Show W I 1 aim iky oatt S 0 ANTA MONICA CALIF so soon as this with both tickets just put upp up fol folks k S already are sayin saying 9 this is starting out to be a bitter campaign the bitterest estt perhaps since away alvay back in hi 1896 my guess is these prophets doret dont realize the twentieth part of it im reminded of what happened when rny my old friend col bill hayward s sailed a i 1 e d 0 with his negro regiment for france during the war the outfit 0 u t f i t eri era barked at night next morning when the transport was well out at sea a pope pop e y e d trooper irvin S cobb f from r 0 m the interior south stood staring at the endless watery expanse boy he exclaimed to a companion idis dis sho is one big ocean mos doubtless stated the second see soldier but son lookin at now is only jes de top layer the union party abony AT T CLEVELAND there was harmony and a quiet interment for the old guard at philadelphia the proceedings moved along on greased rollers buffer real excitement cit ement wait until that new union party holds its convention then will be the signal to remove the women and children to a place of safety just consider be there the who think that as long as we have government engraving plants and printing presses money should be plentiful the group committed to the idea that if the farmer wont do something for himself something should be done for the farmer doctor townsend with his project to provide old age pensions for everybody over sixty except congressman mcgaar ty father coughlin calling fot for so social justice and better radio hookups al smiths strategy ASAN AS AN old time headliner of political vaudeville al smith should have known better than to pull that ancient wheeze shooting at philadelphia letter carriers on a sunday afternoon and besides think of the desperate chance he and his supporting quartet of sharpshooters took come between a mother panther and her cubs come between a frenchman and his fracas come between a radio announcer and his elocution but never right on the eve of their national convention try to come between a flock of office holding democrats and the prospect of four more uninterrupted years of the same 0 trouble of travelers OUTSIDE the larger cities when a hotel manager wishes to show a special guest special attention he assigns him to the bedchamber of state which usually is on the second floor invariably is at the front of the house and neary nearly always on the corner where electric signs twinkle merrily till daylight in the poor sleepless wretches eyes and along toward 2 a in a party part named dewey standing pin in the street below will start telling a party named pink about mighty comical come up gadday night whereupon pink will be moved to recall a few social reminiscences of his own convention invocations A ALTHOUGH a south southerner erner liow ever not working at the trade as steadily as some I 1 have to snicker when a democratic senator walks out on his own convention conventi oll because a colored preacher asks the divine blessing on its deliberations which reminds me the first time that great texan jim hogg ran for the 9 governorship over his party split the balters joined with the republican outfit anost mostly black to put up a fusion ticket at this pinto convention conventi ont the killer griffin a famous black evangelist delivered the invocation in concluding he threw an all unexpected bombshell into the pw bald ranks by earnestly urging the lord koput hogg in the governors chair IRVIN S MUD COBS CI C service |