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...finishing touch was put upon the Smith campaign to lead the party. It was the first primary where the Brown Derby competed directly with its only serious antagonists, Candidates Reed and Walsh. It was the home state of the Brown Derby's bitterest enemy, William Gibbs McAdoo, and Mr. McAdoo had instituted the Walsh campaign just for old time's sake, in memory of two McAdoo nominations blocked by Candidate Smith in 1920 and 1924. Candidate Reed perhaps served as a slight buffer between the two, but the returns were: Smith, 132,006; Reed, 57,586; Walsh...
...Ohio held a Democratic primary and instructed its 48 delegates for Favorite Son Pomerene. But voters in three-fourths of the districts expressed preferences as follows: Smith, 32,694; Pomerene, 9,588; Donahey, 5,271; Reed, 432; Walsh, 151; McAdoo, 37. Favorite Son Pomerene was reported as seeing no reason why his delegates should not vote for Candidate Smith on the first ballot...
...mixture of wet Protestants, dry Catholics and vice versas. Thousands of Republicans were registered to vote in the Democratic primary. To predict a decisive Smith victory in California the margin of 10,000 votes quoted last week by Smith men seemed inadequate, senseless. Behind Candidate Walsh is William Gibbs McAdoo. Behind Candidate Reed is William Randolph Hearst. Behind Candidate Smith is onetime (1915-21) Senator James Duval Phelan, locally no less potent than McAdoo or Hearst but not clearly the Democratic strong-man of California able to combat the other two and confound them by division. The California primary...
After the Syracuse episode, Smith could and did begin to think of himself as a free agent. In 1920 he had been put forward as a perfunctory Favorite Son for the Presidential nomination, to block McAdoo. In 1924, he was a real Favorite Son, a serious contender, though the convention's fear of the Klan made him once more only an obstructionist...
...there is no Klan, except for extraordinary Senator Heflin, and no McAdoo, except as represented by polite Candidate Walsh. There are large obstacles between Alfred Emanuel Smith and election, but so far as the nomination goes, last week, in Smith Week, there was even talk of an acclamation...