Show I. I OBFUSCATION THERE THERE must have been a prodigious amount 1 of rubbing eye in the country Wednesday when wien the results of the thc California and Mississippi Mis Mis- primaries became known In Jn both cases the outcomes arc symptomatic of obfuscated obfuscated political vision peculiar to these times Never before was a candidate before his party part upon a platform anything like that of former Governor Bilbo of or the Bayou state If elected to the thc United States senate Ill I'll raise more hell than titan llucy Long eloquently appealed appealed ap ap- ap pealed Candidate Bilbo to the Democracy of the sovereign state of Mississippi Never before likewise did a cal candidate did te for forthe forthe forthe the governorship of an any state win a to 3 victory victory vic vic- tor tory over his llis nearest opponent after a camp campaign campaign cam cam- p even remotely resembling that of Upton Sinclair Often defeated as Socialist andi- andi candidate date for governor and senator in California six months ago he ripped the Socialist label from his lapel turned Democrat and set Sacramento Sacramento Sacramento Sac Sac- as his destination He wrote a book I Governor of California promised to open the d doors ors of the state prison for Tom Toni Mooney l produced his epic plan to abolish poverty by going technocracy one better and made macic madei i people pay money moncy to get into the halls to hear his electioneering speeches In Iii the Deep South and in th the Golden West Vest thus has been voiced dissatisfaction with both past and and The fhe clamor registered in the Bilbo and Sinclair l' l victories is a shout G Give ive iveus us something else I l What That that else is doesn't seem to matter Outside of Mississippi l perhaps it doesn't matter whom they send to the s senate nate If they want to elect a man cut to the pattern of a circus barker that's the business of pians If Bilbo's buffoonery outdoes that of the Kingfish it will be immense immensely gratifying to Bilbo distressing to Louisiana's Long and good fun not necessarily clean for the tile country In the race for the governorship of California California Cali Cali- fornia Sinclair will be opposed by Governor Frank Prank F. F Merriam l He enjoys the advantage of or not having been in office long enough to tomake to tomake make snake Californians want to oust him because he ha is in the advantage of having a united party organization behind him and the advantage advantage advantage tage of having proved that he helias has las th thi coul courage ge of his convictions through his handling of the recent emergency that grew into San Francisco's Francisco's Francisco's Fran Fran- cisco's one day general strike Pc Potent tent in California California Cali Call fornia Republicanism for long the death of Governor Rolph put him into th the center of the political stage at a time when a mans man's sized man mall was needed and he lie has measured up to tho hc demands of his office Sinclair's victory should be bc more heartening hearten hearten- ing lug to Governor Merriam and his party than thant t to the D Democrats of the tile state fhe They arc split wide open three ways va s and some ome pretty strenuous ous healing breach-healing will have to be undertaken at once if it is to do their standard bearer any good The nomination of Senator Hiram Johnson by the Democratic Republican Cc Commonwealth and Progressive parties was a magnificent tribute to his popularity and serice ser- ser ice for California He lie will be among those present to watch Bilbo do his stuff if he is cl elected |