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Ohio's Democratic National Committeeman Charles Sawyer was defeated in the gubernatorial primary in 1934 by Tree Surgeon Martin Luther Davey. Davey-"the best dressed Governor Ohio ever had," a good political showman but an administrator repeatedly charged with inefficiency or worse-has long impressed Democrat Sawyer as a grievous mistake. This year he ran against Governor Davey again in the Democratic primary. Helped by Labor, which disliked the Governor's interference in strikes, methodical Democrat Sawyer eliminated picturesque Democrat Davey, 449,000 to 419,000. Meanwhile, Senator Robert J. Bulkley, with just one "my good friend...
Idaho is represented in the Senate by Democrat James Pinckney Pope and by Republican William Edgar Borah, one the Senate's warmest advocate of international cooperation, the other its greatest Isolationist. When hard-hitting Representative D. Worth Clark entered the Democratic primaries against Senator Pope, whom he charged with being a New Deal yesman, confident New Dealers overlooked one fact-that this year Idaho's election law had been changed to permit voters to enter either primary without regard to previous party affiliation. Evidently many a Borah Isolationist took the opportunity to vote against Internationalist Pope. Representative Clark...
...opponent, Representative John L. ("No Rubber Stamp") McClellan, for furthering it by becoming a yeswoman for Franklin Roosevelt. Placid Widow Caraway's chief campaign plank was that Arkansas is distinguished as the only State to have a woman in the Senate. Arkansas distinguished itself by nominating (i.e., electing) Democrat Caraway again...
...Minnesota, National Chairman Farley warned Democrats not to play games with Minnesota's Republicans just to beat the Farmer-Laborites: "Any help you give the Republicans . . . in 1938 will help defeat the Democrat party in 1940." Democratic Representative Elmer J. Ryan promptly endorsed his former law partner, Harold E. Stassen, Republican nominee for Governor, instead of Thomas Gallagher, the Democratic candidate. Said he: "If the National Administration were concerned about the strength of the Democratic party in Minnesota, the time to show that concern was two years ago, when the Democratic candidates for Governor and Senator were withdrawn...
...Sick and tired, Philadelphia's Republican Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson announced he would presently take a two-month vacation. Instantly, the Philadelphia Inquirer accused him of making a deal with the Democrats to turn over his office to Controller Robert C. White, Democrat, during the fall election period. Indignant, Mayor Wilson called off his vacation. When the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week tied up until at least mid-September both a grand jury and a legislative investigation of Governor George Howard Earle (TIME, Aug. 8 et ante), the lively Governor took off with Mrs. Earle in a State-owned...