Campaign Notes

P: "Uncle Charlie" Patton, 85, of Marion, Ohio, minus a piece of ear since the Civil War, and White House gardener since Warren G. Harding first took up his residence at the Executive Mansion, resigned his job. The LaFollette publicity department fairly bellowed the news: "Uncle Charlie is going back to Marion to vote for LaFollette."

P: Senator LaFollette has been accused of proposing to do many terriblethings to the Constitution; already he has brought about a condition in his home state which its Constitution never foresaw.

The Constitution of Wisconsin provides that, in the absence of the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor shall act in his stead; and, in the absence of both these gentlemen the Secretary of State shall be Acting Governor.

Last week, Secretary of State Zimmerman had left Wisconsin, campaigning for LaFollette. So had Lieutenant Governor Cummings. Then, suddenly, Governor Elaine decided to do the same. Result: Wisconsin, sans Governor, sans Acting Governor, sans everything.

P: Mrs. Douglas Robinson, sister of President Roosevelt and devoted brother-worshiper, exclaimed in a political speech (in favor of "my nephew," Teddy Jr.) in Manhattan: "My brother said of LaFollette in 1915 that he was a sinister influence working against Democracy and in 1912 he worked tooth and nail against the Progressive Party. He has not asked for the support of the Radicals today, but they are following him; and, for contrast, I wonder whether you think Theodore Roosevelt would have allowed any unsolicited followers to wave the reg flag over his head?"

P: The LaFollette publicity department told a good story to this effect: In the Capital, a Democratic rally was staged. A labor leader was invited to speak. He was expected, of course, to praise Davis. Instead he began: "I myself am a LaFollette man and I don't care who knows it." Promptly the amplifiers on the rostrum were turned off, and of the large crowd only a few in the front row could hear.

Whether the story is true or publicity, it suggests great possibilities for the use of the invention. By it, the alert campaign manager can not only shut off such unexpected attacks, but can silence any unpremeditated indiscretions of his own candidate.

P: Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes marched into Indianapolis on the heels of Candidate Davis, stepped to the lectern of Cadle Tabernacle, discoursed in part as follows:

Third Party. "When Senator LaFollette talks of what he will do when he is elected President, he may manage to keep a straight face, but he cherishes no such hope. . . . The campaign of Senator LaFollette is not to elect himself but to control the election and elect Mr. Bryan. . . . Was there ever a more miserable pretense than this talk of restoring the government to the people ? . . . It is Coolidge or Bryan. It is Coolidge or no election."

Davis and Bryan. ''The first and most significant act of the Democratic candidate for President was to select Mr. Bryan as his running mate. It was an act which shook the confidence of the country in Mr. Davis as a political leader. ... If, for the sake of political expediency, the Democratic candidate for President was willing to put this country at the risk of having Mr. Bryan as its President, where would he stop? . . ."

Answering Mr. Davis' declaration that there had been more bank and business failures in the last three years than in the three years prior to 1921, said Mr. Hughes: "Extraordinary statements. . . . The Serious conditions which arose in 1920 and 1921 were due to the unwise financing of the Democratic Administration. . . . They tried to hold us responsible for the debris."

Correction. In the Oct. 13 issue of TIME it was mentioned that ida M. Tarbell has "announced that she would vote for Coolidge." This was an error. Miss Tarbell announced that she would support Davis.