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Show into the homes of a million farmers, into the mining camps and lumber camps and t ho cowboy's cabins of the Far West the radio has carried impartially im-partially the Democratic and Republican Repub-lican discussions of the political issues is-sues of the day. Thousands who would never take the trouble to read a political speech have sat niht after night and pondered every .word which came from the loudspeaker. And the effect of the spoken word is different dif-ferent from that of the printed page. All this was undoubtedly reflected in Tuesday's balloting', although along with other imponderables it will be! difficult to trace. One thing, how- i ever, is certain: the interest created by radio has played a big part in the J huge registration of voters. A popular popu-lar mechanical device has accomplished accomplish-ed what the educated campaigners of numerous civic organizations in the past have failed to achieve. RADIO AND THE ELECTION. The election of 1928 is the first political po-litical contest in this country in which' radio broadcasting has played an im-, portant role, says the New York World. The radio was employed to r limited extent in the campaign of 1921 but the number of listeners at that time was only a small fraction of what it is today. Never before have the voters had such opportunities opportuni-ties to acquaint themselves not only with the issues but even with something some-thing of the personalities of the candidates. can-didates. The voters listened in on the nomination nom-ination conventions at Houston and Kr.nsas City; they heard the candidates candi-dates deliver their speeches of acceptance ac-ceptance and they have since heard numerous speeches from the chief spokesmen of both parties. Into the crowded tenements of Eastern cities, |