Word: alfalfaism
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...greater importance, Democratic North Dakotans expressed a 2-to-1 preference for Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York over Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray for the presidential nomination. Of perhaps yet greater importance, voters deserted the Republican fold in such droves as to indicate probable defeat for Herbert Hoover in North Dakota next November...
...been argued by some that a great popular gust of feeling will carry Murray forward. It is a bit difficult to consider Alfalfa Bill seriously as a human being, and much more so to attempt evaluating his chances for the presidency. Figures such as Murray are by no means unique phenomena in the corn and cotton belt. Mounte banks and demagogues have attracted large followings before. Stockless Jerry Simpson talked to thousands in his day. Murray stands for a powerful element but his strength is likewise his weakness. He represents class and sectional interests that the Democratic Party must attempt...
Alfred Emanuel Smith, though he had said he was no active candidate, waved his four-year-old Brown Derby vigorously at his enchanted friends. Plain, blunt John Nance Garner stuck ostentatiously to his Speakership. Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray with Oklahoma's 22 votes in his pocket stumped the Mid-West with violence and passion. Maryland's Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie charmed well-bred audiences while hoping for a convention deadlock to make him the lucky compromise candidate. Newton Diehl Baker went about his private business as if he had never heard of the Presidency...
...Texans who had not seen each other for 34 years met last week in the aisle of a Pullman at Fargo, N. Dak. "Hello, Bill," said Farmer George Thomas Murray of Berthold. "Hello, George," said his brother, Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray of Oklahoma. Vith true Texan restraint, the reunited kinsmen briskly shook hands and sat down to talk politics...
Meantime, in Oklahoma City it was announced that impecunious Alfalfa Bill's campaign would be financed by selling trinkets which politicians usually give away-photographs, windshield stickers, campaign hats, "ladies' handy pocket mirrors...