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Winner of the delegates' popularity contest among Republicans, with some 33,000 votes, was Governor H. Styles Bridges. Close second, with some 30,000 votes, was acidulous George Higgins Moses, who lost his Senate seat to a Democrat in 1932. So high a vote left Old Guardsman Moses beaming with pride, for dearly would he like to make a political comeback. Asked after the primary whether he would run for the Senate this year, he cautiously said, "One fight at a time...
...shrewd Revolutionist Quinn this was just the beginning. Two months ago he demanded a constitutional convention to remove, once & for all, the "rotten borough" system. On the day the bill came up for vote, two Republicans were sick abed, three Democrats opposed it. Not to be caught napping a second time, Republicans dragged 69-year-old Senator Frank E. Payne from bed, stuck him on a couch in the Senate lounge, had a nurse prime his weak heart so that he could vote. Before Republicans or Democrats could charge each other with the old man's "murder," anxious relatives...
...vain to Secretary Dern. So did Representative Blanton who got General Hagood permission to testify "freely." Republicans in the Senate made a political holiday of the case. Senator Metcalf called it "typical New Deal terrorism," asked for a Senate investigation. Senator Robinson, as angry as only that Democrat leader can get, pointed out that the late Brigadier General William Mitchell had been court-martialed by a Republican Administration for publicly criticizing his superiors...
...candidate for office, and hence less philosophic than Governor Curley (see above), is Michigan's onetime (1932-35) Governor William Alfred Comstock, a Democratic wheelhorse who went bankrupt last year, but whose cash and efforts had been credited with sustaining his Party in Michigan through some 30 lean, mostly Republican, years. Charging that National Chairman Farley had broken a 1932 promise to distribute Michigan's Federal jobs through the regular Party organization, handing patronage instead to such political parvenus as Father Coughlin, Democrat Comstock last week announced his resignation from the Party. Cried he: "The Hogskis...
Cried Representative Martin F. Smith of Washington, a Townsendite Democrat: "Certified public accountants have approved the plan's finances. . . . We welcome the investigation but we fear we are fiddling here while Rome is burning." There was no halting the tide of 240-to-4. That evening Robert E. Clements, secretary-treasurer of the Townsend organization, scornfully declared the investigation to be "pure and unadulterated political persecution. . . . These monkeys have played right into our hands. They are giving us the biggest piece of publicity we could ever have hoped to get. We shall be exonerated...