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...stopping to explain where the spending money was to come from, Dr. Townsend sat down amid rapturous cheers, whistles, yells, and ringing of cow bells by his convinced disciples...
...eyed Townsendites, who had been whooping and hollering "Amen!"' all through the speech, climbed on their chairs, made their earlier cheers for Dr. Townsend sound like feeble piping. Magnanimously Preacher Smith beckoned Dr. Townsend to his side. Spotlights speared down, flash bulbs popped as the old doctor put his bony hand in the young preacher's. In the press box, newshawks who had watched the pair in recent days, had seen Dr. Townsend consult Preacher Smith on every move, let him act as their joint spokesman, believed they were witnessing not a union but a usurpation...
...Presidential campaign. For a month the Political Priest had had a candidate in the field-North Dakota's Representative William Lemke of the Union Party, named for Coughlin's National Union for Social Justice. Last week he turned up in Cleveland to snare Townsend votes...
Significance. No more significance than a circus would the Cleveland goings-on have had if 1936 were not a Presidential year, if polls and experienced observers did not forecast a close election. Because of these facts, the coalition of discontent welded last week when Pensioneer Townsend and Share-Our-Wealther Smith agreed to back Inflationist Lemke, go on a four-ring barnstorming tour with him and Inflationist Coughlin, aroused serious political speculation. Hardly the simplest-minded members of the Lemke-Coughlin-Smith-Townsend following could expect their votes to put North Dakota's Lemke in the White House. What...
Last week the newly-allied political guerrilla chieftains trotted out their candidate for the last act of the Townsend show. Rising just before sundown in Cleveland's huge Municipal Stadium, freckle-faced, stubble-chinned William Lemke addressed himself not only to some 70,000 empty seats and 5,000 Townsendites, but to every malcontent in the land. For Townsendites, he plumped "100% for an old-age revolving pension." For Coughlinites he cursed the "money changers," called for $5,000,000,000 worth of greenbacks. And for any who might still cherish the memory of Huey Long, he promised...