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...these reforms save money for the taxpayers of Illinois. And all of them--since the business of reforming State governments had made such little headway be 1917 that any reform was notable and Lowden's reforms were sensational--brought Lowden fame. It is not strange that the Republican party, then preparing to break the eight years hold of the Democrats in Washington, should have begun to talk of Lowden. Nor it it strange that Lowden's own friends in Illinois should have thought the times auspicious. On November 7, 1919, an enthusiastic convention of Republican editors of Illinois meeting...
...look, for a time, as if the ticket were far wrong. From November, 1919, to May, 1920. Lowden's candidacy gained ground at an impressive pace. Delegates were lined up. Alliances were formed. The campaign had money, organization, and the bright prospect of success to drive it on. By the middle of May Lowden had the promise of more than two hundred delegates on the third ballot, with only Leonard Wood apparently capable of giving him a battle...
Then the unexpected happened. News came out that some of the Lowden managers had been overgenerous and somewhat undiscriminating in their use of money. The Kenyon committee of the Senate brought out the fact that more than $400,000 had been raised by the Lowden managers and that the sum of $32,202, in particular, had been injudiciously spent in Missouri for the apparent purpose of influencing delegates...
...Lowden led the field on some of the early ballots in the Republican convention, but thereafter faded rapidly, as the risks of carrying the onus of the Lowden campaign budget became increasingly self-evident. Beyond reproach on the score of private honor. Lowden saw the nomination lost because the honor of his candidacy was in dispute...
...Lowden, however, did not do in 1920 what he had done in 1904; pick up the pieces and begin again. After 1904 he had shifted his objective and aimed his efforts at another office. In 1920 he stood pat. Harding offered him a chance to continue in active politics, inviting him to accept the post of Secretary of the Navy. Lowden refused. He knew nothing about the work that had been offered him and was frank enough...