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...Paso, Tex. a physician boarded the train, ordered Nominee Landon to bed to save his throat for important speeches. Thereafter members of his party pinch hit before disappointed station crowds along the way, explaining that the Nominee was busy and "very tired." After a day of that. Alf Landon allowed them to reveal the real reason for his nonappearance...
...Reno, immaculate in blue and with bristly hair well brushed, climbed Oklahoma's gaunt, rustic William H. ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, who had promised to introduce him at Oklahoma City. Arrived at their destination, the onetime Democratic Governor and the Republican Nominee stepped off the train arm in arm. Alf Landon's throat was scarf-wound against the cold and for further protection he was bundled into a closed car for the drive to the hotel. Friends offered the closed car as explanation of the appalling scene which followed. As Nominee Landon passed through Oklahoma City's streets...
...Tulsa Alf Landon barked that "a member of my opponent's immediate family" had been "guilty of peddling a lie." The "lie" was the well-worn charge that Governor Landon had helped balance his budget by closing up 458 Kansas schools, thereby depriving 8,557 Kansas children of educational privileges. Fact was, declared the Nominee, that the closed schools had been sparsely attended, that all their pupils had been transferred to other schools, and that "not a single boy or girl in Kansas has been deprived of the educational advantages that are rightfully...
...Alf Landon on War & Peace...
...temper rose; his attacks grew stern, next vigorous, next angry. As the campaign entered its final week, they reached full fury. Not Frank Knox, not John Hamilton had ever shouted a blacker, more fearful prophecy of the doom in store for the U. S. if Alf Landon should fail of election than did Alf Landon himself when, at Baltimore this week, he cried...