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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...
...faddists and 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...
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...
...spite of the revelations about Mr. Sinclair's past beliefs, therefore, political observers last week were ready to concede him Los Angeles and the Southern part of the State, look to hard-headed San Francisco and the conservative north for Merriam strength. "Poor Relation." Prime epithet used against Upton Sinclair is that he is "an agent of Moscow." Fact is, Upton Sinclair is as American as pumpkin pie. His great-grandfather Arthur Sinclair was a naval officer who fought in the war with Tripoli. Seven other seagoing relatives joined the Confederate Navy. His maternal grandfather, John S. Harden...
...that of a 'poor relation.' It had been my fate from earliest childhood to live in the presence of wealth which belonged to others." The family moved to Manhattan, where Upton put himself through Columbia as a special student by writing boys' adventure stories for the pulp magazines under the names of "Lieutenant Frederick Garrison, U. S. A." and "Ensign Clarke Fitch, U. S. N." In 1900, when he was 22, he married Meta Fuller, whose father was a newspaperman, whose mother was an old friend of Mrs. Sinclair's. They had a baby at once...