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Detroit went to its primary polls to nominate two men to run for mayor. No parties took part. No issues were raised. And the man Detroit chose by a margin of 30,000 votes as leading nominee had made no campaign, posted no posters, mailed no cards, spoken no speeches...
* On the way from Buffalo to Washington in President McKinley's funeral train, Mark Hanna exploded: "I told William McKinley it was a mistake to nominate that wild man at Philadelphia. I asked him if he realized what would happen if he should die. Now look, that damned cowboy...
The G. O. P. The Republican party was genuinely "stunned" but it soon recovered poise. Mark Sullivan, dean of Washington observers, pictured the G. O. P. proper as a body of hard-working politicians like Senators Smoot, Willis and David A. Reed, Secretary Mellon, Vice President Dawes, Frank O. Lowden...
Despite the taboo on politics, observers attached deep political significance to the Smith-Moody meeting, started a conversational boom for a Democratic 1928 national ticket with Governor Moody as Governor Smith's running mate. Should the Democrats nominate Governor Smith, the "logical" vice presidential candidate would be a dry...
"Priest Ingersoll talked intimately of Hell Fire," but his son talked intimately of God.* Such was his son's intimacy that he scoffed at his Creator on all possible occasions, scoffed also at other creations of his Creator. Remembered now mainly for a tag about one born a minute...