Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 268, Decatur, Adams County, 10 November 1924 — Page 2

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THE BIG CAUSE:— Charles Michelson, special correspondent tor the New York World has figu.-jd out that the greatest asset the republican committee had in , winning the election was the Literary Digest straw vote. Discussing « this he says in part: In assessing the currents and . reasons for the election coining out , as it did, the Literary Digest poll must not be overlooked. After the ( Hryan-uo-election fiction it probably j influenced more votes than any other , element of the campaign. It was ] worked into the most effective piece s of political propaganda in the whole j arsenal. , The poll may have been,, andp probably was, as impartial in its tak- ( ing as such a thing well could be: I its purpose may have been as desti-j tute of partisan intent as the stock and bond sales tables of the news * papers—nevertheless, it was deadly in its effects. Chairman Butler might have spent the whole of the $3,000,000, or whatever was the actual sum he mentioned as the goal of the Republican contribution hunters, on' any scheme that could have been de- 1 vised by the full hoard of campaign strategists and got nothing one-half so useful. Not only did it serve to attract the band-wagon fellows, but it demoralized the opposition. It tut two ways—catching the ones who were afraid t-a vote the mnr winning

“■.... J 1 .! . .. J-: of the trend to Coolidge, which cam out all right; and searing the other by presenting the terrific nioniei turn of the La Follette moveineii that did not come out at all. During the campaign various stat chairmen told me that they had on vassed their states and that th straw vote figures could not be cot red; they cited the various ezpla nations, the sending of plural ballot to Republicans and the undelivered ballots ■ filled-in by postniasters solu tion, as reasons for the unthinkable majorities indicated, and yet the state chairmen themselves could not help being impressed. They were all goose-flesh, like men who do not believe in ghosts but who think they see sheeted shadows floating out of a graveyard. The cumulative effect of the pro-' gressive publication of the unsub-j stantiated figure was enormous; particularly as the campaign just over Wag one of apathy. People did not! care, apparently, to think about' polities; did not want to burden' themselves with weighing the respective merits of candidates and parties. The straw vote presented to great numbers a' sort of predigested decision and they were glad to avail themselves of it. | This theory also jibes with thc circumstance that Teapot Dome and the Daugherty episode, whoicb so convulsed the country early in th,e year, figured so unimportantly in the actual election. The democratic stump speakers tried to re-arouse popular indignation with theta, but as the campaign wore on found their audiences becoming inattentive j'. h«n dipt, thundered about Doheny " ■■ ■ "**• ' 1 ■- - -V —“ I

and Pall, Sinclair, Daugherty and'i Jess Smith. The fault was that the ' consideration of such matters by the' 1 people compelled a comparison of ( parties and personalities, to which , they were disinclined. There may have beeu a little more than this, a ■ reeling that they ought to take account of these matters resentment at j ' having attention directed to a duty. they rather intended to neglect. The whole thing suggests that the 'l real reason for the manner ami re'l suit of the election was that the' I country had had an overdose of I politics. There has really been no ) •| let-up since Harding's election four years ago. The troubles of Ji Harding regime.' the succession of )• Coolidge, the interminable row be ; | tween Coolidge and Congress, the graft scandals, the La Follette schis.i and the unparalleled bitterness of the democratic convention, with its sequels of klan fights, so affected the country with political weariness that the actual campaign came ’ along their emotions were exhausted and the temptation to take the easiest lA-siv wii« irresistible.

way was irresisinne. Republicans in Indiana are planning now for the election in two years when a United States senator will be elected. Jagies Watson will of course be a candidate for reelection but his place will also be contended for by Albert J. Beveridge and perhaps by Postmaster General New. James P. Goodrich and others. Machines are now being oiled up and the contest may be one of the most interesting ever held in the state. While they are evidently not paying much attention to the democrats they should remember that the Jeffersonians have a habit of coming back surprisingly as they did two years ago when Samuel M. Ralston waselected. Besides the election of various officers last Tuesday, there were questions of importance disposed of in many states. Michigan rejected the proposed amendment to abolish parochial schools and also one providing an income tax: Missouri and ! Texa s adopted gasoline tax amendments; Kentucky turned down a ! $75,000,000 road bond issue while Illinois voted a hundred million into the hands of Governor Small for the same purpose. Wisconsin acted wisely in adopting an amendment which plans to reforest that state and two-thirds of the northern and v .-st ii svjTe« voted on one thing

■ ... ... •*,.«. 1 or ..i.•/. ikcr.' • ■ • I ne .... I Senator Lodge is dead. He served ‘ u* 1 in the United States senate rxmtiuuously for more than thirty years laud since 1918 had been the repub-1 *- e bean ihane.-. He was one of the mo-t • n " scholarly men in public life ami a ‘ le vicious partisan. His cmnity towrrds President Wilson uu! his bitter attacks on that good m in and his work, his efforts to obstruct rather ‘liar.: !*' help, made for him a name which' !b time will probably not erase. He wasj e forceful and astute and his party e loses a leader who helped them to 1 win manv battles. 1, o—Q— PfiOM-MIP I 1 * , THE FOREIGNER I found a flower. — a flower, i But not like other flowers: i Its kind could not be found I In all the country ‘round. I And then I knew, sometime. ’ ‘Twas brought from other clime. I I I I found a stone.— a stone. J But not like other stones: I Its kind could not be found 5 'Mong all the rocks around. I’was brought from other dime,. I found a man.— a man, Rut not like other men; Such as was never found In all the world around. And then I knew, one time Christ came from other clime. —A. D. Burkett.

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