidacy of Grocer Norris was Senator Norris. Said he: "It's not in good faith. It's done to deceive the voters and muddle the situation. I'm finished unless the other George W. Norris is kept off the ballot." Senator Norris & friends loudly claimed that G. O. P. "standpatters" and the "Power Trust" were behind Grocer Norris. The Senator prepared to withdraw from the Republican primary and run as an independent...
...clutched a private-wire telephone, received election returns. When these indicated the Ambassador's record-breaking plurality of more than 300,000 votes, Mr. Morrow closed a volume of Herodotus he had been reading in his library, made no quotable comment, went to bed.* Somewhere in the ballot-deluge which had nominated him was the first vote of Dwight Whitney Morrow Jr., just 21, studious Amherst son of a scholarly Amherst father...
...polled the 35% of the total vote required for nomination (TIME, May 19). No. 1 in the primary had been Secretary of State Gladys Pyle, running strong on her personal popularity, without organization support. No. 5 and last had been Warren E. Green, dirt farmer of Hazel. For eleven ballots in the Pierre convention Miss Pyle deadlocked with Brooke Howell of Frederick for first place. Suddenly Mr. Howell, on orders from the state organization, withdrew, throwing his support to Last Man Green, who was nominated on the next ballot. Thus machine politics had routed personality, topsy-turvied the popular vote...