National Affairs: Barbershop Talk

It was in a barbershop at Memphis, Tenn., last week. Theodore Gilmore Bilbo. Governor of Mississippi, was being-shaved. In the next chair, Governor Henry H. Horton of Tennessee was being shaved.

Said Governor Horton: "How's politics down your way?"

Governor Bilbo: Oh, soso. Looks pretty easy for Smith. Think he'll carry the State by 15 to 1. How about Tennessee?

Horton: You can just bet Tennessee is going to be in the Smith column, too . . . by 25,000.

Bilbo: What's he going to do nationally?

Horton: Well, I don't know. What do you think?

Bilbo:...

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