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...just that order the picturesque field of candidates finished. Oilman Marland got 146,000 votes; Speaker Anglin. 95,000; Commissioner Walton, 81,000. A run-off primary was avoided and the Governorship was practically handed to Mr. Marland when Candidate Anglin withdrew. Growled "Cocklebur Bill" Murray: "I've often said that men would take a cussing or a cold or a rail off your fence, but would not take good advice. They [the voters] refused my advice...
...hooded head of the Ku Klux Klan was raised in Alabama last week as the State held its Democratic run-off primaries, tantamount to election. Bibb Graves, onetime (1927-31) Governor, became the first man in 33 years to succeed to that office a second time. Defeated by 20,000 votes, Major Frank M. Dixon, Birmingham lawyer, loudly cried that Graves's victory was a triumph for the long dormant Klan. Not only did Bibb Graves deny the accusation, but the Grand Dragon of the State assured one & all that only six of his Klaverns are now active, none...
...voice for last week New Orleans indignantly smothered the Long candidate, John Klorer. Klorer received 31,869 votes. An independent Democrat named Francis Williams got 26,673. Mayor Thomas Semmes Walmsley topped the ticket with 48,752. Since Democrat Walmsley had no clear majority, Klorer was entitled to a run-off primary. But the Longster, a poor second against the massed votes of his opponents, had no stomach for another contest. Thus Semmes Walmsley, whose rough-&-ready politics were learned through a long apprenticeship with the Choctaw Club (New Orleans' Tammany), was conceded a second term as Mayor...
...their run-off primary for Governor last week, a million Texas Democrats divided almost evenly between rich, rotund Ross Shaw Sterling, incumbent, and lean, homely Miriam Amanda (''Ma'') Ferguson, onetime Governor. As the ballot count slowly progressed Governor Sterling and Mrs. Ferguson seesawed back & forth with sometimes only a few hundred votes separating them. When Governor Sterling's lead moved above 3,000. Jim Ferguson, whose impeachment and removal as Governor put his wife into politics and office, began to demand a recount...
...Reynolds campaign was greatly helped when on the eve of the North Carolina run-off the Democratic party in Chicago adopted a Repeal plank. Mr. Reynolds stood squarely on that plank. Senator Morrison stepped off, fell to political death into the arms of the Anti-Saloon League...