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...your issue of May 23 you state the following: "The fact remains that no man in U. S. history has ever refused his party's highest call to duty." Was this not the case in the campaign of 1888, when the Republican leaders after the fifth ballot at the National Convention sent a cable message to Elaine who was at the time visiting Andrew Carnegie in Scotland, asking him to accept the nomination and the reply was: 'Too late. Blaine immovable. Take Harrison and Phelps...
Confidence- No President ever sat in the White House and waited for renomination with more complete confidence than Herbert Hoover. Of the 1,154 convention votes his managers counted on his getting more than a thousand on the first ballot- enough to renominate him practically by acclamation. His lone opponent, Dr. Jo- seph Irwin France, onetime Senator from Maryland, had under definite pledge only a ridiculous...
Harvard students will have the opportunity to express effectively their views on the prohibition issue today in the poll sponsored by the CRIMSON and the Daily Princetonian. Ballot boxes will be placed at all the House dining halls and at the Union where votes may be cast between 12 and 2 o'clock during the lunch hour and at dinner between 5.30 and 7.30 o'clock. Votes will be received at the CRIMSON building at 14 Plympton Street until 7.30 o'clock...
...when ambitious Martin Davey, Ohio tree surgeon and onetime Congressman, tried to draft Woodrow Wilsons Secretary of War for the primary, Mr. Baker sat down hard on the idea. He would not let his name go on the ballot. He insisted that "all hands" favored Governor White. He went on about his Cleveland law practice as if he had never heard of the Presidency. Mr. Davey, no friend of Governor White, was accused of promoting the Baker boom more to hurt White than to nominate Baker...
Lock & Logic? The speculative logic of a Baker nomination at Chicago rests squarely upon a convention deadlock such as seemed to be in the making last week. Franklin Delano Roosevelt still lacked a majority of first-ballot votes which has clinched the nomination at every convention since 1848.? Bitterly leagued against him were the Smith and Garner forces, which, with "favorite son" votes, might yet constitute a veto of Governor Roosevelt's ambition. Groggy from such a factional fight, the convention would, as it did in 1924, turn to some outsider who had not figured in the fray...