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Such was the campaign cry of Senator Cameron Morrison, North Carolina Democrat, as he entered last week's run-off primary to hold his seat in Washington. When the votes were counted, it was found that "Cam" Morrison, oldtime party warhorse, typical rural political vegetable, was indeed a dead Dry and that North Carolina had gone Wet by almost two votes...
...primary with some 7,000 local candidates on the ballot. High men for Governor were Hugh White, rich lumberman, Mayor of Columbia, and Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner, smiling lawyer-farmer of Seminary. Completely turned out then was the Bilbo faction of Mississippi Democracy. In last week's run-off primary, with 2,000 names on the full ballot, Candidate Conner defeated Candidate White handsomely. "People v. Money" was the campaign issue, with Conner harping on White's wealth. A typical Conner campaign speech in which the Jackson Daily News, supporting Candidate White, was repeatedly called the Jackson Daily Liar...
...there be no majority of all votes cast then, at a run-off referendum (held the following November), let the two measures securing the highest number of votes be voted for, the result of the second vote being promptly carried through into...
South Carolina. In a run-off Senator Coleman Livingston Blease was defeated by James Francis Byrnes, Spartanburg attorney, onetime (1911-25) Representative and Senator Blease's unsuccessful opponent six years ago (TIME, Sept. 8). Organized Labor helped materially to turn out Senator Blease because he had voted for the Supreme Court nomination of John Johnston Parker and had failed to support textile mill strikers affiliating with the American Federation of Labor. Many another vote was cast against him for his defense of lynching, his frank avowal of being a drinking...
...issue of their campaign was the fact that 15 years ago Mr. Slaton, as Governor, had commuted the death sentence of Leo Frank, later lynched. Eleven of the State's Congressmen were renominated while the twelfth, Representative Thomas Montgomery Bell, was defeated by Judge John Woods. A run-off primary was necessary to decide the gubernatorial nomination...