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...election of Governor Cross, Democrat, appeared certain on the basis of returns from 81 of the state's 169 towns...
California. Though he could take no credit for what had happened, Mr. Fletcher last week had good reason to hope that the Republicans would carry California. Senator Hiram Johnson was sure of reelection, but since the New Deal had adopted him as a Democrat that will be an empty triumph for the G. O. P. Republican Acting Governor Frank Merriam, too, had a good chance of reelection. A Literary Digest poll last week showed him leading Upton Sinclair, 2½-to-1. But there, again, such an outcome would be due, not to Republican headwork, but to the jettisoning...
...complete Nominee Sinclair's discomfiture, George Creel, Wartime propaganda chief whom, as the Administration's favorite, Sinclair had defeated in the primaries, repudiated the winning candidate. In a public letter, Democrat Creel charged Democrat Sinclair with failing to stand on the party platform, with pushing his own "Immediate Epic" plan in violation of agreements at the State convention. Declared disgusted Mr. Creel: "I think any one who votes in California this fall has to hold his nose. It's a choice between catalepsy and epilepsy. Sinclair has a fantastic, impossible plan and Merriam is as modern...
...Deal is no contest. The Republican campaign chest was very bare. The National Committee reported collections of only $90,000, a deficit of $52,000. What cast G. O. Partisans down, though, was not this shortage of money but their opponents' unlimited wealth. To most Republican stumpsters the Democratic campaign chest this year is the U. S. Treasury. The New Deal has promised and paid over $2,000,000,000 in relief to some 4,000,000 families. It is distributing hundreds of millions to farmers under AAA, billions under PWA contracts. It has put 100,000 new political...
Almost unknown to the man in the street, Banker Reynolds has never been formally interviewed. He may have won his millions in the citadel of conservative Republicanism but he has never lost his standing as a good Democrat. To the nation's bankers Jackson Eli Reynolds is an awesome figure astride the highest peak in the mountain range of Morgan banks...