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Close Election
BY ARTHUR CAPPER
United States Senator from Kansas
> Special 10 THE DETROIT TIMES

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United States Senator from Kansas
Special 10 THE DETROIT TIMES
TOPEKA, Kan, Oct. 30-A sem
atcr from another state once said
to me, rather reproachfully. but
it also seemed TO be just a bit
enviously:
"YOu people out i'm Kansas
are still Individuals believe
you are the most individualistic
state in the Union"
/ guess that is true. Also, i
rather gloried in that description.
After all. was not the Declaration
of Independence based on the
struggle for freedom for the in
dividual, as well as the independ-
ence of the New World from the
Old World?
The Declaration, by the way,
lists among the inalienable rights
of man (the individual, not men
in the mass) not only life and
liberty. but also the pursuit of
happiness.
PROUD OF KANSAS
I say the Declaration of indie
pendence was a declaration of the
rights and Liberties of the in
dividual, not just a declaration of
independence of the colonies from
Britain. So l always feel proud,
instead of cast down. when Kansas
is referred to as individualistic.
But there is something missing
in all the towns and cities and
countryside of Kansas-the boys
and young men. / saw honor rolls
posted in county seat towns; I'M
believably long; ten, IL. even u
per cent of the total population
of some counties in northwest
Kansas are in the armed services.
All the beauties of October in
Kansas; the bullying banks and
cribs and storehouses; the feed
stacked in the fields: the herds of
cattle and sheep on wheat pasture
these cannot make up for the
void left by the absence of the
young men and the young women
in every community and from al
most every farm and household.
CLOSE ELECTION
I don't profess to be a political
prophet this year. Right now, it
looks like a close race for the
presidency. with a decided trend
over the nation in the direction of
a victory for Dewey and Bricker.
l have a feeling that. when the
returns are in. Dewey and Bricker
will be found to have a majority
of electoral votes, but the race is
expected to be close in Pennsyl-
vania, New York and in a half
dozen other industrial states with
huge voting populations.
/ do know this much. If the
matter were left to Kansas, Dewey
and Bricker would win hands
down. But Sidney Hilman's CIO
Political Action Committee does
not have the field TO work in
Kansas that it has in the con-
gested areas of the industrial
states. the big cities where the
Kellys, the Hagues. the Flynns
and the Pendergasts rule and fire.
quently ruin.
DEWEY SPEECH GREAT
Gov. Dewey m de great
speech at Chicago, a fighting
speech, a thought provo king
speech, on honesty in government.
He said, with truth. that the nation
needs in the White House some
one whose word can be trusted.
There was the definition he
stands for. stated by Thomas
jefferson, which / quote:
THE whole art of govern
ment consists i'm the art of being
honest"
Contrast that with the New
Deal definition, as cleared with
Sidney and published in one of the
Go pamphlets, of which some
100000 were mailed over the
country:
Politics is the science OF who
gets what, when and why"
BASIC DIFFERENCE
I think there is one of the basic
differences between the two philo-
Sophies of government and poll
tics that are fighting for mastery
in this election.
With which philosophy do you
agree?
With Dewey and Bricker that
government consist in the art of
being honest? Or
With Roosevelt and Hillman and
Truman that politics govern
menD is the science of who gets
tpbat and Wbap and UNIV ,"