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Launching into a defensive counterattack, Chairman Hamilton declared that in 1924, when Democrats dodged the Ku Klux Klan issue at their National Convention, Alf Landon had supported William Allen White's anti-Klan candidacy for Governor of Kansas, and he himself had run for the State Legislature on an anti-Klan ticket. Elected Republican Floor Leader of the House, said he, he had fought and defeated a bill legalizing the Klan. In 1926 he was elected Speaker of the House over Klan opposition. "In 1928 I ran for Governor. Although the Klan had practically passed out of existence, there...
...even a special session of the Kansas Legislature, meeting last week to approve social security amendments to the State Constitution, could budge Nominee Alf M. Landon from his resolve to keep mum on national issues until his acceptance speech in Topeka next week...
Well on her way to becoming the best publicized young woman in the U. S. last week was Peggy Anne Landon, 19, Alf Landon's daughter by his late first wife...
...Alf Landon himself once made significant news when for the first time in the 1936 campaign he played the politician's trick of picking up a rival's catch phrase, giving it an ironic twist. Planning to stop at a Greeley, Colo. rodeo on his way back to Topeka for a special session of Kansas' Legislature this week, the Republican nominee was told that he would be driven around Greeley in a landau once owned by Mrs. Horace ("Baby Doe") Tabor. "A landau," smiled he, "just a horse & buggy for a horse & buggy candidate...
Most of the time Alf Landon was simply having fun and, except when he was having fun in a trout stream, Daughter Peggy Anne was never far from his side or from a camera. Even an illiterate could have learned, by following last week's news pictures (see cuts), that Peggy Anne Landon: 1) sat by a campfire with her father; 2) posed on a porch rail with her father; 3) ate a picnic supper with her father; 4) tossed snowballs with her father; 5) rode horseback with her father; 6) walked out on a jutting mountain ledge with...