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Illinois. Despite lukewarm support from Chicago's Kelly-Nash machine, Democratic Governor Henry Horner piled up a 293,000 lead in Cook County, showed surprising strength downstate to win re-election over young Republican Charles Wayland ("Curly") Brooks...
Sitting back in his executive chair in the Chicago office last week, Grocer Grimes had the satisfaction of sifting through a stack of congratulatory messages in recognition of the oak he had nurtured from his original Acorn members. He had telegrams from Illinois' Governor Henry Horner, Senators Burton K. Wheeler and Millard E. Tydings, and Alf Landon. Longest of all, the Landon tele gram was dispatched from Topeka, Kans., although Mr. Landon that day was only a few blocks away in Chicago's Congress Hotel. Wrote Franklin D. Roosevelt from the White House: "You have demonstrated . . . that problems...
...Voice of Illinois (Henry Horner...
...clock that night what the Tribune considered a "comparatively quiet primary day" was over. In their Hotel Morrison penthouse. Mayor Kelly and Boss Patrick A. Nash gloomed with Candidate Bundesen. In the Hotel Congress, Governor Horner beamed amiably, plumped his chubby hand into those of well-wishers. As expected, Bundesen had piled up a big lead over Horner in Cook County. But, as a whacking rebuke to the rule of Bosses Kelly and Nash, downstate counties turned in a lead of 310,000 for Horner, insured him the nomination by 150,000 votes. Asked if he would now support Horner...
Mayor Kelly last week had two alternatives: 1) play ball with Democrat Horner; or 2) hold fast to the Tribune's apron-strings and lend silent support to the Tribune's Lawyer Brooks, who proved himself an able political personality by swamping Small and the five other Republican hopefuls...