California. Either lean, leathery William Gibbs McAdoo or chubby, boyish Tallant Tubbs will be California's next Senator. Democrat McAdoo, Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of the Treasury and son-in-law, beat Justus Wardell, longtime friend of Governor Roosevelt, by a 2-to-1 vote for the nomination. Two irreconcilable supporters of Alfred Emanuel Smith were also-rans. To Nominee McAdoo, who gave him his presidential nomination at the Chicago convention, Governor Roosevelt wired: "Congratulations and confident good wishes for a clean Democratic sweep this fall." Slightly less than half the State's 1,027,000 registered Democrats participated in the...
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