The San Francisco call., 1908-11-07
DOODLE DEE PARTY
SINGS SWAN SONG
Hearst's Own independence
League Fails to Get Three
Per Cent Vote in State
Predictions of Party Leaders
Before Election Fall Very,
Very Short

| Doodle deeism a S a California insti-
tuition, sang its swan song last Tues
day and breathed it's last In the alb
sence of William Randolph Hearst, the
chief mourners were Hugh Mclsaae.
Daniel O'Connell Edward Rainey and
Al Murphy. The corpse will be decently
buried at the corner of Third and Mar
ket streets, 23 stories deep.
There never was any hope of long
| life for doodle deeism. Born with 81
mortal malady, it never enjoyed robust
health, and the rigor of a presidential
campaign proved it's undoing.
| Medical authority states that the
| first signs of approaching dissolution
| became plainly visible about the time
that William Randolph Hearst and
Axle Grease Tom Hisgen spoke in
1 this city. The invalid constitution of
| doodle deeism received a strong nervous
| shock from the welcome home ac-
corded Hearst, and was further debili-
| tated by the massacre of English gram
mar achieved by axle Grease Tom.
| Despite copious doses of the crude oil
! that made crude Tom famous, doodle
deeism sank rapidly and on last Tues
| day the end came through inanitfon.
/ The last words of the deceased We're:
MY only regret is that have only one
/ life to give to Willie"
| Rumor has it that the chief mourners
will try to revive the corpse of doodle
deeism, but their efforts will be wholly
Intellectual. Nothing In the life of
doodle deeism became it so much as the
leaving of it. OF its own decease it
made a thorough job.
/ The technical cause of the, death of
doodle deeism may be stated simply;
1t failed to poll per cent of the total
vote cast in this state. The total vote
] of the state in round numbers was 320,-
900. Three per cent of that would be
| $500. Doodle deeism polled about half
| the necessary number
In most of the counties of the state
doodle deeism was showed under by the
socialists and prohibitionists. In some
counties there is no evidence TO show
that the voters ever heard of doodle
| deeism. In other counties the voters
heard too much of it and expressed
their resentment at the polls.
| In San Francisco. where the cam
! paign of the doodle dees was waged
with particular feverishness, the figure
/ representing the percentage OF the to-
tai vote it polled is so well hidden be-
! hind ciphers to the right of the deci-
| NAL point that it requires q mathe-
matician with a microscope to find it.
| Out of a total vote of 61,597, Hisgen
polled 752.
Alameda county was regarded with
| peculiar pride by doodle dees-before
| the election. When the flying wedge
| was making the streets of that county
| noisy as late as 10 o'clock at night,
the claim was made that the doodle
dees would poll more votes than the
| democrats. Out of a total of 1926,
Hisgen polled III. That is one-thir-
tieth of the vote for Taft and one
| tenth of the vote for Bryan.
In Los Angeles the vote for doodle
| deeism was one-fifth of the vote for
socialism and one-sixth of the vote for
| prohibition.
Other counties tell the same harrow
ing tale. Smothered beneath an ava
lanche of ballots doodle deeism is no
more. It has gone where the woodbine
twineth and lives a dubious sort OF
after life in Hearst editorials.