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...prisoner had written a confession accepting the guilt for two murders in Massachusetts, while serving a fifteen year sentence in Pennsylvania for another crime. He received a pardon from Governor Sproul to enable him to stand trial on the charge of murder. His story to the jury of his life is the old story of a failure forced to earn an illegitimate livelihood by the grasping attitude of society. But coming to the murders this confessed criminal admitted that his confession was "faked", claimed his entire innocence and said to the jury quietly...
...Pennsylvania have resulted in a complete upset; the Old Guard candidate for governor, supported by the strongest political organization in the country, has been defeated by Gifford Pinchot, disciple of Roosevelt Progressivism. Mr. Pinchot in his campaign attacked the extravagance, inefficiency, and machine rule of the administration under Governor Sproul, and in so doing obtained the support of that part of the voting population which looked forward to political "cleaning up". But for that very reason he also had the opposition of the powerful political machine built up by Senator Penrose. And, according to all predictions, he should have been...
Lowden was not far behind with a total of 289 1-2 on the fourth ballot, which makes his nomination a possibility if old guard forces in the shape of Sproul adherents and other delegates of the same order should swing...
...present leaders can obtain the 492 votes necessary for nomination. A rumor at Chicago late last night had it that a caucus of leaders had selected Hughes as the man who would be brought up when it appeared definitely impossible to nominate either Wood or Lowden. Sproul was also mentioned as a possible choice...
Wood,314 1-2 Lowden, 289 Johnson, 141 1-2 Sproul, 109 1-2 Harding, 51 1-2 Coolidge, 25 LaFollette, 22 Poindexter, 15 Butler, 20 Hoover, 5 Knox, 4 Watson, 4 Sutherland, 3 Dupont, 2 Borah...