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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chairman Raskob had some photostats made. He obtained affidavits from people in Mississippi, Kentucky, Kansas and Tennessee who described instances where Republican officials, State and national, had engaged in whipping up anti-Catholic animus. The most common offense seemed to be handing out The Fellowship Forum, nauseous, rabid Klanpaper (see p. 59). Two of the owners of this sheet, Mr. Raskob noted, were Republican State Chairman R. H. Angell of Virginia and William G. Conley, Republican nominee for Governor of West Virginia...
...What gets most on my nerves is the hollow mockery of it, to raise between heaven and earth, the emblem of Christianity, as a defiance to a fellow citizen, the Executive of a great State. As far as I am concerned, I would sooner go down to ignominious defeat than be elected to any office in this country if I had to have-if to accomplish it I had to have the support of any group [the Klan] with such perverted ideas about Americanism...
Able, experienced, great-capacitied Senator Robinson spent the last nights and days campaigning arduously in southern Illinois, where his voice could be heard in hard-fought Missouri. He made a side trip, for some reason, across Indiana into arch-Republican Ohio. Then he went home to Arkansas, one State he knew was going Democratic...
...come through the rough-and-tumble of big-city politics. Even Manhattan's "silk stocking" district has its seamy side. Mrs. Pratt encountered Tammany methods within her own party before securing her nomination. A somewhat amateurish city alderman, she was opposed for nomination by a highly professional State Assemblyman, Phelps Phelps. Her primary victory seemed due to her astute counsellors more than to her social appeal. The seat in Congress which she sought was held by one Tammanyite and defended by another, both Jews. A woman Socialist, Bertha Mailly, also ran. Mrs. Pratt was expected to win because "Broadway...
Thus Chicago, last week-up and away with a whoop and an "I WILL" boost-Harold Fowler McCormick for Smith, Julius Rosenwald for Hoover, William Hale Thompson for himself, and, as always, the bitterest possible fight for the post of State's Attorney...