"Whispering" Campaign Against Governor London of, Kansas: Improvement in Business vast un Owl Coamronoeer Washington, Apr, 7.
As the date for the elections draws nearer the political game in the United States Is growing "faster and furiouser." Several months ago the Mr. James Farley, the Postmaster-Gen-feral, predicted that the election would "be one of the "dirtiest" on record, So far there has been no sign of this, There has been plenty fof hard tackling and vigorous. play, but (to jump into a different me-topher) no hitting below the belt.
It Mr, Farley is to prove as good a prophet as party chairman the campaign will have to be dirty me deed before St can hope to rival ome of the famous campaigns in the past Take one instance, the campaign of Grover Cleveland and of James G, Blaine in 1984. The Republicans reproached Cleveland with immorality and sang as they paraded, not in the saddle. Similarly, Governor London who comes from the Middle West and has had no assoclation with the eastern ancial and industrial centres is the last man who should be suspected of being a col of Wall Street."
The biggest millstone round Lan-don's neck is very probably the fact that he is receiving the enthusiastic support of the Hearst press. Senator Borah is reported to have remarked to his friend Senator Vandenberg, "It London has his Hearst and I have my Townsend, can it be that you have your Hoover? "He was Feferring to a report that Hoover had indicated a preference for Sena-for Vandenberg just as Dr. Town: send, founder of the Townsend Old Age Pension plan ($200 a month for all over 60) had declared he would vole for Borah. Another Republican Senator thereupon made the cynical Ma, Ma, where's my Pa Gone to the Waite House Ma, ha, ha.
President His Own Liability Cleveland with a boldness which merited success admitted that there had been an affair In. the past, There had been a child and the mother had been given a sum of money. "His indifference to the child's fate, he declared was due to doubt Ju this mind whether it were really his, By thus confessing the truth he checked a number of uglier rumours, The Democrats did not allow such attacks on their leader to pass without retaliation and "after digging up Tellers from Blaine which pointed to misuse of public funds replied with campaign song of their own whenever the Republicans lifted their vole Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, The monumental lar from the State of Maine Burn this fetter!
The last tag was a reference to a damning. postscript which Blaine had added to one of his communications This was the campaign in which Protestant parson described the Dem: carats as the party of "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion" and lost New York for the Republicans.
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