Show V Wh What t Are Presidential Issues Oh Drop Around Later Ans By RODNEY DUTCHER W WASHINGTON NEA NEA Mayhap Mayhap as Senator George orge Higgins Moses of New cw Hampshire says sas there Just justin aint in t going to be no iss Issues es In the presidential campaign of ot 1928 But George Higgins Moses oSes Is the only tine ne with enough nerve to ad admit admit ad- ad mit It V VIn In a a. moment of ot extreme mental activity your correspondent decided ed Cd recently that it would be beV a splendid Idea to obtain and write a series of or interviews with leaders atthe of at the two big factions of ot the clanS clans' union on what the big campaign campaign cam cam- issue was to be and all bout t It Thus the readers of at this this' newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper could gather after atter dinner around the family fireside and calmly discuss on trio the basis of these precious p pearls of at wisdom straight from the politicians politicians' unions the best place to deliver the family votes in November S B But t your jour our V correspondent Is forced shamefully to re report ort a miserable flop The interviews resulting from your jour our correspondents correspondent's requests for answers to tho ho question What will be the big issue and why hy were exactly as Os follows Senator Moses 1 By the time the tile two conventions write their platforms platforms platforms plat plat- forms there wont won't be any Issues worth talking about This campaign will hinge on personalities more personalities more so than tiny any ny campaign since sinco Cleveland ran against Elaine Blaine S Senator Simeon D. D Fess of ot Ohio keynote speaker at the Republican convention I 1 dont don't want to talk about any Issues Ive I've got to make the keynote speech Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas senate Republican leader Go 00 see someone else Thanks for calling but Im I'm a presidential candidate I have to o wait walt and see my party's platform n. n The Hon Nicholas Longworth speaker of at the house Nothing do doing doing do- do ing Senator Robert F F. Wagner Fagner of ot New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Governor Smiths Smith's senator I 1 dont don't know Come around some sarno sometime timo time later V V t S tA C V A leading Democrat up for re reelection ro- ro election who shall be nameless lest his profanity lose losa him the church vote Oh for Gods God's sake Get Getaway Getaway Getaway away fro mme Not now Senator Charles L. L McNary of or Oregon In certain localities I suspect prohibition will be an Issue and there are others where farm problems will be bo an Issue Many voters believed In Republicanism Republicanism Republicanism or in Democracy In in Republicanism Republicanism Re Re- particularly In New Now England and the cast where tho the tariff counts more than In the c cen cn- n- n states At this point Senator McNary re remembered re rc- a pressing engagement and hastily excused himself Wey We eY perhaps Vice President Dawes might tal talk It But Dawes one was reminded never gave Interviews in In In- Wouldn't V he even discuss discuss discuss dis dis- cuss the merits of ot his friend and presidential choice Frank Lowden He would not flat V How about Secretary Herbert Hoover Any chance chanco that he might talk issues None came the answer S S S Down to the tile Democratic national committee to see Chairman Clem Shaver But Chairman Clem Clein gently reminded your correspondent that his Job was vas that of a A little later perhaps Your correspondent correspondent correspondent cor cor- respondent suggested that if Chairman Chairman Chairman Chair Chair- man William M. M Butler of the Republican Republican Re Re- publican committee should consent to Identify and describe the big Issue is issue issue is- is sue as he saw it there would be no reason for foi Chairman Shaver to hold out Chairman Shaver agreed that there thera might be something in that Chairman Butler was out of town Hope blooms in your correspondents correspondent's correspondents correspondent's dents dent's heart pending his Ills return Chairman Butler might be ed to to talk about the need of at preserving preserving pre pro serving the tile Coolidge policies Otherwise the tile field seems confined confined con con- fined tined to nonmembers of the politicians politicians' politicians politicians' clans clans' union like Senators Norris and Borah or Borah-or or Vie Vic Berger the Socialist Socialist So So- congressman These gents will be interviewed in due duo time for they are on record as admitting the existence of certain issues S S S There are of or course a number of outstanding Democrats willing to tell us about Republican corruption and to repeat a few few but but not by any means all all ot of the Jeffersonian principles That Interview having been written seventeen times in the will last year j-eai- your correspondent not have another for at least two months Tom Heflin of ot course is always willing to oblige newspaper men seeking interviews But there will willbe willbe be no Heflin interview for awhile either |