Photocopy of a letter sent from Oscar S. Stauffer, Chairman, The Landon-For-President Committee to Mr. W. Bancroft Mellor, dated March 28, 1936. The letter states that Governor Alf M. Landon will not participate in any primaries.
The End Poverty in California (EPIC) was a political movement and the basis of the campaign of Upton Sinclair, a socialist writer, for governor of California in 1934.
Edmund Waller 'Ted' Gale joined the Los Angeles Times in 1907 until he left in 1934 in a dispute over editorial policy. From there he went to the Los Angeles Examiner. Gale was also the man who created the iconic "Miss Los Angeles".
A copy of this letter appears with the article, “Gov. Landon Not a Candidate in the California Republican Presidential Primary: GOVERNOR'S OWN LETTER EXPOSES HEARST TRICK Documented Record of Kansan's Repeated Refusals to Enter Contest in This State,” Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 1936: 10
Exterior view of the Security Trust and Savings Bank, a Greek revival style building that served as the Democratic headquarters during rank Finley Merriam's campaign for Governor of California. Signs on the building read: "Governor Merriam for Governor," and "Merriam Democrats Registere Here!"