CITIZEN BRASS (1941), an excerpt -
EDITOR: But Mr.Brass, what about your father's legacy?
JEREMIAH: My father! My father would have marched to hell and back for Arthur King, but John Fender is no Arthur King. He's just another crony, just like Cameron! I have enough of walking in King's shadow; the man had no respect for federal authority, was far too meek about the Southern militia. I don't know what my father ever saw in him.
EDITOR: But what about free trade? Your fortune?
JEREMIAH: Goddamn my fortune and goddamn free trade! I won't let little differences like that get another John Cameron in the White House! Run the article!
[Cut to the following: a newspaper, a copy of the New York Sentinel to be precise; the headline story is...
BRASS BOWS OUT OF PRIMARY, ENDORSES JAMES BOOZEMAN KERR
Kerr the right man for America, says Brass
]
[Cut to some men on the street reading the paper]
Man 1: What kind of fellow endorses the same man as his political rival, when that man is already winning, just to prevent a lesser rival from winning the prize?
Man 2: A damn fool if you ask me.