Hopper

The Republican and Democratic Nominees for President travel in special trains, the Prohibitionist in a lower berth, the Socialist in an upper berth, the Communist in a day coach and the Socialist Laborite in a second-hand Chevrolet. The Union Party candidate travels in airplanes. Since he, with Radiopriest Charles E. Coughlin's support, "nominated" himself last June, freckle-faced William Lemke has been to 33 States, has flown some 30,000 miles.

Nominee Lemke is the only third-party candidate who still talks as if he were going to win an election on Nov. 3. So he may, for he is running not only for

President on the Union ticket, but also for his present job, Representative from North Dakota, on the regular Republican ticket in that State. His Vice-Presidential running mate. Thomas Charles O'Brien of Boston, is likewise seeking a second office, that of Senator from Massachusetts.

Of all third-party Nominees, Unionists Lemke & O'Brien alone may influence the outcome of the Presidential race of 1936. In Massachusetts Mr. O'Brien may take enough votes away from Democrat James

M. Curley to elect Republican Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. to the Senate. In a few close States in the West Mr. Lemke may take enough votes away from Franklin Roosevelt to give Alf Landon a chance to carry them.

With Father Coughlin and Dr. Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend as his principal supporters, Nominee Lemke has conducted his campaign on a thesis all his own : The Government borrows money from the bankers, pays them interest, re-deposits its money with them, borrows it again. "If the Government can do this for the international bankers, why can't it do it for us all?" On the ballot under various titles (Union Party, Union Progressive, Third Party, Royal Oak Party) in 34 States, Nominee Lemke last week hopped about like a winged knight on a chessboard, spent one day in Utah, the next in Idaho, the next in Washington, the next in Wyo ming, the next in Nebraska, the next in Iowa, the next in Michigan, the next in Ohio. Greatest third-party vote in recent years was that for the late great Robert Marion La Follette in 1924 when that Wisconsin Senator came within an ace of polling 5,000,000 ballots. Though Unionist Lemke really cannot hope to equal that record, he does, on the basis of straw polls, expect to outstrip every other third-party man in next week's election.

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