"Heel Hawl"--

Last month Pathfinder, an inexpensive weekly published in Washington, D. C. concluded a contest to supply the Democrats with a campaign slogan for 1932. Democratic Senators Copeland of New York, Sheppard of Texas and Dill of Washington were announced as the judges. More than 100,000 suggestions were submitted. A first prize of $100 was awarded J. J. Stubbs of Robstown, Tex. for the slogan: "Hee! Haw! We're coming back!"

Second prize was given to Edwin A. Halsey, secretary of the Senate's Democratic minority, for "Vote Democratic and eat regularly." A. H. Kessler of Hague, S. Dak. carried off a $10 third prize with: "If we want a change for the better, we'd better make a change."

So impressed was the Democratic National Committee with "Hee! Haw! We're coming back!" that it took the slogan under its official wing.

No patient Democrat is Publisher William Randolph Hearst. His nationalist temper already at the boiling point over War Debts and the Moratorium, he spread on his front pages all over the land one day last week a bitter, biting, double-column editorial on "Hee! Haw! We're coming back!" Excerpts:

"If the Democratic party is a joke and its emblem properly a jackass, then the motto selected is appropriate enough. . . . Imagine the great leaders of the great party devising as a fit expression of their principles and their purpose the truly asinine motto, 'Hee! Haw! We're coming back!'. . .

"The Republican party is a discredited failure and the Democratic party a contemptible imitation of a discredited failure.

"The Republican party is going out of power because it has followed Mr. Hoover, and the Democratic party is trying to come into power by following the same blind leadership.

"When the blind lead the blind, both fall into the ditch and when the blind lead the dumb the same catastrophe occurs.

"Mr. Hoover is an internationalist of the Wilson order. . . . Mr. Roosevelt is the same kind of an internationalist and so is Mr. Baker and so is Mr. Ritchie and so is Mr. Al Smith--all Wall Street internationalists.

"The hope of the Republican party is in Calvin Coolidge. The hope of the Democratic party is in John N. Garner. Failing these, the hope of the public is in a third party.

"Hee! Haw! Perhaps the jackasses are NOT coming back.

"WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST"

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