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...case there are three or more tickets of electors and the winning ticket gets less than half of all the votes cast, the majority has no redress. Neither would there be redress if all or part of the winning ticket of electors should, before the second Monday in January, "bolt" the party which elected it and shift or split the State's electoral vote. Such an event is almost unthinkable, party politics being what they are. No elector has dared or chosen to break his pledge since 1796 when Samuel Miles, a Federalist elector in Pennsylvania, voted for Thomas...
That Frank O. Lowden, whom Mr. Peek backed strenuously but ineffectively for the Republican Presidential nomination, would bolt to Nominee Smith has been the wish-fathered hope of disgruntled farmers and opportunistic Democrats. They know that Mr. Lowden, farmer's advocate, is disgusted with the Republican farm plank and have pestered him for an insurgent declaration. Last week he was persuaded to speak at his summer home on one of the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence, but all he said was: "I will wholeheartedly cooperate with the next President of the U.S., whoever he may be, provided...
...salt water in a white-striped bathing suit with a gold religious medal hung around his neck. He rolled like a porpoise, spouted like a whale, chortled like a boy. The cooling off had been made doubly welcome by a series of political backfires during the week-the Owen "bolt," the Simmons resignation (see p. 11), the digging up of some anti-cigaret legislation which the Nominee had introduced under pressure as a young legislator, and the republication of that same legislator's entire voting record on legislation touching public morals. The latter "expose" was the work of Willian...
Many a dubious Democrat has mumbled gravely, "I am a Democrat," when asked if he would bolt Nominee Smith. Robert Latham Owen, oldtime Democrat, visited Hoover headquarters in Manhattan last week and announced distinctly: "I am in favor of Herbert Hoover." Then he read a long, prepared laudation of the Hoover career and character. He was asked if he felt, as a Democrat, that he could not stand for Nominee Smith. "I won't stand for him! That's worse!" cried Bolter Owen. "I am an American citizen and not a coward. I'll be damned...
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia and Governor Dan Moody of Texas refused to bolt the party because of what the nomi nee had said. Their attitude was, in effect: "We need and want Smith for many reasons. We can keep him in hand on this Prohibition matter, which is only one of many matters to be considered by the Democracy...