Guide to the EPIC campaign material, 1934
Guide to the EPIC campaign material, 1934
Collection number: M0112
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- Date Completed:
- ca. 1965
a) Explaining Sinclairism
b) Propaganda racket
c) Other EPIC attempts, California and the nation
d) Miscellaneous candidates
e) California State Emergency Relief Administration
a) EPIC Campaign techniques
b) Socialists and Communists on Sinclair
c) Miscellaneous unimportant Sinclair items
d) Sinclair the visionary theme
a) The garbled truth. Famous quotations by Sinclair in the L.A. Times
b) Lieutenant Governor Campaign
c) Merriam campaign--some on Hatfield
a) Pensions and social insurance
b) Labor and the campaign. Attitude towards Sinclair, includes endorsements.
c) Appeal to jobholders by Meriam, including Bird of Paradise campaign
Pollsters' predictions of Merriam victory and straw vote results
a) Other phases of the election
b) Campaign in Southern California
c) Backing ofMerriam by Geographical areas
d) Campaign in Northern California
e) Trend of Campaign
Raymond Haight general election campaign, 1934.Haight a Commonwealth Progressive candidate
Miscellaneous pamphlets, leaflets and clippings
Late Primary Campaign material
Party Conventions (Republican, Commonwealth-Progressive, etc.)
County Central Committees--Democrat
Democratic Convention
a) Bolting and rumors of split in Democratic party after primary election
b) Convention, general material
a) Appeals to business interests
b) EPIC and taxes
c) The Pollyanna phase
d) General attacks on EPIC and Sinclair
e) General articles on relief
f) Contrast of Merriam and Sinclair approach to relief
Summary material of EPIC Campaign, possibly not by Saadi.
Newspaper coverage--Bakersfield Californian
Newspaper coverage--Stockton Independent
Newspaper coverage--Berkeley Gazette
Newspaper coverage--San Jose News
Newspaper coverage--Alameda Times-Star
Newspaper coverage--San Bernardino Sun
Newspaper coverage--Riverside Enterprise
Primaries of Justus S. Wardell, C. C. Young and John R. Quinn
Merriam Primary
a) New Deal and California primaries
b) The Democrats try to get together at Primary
c) Election odds
d) George Creel primary campaign
e) Upton Sinclair primary candidate
a) General background information
b) Primary Campaign--August
c) Communism as an issue in primaries
d) Relief as an issue in primaries
a) Campaign funds
b) Comments on Sinclair by our leading citizens
c) Endorsements of Haight in Sacramento Bee area
Miscellaneous pamphlets, leaflets, press releases
Press releases from Merriam-Hatfield headquarters
Sinclair press releases
Reactions to primaries
Merriam and Sinclair endorsements. Party organization news.
Merriam and Sinclair endorsements
Group Appeals in the general election campaign. Business and the election. Motion picture industry, insurance and realty companies.
Group appeals.
Group appeals. Farmers, Veterans, Merriam bidding for church vote, sportsmen and fraternal
Low-down on economic conditions in California and actual tax situation
The Epic Retreat
Sinclair the destroyer
a) Tom Mooney and the Campaign
b) Tom Mooney shortly after the campaign
c) Merriam-the alternative to Sinclair
d) Merriam-the alternative to Communism
e) Sinclair--a Socialist at least
a) Sinclair a Communist. Accusations by other candidates and their managers
b) Charges of Communism against Sinclair
c) California as guinea pig for Sinclair
d) Trying to get definite links between Sinclair and Communism
e) Americanism vs. Radicalism
Communism on State University Campuses. Strike of University of California. Radical movement at Stanford.
Anti-Communist radical drive in California during the election campaign. McCormick-Dickstein committee on un-American activities. Red baiting by a multitude of organizations.
Red baiting or red menace
a) Red scare that failed a week before the primaries
b) Syndicalism trials
C) Activities used or suggested to be used against reds
d) Reports of what is being done to reds
e) The Red Herring--a product of Russia
f) Voices in the wilderness--pleas for sanity
Fradulent votes
EPIC objections to registration fraud charges
Fraudulent voters--court action
Election day violence and voter challenges
The joke that cost Sinclair the election
a) Campaign literature, includes Thunder over California
b) Cartoons of the EPIC campaign
c) Comments on the campaign in national periodicals and by national figures
Newspaper editorial and other comments on the election
Post primary politics
Newspaper registration and election statistics
Vox Populi (letters to the editor, etc.)
Right-wing material
EPIC background
Utopian Society, Townsend Plan and other Southern California movements
Special session of the State Legislature, September, 1934.