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Instead of a well established line-up on one side of the fence or the other, there has been not only a mad scramble for sunny places on the fence, but a desperate shifting from one side to the other. Here is a Democrat attacking all the tenets of the New Deal philosophy, yet shouting his support of the New Deal. There is a Republican, the traditional strong-government man, damning too much government. Everywhere are men of both parties successfully hiding their ideas on every thing except their allegiance to Washington and Lincoln. Here is Mr. Farley jumping...
Maryland. In 1919 Democrat Albert Cabell Ritchie defeated a Baltimore criminal lawyer named Harry Nice to be elected Governor. Last week handsome aristocratic "Bert" Ritchie again defeated Republican Nice?to be elected Governor of the Free State for the fifth consecutive term. Thus set was a U. S. record: no Governor other than Maryland's Ritchie has in the nation's history held the favor of his electorate for five straight terms through 19 straight years...
North Dakota. Vindication was the issue?vindication of deposed Governor William Langer (TIME, July 18). Mrs. Lydia Cady Langer ran in her husband's place against Democrat Thomas Moodie. But North Dakota's farmers, for all their past devotion to William Langer, cast their ballots firmly against his wife, chose as their next Democratic Governor the onetime railroad brakeman who today edits the Williston Herald...
California, The resounding defeat of Democrat Upton Sinclair of Governor came as a surprise to no one but the ex-Socialist (see p. 16). Upon his election, Acting Governor Frank Merriam, with perhaps more truth than he intended, called the result "a rebuke to Socialism and Communism...
...Mayor James Michael Curley of Boston with the enthusiastic if somewhat juvenile support of Son James Roosevelt got a better office out of the New Deal than the Ambassadorship of Poland which he spurned When Franklin Roosevelt offered it last year. Without the support of many a potent Massachusetts Democrat and in spite of Republican Gasper Bacon's hammer & tongs attack on his record, Votegetter Curley piled up a majority for Governor bigger than the Democratic majority...