Folks in Red River County, Texas, where John Nance Garner was born, have never forgiven Uvalde, where he now lives, for getting the jump on them in starting a Garner-for-President boom in 1931. Last week they repaid Uvalde in full. Six miles southwest of Detroit, Texas, around the cabin where John Garner's mother was born in 1851, they assembled to "direct the attention of our fellow citizens to his outstanding qualifications for President of the United States."
Bigwig Texas Democrats who are nursing the Garner embryo would rather have waited awhile. But when...
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