Judge — September 1938 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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ments that he represented classes or groups or factions—but he kept right on, up until midnight of the day before the polls closed, still hammering on just one theme: good government in the State. He wound up his campaign with the most conglomerate set of endorse- ments any man ever had. All classes of labor endorsed him, both organized and unorganized; the Communist Party en- dorsed him and in their endorsement quietly cursed him for being anything but a Communist. Catholics, Protes- tants, Jews and all religions recognized his sincerity and went down the line for him; the entire press of Ohio was be- hind him, almost without exception, and during this time the great political or- ganization kept clawing and tearing at his coat, pitching mud which he only noticed by a quotation from Abraham Lincoln: “Never pick off mud while it is wet; when it is dry it will fall off by itself.” And today every man in Ohio, in- cluding those in the Davey organization who fought him, from Martin L. Davey down, knows that Charles Sawyer will give him a square deal without preju- dice. He will be elected, not because his opponent is not a good man—he is, and a fine man—but because Sawyer kicked his Republican opponent's plat- form right from under him the day he announced his candidacy. Charles Sawyer will be President of the United States one day, Mr. Presi- dent, as you are. He has the mark on him. Today is a pretty good time to take notice of the most important Democrat outside of the District of Co- lumbia. Destiny has him by the hand, and they are walking a long distance together. Yet another while and his still fresh Proskeen will be a national sym- bol. P.S. I forgot to say that you will find the hide of your old friend, Gerald L. K. Smith, tanning on a Cuyahoga County barn door this Fall. Sawyer put it there for you. vw LANDON OF KANSAS Republicans learned last month that when Alf Landon takes off his coat somebody is due to get clipped behind the ear. Mr. Gerald Winrod, of whom we have spoken (not too complimen- tarily) from time to time, just about had the Republican nomination to the United States Senate from Kansas cinched when Landon rolled up his sleeves and called the clan together. John Hamilton swung a pretty mean saber, too, with the result THE JUDGE FOR that the not-quite-so reverend Winrod wound up, when the votes were all counted, one of the worst thirds possi- ble. And so bigotry and racial hatred took the count again in a typical Ameri- can State and Kansas earned the thanks of all those people who believe in hon- est thinking and fair play. vw EARLE OF PENNSYLVANIA Governor George W. Earle of Penn- sylvania suffers from the worst press of any man in public life today. His press is bad about a subject in which he de- serves a fair one. Even the usually very careful New York Times editorially comments with complete misunderstand- ing of the Pennsylvania legislative-judi- cial tangle. When former Attorney-General Mar- giotti in a heated primary campaign, in which he was a candidate for the guber- natorial nomination, accused Governor Earle’s administration of corrupt prac- tices and demanded an_ investigation, Governor Earle summoned him to the executive offices and asked him if he had SEPTEMBER the evidence to support his charges. Margiotti said he had. Governor Earle then demanded that Margiotti, in his capacity as Attorney-General of the Commonwealth, issue warrants for the immediate arrest of all and sundry against whom he had sufficient evidence, with the statement that dishonest public officials didn’t deserve the delay which would come with an investigation, and that if there was corruption he wanted to know it as quickly as anyone else. Margiotti refused and the Governor fired him because he wouldn't back his own play. Bad handling of publicity for the Governor is making of him an obstruc- tionist when the real truth is that he has done one of the most courageous and honest acts ever conceived by a State Executive, and he should have credit for it. H.N. Representative Robert Low Bacon, Re- publican, of New York, took occasion today to comment on the committee statement. Jo:fficvials.|fRj'etaoi TAOINcmfwp N.Y. Herald Tribune Off the record, of course. comicbooks.com