POLITICAL NOTE: Old Man of Massillon

For weeks about the streets of Massillon, Ohio (pop: 26,475) clattered a two-horse buggy in which sat a pucker-faced little old man with wiry grey hair. Whenever his vehicle was stopped by red traffic lights or his horses veered off to graze at curb grass, the old man would stand up on the buggy seat and exhort passing citizens—workers from the foundries, the machine shops, the glass factories, attendants at the State Insane Asylum, farmers from Stark County—to vote for him as Republican nominee for Mayor. With the fervor of an evangelist promising...