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With the Brown Derby's receptivity out in the open, its friends put Mr. Smith first into the New Hampshire primary where Governor Roosevelt beat him. But later they carried Massachusetts for him, "chocked" the Roosevelt bandwagon. Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Jersey fell into line. Candidate Smith began to feel all the old exhilaration of political combat. Completely forgotten now were his 1928 words. As a personal matter he wanted the nomination; as a party matter he was determined Governor Roosevelt should not get it by default...
...people, followed by the Big Red Scare, bombs, strikes, riots, supper-patriots, ending with an unparalleled burst of brutal intolerance and monstrous bigotry. There is an excellent account of the Harding scandals, which were revealed over such a long period that they are always vague. Then the Coolidge Prosperity Bandwagon gets rolling and sweeps all before its high pressure salesmanship and concentrated ballyton. The Florida boom is used as a preface to the Big Bull Market and its child the Crash, which is treated well, simply and understandably. The arrival of the new morality, along with its unwanted offspring...
...Chocked" by Alfred Emanuel Smith fortnight ago in Massachusetts, the Roosevelt bandwagon last week ran into John Nance Garner, onetime cowboy, in California. Again the bandwagon was "chocked." The New York Governor's friends were still sure their candidate would be nominated in Chicago next month. But after his California drubbing, they stopped claiming victory on the first ballot...
...Boston for Mr. Roosevelt. Where Senator Walsh topped the slate of Smith delegates-at-large with 153,303 votes, the Governor's son James was high man on the Roosevelt slate with only 56,480. Few observers had anticipated a Smith defeat but fewer had expected the bandwagon candidate to get such a downright drubbing...
After the primary, newshawks flocked to see Mr. Smith in his high Manhattan office, asked him what the vote meant. He explained: "It ought to put a chock under the bandwagon and stop people from jumping on it, on the theory there's nowhere else to go. Give what happened time to sink in and we'll see." While Massachusetts was voting last week, so was Pennsylvania-but with this difference: no Democratic nominee for President has carried Pennsylvania since the Civil War. Out of some 200,000 Democratic votes cast in a preference primary that bound...