Life — June 28, 1928 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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4 Lit Then we could get Jim Tully to in- terpret it into Hollywood. en we'd get Will Hays to clean up the Tully interpretation so it could be published outside jails. I am getting a lot of advice about my Platform and if this Convention ever gets over and I don’t have to be looking a Deligate in the face every time I turn I can get to work on something practical. I don’t mean something that will work, for if it did it wouldent be a platform, But something that sounds Practical. Things are looking better for us every day for these other two Parties have just about done their worst. (Our Candidate had been holding back on his major platform and cabinet officer announcements until the Republicans ang Democrats got set. Now that they hare announced their campaign promises, he will make good his threat to raise oa 20%, on everything they offer. Watch thi; space for his speeches, every week.) Is Will Rogers Too Big for the Presidency? Fottowinc are some of the comments on Will Rogers and the Bunkless Party that have appeared in the daily press: “A suspicion haunts us that certain powerful interests which Will Rogers has been punctur- ing in his own deft manner are behind the con- spiracy to get him into the presidential race in order to be rid of him, just like shunting Roose- velt into the vice-presidential nomination to be rid of him in the Empire State.....With all due respect to the office, Rogers is bigger than the presidency. He can make and unmake presi- dents and lesser public officers and he adds daily to the ‘gaiety of nations.’ "* —Denver Rocky Mountain News. “While the candidacy of Will Rogers is pro- viding the laughs in the presidential campaign, it may also corral more votes than some folks anticipate.""—Fond du Lac (Wis.) Reporter. “Will Rogers says he ‘chews to run,’ calls his a ‘bunkless campaign,’ and ‘the nomination leaves me dazed, and if I can stay dazed I ought to make a splendid candidate.’ “Will Rogers is young and doesn’t realize how much truth there is in that, An election to the The PRESIDENT presidency dazes a man so thoroughly that it takes him about four years to get over it. And by that time they are thinking about another candidate.""—Arthur Brisbane, in “Today.” “Pll vote for Will Rogers. If there’s anything that Washington needs it’s a husky cowboy who knows how to handle a rope. We've had lawyers, business men and Vermonters in the White ane If Rogers were in the White House, the President's annual message to Congress would be read by others besides proofreaders. On every newsstand would be this sign: ‘President's Message Out To- morrow. Order Your Copy Now.” When high moguls and potentates came to this county, Will could take his rope and show them a few wick: I'm for Rogers, although his chances aren't worth writing home about. I can always get at least a chuckle from everything he says. The best I can get from any of the other boys is a headache.""—D. F. O'Connell, in Glens Falls (N. Y.) Post-Star. “Will Rogers has the gumption to give a bet- ter account of himself as president of the great American republic than some who have rattled around in that office. “*But, of course, I'm not naming any names.” —E. E. Me]., in Springfield (Mo.) News. DELIVERS HIS ANNUAL MESSAGE “lO CONGRESS - From a cartoon by Hatlo in the San Francisco Call. “Will Rogers is known to the nation as 3 wise-cracking humorist, but like all really word. while humorists his funny remarks are foundel on shrewd observation and deep common sense Nobody can see through the politicians at Wash. ington more clearly than Rogers, Nobody holds them in less awe, As president he certainly would not be afraid of the Senate. Much mote likely, the Senate would be afraid of him. Ever time one of the Senate windbags began to gus, Rogers would utter a piercing remark of perhap, ten words, and deflate him.....What is cer. tainly needed is more and better humor and les asperity in Washington.” —Bridgeport (Conn.) Post, “Live has started a boom for Will Rogers for President to head a ‘bunkless’ party. On such a party platform, Will would get about one per cent of the votes. Bunk dominates the pary platforms, the congressional and senatorial speeches and the bills introduced into Congres, because bunk appeals to the majority more ths anything else.""—Corvallis (Ore.) Gazette. “We do not know whether the Anti-Busk Party will actually hold a convention and pet its candidate upon the ballot but we frankly acknowledge that we should be very uncom fortable as a candidate on any other ticket rus ning in competition with Will Rogers, were be to go into the campaign armed with that this bladed weapon which he dexterously makes © tickle the ribs before it penetrates the vitals of a popular fraud." —Amityville (N. Y.) Record. “It is safe to say that Will Rogers’ speeches will have more readers than Smith's ast Hoover's combined."* —Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch. It may be true, as the Corvallis (Ore.) Gazette has it, that Our Candidate's caus. is hopeless because the public wants bunk and will fail to give adequate support to any candidate who stands out on a bunk- less platform. However, the extraordinarily lag number of voters who have already clared themselves for Will Rogers leads us to believe that we will, in the words of the Fond du Lac (Wis.) Reporter, “corral more votes than some folks antii- pate.” If you want to range yourself in the ranks of those independents who are fighting to drive the bunk out of politics write to Rogers’ Campaign Headquarters, 598 Madison Avenue, New York. [uo a | In sixt And thei ( A publis And s te He simp Indeed b But y« ‘Twas ni “But try “It’s Better i “[ know Don’t But wall And jus Was | hin Tell hir \ It did To A tior His nar comicbooks.com