Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most of them the only question to be settled by a prolonged campaign is whether two anti-New Deal Democrats opposing President Roosevelt's personal friend, Senator James Francis Byrnes, can make a sufficient dent in his majority to injure the prestige of the New Deal in the country at large...
Unique is South Carolina's method of campaigning for a primary election. In 1890 Benjamin Ryan ("Pitchfork Ben") Tillman, out for Governor, charged that only a man of wealth could reach the people through the Press,* stumped each & every county in the State in person, won a great victory. Two years later the anti-Tillman faction sent its candidate out to dog the Governor around the State. Thus the custom developed of having all the candidates in a State-wide primary travel together, speak in the same place at the same time. This system is hard on office-seekers...
This year's Senatorial campaign began at Lexington, across the Congaree River from Columbia, on June 9 and rolled on, a county a day, through the west central part of the State. After two weeks an adjournment was taken so that candidates could attend the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. By July 4 the tour had covered the southern "low country" counties along the coast, then skipped to the Piedmont. In mid-July the stumpsters knocked off for another week to allow voters time to harvest their tobacco crop, resumed their speech-making in the northeastern tier of counties...
...special primary to pick a successor to its other lately deceased Senator, Park Trammell. The choice was between onetime Governor Doyle Elam Carlton of Tampa, claiming the support of Florida's labor vote, and Charles Oscar Andrews, a onetime circuit judge, who had never made a State-wide campaign before and whose chances of victory were ridiculed by the Press. But Democrat Andrews not only had the endorsement of Florida's Convention of Townsend Clubs, but led all other candidates in his devotion to Townsendism. When the votes were counted, Townsendite Andrews had a neat majority...
...Bilbo after his election to the Senate in 1934, "The Man" Bilbo renounced Mississippi's senior Senator to back Conner for Harrison's seat. Last week when President Roosevelt suddenly summoned Chairman Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee to Washington for a conference on taxes, the Mississippi campaign temporarily became a battle of governors: onetime Governor Conner and onetime Governor Bilbo v. Governor Hugh White and onetime Acting Governor Dennis Murphree, whom the New Deal gave leave of absence from the National Emergency Council to stump for New Dealer Harrison...