The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-02-22
CAMPAIGN SONG
OF ALFALFA BILL
OPENS BATTLE
Baptist Preacher Was the
Author Of the Song as
Oklahoma Starts the
Ball Rolling
BY DAN ROGERS

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Oklahoma City, Feb 22--(UP)-
Cailused Alfalfa Bill Murray's
presidential campaign was opened
formally" Sunday over steaming
cups Of Paraguan tea and will be
tunefully proclaimed from the Ok
lahoma housetops in a Baptist
preachers campaign song entitled:
Hoover Made q Soup Houn' outa
Me-" II,
!. Governor Murray formally put
his name before the nation as 1.-THE
grass roots candidate" OF the
people while quafiipg the steaming
cupsful of "yerbe mate, his favor.
tie tea.
And he has approved the CAM
paisn song, which was sung by the
Rev Forrest r. Sawyer of Meeker.
a farmer and two BARRIERS before
the oklahoma state democratic
convention Saturday.
The governor announced he had
acted "out of duty to the great
middle class and little man for no
one else seems to care to cham
pion their cause"
Saturday the state democratic
convention called on him to. make
the race, the first time any Okla
homan has campaigned actively
for a presidential nomination.
With customary promptitude,
the. governor acted.
That campaign song, has a
KICK" Murray commented.
1T goes like this:
I'VE talk about our honest Abe
and Mr. Wilson still.
We cuss the Chinks and Japanese
and praise Alfalfa Bill.
The Queen Of Sheba Travelled far,
wise Solomon to see.
I voted for the guy who made a
soup houn' outa me,
We're going to beat the guy who
made a soup houn' outa me.
We thought the proper thing
would be, an engineer to get.
We went to Palo Alto and on Her
bert placed our bet.
The surgeons took Sir William 8
gland and old men made whoo-
The genius Of them all has made
a soup houn' outa me.
He took the long green from our
purse. The clothes from off our
back.
Ee moved us from our mansions
and put us in a shack.
Our milk cows to the markets 60
my land, it's miseree,
II! vote against the guy who made
soup houn' outa me.
Cur grains won't sell, our note:
come due, our cotton's in thu
But not aSword from that old bire
who said our homes he'd shield
The colored race was freed by Alb,
and Wilson freed Paree.
Bill Murray will beat the guy VIII,
made q SCUM houn' outa me.
/ Murray received the newspaper
men sunday in a wrinkled suit, hi
soft black hat perched on the bacl
OF his graying head. He passe,
out copies Of his 404-statement
then led q breezy discussion.
| A white-jacketed negro brough
In the tea cups.
ANY other man nominated" h,
said, would have to spend S.,
100000 to be made so favorabl!
known among the rank and file o
voters.
He shifted his chair. famed ou
with his hat a blaze that started
In his teac1p when match ig
nited a torn telegram. He turnet
to representatives Of an opposition
paper:
Now that this Is over" he said
smiling, Don't be so damn mean
-. feel reasonably cartain Of cleo.
ton Is nominated" continued the
Sage of Tishimingo." but II not
nominated, I shall have escaped a
Herculean task and an awful re-
sponsibility. and thereby won q
longer life"
The governor will leave late to-
DAY for five speeches in Indiana
and will make six appearances in