Show 1 4 5 out CROWN arff vote VOTE FO R 4 AP V M n FM pt FOR 41 MAN HIM M afa V Z w o 0 wn A 01 I 1 1 I x by ELMO SCOTT WATSON the primaries ir in all of the states now W over mer and the bandl dates selected by UK tile two major parties political interest now centers in the novem ier bet election for months our news appers have been picture galleries ol of crould be looking per who upon the repeated and urgent solicitation of their friends we tite consented to be a candidate for W mi that or tho the other onice if by chance the voter h has as missed seeing saeng therould the would be benign la his bis newspaper lie he has had tile the 01 opportunity port unity to see it on a placard lacked up on oil every telephone pole in city streets and along country ands but bat cheer up I 1 you have to KC see these picture galleries much long ft only ft month more a month of by the politician anil and hla his friends in the final effot ot 0 get eel out tile tho vote and then it will all ile be ever are the Ani american erlean people less interested in politics than ilian they formerly breret ere some observers say yes and point to the public apathy that has teen leen apparent in recent years lears this year will not really be a fair test I 1 say ay others because its the oil off year 1 e not the year of a presidential elation ecklon and no one expects a great slow how of enthusiasm over politics in an oft off year of course there are several issues up tor for consideration this atla year bu but t it yet remains to bo be wen seen whether r or not they are genuine burning issues which will bring tery every qualified fled voters voter to the polls to say it with ballots here tire are some of them major or minor local sectional or national nation if clear cut or hazy look them over and s see if ariy any of them make maie you bum barri the eighteenth amendment the world court farm rolet 11 ku war klux klan kjan government economy waterways campaign expenditures league of nations water power development foreign debt settlements settlement 4 one or more of these issues may bring out a big vote in some states they may have something to do db with vie tte political complexion of the next congress and with shadowing foreshadowing fore the candidates tandl dates and issues of 1028 1928 tha text ext presidential campaign year but to the average observer the election la in november ID 1020 10 now looks pretty itoch like a matter of nothing to get cited about fact Is the politicians lave had a pretty hard time of it this year keeping the american people invested terestea te rested in their the politicians business ices of course it Is the bus gnoss esa of mr voter too but he Is on the e job attending to this business only one fre or two days a year whereas the politician Is busy with it days a year nr too many distractions north pole flighty flight 3 helen and suzanno suzanne play lug 6 tennis almee aimee mcpherson on dot doing ng her er disappearing net act gertrude ederle swimming dimming the english channel rudolph valentino dying idding a whipping fin tall ls in tho the national league and a world series and mr dempsey and air r td aney deciding the heavyweight bile e in fisticuffs fortunately for alem tile crossword cross word puzzle Is albok almost asae and ned grange has hag inore flek fleet 08 ss than front page endurance but oe e voice of the radio Is still heard in ifil e land and here we are in the midst of eaher football season right nt a time when political interest should bo be liott estl I 1 it like that in the old days ill ah no nol I 1 go back bach to the pioneer days when we took our politics seriously and n political campaign was a strenuous alfair talk to some of the old timers who either know knew about it themselves or heard their fathers athera tell about the days when there were real stump speakers then there were the butcher boys boya who were distinctive of 0 one era in the political history ot of the middle west they dressed conspicuously in buckskin coonskin caps capa indian moccasins and red hunting shirts belted at the waist with a broad leather girdle from which hung big butcher kelv knives s wherefore the name they were a swaggering boisterous unruly lot these butcher boys profane and rough especially whop lull full of liquor whoop o e e e im I 1 a bad bold butcher boyl boy I 1 im halt half man inan and halt half alligator I 1 was the cry they raised as they swept down upon some so political meeting a yell that was halt half a boast half it a challenge there was little chaice for ti ft dispassionate discussion of cati campaign Is mes at meetings in those days if the orator was not howled down by tile the butcher boys lie he la launched into al a bitter personal attack I 1 upon his opponent and the stronger language langu iiga aga he used the better his auditors were we pleased when the meetings were over the butcher boys boya invariably mounted their horses and rode at breakneck speed through the settlement hurrahing hur tor for their candidate and jeering at hla his op opponent for many years they held the balance of power in elections but in later years the practice af pf p carrying knives was waa frowned upon however the same class of voters survived under equally pretentious names such as the barefooted boys boya and the huge pawed bo boys ws until the idea of ghys phys physical st ca at f force orce dominating elections waned and tho the butcher boys and their ilk gradually disappeared those thos werft were the goo good d old days about which we hear go so much the halcyon days of the past tho the passing of which tha sentimental lets ista so oft often en mourn those who de aloro alore the strong arm methods used at tile the polls poll in some of the big cities of today might remember the butcher boys of the good old days even in those days when americana are supposed to have taken their politics seriously it often required a special effort to get out the vote prom from the state of missouri comes collies an amusing story printed in a recent issue of tho the kansas kan as city star illustrative of that point the I 1 new rules ard and regulations bout about thern aking life easier tor for the voters vot arm 0 have taken all the joy out of poll cs and made it ft its aa tame and ana innocent as an a game ol of croquet grumbled the vet oran politician clan tilling hla his corncob with natural leaf bent ile he wag waa tal talking kinig to some borne of the youngsters tera on one of the county committees who had bad asked hini him tor for a few pointers out of the th depths ot of hla his long lone and what strenuous experience exper lence as an a party leader votes la Is votes and SOB sos you get em business how the campaigner camis nob odys odya it its Is went on in the days w when hen had to do some real yeal lection ee ruria you giants were developed some ome an vince office to get ten men who knew what the they loped ve wanted and how to get it 11 everybody tn in the county did all seat in tho county the voting at tt their leir the Tabu loaa fortley Fort lea an ai forties writer in th the saturday Y ernnt soot so cm ot post has set it down it if you coulden couldn sot get to the county seat you coulden couldn t v vote 0 te no absentee votes were counted th then en some times the polls were kept open two or three days you learned how new york went about a we week sk after the election or maybe two weeks those good old bayst peter marberry Mar burry was standing for or the legislature from macon county peter and tom dickson tits his right hand man counted noses and figured that when about all who could gt got to bloomington the county seat neat hod had voted he would be about fifty eltty seven shy of beating hla his opponent theres therea about sixty votes ov over er in ton ten mile and round hound grove town townships ships said dickson yes says bay the chief but they might re ra well be at the north pole never walk thirty miles and back just for or the fun of 0 voting they might it if they had thom oboes eha eli from marberry Mar burry who began to wake up you buy a barrel of those red bro bri gans at rod shacklefords Shackle fords store and I 1 bellev believe I 1 can account for most moat ot of that vote no sooner said than done dickson put the rid red in sacks and throw threw ism em across two horses the TOSA road wan nothing but a trail then shoes shoe of 0 any sort were a luxury when dickson klokson got out among the settlers they were aa a tickled as children to see sea those red shoes when a man tried on a pair and they alt dickson said think you could walk to bloom inkton ington in those could I 1 IT just try mail cef all right lets go to town and those shoes are yours santa claus had come out of the W wilderness berness der ness before long dickson had bad men following him around wanting to take on that shoe proposition sixty pair quickly found owners and a lame man agreed to go to the county seat if he could ride the horse horae As A they neared town one on of the settlers bottlers casualty casually asked by the way be b a good man to vote for representatives you might try marberry Mar burry 1 dickson suggested ile he sent ins me out to give elve you those shoes I 1 i it was no trouble every max man voted according to the dictates of hla his conscience and the joy over possessing a real pair of red shoes marberry Mar burry was am triumphantly elected by hl his brogan brigade that was good politics acs ics and th the people patted dickson on the back for being so wise WINO in liecty for his man the veteran paused to knock the th ashes ashen out of his pipe preparatory to reloading 1 I tell you fetters fellers he Jec declared lared it if you want to win in politics political you got to think speeches breeches dont make mak no votes it takes taken headwork hon hoa dwork heavy campaign expenditures in two states this year have brought to the fore again the discussion of proper and Impi improper oper use of money in politics As when this ot or any other evidence of corrupt corruption lon in modern modem politics comes up there are the ahse so who slink shake a mournful head and mur mur lt it like ilka this in the good glod old days but it if we may inay judge from tho the testimony of contemporary authorities politics was wag more corrupt a 4 hundred years ago than it has ever b been eon since take the case of illinois for instance illinois which had its senator lorimer and now sha res with pennsylvania general criticism tor for excess excessive iv e campaign expenditures governor r ford ord la Is authority for the statement that during the period of 12 42 0 years 1828 1840 neither tho the people nor their public ile servants ever dreamed that government might bight bo be madette ma made dethe the Ins instrument trumen i to accomplish a higher destiny fo for tho the people and that the professional politicians enjoyed an unparalleled reign of graft good old dayi dabit why not the bad old days 5 I 1 Is |