The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-30
THE MOLL NOODLE PLAN { or CATCHING THE HIGHBROW VOTE
by
(DR. GEORGE AMOS DoRsEY.)

Nearly all the Big Money in the world is back of Hughes-and if Mon ey will beat Wilson, Hughes will be elected President!
 The Bosses of the Republican Party have their coats off-so to speak and they are out to win. From now on it will get hotter. Also much quiet work will be done. Many a vo- ter will be shot in the back and never know it. Chairman Wilcox at Re- publican Headquarters has two plans at work: The Mollycoddle, NThe Pus- syfoot.
 Both plans proceed on the assump- and will do what you tell him if you don't let him know you told him. They are less obvious than a stump-pulled and make less noise than dynamite. They work on the same principles lift and push-and are as forceful as trench-war gas. It is Fumes-insid- ious and invidious, beclouding and be- numbing, vaporizing and voting Fumes. ,.
 The Mollycoddle Plan.
 Object-catch the High Brow vote. It assumes that the average overwork- ed, underpaid school teacher will vote for Hughes and mebbe give up ten bucks to catch other suckers, if- appreciated by the right parties, and Followed up.' The follow-up costs money, but this Republican Commit tee with all-the- Money -the-world is backed by Business, and Business has tested the merits of the 'follow-up" system. It is not a devil-the-life- oit- of-hi midea-rather, the water-drop- by-drop that wears away stone.
 And that, by the way, is the average density the average business man thinks the average school teacher is. of man weren't solid rock from the knees up, why in the name of Rocke- feller and Morgan, Astor and Van derbilt, should he teach school?"
 Old Doc Eliphelet Yalevard, profes- sor of Comparative Digammas-or maybe it's just plain James Smith, teacher of third grade. Kittyoshkosh -bustles into his office at eight (the- oretically nine) and dives for his mail. Years of habit of looking for letter with notice of raise in salary makes
 
 going to be anything in that mail ex- cept a second notice of his long over due dues to the A. A. A. s., or to the N. E. A., or bill for his children's shoes.
 On this particular morning there is a glean in his eye as he sights big envelope with lots of red ink on it. It isn't the long expected raise, but it's a novelty; and a school teacher loves a novelty. I know; I once taught He rips it open. In his excitement he is almost profane! Gee whiz!" he says. .rHow do you suppose they discover ed mel"
 MT. School Teacher is interested! He has been discovered!
 '"The signers are requested to write an engraved certificate of enrolment will be sent each one''-I quote from their names and addresses Legibly, as have received myself in the last few one of many Republican circulars I weeks.
 FoS complying with the Republican National Committees urgent and strennous effort to secure the active moral and financial support of a great number of men in every section of tfie United States" he doesn't get a thing for his contribution of s1O but his certificate of membership!
 Mr. Voter, do you know that if you had your name in some college cata- i1ogue, or Who's Who, or Which is Which, or When's When, you could become a sustaining member and get an engraved certificate of membership from the Sustaining Membership Bu- reau of the Republican National Con- mittee for only $10?
 No wonder MT. Hughes calls our prosperity a Fools Paradist." Does MT. Hughes think we are so prosper ous that the average man bombarded with Sustaining Membership campaign literature doesn't know tile difference