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ARTICLE TITLED CALIFORNIA CLIMAX IN TIME, OCT. 22 CONTAINS MISINFORMATION ON GOVERNOR MERRIAM IN CALIFORNIA . . . AND DOES NOT JIBE WITH FACTS GIVEN YOUR REPRESENTATIVE. . . . SEEMS UNDUE ADVANTAGE HAS BEEN TAKEN OF GOVERNOR MERRIAM...
...Governor Merriam Campaign...
...happened, Mr. Fletcher last week had good reason to hope that the Republicans would carry California. Senator Hiram Johnson was sure of reelection, but since the New Deal had adopted him as a Democrat that will be an empty triumph for the G. O. P. Republican Acting Governor Frank Merriam, too, had a good chance of reelection. A Literary Digest poll last week showed him leading Upton Sinclair, 2½-to-1. But there, again, such an outcome would be due, not to Republican headwork, but to the jettisoning of Democratic Nominee Sinclair by the Democratic Administration in Washington...
...pushing his own "Immediate Epic" plan in violation of agreements at the State convention. Declared disgusted Mr. Creel: "I think any one who votes in California this fall has to hold his nose. It's a choice between catalepsy and epilepsy. Sinclair has a fantastic, impossible plan and Merriam is as modern as the dinosaur...
Sinclair lost another potent vote when Senator McAdoo's law partner, William H. Neblett (see p. 15), announced his switch to Merriam...