The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-26
BiW Vines Tries Hand at
 Unscrambling League Of
 Nations Campaign Issue

Mistur Edditur:
 What we need rite at this time is one furst class Sage, or Soothsay- UT or sumthing who has been in the bizness long enuff to estab- fish a reputation so that when he seys ennything it will carry con- victsion with it. We air all up n the air-woozy.gumfuzzled and a few uther things. The dope don't Jibe-theere is no way to reesun it out and arrive enny wheere.
 Down in the good old Staate of Ga, the Honerabull Thomas Wat sun-yeerS ago one of our feeding little Populists-who lambasted demmycrats and the republicans alike till the cows cum home-sim- ply went rite out and collected the scalps of Uncle Hoke. Smith, and insidentally few uthers who veer opposing him with out enny verry grate effurt. Thomas was agin the Guvvermint-the Leege of Ma sions-the pollisies of Wilsun and everything else most on the Bill of Fair. Thomas cum rite into the demmycratic camp and took theere tobacco away frum them-masse- SAOCu lAiO AiCii eiilu dStd FULL SIull with the wimmin and children poured tobasco sauce ovver the wounds of his ennemies and rode off with the bacon with a grate guesto that must be positively an- moving to the old time regulars.
 The republicans declare in clar- iron tones that the plain reepul of Ga, air against the Leege and that they used Thomas as an instrimint of rebuke to the administration Thomas is a furst class rebuker- I'll say so. On the uther hand theere is Sinator Gore. The blind statesman from Oklahoma. The Sinator yeers ago was like Thomas. He was a Populist who did not hesitate to say rude things con- surning the we'll known demmy- cratic party and the feeders theere- off; in good English and well mod derated tone of voise he tore the hide off the demmycrats on all oc- casions and got away with it. La tur on he cum back into the fold and got himself attached to the Senit pay roll but he did not re- frain frum sassing the adminnis- trasion and bawling out the Leege of Nasions. So he got his'n and got it good and plenty-when the vox populi spoke the Sinator got rain check entitleing him to stay at home and pondur ovver the sit- uasion. He'll have good long spell of pondering, and most pee pull hopes that he'll make the most of it. So the demmycrats say that the plain peepul of Oklahoma air for the administration and the leege.
 Then along cums Maine. Maine has rude and abrupt way of up- setting the dope aftur one has it all figgured out-Maine is unde- pendabull-it seems to be a per- vurse and obstinate State badly in need of reform-enny how Maine cums to bat and promptly sat upon the demmycrats with so much grace and abandun that it was positively astounding. The vim min turned out and voted the strait republican ticket several times before lunch and then wint to a bridge party in the afturnoon not forgetting to vote two or three times moor before dinnur. They say the leege of Missions was the lssue-and if so they did plenty to sod issue-they kicked it fore and aft plumb across the bordur and left little to be sed upon the subjest. Secretery Daniels maid four speeches in Maine, and the re- publicons sed if he had only maid eight speeches it would have been unannimus. Still the republicans don't like Secretery Daniels and 1t is likely that theere commits upon him air tinged with preju- disc. The republicans say that Maine settled the Leege-they say