Politicules

Many a partisan not directly connected with the conduct of the presidential campaign last week added his clamor to the final din throughout the land. P: At Gloucester, N. J. Clyde W. Briggs put a Roosevelt picture in his front window. A brick smashed window and picture. Clyde W. Briggs replaced both. A second brick was hurled. To postal authorities he carried a letter threatening his life. Said he: "I'm going to vote for Roosevelt if it kills me."

P: From Akron, Harvey Samuel Firestone appealed by radio: ''We don't need a change in administration. We need a change in attitude." P: Because he supported Roosevelt, Lawyer Raymond Pitcairn, red-hot Wet, was asked to resign from the arch-Republican Union League of Philadelphia. He declined. Four years ago when John Jacob Raskob became Democratic National Chairman, the Union League refused his offer to resign, kept him on their roll as ''a member in good standing." P: "My father was the Pullman attendant who accompanied President McKinley and President Roosevelt thousands of miles on their travels and he greatly admired them," declared J. N. Murray, Maryland Negro working for Roosevelt. "But the famous leaders of the Republican party are like the old colored man's sweet potatoes--the best of 'em are under the ground." P: Princeton's Edwin Walter Kemmerer, famed international ''money doctor." declared for Hoover, remarked: "I'm an independent in politics, but. . . ."

P: "If you're out of a job, vote against the party in power," was the pre-election advice of Democrat Edward Albert Filene, Boston department store owner. "If a dissatisfied customer came in to tell me that nothing had turned out as it was represented I couldn't hope to retain her patronage by telling her 'it might have been worse.' ' P: At Birmingham. Ala. Bishop James Cannon Jr. who helped break the Solid South in 1928 declared he would again vote for Hoover because Roosevelt is supported by "the worst elements in metropolitan life."

P: "Don't let me die until after Tuesday," begged 83-year-old James McDonald in Seattle City Hospital, "so I can vote for Roosevelt."

P: At Schodack, N. Y. Mrs. Elizabeth Rhoda, 102, was too infirm to go out and vote for Hoover. The President wrote her: "I am deeply touched. . . . I will take the will for the deed." P: As a little girl Mrs. George Carleton Beal, 75, of Manhattan, once sat in Abraham Lincoln's lap. Since then she has always voted straight Republican. Said she: "But I'm for Roosevelt this time. What I want is a man of action. . . ." P: Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, famed feminist, declared for Hoover: ''This is no time to make over human society. . . . Nor is it a good time to change horses. . . ." P: "Dedicated to Franklin D. Roosevelt after hearing his lofty and noble appeal for the Forgotten Man'' were some verses by 80-year-old Edwin Markham, author of "The Man With the Hoe." Excerpt : Not on our golden fortunes builded high-- Not on our boasts that soar into the sky-- Not upon these is resting in this hour The fate of the future; but upon the power Of him who is forgotten--yes, on him Rest all our hopes reaching from rim to rim. . .

P: At Astoria, N. Y. James O'Toole Jr., 9, cheered a Roosevelt radio speech, swallowed the Democratic nominee on a celluloid campaign button. An operation de-buttoned James O'Toole Jr. P: Into G. 0. P. headquarters in Manhattan switched a well-dressed woman who loudly exclaimed: "I'm for Hoover! I'm for him because he got us into this mess and I think he ought to be made to get us out." P: Daniel Willard. president of Baltimore & Ohio: "I expect to vote for President Hoover because I believe it's better for the country." P: To Atlantic City went Christian ("Red" ) Cagle, famed Army halfback, to address a Republican rally at the Elks Club. His audience consisted of two Elks and a newshawk. The Cagle speech went undelivered. P: "It will take the G. 0. P. about 14 years to recover from the blow on the chin it will get next Tuesday."--James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, at a rally in Bridgeport, Conn. The onetime heavyweight champion was barred from voting for Roosevelt because, ill in New York, he had failed, like Henry Ford and Mr. & Mrs. Norman Thomas, to register. P: After John Marrinan. onetime private secretary to Herbert Hoover at the Department of Commerce, had declared for Roosevelt, he got a telephone call at his Washington home from Lawrence Richey, the President's detective-secretary. Marrinan's story: "Richey told me he would punch my nose and break me in two for the Roosevelt statement. He called me every name under the sun. . . . I'm an oldtime ball player but in all my experience I never heard any more blasphemous or profane language than he used to me." P: "Not a peep!" declared Pennsylvania's insurgent Republican Governor Gifford Pinchot when asked to tell how he was going to vote. Governor Pinchot dismissed a director of relief at Wilkes-Barre when he caught him franking out food orders in U. S. Department of Labor envelopes containing a picture of President Hoover labeled "Your Job."

P: At Allentown, Pa. Joseph Ridgeway Grundy, onetime Senator, tariff lobbyist and expert collector of G. 0. P. cash, came into the open long enough to declare that the Democrats' tariff stand was "nothing but a vote-catcher" which, if enacted, would demoralize U. S. industry. P: Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, sister of the late great T. R. and aunt of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, told a Republican meeting in Manhattan: "You must understand why I cannot comment on this national campaign. My own beloved niece is the wife of the Democratic candidate. She is the daughter of the brother [Elliott] who was nearer in age to me than Theodore. For her I have the deepest affection and respect, so much as I would like to pay the highest tribute to President Hoover, I cannot do so in this campaign." P: At Worcester, Mass. Governor Roosevelt picked Catherine Murphy, 9, also a cripple from infantile paralysis, to send at his own expense to Warm Springs, Ga. for treatment. P: Pierre Samuel du Pont, board chairman of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.: "It is chiefly because of his attitude on Prohibition that I shall not support Mr. Hoover. . . ." P: As treasurer of a Fact-Finding Committee for Hoover, Frank Arthur Yanderlip Jr., son of the Manhattan banker, found that the President was going to win by four electoral votes. P: When Rev. Dr. Endicott Peabody, headmaster of Groton, discovered that his 184 socialite schoolboys were voting 4-to-1 against Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a "Grottie" of 1900, he halted their straw poll, ordered politics adjourned.

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