| Show WJ raja 0 ta tales es ivd r traditions row american political Viii tory FRANK 9 HAGEN HACEN ELMO scon WATSON lot EMBLEMS TF rf YOU uain live i in a state where they A 1 still allow party emblems on the ballot mallov take a look at them as you mark yours that Tha teagle eagle soaring above the clouds at the top of the republican column column should remind r you of Se nJohn john C fre fremont ont who was the first republican candidate for back int 1856 it may be reminiscent of the eagles which he saw when helas the pathfinder elhel intha nl hel west or it ilav may mean that ahat the republicans have been in i power soiling so j long during the last 80 years tHat they figure they havea have a better right than any other athe r party to claim thai lordly crowing rooster at the head of the democratic col remind you of joseph chapman of indiana whose habit of crowing dver over democratic victories resul resulted in this sym bol balfor ifor for his pirty party that rising sun with its beams glinting over an ocean as though Jo foretelling retelling the day when there will bei be water water everywhere but not a drop to brinki tells you that below it are arc the names of the candidates on the prohibition ticket those hands clasped against a background of the earth tell of the socialists dream diehi of greater equality for mankind all over the earth barth that stout bare arm with the hammer in hand speaks for the labor party and that sickle and hammer remind you that the communists would have us follow the example of soviet russia there was once a time when a bull moose snorted defiance at the top of one column on the ballot thit that was when theodore roosevelt was seeking a third ter term mun under the progressive banner bannen but since 1912 the bull moose has been an ext extinct political animal or course cours w it if you liv live in iii a state where they use v voting i oam ig 0 ri machines a c h in e s the emblems may be slightly different I 1 the reason for these emblems on the ballot is a practical one besides their symbolical significance in the early days they were placed there to aid voters who had left their spectacles neles at home a and id w who ho want to vote for the he t wrong candidates candida acs by mistake when the tides of immigration began pouring into the country millions of foreigners 7 who were illiterate even after naturalization these emblems were to them their i vot ing As new parties arose the use juse of these symbols helped avoid confusion j and even many ef fort shave beena made to do away with thim them they iare are still in widespread use r HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF IF TF EVER there was a case of A history stork hi I 1 repeats itself in amerlean american politics ids it was wae 1 illustrated in the careers of henry clay and james jamesa sG G blaine separated by half a century those careers were almost exact duplicates of near achievement and nd ultimate disaster there wire were other resemblances also KB i both men were magnetic 1 in personality eloquent in speech and idolized by their followers both were master politicians 1 ceans and dominated the councils of their parties but both fell victims to a political apolitical enemy whose fateful vengeance followed them all through their days of the presidency pre sifi ncy andrew i jackson was clays nemesis roscoe conkling wi was blames blaines early in his career blaine recognized his similarity to clay when grover grove r cleveland then comparatively unknown was nominated by bythe the democrats ih fat 1884 blaine had a i premonitions of de beat isam iam the henry chiy i of the republican party he lie declared to a friend clay was wai defea tw conventions when alid he could have bave been elected and lie he ivas was nom nominated in i f or president when his competitor was elected that corn com polk 0 k was one who had not been benj publicly discussed os as a presidential residential candidate before the meeting betin of the baltimore convention in 1844 1 I vas defeated dafin in two conventions when 1 could have been elected I 1 am nominated now with a competitor alike obscure ure with the competitor bom of clay tin then he shook his headband hea dand murmured sadly 1844 his premonition of defeat was i a true one i i cleveland the ithe unknown beat him in r 1884 84 just as polk the unknown beat Peat Clay in j 1844 41 so among all the also rans of american political poli tidal history hinry henry playa of kentucky Ken tacky ind and james G blaine of maine conie come down to us as the really epic figures that stand out as tragic personifications aitio of forlorn hopes 11 a 9 western Wt rit union |
