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...climax on Election Day. Not only will California then choose a new Governor but all the rest of the country will be supplied with a gauge to measure the size and significance of the New Radicalism. Rarely has a state campaign evoked more national attention than that of Upton Sinclair of Pasadena and his plan to "End Poverty in California" which he calls EPIC and Publisher Hearst calls Ipecac. No politician since William Jennings Bryan has so horrified and outraged the Vested Interests. Those whose stakes in California are greatest hold themselves personally responsible to their class throughout the nation...
...cultists of every sort. But it would not have survived a season had it not also made a strong appeal to California's desperate 425,000 unemployed and their 800,000 dependents. EPIC clubs sprang up overnight until by last week they numbered 1,000. And Upton Sinclair found himself a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor. "I found I was not getting anywhere as a Socialist," explained he, "and so I decided to try to make progress with one of the two old parties." The regular Democratic machine pooh-poohed Candidate Sinclair as a theoretical novice. Theoretical...
Nominee & Platform. Two days after his nomination, Sinclair lit out for Hyde Park to receive the congratulations of a highly embarrassed President. Like the fabled Dutchman and the non-stop salt machine, the President was discovering that his New Deal liberalism was undamming an undisciplined torrent of independent Leftist movements all over the country: Huey Long's Share-the-Wealth Clubs, Prestonia Mann Martin's "Commons & Capitals," Dr. Francis Everett Townsend's pension scheme (TIME. Oct. 15). There was an EPIW in Washington. Some 200,000 persons were said to be enrolled in the Utopian Society...
...Nominee Sinclair wrapped his long radical arms around President Roosevelt, emerged to beam at reporters: "I talked with one of the kindest and most genial and frank and open-minded and capable men I ever met. . . . We folks out in California speculate as to what he is doing and how much he knows about it. I am very happy to tell the people of California that he knows...
Stopping off in Manhattan, he triumphantly appeared at the office of his new political chief, No. 1 Democrat James Aloysius Farley. Mr. Farley told him to call him "Jim." Then down to Washington marched Upton Sinclair to be welcomed by such socially-minded members of the White House inner circle as Harry Hopkins and Secretary Wallace...