Life — June 14, 1928 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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LIFE He has used it on three or four others, but he says people are just beginning to know it, and the better an Autobiog- raphy is known, why the better it is for everybody concerned. Just talked to Alice, she is for me as soon as she sces that Nick is definitely out of the running. Borah is for me, too, but he has been connected with the minority so long that his support would put us on about the level with the Democrats. It’s pretty hot here in Kansas City, but it’s a great rehearsal for us that has to go to Houston, Just had a talk with Charlie Curtis on ‘Does Loyalty Pay?” and I saw my old friend Dwight Mor- row. We went out and got some Chili- Con Carne. Well, so long. Today is the day they nominate him, so I guess I'll run over and sce who he is, (Our Candidate is moving next to Houston, Texas, where he will fraternize with the Democrats. His next two mey. sages will be sent from there. As soon as he has had a chance to study their platform, and compare it with the Repub. licans’ temporary stage, he will announce his own campaign promises, in full. As he has already said, “I can prom- tse you more than they can for I will have the last promise. Whatever they offer you I will raise 'em at least 20°/,.") WANTED: TEN MILLION VOTES FOR ROGERS Professional Voters Need Not Apply Tuey laughed when Will Rogers threw his ten-galion hat into the ring. But when they discovered the kick contained in those ten gallons, their laughter turned to cheers. Americans of every political faith, creed and previous condition of servitude are hailing the Bunkless Party and_ its sterling candidate as deliverers from the tyranny of hokum. The politicians themselves are doing everything in their power to win Will Rogers away from the independents. Re- publicans and Democrats alike are anxious to have him occupy a seat on their own rickety band-wagons. Will Rogers, however, prefers to ride alone—well, not quite alone. He doesn’t care how many voters go along. But they must be amateurs! if you're in sympathy with this great movement away from bunk, or if you have any questions to ask of our can- didate, or slatform planks to suggest, ad- dress the Rogers Campaign Headquarters, 598 Madison Ave., New York City. A creat many people have asked, “Who is the Vice-Presidential candidate of the Bunkless Party The answer to that is easy: we haven't | any, and we don’t intend to have one. In fact, one of the major forms of bunk that we propose to eliminate is the Vice-Presidency—thereby saving the tax- pore a salary of $15,000. All that the Jice-President does, anyway, is to sit be- hind a desk in the Senate, and break a gavel now and then. We feel that Will Rogers is competent to handle the Senate single-handed. Tue orner day a reporter from the New York World asked that great woman, Helen Keller, to give her opinion on the present political situation. Said Miss Kel- ler: “If I had my choice, I would nom- inate Will Rogers and Lindbergh. Rogers would think of so many nice things to do and Lindy would fly around and tell everybody about them. The whole country would be full of laughter, and laughter is good for people.” Another of our most usetul citizens, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, shares Miss Keller’s views. In a letter to the Rogers- for-President Committee, he said: “With a view to making Republican success in November absolutely certain, I have for some months past been quietly advocating the following program for the Kansas City convention: “For President: Hon. William Rogers, of California. “For Vice-President: Lindbergh, of Minnesota. “Platform: We talk and fly. “My judgment is that this ticket would Charles Hon. L = Our Candidate’s Hat A forceful study in comparisons, reprinted from the Birmingham Age-Herald. sweep the country. One legalistically. minded politician ‘objects to it on the ground that my candidate for Vice-Presi- dent is not thirty-five years of age. In reply I point out to him that the Constitu- tion says nothing about the age of the Vice-President, and I am not contem- plating that my candidate for President will either die or resign, However, this objection is typical of what must be met if one endeavors to guide one’s country men aright and aloft.” Tuere is practically no doubt that the team of Rogers and Lindbergh could sweep the country, even if they were run- ning on the Democratic ticket. But it wouldn't be fair to impose the Vice-Presidency on Col. Charles A. Lind- bergh. He's done too much for this country to be rewarded with a sentence of four years in the United States Senate. Ix answer to other questions, we beg to state that Our Candidate will have a Cabinet, and that he will announce its membership before Election Day. Most residential candidates wait tll the votes fave all come in from the outlying dis: tricts, and they are sure of the electiva, before they tell the public that Albert B. Fall and Will H. Hays are going to be in the next Cabinet. Will Rogers will make no secret of his plans. In fact, the Cabinet officers you vote tor will be the Cabinet officers you get— and then, if any oil scandals turn up, you will have only yourself to blame. All those who weren't nominated at Kansas City are now joining the Will Rogers Bunkless Party. All those who won't be nominated at Houston will be with us soon. The Bunkless Party is the Haven for Dissatisfied Voters, and the number of those is increasing every day. 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