Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent state primaries and elections, $1 per vote has been cheap indeed for the returns obtained. The unsuccessful campaign of George Wharton Pepper in Pennsylvania cost $3.69 per vote in 1926. The same year, in the same State, William B. Wilson spent 65c per vote for a Senate nomination for which he had no opposition...
Wise men have said that if any Republican, at any time during this campaign, should make any overt insinuation against Mrs. Smith's social fitness for the White House, it would be touching off political dynamite...
...laying bricks. Nominee Smith refused and said: "I can't lay bricks, and any bricklayer that saw it would know I couldn't. That's a baloney* picture and I'm not going to stand for any baloney pictures in this campaign...
Hasty editors might, from the above record, assign to Nominee Curtis the credit for eliminating "baloney pictures" from the 1928 campaign. But no editor would do so who is a journalist before he is a partisan. Because, as a matter of fact- It seems indisputable that the underlying cause for this year's anti-baloney epidemic among politicians lies not in the politicians' honest hearts, but in the alert U. S. press, whose newsgatherers, observers, commentators and editors have spent many years trying to divest U. S. politics and politicos of the more obvious political shams and absurdities...
Nominee Smith's reply to his colleague's warning was a decision to let well enough alone and not have any Southern campaign headquarters. To do otherwise, he thought, would be to admit and thus foster uncertainty about the South. Following this news, National Committeeman John S. Cohen of Georgia was reported to have laid aside his anti-Smith sentiments. And from North Carolina came word that the last really potent political boss against Smith-Senator Furnifold M. Simons-was going to "stand hitched" and perhaps even draw his weight...