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...other papers were not much more enthusiastic. The Times, Democratic Independent, published editorials against him. The Bulletin (see Page 27), violently Democratic, joined the World in backing Governor Smith against McAdoo. The Republican papers evidently liked McAdoo least of all the possibilities. They hounded him on the Ku Klux Klan issue on which he would not commit himself...
...press impressions were not encouraging to the McAdoo delegates. He gathered them together and made a fiery speech. Said he: "I wish to say to you that I lived in New York for 30 years and that the hospitality of the newspapers does not represent the hospitality of the great and good citizenry of New York City...
...McAdoo went, not from battle to Rome, but to Rome and to battle. "Victory is in sight!" cried...
...world economics. Habits, excellent; a moderate drinker before 1917, but dry as a bone ever since; a fairly regular churchgoer. Family, the same wife he has had all along, and sturdy children. Personal relationships, liked by every one; known affectionately as 'old man' to Lodge, La Follette, McAdoo, Smith, Coolidge and Dawes, and as 'Senator' to an admiring populace. Residence, an office in New York City, a farm in Ohio and a factory in Illinois...
Just before the Democratic Convention reached Manhattan, a newspaper was born into the metropolitan field. It came forth in the early hours of a sultry June afternoon, and fairly won the title of an evening paper. With Governer Al Smith, William G. McAdoo and "Red Mike" Hylan all in the same town at the moment of its birth, it was perforce born under Democratic auspices. And it was christened The New York Bulletin...