POLITICAL NOTES: Spook

A spook pursued Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire through the corridors of Chicago's refined Blackstone Hotel one day last week. It was an aged, feeble spook, supposedly laid to rest nine years ago. It had many black hands, many pairs of big, white, rolling eyes. It sought the Senator as a supplicant, begging for rest.

In 1920, Senator Moses was a prime campaigner for the nomination of General Leonard Wood for the Presidency. In the South he and others harvested a fat crop of Negro delegates and, according to G. O....

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