As the newspapers reported itThe 1926 September primaries

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Wednesday, September 15, 1926

The September primaries · the returns are in

As printed: WELLER IS LEADING AND MEANS LOSES AS PRIMARIES END

ContextNine states voted yesterday in the last of the season's primaries, the final tune-up before November elections that will decide control of the Senate, the House and many statehouses. Maryland's Gov. Albert C. Ritchie was renominated overwhelmingly, Senator O. E. Weller and Representative John Philip Hill are running neck and neck for the Republican senatorial nomination there, and in Colorado the Klan-backed ticket went down.

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