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By IRVING LEIBOWITZ IF YOU happen to be,

wandering around one of

the 50-odd county fairs in Indiana this summer, don’t be surprised if a young looking m.an clasps your in a booming voice, Ounces. > Alex Campbell's my ‘name,

i I'm running for senator.”

Sen, Homer E. Capehart . . . rides to werk on the Senate subway in Washington.

Vote gathering time in Indiana finds one of the principal candidates, Republican Sen. Homer EH. Capehart, working at his desk in the Senate. Although he had planned an intensive “handshaking” campaign in Hoosierland when he was renominated at the Republican State Convention, ths Indiana lawmaker abandoned the .Jsogram because of the Korean ar crisis. Instead, he instituted a campeign hy proxy. He rounded up

some ‘tried and true” political friends and embarked on an election novelty. “Shake the hand that shook the hand of Capehart,” became the theme of the new Capehart forces. Last week, In a surprise move, the senior Indiana senator abandoned his “Citizens

-Committee for Capehart.” The

committee turned the finances over to the Republican State Committee in an. effort "to bolster the party line.”

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This happens dally to about two thousand astonished Hoosiers, many of whom (think ;the Ft. Wayne Democrat is a huckster right off the midway. But that's just Alex Campbeil's way of campaigning for the Senate seat now occupied by Republican Homer E. Capehart, who is pretty well confined to his desk in Washington because of the Korean con“flict.

rv ” » LAST WEEK The Times caught the former assistant attorney general of the United States being rushed around the Tippecanoe County 4-H Fair near Lafayette by the local

big-shot Democratic politicians.

His booming greeting took some of the farmers by surprise. Leo Spatger, a farm hand, was caught unawares.

“This kinda stuns me,” he

whispered. Mr, Campbell worked up so much enthusiasm, he greeted Republican State Sen. Charles Maddox with a hearty handshake and shouted for one and all to hear: “We're on the same team.

We both want the same things.”

” » . FULL OF PEP and radiating his Sunday-best grin, Mr. Campbell strutted past the catinside tents, and through display pavilions, all the while greeting friends and strangers alike. More than once, a farmer clad in overalls would rush up to him, offer his hand for a clasp and query: “I guess you don’t remember me?” Slowly, as if trying to recall

the name, Mr. Campbell would”

answer, “Yes, I do. Yes, ¥ do.” Then, after the farmer left, he would turn to one of the local ‘politicians and say: 4: "Who is that guy”

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greet nonvoters Tommy Hardin, 6, and his sister, Joyee, 3.

No one in sight was passed

up by the cheerful candidate. To youngsters, he shouted, “Hi ya, partner,” Women chatted with him about food and prices. But. the farmers talked politics. “Politicians have forgotten the people,” he told them. “1 won't.” -

HE TASTED the first prize

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Moore of Lafayette, roared his approval before he had taken a bite, and then said solemnly: “I'm honored to meet you.” For the politicians, Mr. Campbell had “fighting words.” “Get the vote in the ballot box,” he ordered. “And :-then,

when I'm In the Bénate, you

come see me.” He told everyone to meet him

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at the 4-H Fair in Tippecanoe County, buf takes time off to

in Washington. A 4-year-old girl, almost ready to burst out crying because the booming Campbell voice frightened her, was told: “When I'm in the Senate, you just come up and say I'm the little ‘gir! whose mother baked a cake at the fair. I'll remember you. You bet I will.” * Mr. Campbell started his tour

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Photos by Henry E. Glesing Jr. Times Stall Photographer,

Like an ordinary farm hand, Alex sits on corral fence and j

talks politics with farmer Clifford Switzer.

by meeting many politicians at the Fowler Hotel in downtown Lafayette. | Surprise of the day, Mr. Campbell said, was a “friendly visit”-‘by Mrs. R. B, Stewart and Mrs. Walter Thomas. The Democratic politicians said the

women were “active in civic affairs and prominent Republi

cans,”

Never seeming to tire, Mr. Campbell rushed through his

handshaking ritual, smiling all’

the while. His only lapse came after gallantly praising the

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