National Affairs: Booms

For all the oil odium promiscuously disposed on politicians of all parties, positive evidence is still lacking that it has affected the Presidential aspirations of any candidate. Last week brought two dramatic struggles, one in North Dakota, one in Georgia. Politicians may have overestimated the effect of oil, or its promiscuity may have ruined its effectiveness, or it may be lying in wait to spring forth decisively later. At any rate last week's primaries were Presidential primaries, not oil primaries.

Three Republicans. In the primaries of...

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