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Last week newshawks flocked about the Small home in Kankakee. Len Small had won his nomination. Though he got only 36% of the G. O. P. primary vote, he managed to nose out four other candidates. As a Wet, he handily defeated a weasler, one Omer N. Custer, whom repeal-vetoing Governor Louis Emmerson had selected as his successor. Nominee Small declaimed: "I accept the responsibility of leading the people in their battle against the forces of wealth, greed and privilege back to prosperity...
...their time to strike a blow are Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth, Connecticut's Senator Bingham, Pennsylvania's Congressman Graham. New York's Senator Copeland represents the Wet from political expedience who is at heart a Dry. Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York personifies the long-time weasler who slips softly into 4% beer. Referendum Wets awaiting a home vote to guide them are Iowa's Senator Steck, Michigan's Senator Couzens...
...Weaslers. Sitting on the fence itself are the weaslers whose catchpenny slogan is "Law Enforcement." They actively avoid a binding stand on the basic question as long as possible. A referendum weasler is Senator Metcalf who puts off a declaration of his position until he sees how his Rhode Island votes this year. The "neutral" weasler who says...
...repeal of his State's enforcement act. Opposing him are Gifford Pinchot, a crusading Dry, and Francis Shunk Brown supported by both the Mellon and Vare factions of the G. O. P. Mr. Brown has declared for a Prohibition referendum, is classed as a political weasler on this issue...
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