DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
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(Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 25. Houston, where the Democratic Convention is meeting is a half grown, torrid little city of Texas in which living is made nearly unbearable by hot winds sweeping in from- the Gulf of Mexico. It is swarming, overcrowded and frightfully uncomfortable, hut A trembling with excitement. Talk is loud and pugnacious, centring chiefly upon prohibition. The actual situation is said not to be changed. One Tanimanvite arriving bore summed it up graphically:—“Yo-u ask what is our platform. Smith, is a platform in himself.”
Smith dominates, and inevitably ho will dictate. 'Reed is ruled out from serious- consideration either as a candidate or leader of the Smith opposition. Tlie latter duty now depends upon a callow, inexperienced politician, Dan Moody, Governor of Texas, and a small fervent group of prohibitionists, mast of whom a,re women. Actually only seven per cent, of tho delegates are women, showing a marked decrease since the Democratic Convention of 1924, but their absolute honesty and intense sincerity mark them'as a considerable political force. That gargantuan, but very real figure, Bryan, is absent from the Democratic Convention-for the first time in a generation. There is no "one to take his place. If one ranieml>ers that this southern section of America is traditionally Democratic!, it can be seen under what peculiar circumstances this Convention will he conducted. It will he a family affair. The Convention of 1924 was swallowed up in large New ' York and soon became a laughing stock, because of its political barbarity, but here it is a vastly serious business. -Tammany will sway the decisions. One can therefore expect shrewdness and long practised political gunning. It is expected that to-morrow the Convention will organise, adopting a platform on Wednesday or Thursday and’ the Presidential nomination will probably occur on Thursday and advise the presidential nomination on Friday, with ah immediate adjournment thereafter
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1928, Page 2
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