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...unlike pompous Senator Willis, easy-going Senator Watson has no pretensions beyond those of a "favorite son." His game is simply to herd the Indiana delegates for delivery to his good friend Vice President Dawes or for barter with other big G. O. P. traders at the convention. Candidate Lowden did not file in Indiana, and therefore, since Lowden admirers realize that a vote for Lowden is virtually a vote for Dawes anyway, the Watson support in Indiana will be a Watson-Lowden-Dawes vote-really more significant for Candidate Hoover to beat, if he can, than the Willis vote...
...Hoover 6975 Smith 5676 Dawes 696 Reed 345 Ritchie 250 Coolidge 226 Lowden 189 Willis 73 Walsh 70 Curtis 64 Hughes...
...this way; others have found a more subtle scheme, in which the procedure is, first, the careful study of the issues raised and supported by the few who have been audacious enough to speak, and second, the choice of an issue not yet covered by any candidates. Recently Mr. Lowden effected a rather neat move by Method two, when he inscribed "Farm Relief" on his banner, and ignored such trifles as Prohibition, Corruption, and Foreign Policy...
...will appear on the ballot are: Democrats: A. Victor Donahey, of Ohio; James A. Reed, of Missouri; Albert C. Ritchie, of Maryland; Alfred E. Smith, of New York; Thomas J. Walsh, of Montana. Republicans: Charles Curtis, of Kansas; Charles G. Dawes, of Illinois; Herbert Hoover, of California; Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois; Frank B. Willis...
...other hand, it is necessary to remember that three hundred votes is substantially short of a majority in a convention which will seat more than a thousand delegates. And it is also necessary to remember that Lowden is one of a large number of gentlemen in IIIinois who have a standing quarrel with Big Bill Thompson, and that this fact may deprive him of a solid delegation from his own State