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California, The resounding defeat of Democrat Upton Sinclair of Governor came as a surprise to no one but the ex-Socialist (see p. 16). Upon his election, Acting Governor Frank Merriam, with perhaps more truth than he intended, called the result "a rebuke to Socialism and Communism...
Only in the gashouse districts of U. S. cities was a parallel to be found to the wind-up last week of California's campaign for Governor. Against Democratic Nominee Upton Sinclair and his EPIC was massed all the fire and fury of a thoroughly frightened conservative electorate...
Last week President Roosevelt took more positive steps to placate conservative opinion up to Nov. 6. In one day he smiled thrice in a way to captivate the gentlemen of the Right: 1) He denied that he had ever given Upton Sinclair. Mahatma of the West Coast millennium, a promise of any statement in his support (see p. 11). 2) He declared that he was giving no consideration to plans for substituting a central bank for the Federal Reserve System. 3) He went before the American Bankers Association and. after listening to a conciliatory speech by Manhattan Banker Jackson...
Sinclair managers published with delight a letter saying: "By electing Hon. Upton Sinclair, your popular Democratic Candidate for Governor, California will have a combination of leaders in Washington and Sacramento who can cooperate in the best interest of the people of the State and Nation." The signature was in green ink, "James A. Farley." At the bottom of the letter was a handwritten postscript, also in green ink: "Friends of the Administration in Washington will be gratified for all your efforts...
...Hiram Johnson was sure of reelection, but since the New Deal had adopted him as a Democrat that will be an empty triumph for the G. O. P. Republican Acting Governor Frank Merriam, too, had a good chance of reelection. A Literary Digest poll last week showed him leading Upton Sinclair, 2½-to-1. But there, again, such an outcome would be due, not to Republican headwork, but to the jettisoning of Democratic Nominee Sinclair by the Democratic Administration in Washington...