KEMP MAKES FOURTH-QUARTER STOP IN JACKSON

Vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp came to the Cape Girardeau County Courthouse in Jackson Friday afternoon to do some last minute campaigning before Tuesday's election.

Joining Kemp on the platform were state Sen. Peter Kinder, congressional candidate Joanne Emerson, gubernatorial candidate Margaret Kelly, Sen. Kit Bond and Sen. John Ashcroft.

To a crowd of more than 500 enthusiastic supporters, Kemp reiterated Sen. Kinder's remarks that the sun is shining on Missouri and added that it is shining on America and the Dole campaign.

The chilly weather didn't seem to dampen the crowd's spirit as chants of Dole/Kemp were started at numerous occasions during the speeches.

Kemp said that it was a good day for football and then he addressed the Clinton/Gore and Perot supporters that were in the crowd.

He thanked the Clinton/Gore supporters for showing up and he told the Perot supporters that there was no need for a Reform party, because the Republican party was the party of reform.

Kemp said that America needs someone with a positive view of America and that person is Bob Dole.

Kemp scolded the president for his recent statements about Bob Dole starving children, taking away the environment and student loans.

He called the president shameless for those attacks.

But mostly Kemp talked about the integrity of his running mate.

"The only way to assure the survival of the American Dream is to have Bob Dole," Kemp said to the crowd.

"I am proud to be his right arm. I'm going to be there with Bob every step of the way," Kemp added.

Kemp told the crowd that Clinton's campaign was defending the status quo.

"I am convinced that only Bob Dole can restore the credibility of the presidency," Kemp told the cheering crowd.

Kemp hit the economics issue by reiterating the Dole/Kemp promise for a flatter tax code and an end to the IRS as we have come to know it.

Kemp then told the crowd that this was the most important election of our lifetime and he urged everyone to get out and vote.

Before Kemp was introduced Sen. Kinder, who is running against Rick Althous for state Senate, said that the sun is shining on the Dole/Kemp campaign in Missouri today.

Recent polls show Dole/Kemp gaining ground in Missouri.

Kinder then introduced everyone on the platform and handed the podium over to Joanne Emerson.

Emerson stressed her putting people before politics slogan and she pushed that a vote for her is a vote for less government and more freedom.

Before introducing Margaret Kelly, Emerson reminded the crowd to vote twice for her. Once in the special election and again in the general election.

Kelly began her speech by saying, "we have a real opportunity to take back government and make sure it works for us. Instead of us working for a bloated bureaucracy."

She said that the race for governor comes down to two issues: trust and taxes.

She also reminded the crowd about her $640 million tax cut that she will push if she is elected on Tuesday.

Kelly closed by saying that if elected she would reduce the size and growth and reach of the government.

Then Kelly introduced Sen. Kit Bond as the senior citizen and then corrected herself by saying the senior senator from Missouri.

Sen. Bond spoke briefly and said that the Republican congress deserves credit for deficit reduction and not the president.

Bond said that it was "time to tell the truth" and then blasted the Democratic party's ad campaign for "scaring seniors."

Bond attacked Clinton's call for new laws in the area of campaign finance by saying, "we don't need new laws. We need people that will abide by the law. That's why we need Bob Dole and Jack Kemp."

Sen. John Ashcroft introduced Kemp, but before he did he did some campaigning for Kelly.

He mentioned Kelly's motto: "In God we trust, all others we audit."

Ashcroft pounded away with the message where there is no vision the people will perish.

"We want to elect someone that will go to Washington and tell the bureaucracy what the will of the people is," Ashcroft said then he introduced Kemp to a cheering crowd.