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Kentucky's Barkley...
...Senator from Kentucky in the last 30 years has succeeded himself in office. Last month Democrats renominated Senator Alben Barkley for a second term. Last week Kentucky Republicans, greatly heartened by a jinx that favored their candidate, assembled at Louisville, picked Representative Maurice Hudson Thatcher as their senatorial nominee. Onetime Governor Sampson, acclaiming Nominee Thatcher as an "everlasting Dry,'' key-noted thus: "We'll replace this wobbly, uncertain, barking Barkley who a few years ago was taking the Anti-Saloon League's money to make speeches and turned Wet overnight when the Vice-Presidency was dangled...
Fortnight ago Kentucky's Senator Barkley, as temporary chairman of the Chicago convention, wrote Speaker Garner a letter in which he notified him of his nomination for the Vice-Presidency. Last week Speaker Garner wrote Senator Barkley a letter in which he accepted the nomination. The whole ceremony cost two 3? postage stamps...
Kentucky. At Pineville a deputy sheriff was killed, a miner stabbed during the voting. Impounded by law for 24 hours, the ballots indicated that Democratic Senator Alben W. Barkley, a Wet convert had won renomination over George B. Martin, oldtime Wet, thus breaking a 30-year jinx against Kentucky Senators succeeding themselves. The State's failure to reduce its House seats from eleven to nine required the nomination of all Congressional candidates as Representatives-at-large...
...Commander." With Candidate Roosevelt plainly in mind, Senator Barkley wound up his keynote thus: "There's nothing wrong with our people except that they have followed prophets who were false, blind and insensible. It was so in 1800 when Thomas Jefferson. . . . It was so in 1828 when Andrew Jackson. ... It was so in 1884 when Grover Cleveland. ... It was so in 1912 when Woodrow Wilson. ... It will be so in 1932. . . . The new commander we shall present will be the choice no less of farm than of city dwellers. He will be experienced and tested no less in national than...