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...picked a baby-kissin', snuff-dippin', vote-gettin' man to replace Mayor Maury Maverick of San Antonio as front man for the New Deal forces working against John Nance Garner on his home base. This snuff-dippin', vote-gettin' man: Railroad Commissioner Gerald Anthony Sadler...
Green-eyed, 31-year-old Mr. Sadler is an East Texan whose mother sold her chickens to give him a start when oil was discovered in the great East Texas field nine years ago. Hustling Jerry Sadler worked at odd jobs and high wages, saved his money and studied law. Last year, still a political unknown, he ran for a place on the important Texas Railroad Commission (which regulates Texas oil production). Weeks before Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel started to campaign with his Hillbilly Band, Jerry Sadler was touring Texas with the Sadler Stringsters...
...prime attraction was his snuff. Jerry Sadler's desk is littered with empty Garrett Snuff cans and adorned with a tarnished silver snuffbox. Last July he told a snuff-dippers' convention: "Every old-line politician lined up against me. But I had one advantage . . . I was a snuff dipper. As a boy it was sometimes my duty to go cut a black gum toothbrush for my Grandmother, who was a snuff dipper. Practically all the elderly Christian mothers and grandmothers of that community (Hickory Grove, Texas) were snuff dippers. These modern women with one baby and a cigaret...
Statesman Sadler won in a walk-away with his slogan: "Sadler in the Saddle." He now shares top place on the mighty Railroad Commission with its once all-powerful Colonel Ernest O. Thompson, who is no slouch on slogans himself. Col. Thompson is gunning for the Governorship, with a plan to tax oil for old-age pensions ("A Nickel a Barrel for Grandma"). Governor O'Daniel, who said he would pass the biscuits to all the old folks when he was Governor, is still trying to get his hands on the dough...
George H. Handleman -- Miss Rosa Sadler, Cambridge...