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...Illinois Candidate Borah forced Candidate Knox to fight, for the Chicago publisher could not stay out of the primary (April 14) of his home State. Senator Borah had two advantages in Illinois: 1) He was born on a farm near Fairfield 70 years ago; 2) He had indirect support from the Chicago Tribune which cannot see the publisher of the rival Daily News in the White House. But Publisher Knox has virtually a complete slate of 57 would-be convention delegates in the field, whereas Senator Borah has only twelve. Illinois also conducts a separate statewide Presidential preference vote which...
Governor Landon, however, was harder to catch. Kansas selects its delegates by convention, has already instructed them for Landon. Into Nebraska, where Landon has strength, Borah plunged, hoping his rival would follow. The Kansas candidate stayed away. Fortnight ago, however, when a slate of Landon delegates was picked for California's primary, Borah petitions were placed in circulation within 24 hours...
Left boxing with the shadows of his rivals. Senator Borah made their failure to fight his second issue. Scathingly he cried in Chicago: "In this state the primary would have gone by default had it not been for the fact that I had the temerity to come in here and file, and I am going to give you an opportunity to exercise the blessed privilege of helping to select the nominee for the Presidency upon the Republican ticket...
...Borah v. All. Hoover, Landon, Knox take as their issue the New Deal. Their rival takes as his issue Borah-against-the-field. By last week he was entered in Illinois, Nebraska (April 14), Pennsylvania (April 28), Ohio. Delegates were running for him locally in New York and Wisconsin. He was expected to enter in Maryland (May 4), California (May 5), Oregon...
...this elaborate pre-convention campaign his equipment consisted of a five-room headquarters in Washington's Willard Hotel, little or no money and an organization made up mainly of William Edgar Borah. One eager volunteer came around early in the campaign: snaggle-toothed Representative J. Hamilton Fish of New York. No candidate's dream of the ideal political ally is "Ham" Fish, the butt of many a Congressional jest, the ardent runner-down-of-Reds. The statesman from Idaho warily shook Mr. Fish's large, aristocratic hand, accepted his services but offered him no official campaign post...