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...Edgar Young Mullins, Kentucky Democrat, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Reason: Prohibition...
...William R. Pattangall, Maine Democrat, since 1916 a justice of Maine's Supreme Court.* Reason: "The Democratic party . . . has for the time being passed into hands not properly qualified to administer...
Additions to Hooverism included: Robert Latham Owen, oldtime Oklahoma Democrat, onetime (1907-25) U. S.Senator. Reason: Tammany (see p. n). Dr. D. E. Mitchell, Tennessee Democrat, onetime President of Cumberland University. Reason: Prohibition, "economic policies." Francis S. Guthrie, Pittsburgh Democrat. Reasons: foreign and economic policies. Mrs. Gertrude M. Pattangall, Maine Democrat, onetime (1920-28) member of the Democratic National Committee. Reason: Prohibition. Irving H. Mezger, Baltimore Democrat, attorney. Reason: "These [Smith's] are not the tactics of an old-line Democrat." Mr. Mezger promised to form a local anti-Smith organization among "old-line" Democrats. Nathan Newby, James...
Henry Clay Hansbrough, oldtime North Dakota Republican (U. S. Senator 1891-1909), a "progressive regular" who turned Democrat and stumped for Wilson in 1916. Reason: agriculture. Mr. Hansbrough, So, long a resident of Washington, said that he and friends would organize a Smith Independent League in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Montana...
Many a dubious Democrat has mumbled gravely, "I am a Democrat," when asked if he would bolt Nominee Smith. Robert Latham Owen, oldtime Democrat, visited Hoover headquarters in Manhattan last week and announced distinctly: "I am in favor of Herbert Hoover." Then he read a long, prepared laudation of the Hoover career and character. He was asked if he felt, as a Democrat, that he could not stand for Nominee Smith. "I won't stand for him! That's worse!" cried Bolter Owen. "I am an American citizen and not a coward. I'll be damned...