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...field of 16, Republicans chose William Abraham Schnader, State's Attorney General, as their favorite gubernatorial candidate. In the hottest primary contest, Senator David Aiken Reed, Old Guardsman seeking renomination, beat (587,000-to-483,000) Governor Gifford Pinchot, oldtime Republican insurgent...
Since Governor Pinchot had campaigned on a platform appropriated from his Democratic friend Franklin D. Roosevelt and since Senator Reed had spent most of his time on the hustings damning the Administration, the primary had been widely touted as the New Deal's first ordeal by ballot box. Day after the primary, Pennsylvanians woke to find that they had not only recorded their sovereign electoral will but had also been cast as a political oracle for the country. A host of strictly partisan interpreters at once gave tongue...
Interpretations. While Governor Pinchot was explaining that his defeat was largely due to his recent illness from shingles, Senator Reed crowed: "It means that in Pennsylvania we want neither the Old Deal nor the New Deal, but a Square Deal...
Postmaster General Farley as his party's national boss professed to be amazed that anyone could suppose the Democracy was interested in the results of a Republican primary. "I do not regard the defeat of Governor Pinchot," said he, "as a New Deal test...
...after a belated endorsement of Franklin Roosevelt, Governor Pinchot made alliances with certain local Democratic chiefs. His followers have called subsequent local Democratic victories, Pinchot victories. But there was a good chance that Governor Pinchot would be beaten in the Republican primaries this week. If so, he would get scanty backing from the State Democratic machine as an independent candidate in November, despite his warm personal friendship with President Roosevelt...