Monday, Mar. 23, 1936

Plump, Plump

Much as he would like the Democratic Presidential nomination for himself, much as he dislikes the New Deal, Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge has no stomach as yet for a tilt with Franklin Roosevelt at Georgia's ballot boxes. Dismayed, therefore, was "Gene" Talmadge fortnight ago when Seminole County Democrats took matters in their own hands, held a Presidential preference primary, plumped 5-to-1 for Roosevelt. Last week Harris County followed suit 27-to-1. Belatedly, Governor Talmadge got Barrow County to postpone its primary while the Talmadge-dominated Democratic State Committee tried to figure some way of avoiding a miniature Roosevelt landslide.

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