Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speeches he was to deliver contained so little of the political zip and zing that make helpful headlines. The G.O.P. nominee argued that the East did not know him, that he was going to introduce himself first by a discussion of general principles and not deal with specific campaign issues until later. His West Middlesex speech was, in fact, so fundamental that the Democratic high command did not bother to controvert its generalities. At Chautauqua Governor Landon discussed Education in a broad way, made news principally by breaking with William Randolph Hearst, his No. 1 press supporter on the worth...
...Buffalo he did not get down to campaign cases and blast the New Deal on some concrete issue, even his admirers began to feel that he might as well have stayed in Topeka...
Back in the Kansas capital, where he planned to stay until his drought conference with President Roosevelt this week, Alf Landon released a press statement: "I return to Topeka deeply gratified with my first trip of the 1936 campaign. . . . Everywhere, despite differences in geography, the people are undoubtedly interested in good government. . . . This is as it should be. It is the American...
Ever since Publisher William Randolph Hearst visited Governor Alf Landon in Topeka last December, found the Kansas candidate to his liking and ordered his newspaper chain to support him full blast, there has been a Hearst issue in the 1936 Presidential campaign.* Not until last week, however, did the Democratic high command choose to bring this two-edged issue out of the political shadows, use it directly against the Republican nominee...
...offered a letter Mr. Hearst had written him confirming their conversation. From this document Secretary Ickes quoted Publisher Hearst as follows: "The average politician around him [Landon] is continually urging him to get out and talk. Talk is the method of the average politician, but ... this is a campaign in which speechmaking might do more harm than good. At present the Democrats have nothing to criticize Governor Landon about. You can see that in their attempts to criticize him. Too many speeches might give the Democrats their eagerly wanted opportunity...