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Three years ago Mrs. McCormick was shouting from Illinois platforms against the Small-Thompson combination, which helped Charles S. Deneen take her husband's Senatorship from him shortly before he died in 1925. Her cry then was: "Turn the rascals out!" Her explanation for associating herself with Mayor Thompson, and his friend, Governor Lennington Small of Illinois, now is: "Party regularity was a Hanna creed, you know...
...Senator was once a newsboy on the lower East Side with an extraordinarily keen mind and a lust for law. His untarnished reputation on the bench and the tarnished humanity of Tammany Hall and the power of the "Al" Smith banner were enough to lift him to the Senatorship...
...name of Gunderson. Governor Carl Gunderson, Republican, was defeated by William J. Bulow, able country lawyer, who is to be the first Democratic Governor in the history of South Dakota. Another Gunderson, C. J., Democrat, cousin of Republican Carl, was overwhelmed in the Senatorship battle by Senator Peter Norbeck, Republican...
...campaign with his purity festoons (TiME, Oct. 11), Illinois was considered safe for "Insullated" Colonel Smith. If Mr. Magill can poll 200,000 votes, "Boss" Brennan will come out of the Wetlands of Cook County (Chicago), East St. Louis and Peoria with enough of a plurality to win the Senatorship...
...Senatorship, the incumbent Irvine L. Lenroot battles Governor John Elaine, on whom has fallen the mantle of LaFollettism. Senator Lenroot is one of the many regular Republicans who was swept into office in the Harding landslide of 1920, even though he ran 270,000 votes behind the party ticket. His chief war cry in the present campaign is-"Divorce Wisconsin from the LaFollettes." Senator Lenroot is also a World Courter. In fact, he challenged Governor Elaine to a debate on the subject. The Governor could not be bothered; one of his henchmen offered to substitute. Whereupon, the Senator said sweetly...