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...Lowden. Last week Indiana Republicans called on onetime (1917-21) Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois, asked permission to use his name as presidential candidate in the Indiana preferential primary in 1928. Answered Mr. Lowden: "All I can say is that I know of no man in all our history who has run away from the Presidency." Not long ago Mr. Lowden had told an Iowa delegation that "No man is too big to refuse the support of any state as a candidate...
Should onetime Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois be inclined to grasp at straw votes, he might be pleased and proud at the indications of the first such political weather-vane reported in the 1927-28 campaign...
...organization supplying news items to 2,000 small-town weekly newspapers) published the result of a straw vote in which 362,210 voters in 29 states named their men for the Republican and Democratic presidential nomination. Though President Coolidge ran first among the Republicans with 87,176 votes, Mr. Lowden was a close second with 80,066 votes. Since President Coolidge had the advantage that goes with incumbency of the office, observers were surprised at the Lowden showing. Mr. Lowden's strength, however, was partly discounted by the fact that the vote represented rural sentiment...
President Coolidge and Mr. Lowden together polled about 85% of the entire Republican vote (some 200,000). Senator William Edgar Borah, pugnacious Idahoan, ran a poor third with 14,525 supporters, Vice President Charles G. Dawes received 9,938 and Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover...
...Lowden. Some 20,000 graduates of western and mid-western colleges received a letter from the Lowden-for-President Association of New York, Inc. The letter maintained that unless Frank Orren Lowden, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Illinois, is nominated, western and mid-western states will go Democratic in 1928. Mr. Lowden is a graduate of Iowa State University and of the Union College of Law, Chicago; holds honorary degrees from Knox College, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, the University of Colorado...