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Illinois Aftermath. Because to obtain the Republican senatorial nomination she had spent one-quarter of a million dollars, Illinois Democrats last week resolved that "whereas the alleged nominee, Ruth Hanna McCormick, cannot be seated in the U. S. Senate, she is now an illegal and ineligible nominee." Democrats charged that expenditures in her behalf were really closer to one million dollars, pointed with pride to the $35 reported as campaign expenses of their candidate, James Hamilton Lewis, "the only legal nominee for U. S. Senator...
...error. In her Republican primary campaign Mrs. McCormick appealed to the 1,700,000 Illinois registered Republican voters, not to the State's 1,300,000 registered Democrats...
...expenditure of a quarter-million dollars did not put Mrs. McCormick into one of the red leather chairs in the Senate. It simply gave her the privilege of making a formal bid for it in the November election. Between now and then another campaign must occur which will undoubtedly require many more thousands of dollars...
...guide North Dakota's Senator Nye, chairman of the Senate committee, in scrutinizing the details of Mrs. McCormick's expenditures, there are no set rules on how much a Senate candidate should or should not spend for a seat. The size of a State, the intensity of the campaign, the breadth of appeal generally control the outlay. Obviously it costs less in the aggregate to reach Nevada's 32,000 voters than New York's 4,250,000, though the cost-per-vote is often much higher in small States than in large...
Almost apologetically Mrs. McCormick told the committee...