The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-10-26
POLITICAL GOSSIP

crat and Republican state headquar-
tiers that the voters are too reserved.
Persons active in campaign affairs
would be a lot happier if the voters
put on little war paint and occasion
ally set fire to a meeting house or
threatened to lynch few candidates
on the opposition ticket. 1t would
prevent the present pending necessity
of buying alarm clocks for a good
many people who seemingly don't
know whether November 7th is cleo
ton day or the birthday anniversary
of an ancient Fiji king.
Party scouts are coming into To-
peka every few days with reports of
good meetings. 1t seems that lot
of men and women have cancelled
their dates at the movie show to sit
through a political meeting where
they can spend the evening for
nothing. These meetings tend to
cheer the candidates. In fact the
average candidate becomes a genius
at the job of collecting encourage
ment. If he could trade his vision of
sunshine for votes on election day an
injunction couldn't stop his race for
the presidency. Some of the vet
Grams 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
situation. The Republicans with
their overwhelming majority in 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 cur
rents encountered in the campaign.
On the other hand the Democrats
with customary prediction optimism
believe that somehow, someway, their
ticket will win. Their headquarters
live on the child-like faith that some
miracle will befall in the campaign
and that the morning after election
the state will awake to see the Demo
Gratis take over the state house
10000
In the old days a Mort Albaugh or
Bill Sapp had pretty accurate poll
book for every precinct in the state
at this stage of a campaign. But it
isn't done that way any more. 1t is
probable that both parties will go
through the campaign without any
thing more definite than a few dozen
individual opinions as to what a GER
tain community will do. A lot of lit
erature will be put in the mails dur
ing the next two weeks. Steno-
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.
10000
Republicans will have all the ad-
vantage in the matter of reaching
the voters. The big element of pub
Lefty is strongly with the G. o. P.
The Republican press in Kansas can
talk to more voters in a day than the
Democrat orators can assemble in the
course of an entire campaign.
10000
In spite of all, though, the voters
are not whooping it up for anyone in
particular. Maybe it means they
haven't entirely settled the matter in
their own minds. Maybe they are
going along in the even and easy
ways of the day and viii vote their
party ticket as usual. Maybe there
is something away back in their
minds that is giving trouble and con-
Germ. Maybe it will all come out on
election day. Maybe the Democrat
dreaming of dreams has come to the
time when dreams come true.
10000
Most of the political conversation
these days seems to be among the fell
lows who haven't been particularly
occupied at any actual revenue pro-
ducing task in recent months. That
is the conversation of the man who is
fighting the Industrial court. Most
of these chaps went into the Repub-
lican primaries two years ago and
voted for George B. Snow. In Nov
ember they voted for Davis in their
effort to beat Allen. They will vote
for Davis again this year hoping to
beat Morgan. Allen won over Davis
two years ago by 10000. Clearly
Davis must pick up more than anti
court support to make even credit
able showing this year.
10000
The tax league has apparently
blown so far as being a determining
factor in the election. Both parties