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Show Hj THE APPLE AS A VOTE-GETTER aaW M f Hero's a new wrinkle for the politics politi-cs cians, and every, apple-grower in the M country will recommend jt to them: H It is the use of apples to distribute j among voters instead of cigars or H something worse. M This idea seems to be original with H a candidate for Congress in the Kan-H Kan-H sas City (Mo.) district. Just at the H close of a warmly contested campaign m a monster political meeting was held aaaaa H ?ft the convention hall, which was at- m, tended by thousands of the voters. 1 Music was provided, and while the V tfrnd played, a number of barrels of H apples wre distributed among the H voters, and every mnn took several Hf for his own use. Then r. little later m the candidate made his plea for sup- H. pj?rtf and the voters sat and munclcd f their apples during the entire time. With plenty of good apples to e,at, HI tjie men were naturally in u good H hjinnor, and the candidate made a H& good impression. And the result? W1iy-t the tnpple- j distributing cdida& jj, cjeed, m ( with more than 3,000 votes to spare. There's nothing like it. The idoa is not copyrighted, and we recommend it to candidates of all parties-. What variety of apples did he distribute? dis-tribute? Jonathans. The result might have been different had the apples been of a certain much-abused variety, vari-ety, which is hardly presentable so onrly in the season. So the variety was Jonathan. Any other good apple might do as well -but it will be bc-t to take no chances. Use Brother Jonathan, Jon-athan, and you're a winner. Hy the way, what's the matter with this Congressman as president of the Arpplc Consumers' League? Fruit Grower. |