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There was cold comfort in the thought that, if elected, Mr. Sinclair would not have a legislative majority at Sacramento to execute his ideas. Under Republican Hiram Johnson, California enacted in 1911 the system of initiative & referendum. To initiate any legislation, all that is required is the mandate of 8% of the voters in the previous election. Mr. Sinclair, his eye already on this device, estimates the required number at 160,000, which he can drum up in a week by ordering each of his 1,000 EPIC clubs to get the signatures of 160 voters. He is confident that...
...immigrate across the State borders. All over the State Motor Vehicle Department clerks reported an influx of travelers with suitcases or blanket rolls who said they heard there was going to be "plenty of work in California" for unemployed. The State's gamblers had their money on Sinclair. "The gamblers know," observed the EPIC nominee...
Opposition to the Sinclair candidacy was focused on the plump, round-faced and by no means inspiring person of Republican Frank Finley Merriam. A small-bore, Iowa-born politician who was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1930, Frank Merriam of Long Beach became Acting Governor when "Sunny Jim" Rolph died last June. The San Francisco general strike and a shrewd stratagem won him his nomination for the coming election. Prior to the strike, onetime Governor Clement Calhoun Young had been assured Republican support by no less a faction than Herbert Hoover & friends. When big industrialists began to beseech Acting Governor Merriam...
...sworn foe of corporate interests. Most of his votes would go to Merriam if he withdrew. But Progressive Haight, who is only 38, seemed quite willing to have Acting Governor Merriam defeated and put aside, on the theory that by 1938 the electorate's disgust with Sinclair will give Haight a real chance of election...
...more effect than the Democrats did. Beside his own 346,000 primary votes, Acting Governor Merriam could count on most of the 385,000 cast for ex-Governor Young and John R. Quinn, chairman of the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors. That total of 731,000 roughly equaled the Sinclair 446,000 primary vote and George Creel's 288,000, although many a Creel follower would not vote for Sinclair. Primary figures, however, could not possibly tell the story because hundreds of thousands have subsequently registered to vote Nov. 6. This whopping registration was due in no small part...