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Robert Johns Bulkley, the genial, bulky Wet Democrat who won a Senate seat in Ohio three weeks ago, last week lay abed in Cleveland breaking three important rules. He had bronchitis. He was not traveling around letting himself be seen. He had not yet found an alter ego to build him up as a candidate for the presidency.

For that, in a very embryonic way, is what Robert Johns Bulkley of Ohio already is. The presidential season opens formally the day after an off-year congressional election and even before the season opened...

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