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13Aug36: PICKS ILLINOIS FOR LANDON
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Dateline: Thursday, August 13, 1936
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PICKS ILLINOIS FOR LANDON
Universal Service Wire
NEW YORK, Aug. 13–Gov. Alfred M. Landon will carry Illinois by “a resounding plurality,” Col. Robert R. McCormick, publisher of The Chicago Tribune, predicted yesterday on a visit to eastern Republican Chairman Joseph W. Martin Jr.
He asserted:
“The Landon candidacy is sweeping the west.”
The Republican candidate for governor, C. Wayland Brooks, will also win in his contest with Governor Horner, Democrat, Colonel McCormick predicted.
13Aug36: LANDON RESTS PENDING FIRST TRIP EAST
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Dateline: Thursday, August 13, 1936
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LANDON RESTS PENDING FIRST TRIP EAST
By William K. Hutchinson
Int’l News Service Staff Correspondent
ESTE PARK, COLO.. Aug 13–Resting before undertaking the ardors of a vigorous presidential campaign, Gov. Alfred M. Landon was vacationing today with his family high in the Colorado Rockies.
The governor planned a week’s rest on the McGraw ranch, deep in the Devil’s Gulch country, 80 miles north of Denver. Mrs. Landon and the three children, Peggy Anne, Nancy Jo and Jackie Cobb, were with him.
Landon will fish, play with the children and yet find time to whip three speeches into final form for delivery on his first campaign trip into Pennsylvania and New York late this month. He brought rough drafts of the speeches with him but will perfect them under the pines on the ranch.
Rains in the mountains postponed the governor’s first fishing trip since it muddied the highland streams. An old fishing buddy, Dr. Forrest M. Loveland of Topeka, made the trip out here to join him on fishing expeditions.
Landon will leave here early on August 20 to catch a train in Denver for his eastern tour. He will receive few visitors while here and those only for recreation purposes. He told newpaper men he was going to “banish politics” for a week.
