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An excerpt from He Chews to Run:

Mr. Rogers, who has spent the week in making forced landings in airplanes, became a victim of habit yesterday and made one from a horse. It was at the Country Club polo field. . . . .Although Mr. Rogers was trying to move the ball from the edge of the field when the thing happened it did not appear to be a cushion shot. A cloud of dust went up and the wittiest chief of the Cherokee nation bit the dust.....The moment Mr.Rogers found his breath all hopes held by the Rogers-for-President movement for capturing the Susan B. Anthony vote were abandoned. The horse, who had no doubt expected to hear something clever from his celebrated rider, appeared a bit disappointed, and docilely permitted Mr. Rogers to regain his place."
This is typical of the insidious propaganda against Our Candidate that is being disseminated throughout the subsidized press.

As a matter of fact, it was not Mr. Rogers that fell; it was the horse! Mr. Rogers, being a great lover of animals, merely went along with him.
Furthermore, it is a significant fact that the horse, when it deliberately stumbled, was acting under orders from Republican headquarters. "Throw Rogers," said the politicians to the horse, "and make the country safe for Hoover and Curtis."

The "cloud of dust" referred to by the Star's correspondent was raised by these same conspirators to confuse Our Candidate and to obscure the issue.

That's the sort of mucker ball that is played in politics. If you want to enlist in the ranks of those who are battling Bunk, send inyour name to Rogers Campaign Headquarters, 598 Madison Avenue, New York City.