Evening star., 1932-10-19
ROOSEVELT TIDE .
EBbS IN KANSAS
Fight for Great Dry State
Grows Stronger as Result
of Hoover's Farm Speech.
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| kanSan, has been placed on the
national ticket, and. make no mistake
about this, Curtis ha sa lot of friends
in the State. He is coming here to
make half dozen or more speeches
at the wind-up of the campaign, and
undoubtedly he will be effective 1t
was not f.: nothing and not without
a realization of the attitude of Kansas
voters on the wet and dry question that
Vice President Curtis in his acceptance
| speech last Summer declared himself
opposed to the repeal of the eighteenth
amendment.
| The Democrats have been encouraged
by the results of various polls. They
know that the farmers-and this is one
of the great farming States of the
| country-have been seeing red for
months, that prices of grain have been
so far down the scale as to be heart
breaking, that mortgages on farm
property have been foreclosed. They
| know that Kansas has erupted polit-
| ically before. They insist that Presi-
| dent Hoover has been very unpopular
in the State and that the farmers have
determined on Change" They do
not see how it is possible for the
Republicans to get the great bulk of
| these farmers to reverse themselves,
at this late date. They admit that it
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Roosevelt that the farmers are up in
arms, but attribute it to desire to
hit the 'ins," and particularly Presi-
dent Hoover. Many of the Democrats
are most optimistic, but some of the
more calculating are wondering II after
all, their chance Of victory is as good
as some of their scouts report. These
| Democrats are .discounting reports of a
great Roosevelt swing.
Reed Keeps Silence.
Here in Kansas, which has had its
crop of Republican ProgreSsiveS along
with other Western States, no out
standing Progressive leader has come
| forward to support Roosevelt as Norris
| has done in Nebraska, nor to denounce
Hoover as johnson has done in Cali
fornia. The Democrats have looked
rather hopefully to Clyde Reed, for
mer Governor, and one of the Progress
sive Republican group. But Mr.. Reed
| has said nothing so far He was called
into consultation with Roosevelt, 1t
| is true, before Roosevelt wrote his
Topaka address on the farm problem,
but that does not seem to have bound
Reed to campaign for Roosevelt. He
has not yet joined the (in Republican
eyes, piratical Progressive group whose
chant today is:
Roosevelt sittin' pretty in the West,
Yo, no, no, Progressivism.
Drink and depression have done Tor
the rest.
Yo, no, no, Progressivism"
President Hoover's campaign speeches,
particularly the Iowa speech, and ms
evident intention to make real tight,
has given the Republicans In Kansas
courage Where the Republicans were
quiet and there seemed to be few to
saw good word for Hoover, the picture
is now changed and the Republican
organization Is working like beaver
to dam the flood Of resentment and
Hoover opposition.
| Wilson Carried State.
It is well to remember that Kansas
has done some curious h1p-hops In tne
past. however woodrow wilson car
ried the State in 1916 with 3i,Ooo-
vote lead over Charles Evans Hughes
ON the Wilson slogan He Kept US
out Of war" -Four years later Hard
ing, Republican, led Cox, Democrat, oy
, 184 600 votes. It is this ability, or
whatever it may be called, to change
suddenly its political complexion tnat
has ENCOURAGED the Democrats TO pc
lieve that they viii carry Kansas THIS
year. 49,. r.o,,e
of Kansas than the presidential race
and possibly of more, Is the euDei
material contest. It IS three-corIlereo
race. much like the three-cornereo rae
for Senator in California, with rguiar
Republican and Democratic canoloates
and an independent allied with neLnel
old party, but intent on raising hob: ms
third candidate here is doc" Brinkley,
regarded by both Republicans ana
Democrats as a wild radical. The DOC
tor has had his license to practice
medicine taken away by the State meo-
| ical authorities on the charge OF un-
ethical practices He was, among otner
things before his license was revoked,
known as a goat gland specialist, prom
| isinp to reiuvenate his patients through
the insertion of goat glands. Brinkiey
also operated a radio station OF MS
own. which he used in his business OF
dispensing medical information and
prescriptions to prospective patients.
His license to operate this radio was
taken away from him By the Federal
Radio Commission a couple OF years
ago. So he ran for Governor as an
independent two years ago, and 1881
persons wrote his name on the oallot.
He ran third, but the fact that ne op-
tanned such large vote-the winner,
Gov. Woodring had only $4,000 more
yotes-was staggering to Kansas. he
posed then as martyr and charged
that the physicians had tried to run
him out of Kansas because he was
hitting at high charges for medical
attention.
Doc Is on the Ballot.
This year the docs name will be on
the ballot and he Is making not
campaign. using radio he now owns
in Mexico and time on his old radlo
here, which he was compelled to sell.
He carries with him on his travels
singers and buck and wing dancers and
puts on a show for people wherever
he goes. The vote for Brinkley will be
a protest vote-a protest against hlgh
taxes and hard times. The Roosevelt
people are hoping that the Brinkley
vote will be cast also for their candl-
date. Brinkley has been suspected,
however. Of leaning to Hoover. II he
should come out for one side or the
other, it might make difference.
The Republican nominee for Gov
ernor Is All Landon, an oil operator,
while the Democrats have renominated
Gov. Woodring. Both are hitting at
Brinkley in their campaigns as well as
hitting at each other. Brinkley seems
to have plenty of financial support for
his campaign. Big signboards carry his
posters all over the State. The charge
Is made that public utility interests are
financing him in the hope Of defeat
| ing Gov Woodring, who caused an in