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...Constitution comes between me and the virtue of a white woman, I say to hell with the Constitution!" Candidate Harris, solicitor at Walhalla where he is prosecuting a lynching mob (TIME, May 5) ran a poor third in the primary. Senator Blease and Candidate Byrnes will enter a run-off election next week. Six years ago Senator Blease defeated Candidate Byrnes in a similar run-off for the Senatorial nomination after a whispering campaign had revived the fact that Byrnes was born and brought up a Roman Catholic in Charleston only to leave that faith when he entered politics. South...
Democrats of Texas last week held their run-off primary to nominate a governor. The candidates: Ross Shaw ("Big Fat Boy") Sterling, wealthy publisher of the Houston Post Dispatch (circulation: 69,000), chairman of the State Highway Commission; and Mrs. Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson, onetime (1925-1927) governor. No. 1 Sterling stumpster: Governor Dan Moody. No. 1 Ferguson stumpster: Husband James E. ("Farmer Jim") Ferguson, removed by impeachment from the governorship in 1917. The issues: "Fergusonism"; "Common People" v. "Millionaires." Never before had Texas been through such a bitter personal campaign as followed the first primary a month ago when...
Oklahoma last week held a primary. Candidates who finished in first place without a majority vote had to enter the State's first run-off primary next week with No. 2 candidates...
...run-off for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination will be between Frank Buttram, wealthy Oklahoma City oilman and political neophyte and William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill"; Murray, onetime Congressman-at-large and president of the State's Constitutional Convention. Candidate Murray, sometimes known also as the "Tribune of Tishomingo," played on popular resentment against depressed economic conditions, dazzled cross-roads voters with a promise to eliminate ad valorem taxation and substitute for it a graduated tax on gross incomes to get money from "the corporate interests (oil and gas companies) now leeching the commonwealth." He made a hitchhiking campaign throughout...
When the Democratic votes were sifted the Fergusons led the field of nine by more than 50.000: Fergusons 200.000. Sterling 150.000. What the followers of the eliminated seven will do, will be decided at the Democratic run-off primaries...