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...there was absolutely no respect to be commanded from them nor the slightest degree of dignity lent and so therefore the only sensible thing to do was secede from the Union." To establish the bona fides of the new nation, a list of its public officials was appended: President, Alf M. Landon; Vice President, Frank Knox; Secretary of State, Alfred E. Smith; Secretary of the Treasury, du Pont and du Pont; Attorney General, John W. Davis; Secretary of the Interior, Jim Reed; Postmaster General, John D. M. Hamilton; Secretary of Commerce, Governor E. W. Marland; Ambassador to Bolivia, former Governor...
These speculative fireworks were not, as some irreconcilables suggested, a studied Democratic attempt to heap insult on the injury of Alf Landon's defeat. Neither was it a rising vote in favor of the New Deal. It might have been explained by the hopes & fears of Inflation, since the election insured a continuation of the New Deal's cheap money policy. But on one day 14 issues of Government bonds made new highs since issuance-not precisely an inflationary portent. Still another explanation might have been the continuing flood of extra dividends flowing from efforts to escape...
...Alf Landon could console himself last week with the thought that, though his electoral total touched a near-record low, he had at least topped Herbert Hoover's 15,000,000 popular votes of 1932. No such solace was available to the nation's third party candidates and their backers, whose wretched performances at the polls made the Republican fiasco seem a comparative triumph...
...Pink fadeouts there were comforting extenuations. Nominee Browder had campaigned far more strenuously against Alf Landon than for himself, persuading many a Red that he might best serve his cause by a vote for Roosevelt. Nominee Thomas, who got a large non-Socialist protest vote in 1932, could reasonably conclude that the electorate this year loved him not less, but Franklin Roosevelt more. In addition, his Party's right wing split off, merged last summer with New York State's American Labor Party. Neither Communists nor Socialists were displeased at losing strength to this new faction, under whose...