Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge's manager in South Dakota replied : "The full-page newspaper advertisements were inserted in but a very few of the newspapers of South Dakota. These advertisements consisted largely of letters, telegrams and statements from the Senator's former friends and supporters in California...
...march to the National Conventions next June passed last week through the great State of South Dakota. There a primary was in progress. Interest centered principally on the Republican ballot where Calvin Coolidge was contesting with Hiram Johnson The struggle was hard, with victory wavering from one standard to another. In the end Mr. Johnson won by a few hundred votes. Thereupon Senator Johnson exclaimed...
...fight in South Dakota the most reckless and shameless use of money was made by the President, not only in hiring an army of orators, but in buying full-page advertisements in every paper in South Dakota and in utilizing circulation without stint...
Three Republicans. In the primaries of North Dakota, William G. McAdoo stood unopposed for the Democratic nomination, leaving the real fight in the Republican camp between Coolidge, Hiram Johnson and La Follette. Coolidge was planted firmly on the ballot. So was Johnson. Before putting himself there he had assurances that Mr. La Follette did not enter. But he was entered?by his followers. Thereupon Mr. La Follette said he was not a candidate. His followers insisted he was. Johnson men instituted legal proceedings to have La Follette's name kept off the ballot. They won, but they incurred the hostility...
Then voting began. Coolidge led mightily in the city districts, conservative strongholds. Johnson was second, half a length behind; La Follette third. But the farmers of North Dakota were liberal with their saliva. Sticker on sticker was pasted on the ballot. Coolidge won finally. But the vote was in a 5-4-3 proportion, with La Follette second and Johnson last. The Johnson men protested that Coolidge was a minority victor?that the sticker campaign had merely served to split the progressive vote...