Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1928-03-15
POLITICAL EVENTS
OF THE PAST WEEK
Highlights of Political Activity of
Both Major Parties Summarized
From Recent News Dispatches
From Over the Country
Gov. Lowden Developing Strength
Throughout Country


Throughout Country
The past few days have witnessed
a remarkable mobilization of Low
den sentiment in Missouri. 1t has
been conceded from the beginning
that the sentiment in Missouri is
mostly for the Ohioan. 1t now
seems certainty.
Sentiment at the recent conven.
ton of the Young Republican AS
sociation of Missouri was so strong
for Governor Lowden that it is gen.
orally conceded that all of the IL
congressional districts in Missouri
outside of Kansas City and St. Louis
will send Lowden delegates, with the
possible exception of one district.
The new alignment in St. Louis prac-
tically makes the state unanimous.
Arthur M: Hyde, former governor
of Missouri, was quoted by the st.
Louis newspapers as saying that
Lowden is 100000 votes stronger
than his party in Missouri, and that
he felt the state delegation should
be for him for the nomination.
More than 1000 of the 1880 dele
gates to the Republican state con-
vention in Iowa are under instruc-
tions from their county conventions
to vote for Lowden at the state con-
vention, and it is believed that near
ly all of the remainder are friendly
to him. The only county in the
state to instruct for any other can
didate was Dubuque, which has gone
Republican only once in rs years. 1t
instructed delegates for Hoover.
There is plenty of Lowden senti-
ment in Ohio, judging from the sec
ond choices filed by the candidates
for delegates on the Willis ticket in
that state. Under the Ohio law, a
candidate for delegate must indi-
cate both his first and second choices
on the ballot. Governor Lowden' s
name is not being filed in Ohio in
accordance with the time honored
custom whereby candidates observe
the home state rights of each other
Of the 81 delegates on the Willis
slate, "a have declared their second
choice to be Governor Lowden. The
others are divided among Charles R.
Fisher, Senator Curtis of Kansas and
Senator Watson Of Indiana for sec
ond choice.
The first two instructed delegates
elected to the 1928 convention are
those from the first district in North
Carolina. The district convention
unanimously instructed for Governor
Lowden. 1t is expected that the
other North, Carolina districts will
follow with similar instructions.
All observers are putting Min
nesota definitely in the Lowden
column. 1t has been generally con-
ceded that Governor Lowden would
have the delegates from four or five
of the rural congressional districts,
but a stubborn fight was expected
elsewhere. State Senator Claude
Mckenzie, who is general of the
Lowden forces in Minnesota, reports
that tremendous gains have been
made during the past two weeks.
Newspaper reports now say that it is
quite possible that all the Mime
sofa delegates will be for Lowden.
Governor Lowden has filed his
personal declaration of candidacy
with the secretary of state of North
Dakota, in accordance with the laws
of that state. His name will be the
only one on the Republican primary
ballot on March 18th.