Show 4 I- I ABOUT THIS THAT AND By D J G 5 I wonder If IC the kids today ha hate e as much fun Cun on election day as hey hey tey did 25 or more years ago aso The election I remember much n out was the tho McKInley Bryan un pleasantness 0 over oer er the silver Issue carly every ry school kid was wan a n par par- parI partisan par partisan URAn In that election It If his dad dadI I wn wan for Cor Bryan the tho kid wag for Cor I Pryan and it the father Cather favored McKinley and gold the kid was for Cor although ho didn't know anything anything- about the gold sil all ver ver question In those days there as las a par par- parI par particularly poor br brand nd of oC chewing I gum olm on the market Nevertheless this gum um had hall a marvelous sale aale bo- bo tuse bo ause the Inspired manufacturer offered with each ge of oC lila Ills gum a 0 badge with the portrait of eC McKinley on a n gold background or ora ora ora a badge with Ith a G portrait of o Bryan on en a 8 sliver silver background There was quite a contest among chool kids to see who abe ho could get tile the most badges Both tho Bry Bry- Bry- Bry Bryan an nn kids and the McKinley kids come como to school with their adorned like the full rull dress drcaR of nn an European field m And many worn weri the do- do devices de devices vices Invented to keep other kids I t om em snatching oft off ones onen one tre treasured The election horn was wis a II great joy to the kids In those days and anda a 1 great nuisance to the tho grown grown- Brown u U us s Ele Election Uon day dBY was as just as terye as ag the Fourth of oC July e used to blow those rau- rau rau rau Oms OIS election le 1 horns orns until we grew I d 1 fry ny Why is it kids got so much out of oC making noise nolte There was one one school chum V Whom om I r envied on election day Ilay Hs father 0 owned ned a surre surrey Each election day a campaign n commit commit- committee committee tee te would rent the use of oC this i aur-i sur-rey sur rey to transport voters to the polI and this lucky kid was out of oC school to pilot the surrey On Its cruise to the time homes of oC the tho many many otera oters in that district I remember when the automo antonio automobile bile Republicans came Into use uso The Tho grabbed the first two or three and used them to bring lIe Re- publican He-publican voters to the polls pOlis As these horseless c carriages ent tugging chugging here and there the good citizens citizen shook their heads and pre pre- pre predicted that everybody would turn Republican just to get a a ride In Inthe Inthe Inthe the machine and nd the workers as as- as as to horse drawn chicles were pessimistically certain that all the voters who were not called with an automobile would get mad and vote for tor the other side It If one hits has nursed II a o row of ot giant namos through the frosts of oC spring the heat of oC summer and was prepared to enjoy a n feast of oC loom In late lata October and Novem Novem- November bet ber when most mo t other flowers Clowers have gene Ane and then It if a terrific moun mountain tain sin wind comes along and smash smash- smash smash-Bl hundreds el the T r-lanta r t lanta lant flit t with their hun bun hun dreda of or buds and flowers would not it make one mAd mod Cheer up After Atter the strain of oC election Is ended with the totaled on the evening of November 6 0 It will only be sf ste weeks until Christmas William Allen Alien White humorist and editor of the Kan Gazette clings to the old adage Let Lot the chips fall fail where they may I en enacted ed c city ordInances aimed at It pEtting par par- ties parties parked In public pla es White bIte with an evident e aversion ot of pet pet- pet announced he would publish in the Gazette names of oC those ar- ar arrested r ar-r rested ted for loving well welt but un- un un unwisely unwisely wisely Things aint whit wiit they used to tore te lo tote in The very first night nl after aHer the publicity rule 1 pronounced two reporters repe on news new staff were hendell apprehended by the police as In fond Cond embrace they held their lady loves r Their cars were parked not wisely but too well White ob- ob eb ob sert ed editorially the next day alon along with the names of oC the tho lads and lassies The next time ou come to the theOffice theoffice Office and try tr to keep an nn Item out o the tho papers on account of oC the romen parties concerned jut just romen-er romen er this one ono Both of ot these culprits have haio re- re re families each of ot thom them liis g sick i e who will die It the news Is In the Gazette and of oC them have good Jobs lobs which thy they published y will s ill lose It if the story stor is pub pub- pub go |