Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1932-06-30
CAMPAIGN
CLosE-UPs
BY Donald Morgan


BY Donald Morgan
Weather Forecast-For Chicago and
vicinity Monday, June 9th. fair ard
warm; Tuesday, fair and warmer;
Wednesday, warmer yet; Thursday,
downright torrid
Such you would find to be the state
of things climatic, or better yet,
climatic, in the Midwestern Metropo-
lis were you to examine any Of its
reliable journals If such there be.
That. 1t would seem, is what every
body expected, for this week the
Democratic donkey holds forth at Chi
cago, and where goeth that notably
temperamental beast, there goeth q
heat wave.
Oddly enough, when the Republic
cans invaded Chicago two weeks ago,
they brought along weather that was
cool even to CLEANLINESS. Perhaps
that was a hangover of the Keep
cool with Coolidge" movement of
several years back. At any rate, if
it's to be "shiver with Hoover" it's
equally clear now that it'll be roast
with Roosevelt, Richie, or If worst
comes to best, with Rogers" "Its a
hot time In the old town, this week,
as matter Of fact, to mix ditties, It's
always fair, If not hot, weather when
the Demos get together!
And If it's not the heat, 1t certainly
must be the humidity. And that there
is plenty of moisture in the atmos-
phere of the Democratic convention
there can be no doubt. That was
made quite clear in the opening ses-
sion on Monday when in his keynote
address, Senator Barley. eloquent
Kentuckian and temporary chairman
of the convention, denounced the
G. o. P. prohi plank as con-
glomeration of scrap lumber" and
pledged his party to support repeal
of the 18th amendment. Whether or
no the convention decides to hop
aboard the band wagon and nominate
Roosevelt for president, remains at
time of this writing uncertain. That
will be disclosed in the events of the
next few days, perhaps before this
reaches print. Yet there is that other
famed vehicle of travel which the
Democrats are determined to avoid
and that's the water wagonl
a.. Scholar, Philosopher, Historian
Statesman, Martyr-W Woodrow Wilson,
These, to the best of my memory, were
the closing words Of the stirring tri-
butte which Keynoter Barley, in ar
earlier part of his Grafton, paid tc
Americas wartime president and
which provoked the first demonstra-
ton from the assembled delegates
Did you hear it? 1t was most effec.
tive. So much so, in fact, as to evoke
strong word of praise even from the
lips of one of the writer's nearest Of
kin, one who is so Republican in senti-
rilent as to merit well the epithet
rock ribbed"
To the casual observer or listener
in, it would appear that there exists
some noticeable difference Of opinion
between the two political parties a.
to the cause of the origin and dur.
alton of the current business depres.
sion.
The Republicans, fortnight ago, ir
speaking of the depression or the lad.
justment" as some would have it, sale
many things about the international
slump, the world crisis, the '.inevit-
able calamity. The forces back Of
this mans size depression, which has
swept the land from Portage to Palm
Beach, were purely external, arising
in Central Europe, in the Far East
in Africa, in Timbuctoo. The crash
was unacceptable, inevitable!
The Democrats, assembled this week
in the very same spot, tell US diff
ferent story. The crushing weight Of
blame, according to them. must fall