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Some men have political sense, some haven't. Young F. Lynden Smith, Pontiac, Ill., lumberman, had it. He had it to such a powerful degree that he attracted the nose of Governor Henry Horner in 1936. The Governor was out for reelection, and the powerful Kelly-Nash machine was out to stop him. It was backslapping, 44-year-old Lyn Smith, a Kiwanian, Mason, Shriner. Elk, World War veteran, whom Henry Horner chose to manage his campaign downstate. Mr. Smith's reward for helping Horner win was the directorship of the State Department of Public Works...
...months ago, for some dark reason, the inner council door suddenly slammed shut in Lyn Smith's face. One rumor was that he had dared to tell Henry Horner, who had been ill for over a year, that he should not run again for Governor. Control of the "slush" fund was taken out of Smith's hands, given to State Finance Director Sam Nudelman. Lyn Smith became visibly nervous. He took to carrying a revolver, surrounded himself with guards of State police. He still had his little black book, and he was reported to have told a newspaper...
Last month he and his wife went to Florida. Scarcely had he left when the smoldering dissension in Illinois Democracy burst out into open dispute between Governor Horner and Lieut. Governor John Stelle, who announced his candidacy for the Governorship at the April 9 primaries, toyed with the idea of seizing immediate power on the ground that Governor Horner was too ill to act. Suit was brought against both the Iroquois League and the Illinoisans, for a fund accounting to members. Last week, when Lyn Smith got back from Florida, he was scheduled to make a deposition in that suit...
...step: to roll the bandwagon through the Wisconsin primary (April 2), then through Illinois. Into both these primaries stubborn old Jack Garner has stuck his red neck. Janizariat belief is that, after these two elections, the Vice President will be politically as dead as a doornail. The Kelly-Nash-Horner machine in Illinois has been told to pile up an overwhelming majority...
Last week, because of this editorial, Colonel Knox and the Daily News were defendants in a $250,000 libel suit. Democratic Governor Horner accused Republican Colonel Knox of: 1) implying that Bioff's extradition had been postponed for improper reasons; 2) misrepresenting facts; 3) trying to "impair and destroy the influence and power of the Democratic Party...