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Louisiana. After a bitter, vituperative, disorderly campaign Governor Huey P. Long, 36-year-old political wildcat, was nominated for the Senate over veteran Democratic Senator Joseph Eugene Ransdell by a 35,000 majority. Senator Ransdell's white goatee quivered with amazemen when "plain people" from "back up the bayous" voted him out of office for the first time in 46 years. Rarely in press or forum had a candidate been as roundly abused as Governor Long. He was called a "disqualified, discredited, inexperienced, erratic, boastful young braggart." Voters were warned that, if nominated and elected, he would "degrade the State at Washington with further clownishness and poltroonery."
Though his path to the Senate was clear, observers thought it would be a long time, if ever, before Nominee Long took his seat there. As Governor he controls the State by the power of patronage, with his appointees removable at his will. If he leaves Louisiana for Washington, before the end of his gubernatorial term in 1932, Lieut. Governor Paul Cyr, his bitter enemy, will exercise executive authority to dismiss all Long appointees, to crumple the Long political machine into oblivion.
Georgia. Renominated by a 4-to-1 vote was bushy-browed Democratic Senator William Julius Harris over John Marshall Slaton. One issue of their campaign was the fact that 15 years ago Mr. Slaton, as Governor, had commuted the death sentence of Leo Frank, later lynched. Eleven of the State's Congressmen were renominated while the twelfth, Representative Thomas Montgomery Bell, was defeated by Judge John Woods. A run-off primary was necessary to decide the gubernatorial nomination.
New Hampshire. Unopposed for Republican renomination was Senator Henry Wilder Keyes. John Gilbert Winant, one-time (1925-26) Governor, shattered the State's one-term gubernatorial tradition when he received the Republican nomination for Governor over Arthur P. Morrill who had the support of Senator George Higgins Moses. Nominees Keyes and Winant will oppose in the November election the same man—Albert Willington Noone, 84, Wet, wealthy, of Peterboro. Mr. Noone had won both the Democratic gubernatorial and Senatorial nomination. He promised if elected not only to build the world's largest electric beacon on Mt. Temple, but also to hold both offices simultaneously. Nominee Noone is more famed for his diamond-studded shirts than for any capacity to turn Republican New Hampshire Democratic.
Vermont. Republicans nominated for Congress from the ist District Governor John Eliakim Weeks, Dry, over a Wet opponent.
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Colorado. The political grip of Senator Lawrence Cowle Phipps was broken when Republican voters defeated William Van Derveer Hodges, his candidate to succeed himself, and gave nomination to George Hamlin Shaw, Denver attorney. Onetime Treasurer of the Republican National Committee, Mr. Hodges had the support of the Anti-Saloon League. Nominee Shaw did not.