MOSTLY TALK

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 80, 30 June 1928, Page 5

MOSTLY TALK

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION TICE-PRESIDEDT NOMINEE. HOT WEATHER ORATORY. Waited Pres s Assn.—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. (Received '9.10 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 29. Senator Joseph T. Robinson, of Arkansas, was selected as Demociatic candidate for the Vice-Presi-dency. Although this choice was a virtual certainty, perspiring Democrats were hardly ready to pass over an opportunity for hot waether

oratory. Dozens of persons were put into

the nomination in speeches lasting half an hour or more. The place literally dripped with felicitous eulogies of most inconsequential and unknown political figures. It seemed obvious that not by bread did the Democrats live, but by oratory. When the flow of speeches ended, Robinsons nomination was a routine and perfunctory one. He received 1032 votes in the first ballot, and the Convention did not even bother to make it unaimous. Everybody was gazing homewards, moist and fagged, but satisfied. The convention was over.

The Convention received a telegram from Governor A 1 Smith accepting nomination and the platform, hut reiterating 'his belief that the States alone are able to secure real temperance and respect for the law. He also said that present conditions relative to prohibition are unsatisfactory to the great mass of the American people.—Australian Pi ess Assn.—United Service.