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Ditched by George Creel, whom he defeated in the Democratic primary, and cast adrift by the Roosevelt Administration, Nominee Sinclair could draw little encouragement from a belated speech by California's Senator McAdoo at Phoenix, Ariz, in which he ambiguously declared: "I am supporting the Democratic party in California as I am supporting the Demo-cratic party in Arizona and the Demo-cratic party in America." Senator McAdoo's law partner, William H. Neblett, was voting for Republican Nominee Frank Merriam because "Sinclair's program is nothing more than a contest of the unemployed against the employed...
Impressionable Los Angeles was the scene of the most ruthless anti-Sinclair activity. Under what was said to be the guiding hand of Republican State Chairman Louis B. Mayer (MGM), the cinema industry was turning out Stop-Sinclair "news-reels," had even assessed many of its stars for Merriam campaign funds. A united front against Sinclairism was effected by the three big Los Angeles papers, which simply quit reporting news of EPIC and its sponsor. A flood of news-photographs was released locally and to the nation to prove that EPIC was luring an army of bums to California. Their...
...Stop Sinclair movement," wrote Scripps-Howard Newshawk Max Stern, "has become a phobia, lacking humor, fairness and even a sense of reality." He reported a blizzard of anti-Sinclair pamphlets in Los Angeles. One showed a lurid Russian figure waving a red flag over California. Another was an appeal by a non-existent "Citizens' Co-operative Relief Committee" for donations of clothing, food, room space and money for the 1,500,000 new citizens expected to arrive in the State because of the Sinclair Utopia. A fake "Young People's Communist League" leaflet bore the party hammer-&- sickle...
Aimee Semple McPherson was out for Merriam, picturing Upton Sinclair as "a red devil." Seeress Gene Dennis consulted the stars, predicted that Acting Governor Merriam would win, the election. The Literary Digest poll said the same thing?2½-to-1. The gamblers' money had switched to Merriam at 5-to-1. Almost as hysterical as his opponents, Sinclair charged that "208 experienced gangsters" had been brought from New York to substitute "stuffed" ballot boxes for the official ones...
...nation-wide setup not unlike Upton Sinclair's EPIC, whereunder the unemployed would make commodities for consumption by the unemployed. Such a program would probably be cheaper than the dole-and-relief work but it has two main disadvantages: a) economically it might tend to throw some workers in private enterprise out of their jobs; b) politically it would arouse a storm of conservative opposition from manufacturers who feel the pinch of direct government competition...