Show OLD TIME CAMPAIGNS while political campaigns are still waged with vigor and arg are enlivened with spectacular oratory they do not compare in and enthusiasm with those of the old days r at T I 1 back in the nineteenth century the campaign parade was and indispensable pen sable feature of the pre election activities especially in years uniformed marching clubs bearing kerosene torches with banners and transparencies and led by brass bands sometimes made up pro sessions cessions ces cos miles long in the larger cities while the smaller communizes held similar rallies on a lesser scale it was the custom of rival news new papers daperl to enlarge upon the length of parades by their partisans while depreciating those of the opposition ison the no late ate vice president marshall arshall Al once told of such a circumstance in which claims of rival newspapers held a humorous touch A great parade was held in crawfordsville ind in behalf of the candidacy of governor hendricks after which sir clr marshal says in the morning the demorra Dem Demo ocra craic ic newspapers announced that it was the greatest torchlight parade ever seen in the city chaj it took two hours to pass a given point the evening republican paper quoted this statement admitting it was tuc but added that the given point was mike alike Mul hollands saloon men plow with plows cut wood with axes dig with shovels and picks and in other kinds of work aim to have the right ool cool or machine for each job yet how bow many people try to understand the things of god baugh the haughty selfish spirit of man how few are willing to seek god through humility goodness prayer and forgiveness forgiven ephraim enterprise that was a typically english incident that saw queen marys autorino automobile proceeding in the wrong direction on a one way street turned back by a dutiful but very red faced bobby in england the law is the law toronto globe typewriter paper 1 |