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PRIMARIES SMASH OLD GUARD HOPES returns show progressives as victorious Hoover Administration Candidates Beaten In Many States In Bitter Campaigns COUZENS WINS BY HJ:ZV MAJORITY Veterai...
...I have usually sent in two or three new subscribers with my renewals...
...Yours truly, for the betterment of our fellowman.—John W. Hays...
...I moved here to Brook-view December 1910...
...In every primary election of national significance held this week...
...He declared that unless means were found to relieve unemployment among the workers that the capitalistic system would eventually be destroyed by this evil...
...In two southern states, South Carolina and Louisiana, two veteran Do^-cratic Senators who had voted vU^Pk Old Guard were decisively defeai^P^H South Carolina, Senator ColemtJJJJJ Blease who for 40 years has been a holder of public office in that state, was beaten by former Congressman James F. Byrnes in the Democratic primary...
...Although Senator Blease campaigned in the state and pictured himself as a friend of the working man, his Senate record shows him to have always sided with wealth and big business...
...Hunt ha always been a militant advocate of pn gressive principles and has consistent...
...7]—En^ closed And check for $1.50 for one yt subscription, as I can not afford to without The Progressive that fights valiantly for the principals advocated' so many years by La Follette s Magazine...
...In the governorship race for the Democratic nomination in Arizona, Gov...
...I am an old soldier past 86...
...As far as I know I am the only one living who served in ether company I served in...
...Later in Co...
...Osborne, who attacked Senator Couzens for violation of party Irregularity, ia a stror% Hoover supporter and a staunch conservative...
...Was one of the early settlers in Fauik Co., Dakota...
...Ransdell was a rabid conservative in the Senate and voted for the high tariff bill favored by Hoover and the big industrial forces of the East...
...PRIMARIES SMASH OLD GUARD HOPES returns show progressives as victorious Hoover Administration Candidates Beaten In Many States In Bitter Campaigns COUZENS WINS BY HJ:ZV MAJORITY Veterai ~^£otionary Democratic g2 ators In South CaroliL\ nd Louisiana Loe To Progressives (Special To The Progressive) WASHINGTON, D. C—The results of every important election within recent months have been disconcerting news to the ears of the Hoover administration and the Old Guard, and those of last Tuesday's primaries did not prove an exception...
...I hope you will print the last two lines...
...Ransdell carried the city by a bare majority of only a few hundred votes...
...Hoover and reactionary men both in the Republican and the Democratic primaries were badly beaten...
...Governor Huey P. Long, militant 37-year-old progressive Democrat, won over his sta*id-pat opponent, the present Senator Joseph Ransdell by a majority of 34.000 votes...
...opposed the big monopoly interests his state...
...In Louisiana...
...one of the leaders of the notorious political organizations, did not run for fear of being beaten...
...It might be the means of me finding some of the romrades I served with...
...Senator Phipps...
...June 14th, 1915, I sent in 34 trial subs...
...H. 14th N. Y. Inft...
...Senator Couzens has frequently opposed administration tactics in the senate and is considered an independent Republican...
...At that time I was living in Faulkton, South Dakota...
...I am physically unable to get out and get new subscribers...
...His activity in the campaign branded him as a thoroughgoing demagogue...
...Byrnes was endorsed by labor in his state, and has demonstrated himself to be progressive...
...The latter part of 1908 Senator Robert M. La Follette wrote to me...
...First ill Co...
...I served in the War of 1861 to 1865...
...victory was in the face of bitter opposition of the big newspapers of New Orleans and practically the entire press of the state...
...Chase Osborne by the tremendous \ majority of about 240,000...
...that he was going to start La Follette's Magazine and requested me to get subscribers...
...Most notable, perhaps, are the nearly complete returns from Michigan where Senator James Couzens defeated former ' Gov...
...L. 11th N. Y. Cav...
...During his campaign, Senator Couzens attacked the administration and the Big Business interests of the country for their lack of relief measures for the present crisis in unemployment...
...Later I sent in more, all before the first issue...
...I immediately got up a club of 14 subscribers...
...Long will very likely align himself with the progressive faction of that body...
...Colorado liberals overthrew the reactionary Phipps machine by nominating Edward P. Costigan, former member of the federal tariff commission and well known as a progressive, in the Democratic senatorial primary...
...As a United States Senator, Gov...
...Governor Long...
...WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM COMRADES JBrookview, N. Y„ Sept...
...George W. P. Hunt had piled up a substantial lead over three opponents, according to late returns...
...Although his stronghold was the city of New Orleans...
Vol. 1 • September 1930 • No. 41
