Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-10
SEATSATDEM
MEET SCARCE,
Says WRITER
Patronage Will Govern
Seating Apportion-
ment AT Houston Is
Waide's Verdict
BY c. ID. WADE

HOUSTON, Tex, June 9.-While
no official announcement "a that ef-
feet has been made. this writer can
say unofficially but truthfully that
chances for outsiders to get in the
Houston convention are going to be
slim. The Houston committee il
worried more about the ticket and
seat problem than anything else. The
Houston convention bids fair To ~
the most important public event OF
the year.. Reservations by news
papers and other ~dignitaries far ex-
coed those at Kansas City. The
radio broadcasting hookup IL far
more extensive. Popular interest III
u far excels that Of the republican
convention.
In the light Of this situation the
Houston committee s wishing il had
seats enough TO go around. Those
who engineered the whole ~transac-
ton are very sorry now that while
they were about IL they did not
build a coliseum that would seat So
600 people. They could have paid
Tor 1t at this convention alone. and
a i as a very excellent source
"a fIAtNLt n~eTedTL1r
Here IL the situation. ~ well Nv
can be a~scertained from the state
ments that have been given out and
from private conversations: Every
, body who donated as much as 500
TO the entertainment fund will get
n ticket good for all sessions AZ
the convention for each 800. oil
they may have a box seat for each
$3.50 they contributed. There wa
no sale Of seats. mind you, but The
committee is simply doing a little
TIT for tat in the matter. Those
who contributed SIS or some such
matter will get tickets for one ses-
sion.
The Houston committee impresses
on you that this Is not their conven.
tion. but that il belongs 10 the
democratic party. represented by the
national executive committee. and
tnat sue seats as they are now BE-.
slowing on the contributors IN onIy
ny the OF the national com
mittee.
"A section in the real Of the Coli.
scum has been set aside for the
general public, but who will be ad.
mitted. and how. is a detail that
fas not been worked out. The zen.
eral impression now IA that this srr.
ton viii be separated from thu
rest Of the building BY strong wire
and the rank an file will be permit.
ted to march slowly through. so that
everybody car say they have seer
= convention. On that basis each
one would have probably 15 minute,
IN me convention hall. unless they
could successfully reneat-go for
seconds as the army boys used "a
saw.
Now. YOU ask. how is the visitor
from San Angelo. Brownsville ~
Amarillo going to net inn Your
first bet IL TO have a friend NV
Houston who was a big contributor
and who will have several tickets
and who might lend YOU one for
two or three sessions il not the en-
tire convention.
Lacking such n friend. but determ-
med 20 see the convention. thr
next best bet il to yet acquainted
with some national committeeman
from some other state. preferably 4
western or New England state. and
get a ticket from him. The national
committeeman from Montana. for
instance. A. entitled "a rust INV manv
tickets. and will yet as many. N
proportion 70 the size If his deIega-
ton. as the one from Texas or New
York. Yet il is likely that there
Will not be 20 visitors here from
Montana outside the delegation
from that state. and that will leave
the committeeman with a bunch w
extra tickets.
incidentally. II you see where this
reporter IS giving a Big writeuD IN
some committeeman from Nevada or
elsewhere far away. rest assured
that he ~ the kind az chap who
likes publicity and has a few extra
tickets. Tit for tat. YOU know.
But having neither Houston
friends nor an opportunity to warm
up TO a national committeeman. then
come on anyway and take n chance
on some kind Of arrangement being
made whereby you can see Al nart
81 the convention. And III YOU new
er get IN the hall. there will w u
hospitality house across the street.
where you can sit and listen 10 the
proceedings b. radio or loud sneak-
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