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Reception (6)
What the press and public understood candidates to stand for — versus what they said.
The Lemke ticket's threat lay in its appeal to Western inflationist sentiment; it put Roosevelt 'in a very tight hole' between radicalism and the middle ground.
The first threat to Roosevelt, poseo by the presidential candidacy of Mr. Lemke. obviously arises from its ap peal to the inflationist sentiment of the West.
The Union ticket drew from Democrats and aimed at Roosevelt's scalp, but was 'entirely unlikely' to carry a single State.
But it is entirely unlikely that Coughlin and his Lemke-O'Brien ticket will carry a single State for themselves.
In the West the Lemke-Coughlin-Townsend tickets 'draw votes from Mr. Roosevelt rather than from Mr. Landon.'
For these third party tickets draw votes from Mr. Roosevelt rather than from Mr. Landon.
Coughlin whipped a 50,000 crowd at the Minnesota fair into pledging support for Lemke 'to destroy the sham battle in Washington', unsettling forecasts for the State.
The strange event was climaxed with the great throng standing and pledging ■upport to William Lemke, Union party presidential candidate
Lemke was 'only a Coughlin-Landon stooge'; 'a vote for Lemke is a vote for Landon.'
Coughlin knows that a vote for Lemke is a vote for Landon.
The returns 'proved conclusively' that isolated group movements outside the two parties are vain; Coughlin's retirement ended them.
If there is one thing that the last election proved conclu sively. it is that the two major parties have too big a hold on the American people to be disturbed from the outside