AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.
SENATOR BORAH NOMINATED.
FIGHT FOR REPUBLICAN TICKET.
United Press Assn —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. WASHINGTON, February 4. Senator Borah to-day became the first definite aspirant for the office now held by President Roosevelt when he announced that he would actively contest for the Republican Presidential nomination and would seek convention delegates pledged to him in the Ohio primaries as the first step towards nomination.
So Jar Senator Borah’s principal opposition appears to be Governor Landon, of Kansas, and Colonel Knox, xDroprietor car the Chicago Daily News. Neither has definitely announced himself as a candidate but both indicated that they would contest the nomination. Eastern conservatives are forming strong support for Governor Landon even though he is a western man, and it appears likely now according to political observers that a bitter inter-party fight between the Conservatives and Progressives will result with the forager backing Landon and the latter Borah. The support for Colonel Knox has not yet crystal! seel.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13175, 6 February 1936, Page 5
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