Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXVII, Number 33, 26 February 1936 — UPTON SINCLAIR ASKS NOMINATION [ARTICLE]

UPTON SINCLAIR ASKS NOMINATION

Deviating froin lii« rt»eently announe«l inteution to retive i'ioni polities to returu to his w.ritiug t Upton Sinclaijr lia» announeeel his C3ndida<-y for president on tlie EPIO slate in the California primarieB. . Sinclair's t;andidacy is nominai and is iutended io perinit i'ollowers of hia End Poverty īn California organization to name tlieir own alaie ot" delegates to tlie Demociatic iialional eonvention. The t action followed the bolt of EPiC lead.ers from the regular Democratic slate President Roosevelt seīected. It contained only a dozen EPIC Fepresentatives. Sinclair*s announeement brought into th.e open the fight between the EPIC group and the regul'ar J)emocrata led. by Senator William G. McAdoo for control of the state Demo cratic machinery. Both groups support Rbosevelt. The EPICs also announced thev have rejected a i>roposal to include Ihe To\vnsend■ «ld agu pension plan 011 the platform the organizatiOn will advocate at the Democratic convention.