Politicules

Elections, like tornadoes, cause strange happenings among molecules of the body politic.

> In Wichita Falls, Tex., Rev. J. Frank ("Killer") Norris, Baptist parson who shot and killed a parishioner last year "in self defense," harangued for Hoover in the municipal hall. Some one threw a gas bomb. The meeting dissolved.

> The evening after Virginia had gone Republican, students of the University of Virginia burned an effigy of "Religious Intolerance." They creped their campus statue of Thomas Jefferson and inscribed it:

"To the Memory of

Jeffersonian Democracy

and

Religious Freedom

in

Virginia

Died

November 6, 1928."

A statue of Andrew Jackson in the capitol grounds at Nashville, Tenn., was similarly treated. The Mississippi Legislature took under advisement a resolution to have the bodies of Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson removed from "Republican soil" (Virginia) to "Democratic soil" (Mississippi).

The Mississippi Senate passed a resolution inviting Governor Smith "to move to Mississippi where red-blooded Democrats voted five to one."

> The New World, official organ of George Cardinal Mundelein's Chicago diocese, published an editorial entitled "Are We Stepchildren?" Excerpts:

"It is useless to lash with any fury the undoubted victory which the forces of intolerance have gained. . . .

"As the recent campaign warmed up, it became fairly evident that there was a strong assent to the assumption that Catholics might be fitted for minor offices, or at least might be tolerated within them, but to reach up for the big gift of the people was an impertinence that would have to be not only denied but punished as well.

"So that in the United States Catholics were to be Ishmaelites. They were not to be heirs of the fine things to which Protestants might rightly reach--rather they were to be the contented stepchildren that should be satisfied with the crumbs that fell across from their master's table."

> The impression that Palo Alto went Hoover without opposition was erroneous. Town, and some gown, kept up a vigorous Smith campaign. Librarian Van Patten in charge of the voluminous Hoover War library, went to the non-partisan reception to home-coming Mr. Hoover, wearing the biggest Smith badge he could find.

After returns were in, a Democratic county chairman telegraphed Governor Young of California: "I move you, Sir, that Secretary of State Jordan be instructed to cast a unanimous ballot of the votes of California for Herbert Hoover for President of the United States."

"Interesting," commented Republican Governor Young.

> Official Wall Street odds at the close of the campaign (5 p. m. Tuesday, eastern time) were 4 1/2 to 1.

> On Staten Island, N. Y., one George Sheridan, of the Fire Prevention Bureau, mortgaged his home, bet $15,000 at 5 to 4 that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would be elected Governor, banked $27,000.

> One Joseph M. Muldoon, Manhattan Smithite, affluent bachelor, departed from the U. S. "forever," selfexiled. Said he: "The 1928 campaign will brand Americans as bigots for the next century."

> More serious were the cases of Henry Manisof of Coney Island and Otto Leuderitz of Newark. Manisof, a Smith campaigner, died of dejection, weariness, heart disease. Leuderitz, a Smith devotee, read the news headlines, went for a gun, killed himself.

> In Cynthiana, Ky., one Homer Reeves, Hooverite, shot & killed one Ferd Lyons, Smithite. In Spencer, West Va., one E. H. Huffman shot one Clyde Moore. In Brooklyn, one Walter McCann, realtor, with a diamond stickpin, diamond ring and $600 in Hoover bets, was fed knock-out drops and virulent poison, robbed and left dead near a speakeasy. In Boston, Miss Gertrude Ryan, secretary to U. S. Representative George Tinkham, told the police that a carful of young Democrats crowded her automobile off the road, maltreated herself and sister, beat her nephew. In Worcester, Mass., a parade of 10,000 Hooverites was egged, bricked, undeterred.

> Chicago voted with remarkably little violence. Forty detective squads cruised the town. Late in election evening, a youth with an aged roadster parked in front of the University Club and made his muffler backfire with murderous reports. Police strolled toward the sound. The youth & friends drove away.

> In McHenry County, Ill., a dog-catcher was the only one of 115 Republican public servants to escape indictment by the Grand Jury for mixing crime with politics. The indictments were held back until after election.