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"Some foolish editor in search of a feature suggested me as Vice President and sent a young woman to ask me about it. I scouted the whole idea as ridiculous and said I objected to belittling women in politics by such proposals. Asked if I did not think I was fitted to be Vice President, I said, 'No,' and that nothing is worse than for a person to be in a position for which he is not fit. Asked if I did not think I was as fit as Senator Curtis, I said I did not think he was of the calibre for the office and I hoped our party would have a candidate of higher qualifications. Out of this has gone forth this interview throughout the country under headlines to the effect that I think I would 'Make a Better Vice President. , , .' "
The interview referred to was accorded to Writer Lecta Rider of the Houston Press in Mrs. Blair's room at the Hotel Warwick, on the morning of June 18. Mrs. Blair was having her hair curled. Writer Rider vouches for the accuracy of her report, which was published that afternoon and to which Mrs. Blair took no exception at the time. The Houston Press vouches for Water Rider's journalistic integrity. TIME joins the United Press in deploring misquotations, in viewing with alarm Mrs. Blair': "idiotic position."—ED.
Preechers, Wimmin
Sirs:
. . . We cannot "keep house" without TIME and wish to compliment you on gathering together more real useful information and real NEWS than we have ever seen "gathered together under one roof" before.
Tell your readers that HOOVER hasn't a CHINAMAN'S chance of carrying anything south of the POTOMAC. You know it has "gotten out" that his campaign Manager is named "WORK" and if you tried to run a farm down here you would soon learn that work is anathema to almost the entire population. . . .
The "preechers and some of the old girls" are cutting up just like a sausage machine in some sections of the STATE—just because they haven't yet received word from LORD SIMMONS to commence eating the pie that he (SIMMONS) has been spitting tobacco juice in—for some considerable time past.
The Senator is said to be in a SANITARIUM up north—and Frank Hampton his secretary continues to wire him that AL SMITH CANNOT AND WILL NOT BE NOMINATED. I think as soon as he learns of what happened at HOUSTON (and it was a plenty) that he will wire the parsons and the wimmen that it would be much better to have SMITH in the WHITE HOUSE than to have NEGRO DEPUTIES IN NORTH CAROLINA PLACING HANDCUFFS ON WHITE MEN AND TAKING THEM OFF TO THE PENETENTIARY TO SERVE TIME FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE VOLSTEAD ACT AND OTHER CRIMES. (Of course the other crimes such as—burglary—arson—murder—THEFT—etc., etc. are nothing at all in the eyes of the ultras—as compared to the possession of a "pint tickler of yaller corn" "that would make a jack rabbit spit in a bulldog's face.")
It is a great life if you don't weaken—and Al Smith is getting stronger every day. That man WORK has finished HOOVER.
COL. WM. T. GREGORY "Sassafras Fork Farms" Stovall, N. C.
*Sufferers from true klangpsychosis not only repeat their favorite words incessantly but jingle them into idiotic rhymes.—ED.