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Show If Heroes Should Be Heard But Not Seen, Sayc Will. "The less a voter knows about you the longer he is liable to vote for you. I believe that these other two boys that are running for President would both have been better off if they had pulled a Coolidge and got down in their shell and not come out till the votes were counter." With these words, Will Rogers, presidential pres-idential candidate of the Anti-Bunk Party, declares today against political campaign oratory. In his weekly appeal ap-peal for support in' Life Magazine, where he is conducting his campaign, he says further. "If I was these boys T would kinder fight shy of a public pub-lic Clinic. I believe if they had both stayed behind the microphone out of sight of any audience and shot it to 'em at long range, they would have been better offv "This thing of meeting your hero and getting acquainted with him is awful liable to make you start hunting another hero. Al and Herb have both done things which are on the record and I believe it would pay to let folks look over the record instead of the patient. "I am going on the theory that it is better to read about a brown derby than it is to see one. And when we know that a man has put the Nose Bag on Belgium and made us eat bran . mash like a cow instead of bread, why we are going to look for a mighty commanding com-manding and magnetic personality. "I don't think I am betraying any national secret when I say that both of these boys are liable to get more votes if you can't see 'em. Campaigns have ruined more men than they have ever made." |