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...like the prototype of the ancestral Down-Easter. Craggy-faced, big-boned and monumentally tall (he is 6 ft. 4 in.), he displays the New England legislator's characteristic attention to detail and distaste for florid rhetoric. It was hardly foreseeable before last week that the Democratic vice-presidential nominee???who is in fact the son of a Polish-born tailor?would be matched against a Republican opposite number from Maryland with a curiously similar background. Muskie and Spiro Agnew, Richard Nixon's running mate, are both sons of immigrants. Both grew up in straitened circumstances. Both have foreshortened surnames...
Passing through Nominee Curtis's home state was great sport. The Brown Derby swept and waved at every platform pause. People said the crowd at Topeka was "as big as Bryan's"; bigger, even, than Senator Curtis got when he went home a Nominee???but then, everyone in Topeka knows what Mr. Curtis looks like. The Brown Derby was something of a curiosity as well as an enthusiasm...
...third candidate, Howard J. Clark, is of course fully in favor of farm relief. His supporters argue for him that he is the one possible compromise nominee???that if Cummins or Brookhart were nominated, the embittered supporters of the other would turn to the Democratic nominee, with the possibility that the Republican state of Iowa would elect a second Democratic Senator. But in proportion as the partisanship between Brookhart and Cummins increases, the likelihood of Iowa's turning to an innocent bystander, however well thought of, decreases...
...possibilities were plain. It would react to the disadvantage of the Republican candidate, because Republican campaign funds are always the largest. But the Republicans had no love to waste upon Mr. Coolidge. On the other hand?if he should happen to be tne Democratic nominee???it would probably also react on Mr. McAdoo, who has conducted an elaborate pre-conventlon campaign that must have cost a "mint" of money, not to mention promises of patronage. As for Senator La Follette, if he becomes a third party candidate, the investigation will work entirely to his advantage: he will not have...
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