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Competing against these was Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, daughter and wife of statesmen, society woman, mother, farmer, intellectual...
...McCormick is a high-strung person of taste and refinement. It was curious to see her thrown in with such figures as Small, Thompson and Deneen. Yet in with them she was. People who voted the Deneen ticket voted also for her. This was curious because Deneen is her sworn enemy, the enemy of her dead husband, Medill McCormick, whose Senate seat Deneen won in 1924, just before Mr. McCormick died. Deneen dislikes her, too, and fears her. She plans to fight him for the Senate seat...
...also her enemy, her chosen enemy. Long ago she promised to overthrow him if no man could be found to do it. Yet in this primary, Small quietly helped her, figuring she would strengthen the Republican ticket he hoped to head next autumn. Mayor Thompson helped, too. Mrs. McCormick let them help. She learned party regularity long ago from her father, the late, sapient Marcus Alonzo Hanna of Ohio. And the law of party regularity is the law of the jungle: when the pack can help you hunt, do not be squeamish about the pack...
...actual, visible contacts went, however, Mrs. McCormick strove alone against the Messrs. Rathbone and Yates, with her own statewide chain of women's Republican clubs. When the returns came in, she was to be seen nowhere near the smoke-fouled headquarters of Small or Thompson. She had headquarters of her own in Chicago, full of fresh air, flowers, candy and lady friends. Her daughter, Katrina, helped answer the telephone. Her friend Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the "Princess Alice" of Rooseveltian days at the White House and now the wife of the Speaker of the House, helped add up returns...
...McCormick beat out both her male competitors. Representative Rathbone stalked along some 90,000 votes behind her for the second of the two nominations-at-large...