Abilene weekly reflector., 1922-10-19
POLITICS LACKS
Old time PEP
.sAy1MANACERS
Kansas Is Expected to
Wake Up as Cam
paign Closes
yAssociated Press1
By A. L. Shultx

Topeka, oct. 18.-There Is a gen.
eral complaint at both Democrat and
Republican state headquarters that
the voters are too reserved. Persons
active In campaign affairs would be
a lot happier il the voters put on
little war paint and occasionally set
fire to a meetin' house or threatened
to lynch few candidates on the op-
position ticket. 1t would prevent
the present pending necessity OF
buying alarm clocks for good many
people who seemingly don't know
whether November is election day
or the birthday anniversary Of an
ancient Fiji king.
Party scouts are coming into To-
peka every few days with reports or
good meetings. 1t seems that lot
of men and women have cancelled
their dates at the movie show to sit
through political meeting where
they can spend the evening for moth
ing. These meetings tend to cheer
the candidates. In fact the average
candidate becomes genius at the
lob of collecting encouragement. Ii
he could trade his vision of sunshine
for votes on election day an injunc-
ton couldn't stop his race for the
presidency. Some of the veterans
Of many campaigns know these
things and the old timers are not so
certain about the big crowds and
maximum collection of silence.
Fact of the matter is neither party
has gathered a very close line on the
their overwhelming majority i'll nor
NAL years expect to win easily. This
brutal majority" as the Democrats
call it, is considered sufficient to
more than safeguard against some
of the strange and rather uncertain
currents encountered in the cam
paign. On the other hand the Demo- J
Gratis with customary e-election
optimism believe that somehow,
someway, their ticket will win.
Their headquarters lives on the child |
like faith that some miracle will be- |
fall in the campaign and that the |
morning after election the state will
awake to see the Democrats take
over the state house.
Not Like Old Days
In the old days Mort Albaugh
or Bill Sapp had pretty accurate
poll book for eevry precinct in the
state at this stage Of campaign.
But it isn't done that way any more.
1t is probable that both parties will
go through the campaign without
more definite than few
dozen individual opinions as to what
a certain community will do. A lot
Of literature will be put in the mails
during the next two weeks. Stem
,graphers and press agents will tear
the keys off their typewriters in
frantic appeals. But there won't be
much of the old time care in selec-
ton of soil on which to sow seeds.
Republicans will have all the ad- Il
vantage in the matter Of reaching I
he voters. The big element of pub /
icity is strongly G. o. P. The Re- ,
publican press in Kansas can talk to 7
more voters in day than the Dem
,crat orators can assemble in the I
.ourse Of an entire campaign. G
In spite or all, though, the voters t
ire not whooping it up for anyone \
n particular. Maybe it means they
laven't entirely settled the matter r
n their own minds. Maybe they I
re going along in the even and easy I
Ways of the day and will vote their '
'arty ticket as usual Maybe there Q
> something away back in their (
minds that is giving trouble and con- O
ern. Maybe it will all come out on d
lection day. Maybe the Democrat
roaming of dreams has come to the
me when dreams come true.
Strikers For Davis
Most Of the political conversation
lese days seems to be among the
ellows who haven't been particu- 0,
rly occupied at any actual rev. 81
1ue producing task in recent tt
onths. That is the conversation Of in
le man who is fighting the indus G.
ial court. Most of these chaps ps
ent into the Republican primaries to
70 years ago and voted for George he