The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 6, 1929, Page 12

PAGE TWELVE THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE MONDAY, MAY 6, 1929 By RODNEY DUTCHER (NEA Service Writer) Washington, May Frank B. Lord who has worked with the Democr l National Committee through campaigns and assistant to national chairman in 1916 and 1920. has blossomed out with a novel ane drastic proposal rnable the Democr ident in 1932 Lord says the best. thing vention before the c pects that the Repub! nominate Hoover and will be re-clected if the Democratic opposition follows its old methods and holds a convention to nominate a candidate to oppse him. The Demcrats of the count: offer a score or more candid says, a different one in 2 states. In cach case the ma inated for the Strongest Democratic in his state or section convention would electors favorable to his candidacy. Many Strong Candi Thus, New k Democ! Nominate Gov pr Roosevelt Each sta’ chusetts Ser David 1 Maryland Governor Ritchie, Governor Byrd, Kentucky Barkley, Te: Governor Montana ser Wheeler or Sen ator Walsh, § Bulow, Col Washington do Governor nator Dill, drick and so on Lord contends that from another state could possibly run as strong 2 uch men as these in thetr own states hardly any of the states would turn down their favorite and figures out a combination of yi net the Democratic candi H combined total of at le: | toral votes. Then, says he the successful Democratic i “Let i electors hold their own national con. vention, and, between the time of their clection and the day fixed by Jaw when they must meet in their Tespective capitals cast thei ballots—a period of nearly months—Ict them agree on a candi to nae €lectoral college for wishes.” Lord says this of naming a candidate “guarantee: TRIBUNE’S PAGE OF COMIC STRIPS AND FEATURES ch he believes will 5 to elect a pres- for the party to do is to hold no national con- n. He ex- will re- Hoover should . he or more nom- presidency by the Democrats of the state would be the vote-getter in | s simply nominate ght vote for Smith in New York. The ‘a- | total Democratic vote of the so-called h, | solid south was 1,737,000 and the total lv. ‘The uth Dakota Governor | He cit Adams, | numerical voting strength and con- Wyoming | gressional Ex-Governor Ross or Senator Ken-| out that the south has 22 Democratic ny Democrat His theory is that) office-holders, states and statesmen which ought to two; date for whom all of them would vote. An elector may vote-in the whomever he plan presents a P) —_-prospect of success where the old plan — \ VA 1 WAVE To GET MY CAR OVER To Y JHE GARAGE Yo BE OVER-HAULED= AND WEDNESDAY !8 THAT AND ‘THURSDAY = GEE~ THAT'S THE DAY WE PAINTERS ARE COMING — AND I'VE GoT “THAT WHOLE ATTIC To GOLLY ~~ ; ‘THE WEEK WAQLF GONE AND NOTHING DONE “WERE IT.1S MONDAY — AND \M Yo BE AT 8:30 — | : THE GUMPS-—TEMPUS FUGIT = | i) THE DENTIST AT least for John W. Davis in 1924 as the bed-rock minimum strength of the party, bereft of independent support. He says analysis shows that at least 000,000 of those Votes were cast ainst. Al Smith in 1928, reducing eit number of actual Democrats among the Smith voters to something di like 5,000,000, plus perhaps 2,000,000 new voters. The remaining 8,000,000 votes which Smith received were obviously cast by independents, independent AND TODAY ‘I'VE GOT THAT WHOLE GARDEN TO DIG UP — AND RAKE THE FRONT LAWN — AND TUESDAY } HAVE To TAKE MIN OVER TO THE UPNOLSTERERS To PICK OUT pendent vote can best be held. ‘The south is no longer the back- : | bone of the party; that backbone has 1, been broken. Numerical disparity be- tween southern Democrats and Dem- ocrats elsewhere is too large to war- rant their control of party policies and destinies. Smith received 64,000 votes more in Massachusetts than in the entire six southern states he car- ried, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina and Mis- pi. The 11 states of the once lid south, including also Florida, rth Carolina, Texas, Virginia and cast a total vote for Smith which was 350,000 below the ite By Blosser YOU'LL WANE AN OUTFIT THAT \HILL - Z . BEFIT A CONBOY=s A BIE TWO a Bish GALLON MAT, BRIEKT- SCARF, WOOL : i SHIRT, CHAPS AND ENEN A LARIAT ++" CAN YOU PICTURE WELL, NOW THAT TAGALONG 'S GOING To BE AT TG RANCH 00, IT WILL BE A Bie TWAS JUST THINKIN THAT NREA We GET TH YouR RANCH TLL NEED Some DIFFERENT clomes TAN These, Democratic vote of other states was | 13,262,497. st campaign and. election, decentralized the party. he disparity between its WONT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT To WIAA AND WHEN We RIDE DOWN To “ThE STATION -| Lord si Is THE Rockies, AND ALL IS BLSTLING 9 AT HOME GETTING HIM READY FoR WE TRIP. AGANWHILE FRECKLES AND UNCLE HARRy ARE STILL IN - A HOTEL IN SAN FRANCISCO representation, vointing ‘senators and 87 Democratic repre- sentatives, whereas the other states, 1] with eight times as many Democratic 1] votes, have only 13 Democratic sen- ators and 79 congressmen. National n| policies must be largely defined and limited by the action of the congres- {| sional membership, he says, so that it is likely to be impossible for the Democrats to harmonize their dif- ferences nationally. Not a New Plan ‘Thus the proposal to keep the party - {decentralized until after the election f} without giving the defeatists a chance to wreck it with their wrangling be- fore the campaign begins. ir} In 1836, when there were only 26 states, the Whigs tried a plan similar -|to Lord's suggestion in an attempt to defeat Martin Van Buren, the Demo- crat. They nominated Daniel Web- ster to carry New England, Senator Hugh White of Tenness¢e to carry his own and one or two other southern states, General William Henry Har- strison and Judge McLean to carry MOM’N POP HOLD STILL ,OOGLESNOPS, WHILE 1 STROKE YOUR BACK FOR LUCK. I'LL SURE NEED ALL t CAN GET ON THIS TRIP T WISH YOU WERE GOING VOU'VE WVESTED EVERY CENT ¥/ WE GAVE INA WLDCRT COPPED sari CLAIM AND L INTEND To FIND OUT WHAT YOU DREW WHEN You _ PACKING tty BUT YOUR HAND IN THE NOU DON'T KNOW IT YET BUT NOURE ON YOUR WAY RIGHT NOW AND T DON'T WANT VOU TO COME BACK UNTIL YOU'VE FOUND OUT HOW INTERESTED. IT'S NONE OF MY AFFAIR WHAT ELSE DID SHE TELL HIN? LISTENING FOR AN HOUR. 1 NEVER HEARD SUCH A ONE- SIDED BATTLE.MOMTOLO T CAN'T LEAVE. THE OFFICE. 1— , Broadwayese playwrights recently got defeat before the campaign opens.! Pennsylvania and a few western Now that the party has been unable | states and vice-presidential candi- to win with either an issue or a per- dates to carry New York and other sonality, let's try strategy.” | states. The plan to keep Van Buren The scheme is more ingenious than} from an_ electoral majority almost practicable and most certainly will! worked. A majority was 143 and Van not be adopted, but there is some! Buren polled 170. A switch of 2,000 sound theory behind it. votes in Pennsylvania would have Lord estimates the 8,000,000 votes! beaten him. | “You ought to know, Crys, or may- feoreas Ccyetal Hereell who ancwered | °°, 703 Commu, since you haven't the phone. There was something so| et him in that guise,” the young different about his voice—a business- | man chuckled. “You're talking to like crispness—that. she felt almost | your city editor now, young woman.” timidly glad he had not been kept “Oh!" Her exclamation was flat Waiting till she could be summoned. j and blank with surprise. “That's a “Hello, Crystal. Harry _ Blaine | promotion, isn’t it, Harry?—or should speaking. Calling about the job, you; I say ‘Mr. Blaine’? Congratulations know,” he informed her without pre- | —ch + ; O. K. You're to start ‘Twenty-five bucks a week. Lousy salary, | than a bum sten- ographer can pull down. Want it?” Panic stirred in Crystal's heart. Not at the prospect of a ridic:ilously low salary. That didn’t, matter, for a while at least. weighed against the ‘delight of actually being a paid writer on a newspaper. But it did matter terribly, somehow, if he didn't really want her to take the job. “Of course I want it, Harry,” she een “The salary doesn't mat- it “The heck it doesn’t!" the young man on the other end of the wire gibed, then he added, almost. curtly: “Good girl! See you Monday then at eight o'clock. Did I hear you gasp? This is an afternoon paper, not at weekly. Most of laves hit the ball at half past seven. . . By the way,” it giving her a » “you're to work in| cooperation with the secretary of the United Charities on this Christmas-for-the-poor’ w, be yourself,” he retorted, and she could picture his good-looking young face flushing with embar- rassment at having been caught in the act of swaggering. “See you Monday. Gotta make-up the noon edition now. So long!” She told herself as she left the tele- phone that. it was a piece of aston- ishin; good luck that Harry Blaine, instead of some hard-bitten, girl-re- porter-hating stranger, was to be her “boss.” But—was it? Hadn't the very tone of his voice and the curt briefness of his remarks warned her that she would have to work harder for him than for a stranger, to over- come the handicap of “pull”? Prob- ably he didn't really want her on the paper, now that he was to be its city editor and not just a feature re- porter. Was that why he hadn't Phoned her the day before? Would he have reneged on his offer to get her the job if he could have done so without hurting her feelings too ‘Merry- | cruelly? Well, she'd show him that int. He'll! he needn't have worried a minute give you the names of your sob-story | about her taking advantage of their Prospects, but copy will be | friendship to loaf on the job. And he handled by the city desk like any | ought to know her better than to other local feature: ; think she'd embarrass him by a fool- “The city desk?” Crystal echoed | ish display of intimacy. stupidly. “You mean the city editor? Is the city editor of The Press fright- fully hard-boiled?” f ~ IN NEW YORK New York, May 6.—One of our very (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) His fortunes being not dissimilar from most of the big street's boys, he | had exactly $200 in his pocket when he landed in the capital of cinema. There he found himself awaited by crew of newspaper all in- tent. on hearing from the dignitary @ rush order to appear in Hollywood to write chatter for the talkies NEXT: How six became seventeen. some few nice things about their Los ee BAOLY YOU'VE BEEN STUNG POP TO'LEAVE ANDNOT COME x BACK TIL AND THEN THE OHONE : WITH ME-BY GOLLY, RANG AND t COULDN'T MAKE ‘OUT WHAT IT WAS ALL ABOUT — HEY, SAM, THATS Jumbo —WHATS THE (Dea O'cacun’ HI MEXICO? a “0 BOOTS WONT GET ANY ; SLEEP AGAIN TONIGNT * WOO THE THRO Hl ii ED ‘Ov, SEST Cause Ye \ WELL, HEHAS- BUT) (GOLLY, THIS IS ALL SCANDINANIAN ‘To ME —BUT I'LL DO my GEST! “HERE WE ARE! AND IN JUST A WINUTE WE'LL SEE IE WE CAN EIND OUT WHATS AILIN' Ya — WAX TM 1 CW {XM PLANNIN TRE UP I : i d . 8HE