The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-10-16
On The Train.
By Herbert W. Walker


boast that they have grasped tn
hand OF the Democratic candidate
The tour required just a month, an
those who were with him feel Gel
tain that he shook hands with a
least 5000 daily.
Cox is an ambi-dexteroIs han
shaker and has a good stiff grip il
each hand. His system is to reacl
with his left hand to grasp that o
an admirer. while another friend i
holding his right-a movement tina
.reminds one of the Australian craw
swimming stroke.
This, Cox explains, prevents thu
crowds from wearing out one arm
Throughout the tour he invited hand
shaking He is very active and sale
that handshaking afforded him some
exercise, after being shut up in his
private car for hours.
Cox's western tour was one of the
most strenuous ever undertaken by a
presidential candidate, and there are
many public men who could not have
stood the strain. But the governor
came out of it with broad smile,
despite the fact that he was tired
man when he arrived home. A tooth,
broken on plum seed, shortly be-
fore the trip began, troubled him sew
eral times and it was necessary for
him to visit dentists in between his
speeches.
The life of presidential stump
campaigner is tireless one. Here
Is a typical day;
The candidates special train ar
rives at first stop about 7 o'clock.
with the candidate and most of those
aboard asleep. A steam whistle.
built to be heard for miles around.
announced the candidates arrival
with about five minutes of screetch-
ing, while switch engines join in The
din by changing their bells merrily.
Then band congregates just out
side the candidates window and be-
gins to blare forth its customary
overtures, "The Stars and Stripes
Forever and Hail to the Chief.
the candidate is not due to
speak until ten o'clock, local com
mittee swarms on the train seeking
him, not realizing that the day be-
lore he worked just double the eight !
lour limit.
After eating hasty breakfast
he candidate is whisked off for his |
first speech and then back again to |
the train. Local committees again |
swarm through his car, and he is
forced to lock himself up in his com
partment to take few glances at
mail or kilograms or to prepare for
his speeches. And so it continues
until almost midnight The candi-
date apparently is considered a "su-
per man" who never finds it neces-
sary to eat a meal or sleep more
than five or six hours
On The Porch
BY Raymond Clapper
Omitted Press Staff spondent
with Senator Hardingl
Senator Harding in making a speech
never resorts to the old fashioned
rick OF leisurely pouring out glass
Of water to give The audience time
for generous applause and then tex.
ing only a bare sip of it. Ha never
i2nks during an address
II. G. l.. item On the last speak !
ng tour east Mrs. Harding was still |
wearing the summer hat she had |
It the Chicago convention.
Marion local No. of the Order |
u the Elephant has been organized
y newspaper men assigned to cover
1ardir s. He va. Ii ade Chief Hahout
: the organiza;.s as first dinner here.
the order is Ioi-political and de-
igned solely to give presidential
andidates chance to get away
rom politics and be private citizens
)r a few hours.
1t is a question who works harder
uring Harding speech, the candi-
ate or Mrs. Harding. She always
its within arms reach of him and
very work spoken by the senator
formed on her own lips.
AT Wheeling the crowd in the
reefs was so dense that Senator and
Lrs. Harding riding in separate au-
got separated. She got
the hall first. Where is that
an Harding?" she asked as she
Jumped down into chair breath
SIS from pushing through the dense
owd.
whether sleeping car can be- a
1x may be an open question hut the
engyle which carried newspaper
en- on Harding's last trip when his
r nearly crashed over high tres
was also the press car of Pres
ent Wilson's ill-fated league of