Lemke Entries

When North Dakota's bald, freckled Representative William Lemke last June announced simultaneously the birth of the Union Party and his own selection as its candidate for President, Democratic State Chairman David Lawrence of Pennsylvania promptly moved to keep him off that State's ballot by having his henchmen file petitions pre-empting the Union Party name. Last week Candidate Lemke, whose principal backer is radiorating Rev.

Charles E. Coughlin of Royal Oak, Mich, (see p. 61), got on Pennsylvania's ballot anyway when his supporters filed petitions qualifying him as candidate of the "Royal Oak" Party.

Throughout the U. S. major parties have done their worst to keep third parties off ballots by raising such hurdles as early deadlines for filing and requirements of enormous numbers of names on qualifying petitions. Last week Ohio, which demands some 330,000 names, rejected the Union Party's petition because it had only 280,000 signatures, of which 70,000 were declared invalid. After two and one-half months the Union Party was definitely on the ballots of only nine States, definitely off those of eight, still hoped to get on those of the 31 others either under its own name, in affiliation with another party, or as a slate of independent candidates.

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