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...That the Farmer-Labor Party will carry Washington and South Dakota and possibly three or four other states, is the opinion of Swinburne Hale '05, one of the speakers at the Union this evening. In an interview over the long-distance telephone yesterday morning, Mr. Hale explained that the Farmer Labor Party is on the ballot in only 22 states. In the remaining states, the voters will be forced to signify their desire to elect Farmer-Labor candidates by writing their names in on the ballot. This, said Mr. Hale, is a great handicap, as few voters actually avail themselves...
...despise Harding; I despise Cox and the Democratic party; I loathe the socialist and farmer-labor and prohibitionist platforms; I don't know and don't want to know anything about the "socialist labor" and "single tax" parties. And I strongly suspect that most "respectable" people feel just about as I do. If they disagree it is only in degree of contempt. Why then should those of us who are not professionally obliged to keep up the dismal pretense of enthusiasm about the wretched business--why should we waste time talking or thinking about the election, and why should...