The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-14

Following the FreSluenLS VlSlG, the Des Moines Tribunte, leading republican newspaper, requested permission to take some exclusive pictures of Governor Landon. Approval was given and @ pho- tographer was dispatched to snap the republican candidate.
 He found him eating. The pho- tographer set up his camera and took several flashlights, before Landon realized what was hap pening and motioned to him.
 The governor asked the cam eraman not to snap him while eating, and also to give him the plates of the pictures already taken. The photographer hand- ed over several plates-but they were blanks.
 The exposed ones he hustled back to the Tribune office, where they were developed.
 One was an unusual picture showing Land0n with his mouth ajar, about to envelope g large helping of food suspended on a fork, around which he had wrapped his whole fist.
 Learning of the unconventional snapshot, the Landon encourage made strenuous representations that it be suppressed.
 But although the Tribune is a republican paper, the picture was published. BESIDE TT WAS A PICTURE OF THE PRESIDENT ABOUT TO TAKE A BIG BITE OUT OF A HOT DOG.
 'DOg-FOOd" Dickinson
 Senator Lester J. ("Dog-food') Dickinson is making a very chary campaign for reelection. The white-crested republican, who earlier this year fancied himself a g. o. p. presidential. white hope, so far has been lying low and doing little talking.
 REASON: Dickinson is highly unpopular throughout Iowa.
 His sulphurous fussiIIades against the TripIe-A and against Secretary Henry Wallace, both warmly esteemed in the state, have aroused considerable re- sentiment against him among both republicans and democrats. The fact that Dickinson, after violently berating the AAA on the floor of the senate, ducked out on the roll-calls, has not tempered this hostility.
 So, on the theory that if he doesn't show himself the voters will forget their peeve, Dickinson has been making himself scarce. Most of his campaigning has con- sisted of personal glad-handing. Tough Opponent
 Not SO with his rival, Governor Clyde Herring. He has been showing himself in a big way, combining both glad-handing and stumping. A glib spieler and back slapper, Herring has been making hay while Dickinson kept himself under cover.
 Because of Dickinson's personal unpopularity and Herring's tal- ent as a vote wangler, the latter is given the edge. But the race is close and the outcome will be termined by what happens in the national contest.
 Looks Like F. ID. R.
 If Landon carries Iowa, prob- ably Dickinson will squeeze thruogh. If Roosevelt holds the state in his column, Herring is 8 good bet to win.
 The. presidential. race. here rests with the independent vote, estimated around 40 per cent of the ballot. In 1882 and 1884 it went democratic. A statewide test symposium being conducted by the Des Moines Tribune indi- cates that the pro-New Deal sen- timents of this bloc of voters generally remain unchanged.
 Iowa is doubtful territory, but all signs point to Roosevelt as the fayorite.
 Democratic
 A farmer near Leon, Ia, has a reason all of his own for voting for Governor Landon.
 The latter, motoring to Des Moines for the Presidents drouth conference, stopped in the little farming community for a shave. Several days later a reporter making a political survey for the district asked the grower which presidential candidate he favored.
 "Landon," was the reply.
 "Why?"
 "Because he is democratic"
 "What do you mean, demo- cratic'?"
 "WelI, he came through our county seat at Leon and got aN shave there. Now that shows he is a democratic man and I'm going to vote for him."
 Happy Days
 A powerful factor in the po- litical situation in Iowa is the tremendous improvement in busi- ness conditions. Everywhere there is an atmosphere of buoyancy and cheerfulnesS.
 Despite serious drouth damage to the corn crop in some sections, the income of farmers generally, because of high commodity prices, is way up. And they are buying <Nr$E% SF,KNT% nTSNnnn