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BIG OPENING EVENT DELAYEDTOPM. 16,000 Seats on Floor or on Bleachers—Lavish Use of Flags and Bunting. BY BYRON PRICE. Associated Press Staff Writer HOUSTON, June 26.—Under a new convention plan, made to order for the age of radio, party managers clipped in two the program for today’s noon- day opening session, leaving delivery of the keynote speech. always a first-day drawing card. for a second session to be held this evening at 8 o'ciock, East- ern_standard time. Thus the preaching of this Demo- eratic gospel will coincide with those hours when the great sudience of listeners: is at its maximum. The arrangement left for the noon session only a few dry and dusty formalities, consisting chiefly of setting to work the committee machinery by which the convention shifts many of its troubles to other shoulders. ‘Wooden Hall Dressed Up. Like the conventior was built to house, Sam Houston Hall is in itself s unique embellishment to party his- tory. Erected against time after the Democratic national committee had sur- prised Houston itself and the whole political world by deciding suddenly to nominate a presidential candidate in this south Texas city. the great wooden auditorium stood today dressed in a thousand flags and redolent with the pleasant scent of clean new pine. Half of its 16.000 seats were at ground level—wooden theater chairs on a con- crete floor: the other sioped upward around the edges like base ball bleach- ers, the highest but 30 feet off the ground. From this 30-foot level up- ward to the low-arched roof, the sides were open to the breezes, in token of 8 Southern thoughtfulness for those visitors who are not accustomed to June in Texas. Decorations as spick and span as the hall jtself draped the walls and ceiling, ! | | | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. HOUSTON, June 26.—There was a . with the national colors striking the | coalition of pandemonium and bedlam ' dominant note. High against the west |)e¢ ooge in a veritable human flood on Lo g e b wp 3 STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, The picture of the interior of the auditorium at Houston. Tex.. made Sunday during the dedication ceremony, gives an idea as to how it appeared today as Democratic delegates took their seats preparatory to selecting the party's choice for President. 1 —Associated Press Photo. Women Look ' Th;ir [SOUTHERN FASHIONS ADD LIFE TO OPENING HOUSTON SESSIO It comes from the C. Ritchie of for consideration. |hands of Gov Albert Maryland. The committee has planks before it which lean as far to the dry side as does the Ritchie plank to the wet. The predictions are that the Demo- lerats will adopt a law enforcement plank, perhaps naming the prohibition Prettiest. but Take | JUNE 26, 1928. COVERNOR TOHEAR * KEYNOTE AT HOME | | | {New Brown Derby Chief In- terest of Executive Today in Albany. | By the Associated Press. | | 'ALBANY, N. Y. June 26—As the| | Democratic convention which will: con- | sider his name as the party's candidate for the presidency opened in Texas to- day Gov. Alfred E. Smith tried on the latest edition of his never-ending suc- cession of brown derbies, the war bon- nets that have featured every Smith campaign for the past quarter century. | The governor grected reporters with a smile in the executive office shortly before noon, but while he chatted with them freely he continued his policy of saying nothing about the convention or | his own prospects. | | "““For the benefit of the newcomers.” he | said, “I think T'd better show the latest | thing _in brown derbies. | Walking across the room to a “at e took down a deep chocolate that had arrived as a gift by the morning mail and set it jauntily on his head How many of those do you get a he was asked. Four so far, tod only one in a dozen one. though, is good. This is official The governor said that he wouid listen to the keynote speech tonight on | the_radio in the executive mansion | 7“1 was going to use this special one |1 had set up in this office.” he said. | | “but all I've been able to pick up on | |it so far is the noise of the Capitcl | elevators going up and down, and 1hat | not so interesting.” He indicated that State business would occupy him during the day and that in the later afternoon he might | get in & game of golf. | |a candidate must receive 733'» votes, | | or two-thirds of the 1,100 delegate votes, Animesity Carried On. McAdoo, who early declared himself | out of the race, is not in Houston. His “but This | | | | | i’ERSPIRATION WINS IN WALK IN HOUSTON, SAYS WILL ROGERS If It Was Marketable Commodity Demo- crats Could Pay Off Natiorial Debt, He Concludes. Mopping His Brow. BY WILL ROGERS. Special Dispatch to The Star. HOUSTON, June 26.—She is begin- | ning to look like a convention. 1f all th: Democrats here voted the same | ticket, why any candidate could be | elected | Everybody has on a linen or Palm | Beach suit, not white, but i* was once. If perspiration was a marketably Tal commodity, the party could pay off the ummfi'éfl'.’i“fio?"é‘}m: o'r)emren hTr’ed ::2 national deficit. The Rice Hotel lobby |they are the lonesomest looking gang is so packed I reached up a | you ever saw. They all say “Why pick B P and mopped | oy us 1o be the only sober ones here?” three other perspiring brows before I|° Today it starts. “The biggest show in could find my own. |the world. Houston s doing its part There is a nice cool breeze blowing |nobly. The actors have had four vears outside down here all the time. but no- | to think up new things to call the Re- body will go outside. publicans, and it will be worth the It looks like all a convention i» is|money, for Democrats are the only race just to sweat on each other. that can have arguments, even when The lobby Is so crowded that part of they agree. thdNr" York delegation can‘'t say a {Conyrizht, word. Then as I write this why my old fight- ing friend Joe Robinson is the logical nominee. ‘The whole talk down here is wet and dry, the delegates just can't hardly wait till the next bottle is opened to discuss it Prohibition is running about a quart to the argument here now. The South say they are dry and if the bootleggers don’t rush on some more mighty quick they will be. 1028.) Up in Baruch’s Room. And badges. if all the badges were laid end to end. they wouid reach to| the White House Was up in Barney Baruch's room last night. He was busy unpacking his blafk checks, getting ready for the defieit. Admiral Dr. Grayson was with him. We talked till daylight of the | imes when Presidents were Presidents. | Was at lunch with Mrs. Woodrow Wilson at Jesse Jones' roof home, on top of one of his cloud ticklers. Won- derful place. The only one I have seen to beat it was Waite Phillips' Buck- ingham Palace in Tulsa. Okl Mrs, Wilson looks wonderful and is pleas. ant and charming as ever. Had a long talk with young Gov. Dan Moody. Dan is for Smith if Smith | will promise to make the party quit drinking and carousing. | Chat with my old friend Uncle Jo- sephus Daniels. Uncle Joe would like Good Lumber: We carefully inspect all lumber that enters our yards. It must be right in grade and measure up to our exacting quality standards. It is this principle that has made our yard generally | animosity to Smith, however, is carried |to have the party eliminate gin and {on by some of his former supporters | bitters. wall, at the rear of the platform, a | laws specifically and let it go at that mammoth reproduction of the great seal | the convention city last night when of the United States stood flanked by more than 20 special trains, each bear- + 13 American flags to form a background | . B the S That arw 16 be cuatii@ on | S 5 Suinpleing bt Sty sostimom the convention rostrum. delegation, disgorged on Houston. The “Jimmie"” Walker special, arriving early | Rows of State Flags. | Hanging free, high above the delegate | in the lm_rnuon. followed a couple o(‘ paction. their poles standing out from |hours later’' by two Tammany specials. the rafters, two rows of State flags and about dinner time by the de luxe formed the center piece among the special of W. F. Kenney, who has abundance of color lining the body of | thrown his decidedly substantial bank Serious Part in Convention Activities. Social Side Not Hilarious. BY MARTHA DALRYMPLE, Associated Press Staff Writer. HOUSTON. June 26.—The initial the hall itself. Under the call of the national com- mittee, issued months ago, noon, central standard time, was sent as the official opening hour of the convention. But the arrangements committee had stolen an hour, and the three bands with sta- tions in the bleachers on three sides of the hall were ordered into action at 11 o'clock to delight the ears of the early arrivals and lend a festive atmosphere to the hot and complicated business of the wds assorted getting 1o’ properly and each delivered to his and number. To the national committee chairman, Clem Shaver of West Virginia, fell the honor of gaveling the big convention into order. New in national politics but four years ago, Shaver became head of the tion at the instance of dency he managed. to- day with a hickory gavel made from a tree at the Hermitage, in Tennessee, the home of Old Hickory himself, who was nominated by the Democrats an even century ago. Methodist Bishop Prays. ‘The opening prayer by Bishop S. R. | Hay of the Methodist Episcopal Church South was followed on the convention program by the reading of the official call by the national committee secre- tary, Charles A. Greathouse of Indiana, also secretary of the convention. Then came the purely perfunctory business of ratifying selection of the temporary officers, including Claude G. Bowers, editorial writer for the New York Eve- ning World, as chairman and keynoter; Col. Edwin A. Halsey of Virginia, the right-hand man of the Democratic or- ganization in the Senate at Washington, | as sergeant-at-arms: Representative Clarence Cannon of Missouri as parlia- mentarian, and Pat Haitigan, who in- tones in thunderous fashion the bills and resolutions that come before the National House of Representatives, as chief reading clerk. The appointment of committees came last The recess until 7 o'clock tonight was 8 respite for virtually everybody but members of the platform committee, who face many hours of discussion and head-scratching before they can hope to present a finished product for proper row | own check, and without any strings attached, which puts “the king’s own” garrison here in full force. Por the last 48 hours the Rice Hotel been densely packed, but a few thou- sand more were jimmied in last night, and the circumference of the conges- tion was pushed back several squares farther from the center of pre-conven- tion activities. Today the flag is down and it is g general free-for-all or battle royal to get anywhere you want to go. ‘They are now forming lines to the counter at one end of the Al Smith headquarters and a bread line on the other. The explanation of this is that the hotel's pastry and bakery depart- ment has had to be expanded on the mezzanine floor directly across the cor- rider from the series of private dining rooms where Al Smith's headquarters { have been established. {on the first ballot, according to Repre- | sentative Bell of Georgia, who is In charge of the George headquarters ad- | joining the Reed headquarters. | Internecine conflict warfare broke Joose in the Alabama stronghold today. The State delegation, supposed to be air-tight and water-tight to the last parched gasp, was holding a caucus that ran as smoothly as the machine Kansas City until it reached intment of a member to serve on committee to notify the candidate for President. No one sought |the job and the chairman asked: “What's the matter, doesn't any one want that nice trip?” Some one up, saying: “There's an alternate for Al Smith, perhaps he'd like to | serve.” whereupon the meeting was in {a furor to think they had a “traitor” in | camp. F. T. Raiford. editor of the Selma Times, allowed that he “was for Smith all down the line” and would be ‘de- | lighted to be selected on the committee |to notify him that he was the choice {of his party. Newspaper men were promptly “shoed” out and the delega- tion went into executive session. Also the alternates were sent from the con- ference. The delegates were in executive account open to Al Smith to write his | and sidewalks in the neighborhood have | pound of the gavel on the platform of Sam Houston Hall today found South- jern fashions in their prettiest and feminine heads alert for the words that open the quadrennial Democratic con- | vention. The women had done a week's work Much will depend upon the attitude of | the Al Smith supporters. | Held State Problem. Ritchie’s plank declares that prohibi- | hould be lurned back to the| and declares that the cight- eenth amendment and the Volstead | act constitute a departure from the principle of local self-government re- served to the States. It follows: troduced the two leading members of representation to secure a woman equal rights plank in the national plat- form. Mrs. Mary Murr i the industrial council of the party and | Democratic party has always been that an ardent advocate of the abolition of | o:ecrcentralization of power in the Fed- all women's protective legislation. is ecral authoritics and Federal invasiois preparing her speech to be presented to | of the right of local self-government the resolutions committee. reserved to the States is contrarv to Miss Mary C. Pittman, dean of wom- | the spirit of our institutions and de- en at Athens College, Athens. Ala., ar-|structive of the liberties of our people. rived from a motor trip from Mexico| “The eighteenth amendment and the “The fundamental principle of the | ie | during the past four years and those | “George of Georgia” will get 100 votes | (0 appear before the resolutions com- mittee for the Woman's Party. Wants Better Plank. “If the Democrats want the wome she said, “they must include a better gllnk than the Republicans did. A plank just as good as that of the Re- | publicans will not do.” For the League of Woman Voters and their desired five-point plank, Mrs. Anderson, second vice president, and Miss Gertrude Ely, delegate at arge from Pennsylvania, have arrived o supplement the work of Miss Sher- | win. national president One woman victor has emerged from the two contests fought before the sub- committee and the national committee. Mrs. L. O. Keen, national committee- women from the Canal Zone, whose preparatory to the party conclave to- day, and they were not to be outshone | | at the opening moment. The national | committeewomen were in their places on the platform, both those in office | newly eclected ones who are to take office immediately after nomination. tatives of a woman's organi- zation, who have planks to insert through the secretive doors of the reso- lutions committee, are ready for the ! | appointments that will show them their | best bets. Distinguished Women Present. Besides Mrs. Alfred E. Smith. wife of the rosiest presidential candidate. and | Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, much feted | widow of the war-timePresident; Mrs. |Minnie Pisher Cunningham presents a | unique feminine figure to take an offi- | mjttee and confirmed by the national |cial part in convention activities has suspended activity in her Texas | annouced. Mrs. Lester J. Pollock, lead- campaign for the Democratic nomina- |er of the District of Columbia delega- tion for the United States Senate to | tion opposing National Committeeman come from her Texas ranch to Houston | John F. Costello, has said that she will to relieve Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, vice | withdraw with her cohorts, not appeal chairman of the Democratic national | ing her case to the credentials com- committee and President of the Na-|mittee. tional Democratic Woman's Club, of her | . % duties as welcomer of the woman mem- | bers of the club CONVENTION THRONG GATHERS FOR FIRST SESSION IN HOUSTON tions I have ever attended,” said Mrs. Cunningham between her smiles to visiting lady Democrats. “The horn blowing, the yelling and the screaming of the eagle apparently does not mark this gathering as it has every previous one. “The serious, intellectual, more sober | attitude toward the nomination of al| presidential candidate will mark con- vention speeches and activities. and the rah-rah stuff will disappear.” Mrs. Walker on Hand. ‘The approach of Mrs. Jimmie Walker, the effervescent “This is one of the finest conven- | (Continued from First Page.) | big fight before it, the contest over the delegation from Louisiana. The na- | tional committee, after hearing it yes- | terday, passed the buck to the cre- dentials committee Smithites Apt to Win, | New York delegation was seated by the sub-com- | She | committee, spent a glorious night. she | - | half as many candidates to be formall Volstead act constitute a departure from this principle. As long as the | eighteenth amendment is part of the Constitution we recognize that it should !be upheld and respected, but we are forced to realize that the Volstead act | has not attained and cannot attain the ends sought by it and has caused a di regard of law and order and a condi- | tion of actual lawlessness and sociai and political demoralization that is danger- ous to the country | “We therefore belfeve that appropr e steps should be taken by Congress ave prohibition turned back to the States, so that each State within con- stitutional limitaticns and under the principles of local option and home rule, may have the opportunity of settling it in accordance with the will of its| own people, and in this connection we favor also the enactment by Congre: of such measures as may be necessary to prevent shipment into any State which might contravene the expressed | will of the people of that State.” | | to Three Days for Speeches. Four years ago at Madison Square | Garden, with the resolutions commit- | tee fighting behind closed doors, the | Democratic convention on its second | day began to listen to speeches placing the presidential candidates in nomina- | tion. There were 16 candidates formally | nominated and seconded, with speeches from the platform. It took three di to get all these speeches out of the | way, including demonstrations for Al | Smith and William Gibbs McAdoo, each | lasting an hour and a quarter or more. | Today there appears to be only one |placed in nomination. It has been | |'hinted that some of these may yet drop | |out of the race and withhoid their | |names. The eight who may be nomi- nated, however, are: Smith of New York, Reed of Missouri, Woollen of In- diana, Hull of Tennessee, George of | Georgia, Hitchcock of Nebr: , Jones now on the spot Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi will receive the 20 votes of Mississippi on the first-ballot, aithough he goes | before the convention as a favorite son candidate over his own protest. At a| caucus of the delegation Iate vesterdas they determined to vote for him whethe | er he would or no. His name will not | | be formally presented to the convention, | horse: however. There is no little Smith sen- | timent in this delegation. i The caucuses held by various State delegations before the convention be- gan merely served to show how strong- ly the Smith tide is running. Some of the States which are scheduled to vote for favorite sons on the first bal- lot are ready to switch to the Smith bandwagon on the drop of the hat. For example, of Ohio's 48 delegates, 45 are for Smith. If it becomes ap- parent that Smith is going over on the | | first ballot or merely needs the Ohio | votes to have the necessary two-thirds | | to nominate him, Ohio stands ready | | to shift to Smith. The same is true | | of the Kansas delegation, in which 12 of the delegates are now for Smith | and 2 more are ready to to him. | The Arkansas delegation is for Smith | | with the exception of one-half of one | vote, according to reports. If the Ar- kansas delegation, which votes third | | on the list of States cast 1712 votes | | for Smith on the first ballot. it does not | appear that a first ballot nomination | can be avoided. | Marine League Plans Trip. The Nationa! Gapital detachment of the Marine Corps League met last night in the Band Auditorium Hall, Marine | Barracks, Eighth and I streets south- | east, Capt. William G. Scott of the third police precinct, a veteran Marine, pre- siding. The organization voted to hold! an excursion during the Summer to! further interest in the national bod: of the league, which will hold its na- | tional convention at Dallas, Tex., next November, Horse racing is becomeing a fad me, German; —We call and deliver. Our sli‘r\‘ke covers the entire city. PINDLER Exauisite Dry Cleaning. #01 11th N.W. Main 2304 5 LEADER SHOE STORE Harrison and Harmony. Pat Harrison is for harmony, and he | ;!on'! look natural running on that plat- orm There is a fine rodeo show on here, | and when I just can't stand Jooking | more delegates -in the face I go out and look at the calves and bucking | and you know it's kind of a| relief. A band of women hailed me yesterday | n;g ‘I;riu'd T; to wril somethin; |about helping them get ‘eTm hts” so I told 'em I thought myself thlr:‘uzy ’hnd too many, and it was mighty nice with the men. The vice presidential candidates today were as follows: Prom 9 to 12 was Cor- | dell Hull of Tennessee: then from 12 to |3 Jesse Jones, the Tex Rickard of pro- moting political combats; at 3 o'clock the heat in the lol had changed the candidate to Gov.wDomht' ocrat who thrives on Republican and whose record equals Smith’ % vote Now Is the Time to Spray Black Leat 40 o rdeaux M for Sueking Insects. ixture for Mildew. Ib.. $0c brass .. $1.235 Strong, Healthy, Lively Thoroughbreds of them to want to split some of them || Big Sale Lawn Mowers WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY ONLY consideration on the convention floor. | Prohibition s the big glrouble. with | oth ultra-wets and the ultra-drys|ing; william J. Foster of hreatening to sppeal to the conven-|p,q peen placed on the notification tion itself uniess their demands are sal- | committee. He is an “anti-Smith man.* session for more than an hour. When they emerged it was announced | wife of mayor, was awaited with eagerness by | all those interested in personality. “Our Jimmie” announced on his grrival that he didn't know where his wife was, but of Texas and Pomerene of Ohio. | _Gov. Ritchie and Senator Thomas J. | Walsh of Montana, both favorite son | candidates, have declared they will not It is expected that in the end the Smith delegation from that State will be seated. The rules committee should be able to report promptly, too. for : Once you know | . '8l MAIN a1 | thecomfort and MAIN 5359 known to the trade for sup- plying good lumber. It will pay you to see us for your requirements, whether they are a single board or many thousands of feet. Sherman Ave. & W St. North 486 Hi;!:-(.‘.n;o'm $5.25 to $18.39 e Mowers sold_all trom $1 to $230 Gladiolus & Dahlias 1, Of Catalog Prices Blood Meal The Rose Tonie 1 b, 15¢; 3 Ibs, 40c; S Ibs, 60c Lawn and Garde Complete Asser Tools t Plymouth Rocks, R. I. 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Bolgiano & Co. 915 E St. NW. isfied n 30, the leaders hope have a platform ready by Thursday, and 10 make a nomination and finally ad- journ by Friday night SIGMA KAPPAS MEET IN BUSINESS PARLEY Sorority’s 46th National Conven- tion Opens With 400 Registered Delegates in Attendance. y-sixth national Kappa Borority ness meeting this Mzyflower Hotel the 400 delegates was the dinner the offered a Colontal program of olé-time songe, costumes dances ident Cloyd e Washington Wilbur and Rose of th n and Dr. George Ot Geological Burvey spok pose and history of t Mary Gay 2 dent, respoy welcome half of the Grand Chapte Another business sess afternoon, o be initial tonight Tomorrow & dinner the conventior Saturday with Potomac River hostesses consisting and minuet Heck Deans ne itu- Bmith of the 4 “pres e in be- on thi, modei followed by a d song con- which boat trip Taxpayers Are Warned Bypecial Dispetch w0 The POTOMAC, Va 6.—Arlington County Commiseioner of Revenue Harry K. Green, hes warned all residents of Potomec that those who do not make 28 tax return Eaturday be forced 1 added 10 per cent. For the con- venience of those who find il more con- venient 1o pay sfter office Lours, Mr Green has announced that he will secept returns at the Cherrydale Pire Department tonight, Macon Ware's drug store in Falls Church tomorow night t nis own office in the Arlington Court House Fridey snd Hat- ‘“rday nights from 7 w 9 p& later investigation proved that she was there semes (o be no present disposition be placed in nomination, but will throw -|on Thus they made a gesture that they still thought there was a chance that | some one else might be able to stop | 8mith. The Alabama delegation cau- | cused twice yesterda: |morning in an effort to go under the | unit rule. The State committee has di- rected that it should not be under the unit rule. As a matter of fact. there |is one delegate from Alabama who in- !undl to vote for Smith. | Amos Carter of Port Worth, editor of a country newspaper, who has & | number of friends in the newspaper profession in Washington, because he sends them annually choice watermel- ons and turkeys, is carrying the largest and most ornate “gun” in the con- vention crowd. It's his sherifl’s gun with ivory handle and silevered barrel and studded with precious stones. | 'Not to be outdone by the camera- { men shooting their flash powders Sheriff Carter set his gun 1o barking in_the lobby of the Rice Hotel for the | delectation of the closely packed throng, | many of wiom did not appreciate his sense of humor | In this dry climate cast in the voracious maws of news- correspondents, it has been | most refreshing to find a “water wagon” in Al Smith's headquarters Because even a big ice-waler tank is cmptied in a few minutes, It ix kept a table with wheels so that it ean | be easily run out and refilled Another innovation is to be estab- lished by the Houston convention. For | the first time in the history of any | grest political party the program has hungry | and wishes of the millions who sit at home listening in by radio l(hn. Lejeune Listed Honor Guest l Maj. Gen. John A. Lejuene, com- mandant of the Marine Corps, will be | the guest of honor this evening At a | dinner at the Occidental Hotel, to he | 23ven by the District of Columbia unit {of the Reserve Officers’ Association of { the United States Marine Corps. Donald | €. O'Regan, president of the local or ganization, will preside at the function which 15 scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m Heads Bowie Town Board. Bpecial Dispateh (o The Star BOWIE, Md. June 26—E. C. Day has been elected chairman of the re- cently chosen rd of town commis- sloners, with Melvin Edlavich clerk, and again this | where prohibition | | planks are becoming the daily fodder holding forth in Galveston, and drove to Houston this morning for the open- ing session. Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Smith both | spent quiet evenings on the eve of | the convention in their Houston suites, | accepting none of the many invitations | extended them Mrs. Genevieve Clark Thomson, daughter of the late Speaker Champ Clark, and wife of a New Orleans pub- lisher, was seen pacing the lobby of the Rice Hotel, tall, cool, but hurried Awaits Committee Action. Her position as national committee- woman from Louisiana rests upon the decision of the credentials commi‘ice lon seating one of the two contesing Louisiana delegations to the conven- tion. The National Woman's Party has in- e in o x the Kt For correct time o ay Lol Dur JEWELERS DIAM A | | oA .oHAa Thivty-si 935 | | ADOLPH KAHN #resident ‘ Other Precious Stones been changed to sult the convenlence | Members of Amsterdam their support to Gov. Smith It took the Democratic convention four years ago 103 ballots to nominate John W. Davis of West President Mr. Davis is here now, a | delegate from New York. McAdoo and | Smith, the chief contenders in that memorable struggle, until the delegates in utter weariness compromised on Davis of the 1,098 delegate votes, then' con stituting the convention. McAdoo went Vas high at 530, and Smith's top mark {was 368. To win the nomination here to tamper with the two-thirds rule of nominating presidential and vice presi- dential candidates, a heritage of the { Democratic party since the days of | Andrew Jackson. Just when the resolutions committee {can report is another matter. It has | real job on its hands, not only over “he prohibition plank, but also the farm plank and several others. It will work long hours, holding hearings first and then in executive session. Four years ago the resolutions committee didn't make its report to the convention until the fifth day. Nothing like that is ex- | | pected at this convention. 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