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...Governor Landon," crowed Governor Landon through a Topeka spokesman, "welcomes all sincere persons and all sincere parties to the great public debate which will be concluded at the ballot box this year...
Actually he is neither young nor Lochinvar. At 44, he has been case-hardened for 22 years in practical politics. Born at Fort Madison, Iowa, he was the younger son of a lawyer father who became claims attorney for the Santa Fe Railroad at Topeka. Both parents are now dead but John Hamilton has one brother, Hale, 12 years his elder, an actor who in 1910 starred in Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, later went into the movies. John Hamilton graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1913, got his law degree from Chicago's Northwestern University three years later. Before...
...Folger Brown of Ohio, David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, Mark L. Requa of California, Frank L. Smith of Illinois. In their places were Young Guardsmen. Without saying boo, the committee elected John Hamilton its chairman. Without ceremony he named an executive committee of 16 to meet this week in Topeka and begin overhauling the GOP. He made a speech of four sentences and the meeting was over: "There is no speech left in me, but we are entering here and now a hard and vigorous campaign. I ask only one thing. We are going to make lots of mistakes...
Waiting in Topeka for the Presidential nomination was just like waiting in your office for a field crew to bring in an oil well. Alf Landon, as an experienced oilman and politician, felt pretty sure the nomination was there. He knew his field boss, John Hamilton, was a crackerjack and would make no mistakes. Whether it proved to be just an average political well or a magnificent gusher did not matter an awful lot. Main thing was to get into pay sand and bring it into actual production. Until that was done, Alf Landon knew it was unlucky as well...
When the nomination flash came, Topeka drowned out the radio. On the green State House dome, 32 floodlights flashed; whistles, bells and bombs went off and 15,000 Kansans marched on the Executive Mansion...