Word: sinclairism
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...Poverty In California party took a terrific beating, won only four out of 18 contested offices. From San Francisco the conservative Chronicle sardonically observed that in the city where EPIC was founded a year ago the voters were apparently tired of "magic hocus-pocus." But undaunted Upton Sinclair, emerging from several weeks' confinement in a sanitorium, declared: "The outcome of this election will not affect in the least our plans to spread the EPIC movement throughout the country." He promised that an EPIC convention in Los Angeles this week would prepare to put a national ticket in the field...
Whether or not EPIC was a going or gone concern, last week's election served to turn the nation's eyes back to the Golden State. What had happened since those hectic days last autumn when fey-eyed Gubernatorial Candidate Sinclair had half the people in his State, and not a few outside, scared to death of his political Utopia (TIME, Oct. 22)? More specifically, what had happened to Republican Frank Finley Merriam, the champion who defeated...
When Upton Sinclair was campaigning on his EPIC program of State Socialism, panic-stricken capital started flying out of California, the motion picture industry cried "Confiscation!" and announced it would move to Florida if Sinclair won, and the San Francisco Argonaut wailed: "The catastrophe of Sinclair's election would be drastic enough to overthrow all that is fine and good and stable in California life...
Frank Merriam is a moon-faced lowan who crept into Sacramento as Lieutenant Governor in 1930, succeeded to the Governorship when "Sunny Jim" Rolph died last year and black-jacked California's influential Republicans into nominating him against Sinclair by threatening to withhold State troops from the San Francisco strike last summer. He is an arch political trimmer, paying harmless lip service to the Townsend Plan and at the same time complaining to his capitalist supporters that he is surrounded by fanatics. But even Frank Merriam could not trim the fact that California desperately needed revenue...
...Argonaut simultaneously performed a miraculous journalistic somersault. The paper which had hailed Governor Merriam last autumn as "a symbol of strength, progress and stability of traditional growth" now declared: "Would Upton Sinclair have done worse in the gubernatorial chair than the man who defeated him? It may well be doubted. He might even have done better, for he has an atom or two of genius in his composition while all one can discern in Merriam is cobwebs from an empty skull. Heaven help us before we perish from the folly of having chosen such a man as Governor...