Much as he would like the Democratic Presidential nomination for himself, much as he dislikes the New Deal, Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge has no stomach as yet for a tilt with Franklin Roosevelt at Georgia's ballot boxes. Dismayed, therefore, was "Gene" Talmadge fortnight ago when Seminole County Democrats took matters in their own hands, held a Presidential preference primary, plumped 5-to-1 for Roosevelt. Last week Harris County followed suit 27-to-1. Belatedly, Governor Talmadge got Barrow County to postpone its primary while the Talmadge-dominated Democratic State Committee tried to figure some way of avoiding a miniature Roosevelt landslide.
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