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Senator Simeon D. Fess, baldish Ohioan, Harding admirer, Hoover Keynoter, spent time during the week studying and explaining why Hoover would carry New York State. To the embarrassment of non-whispering Republicans he also explained: "This is the first time in history during a national political campaign that we have on one side all of the loose element of morals and on the other the very highest and best of morals...
Flags and bunting flew in Topeka, Kan. An enormous portrait of the inmate was hung outside a bedroom window of a modest frame house in a leafy residential street. Citizens made holiday. Indians made whoopee. Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio made a speech-and Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas became formally aware that he was Number...
Said Senator Fess: ". . . Party responsibility . . . welfare of the country. . . . Prosperity . . . tax reduction . . . sympathy for the agriculturalist . . . enforcement of law ... I congratulate you . . . assured success . . . ability, integrity and devotion to public welfare...
...Yoakum detests politics in business not for business. Last May, he urged President Coolidge to veto the McNary-Haugen bill. Later, he telegraphed the President his approval of the veto. When Senator Fess talked on farming at the Republican Convention, he used many of Mr. Yoakum's most comprehensive phrases. Senator Borah used the Yoakum farm figures. When Nebraska's governor, plump Adam McMullen, repudiated his own "farmers crusade" last June, it was after he had received a telegram from Mr. Yoakum...
Such was the state of affairs when Senator Fess of Ohio, a most optimistic Republican, said: "Governor Smith will undoubtedly carry the Solid South. We have a fighting chance in North Carolina but it is idle for us to talk about winning the electoral vote of any other Southern State...