Evening star., 1936-06-28
CONVENTION SEEN
SIGN OF DEFEAT
1t Adds Up to Victory for
Landon and Knox,
Observer Says.
BY SAMUEL G. BLYTHE.
Special Dispatch to The Star

PHILADELPHIA, June 27.-The
most blatant. highly mechanical, elab-
orately specified and blue-printed,
vociferous, vertiginous, vocal and
voluble week of political exhibitionism
this country ever saw has now come
to clamorouS end.
1t is all over as every perceptIye
person in the United States has known
for two years it would be all over,
and in exactly in the manner ar
ranged and scheduled. Franklin Del
ano Roosevelt has been re-nomlnated
for President by the Democrats and
John Nance Garner re-nominated for
Vice President. Mr. Jim Farley has
taken his last ride up Broad street,
his glory exemplified by the shrieking
sirens of 27 motor cops. Every artic-
ulate delegate has had his chance at
the microphone to howl to the radio
listeners for his or 10 minutes Of
puny eminence. The lips Of the band
men are swollen and cracked with
their continuous blaring Of the tunes
that excited the mob, principally
Hail, Hail the Gangs All Here"
The delegates have worn themselves
hoarse frazZles cheering and re-cheer-
ing to a hundred times redupIcated
4 now name you the man than
whom there is no than whomer" The
last Of the two quadriennial Amer
lean political lunacies has now come
to its bedlam end.
And TO what end? There isn't a
person in the United States who can
add two and two correctly, or read
the comic strips with a conception
of what "zam" and "zowie" mean. NOT
person who can assimiIate mentally
a tabloid headline, or knows the habits
and habitates Of the movie stars and
from then up to the higher realms Of
comprehension exemplified by the
great middle class who say II did" In
stead OF Il done" to the super strata
OF our intelligentSia who look upon the
American scene ss inferior to the
culture and consciousness of the older
countries, who has not known. eX-
plicitly, since his unprecedented in.
dorsement in the congressional elec.
tions Of 1894, that President Roosevelt
would be re-nominated by accIana-
olon IN 1896, as he has been here.
A Suave Platform.
There has been no secret among
those who know what politics means.
ana Is, and politics is all that Govern
ment means and is, that the platform
would be as suave in its language as
1t Is. like the polite greeting of q
courtler, but that in 1t would be the
continued implication Of the plan to
resolve this country into a paternal.
istlc Nation run by the bureaucrats at
Washington to the glory and incre-
ment of the ideas of the frankfurter
professorate, and with The acquiesence
Of the President himself. It has been
well enough known. among those who
know anything about governmental
affairs. that that was to be the OUT
come of all this platform backing and
filling, and hugger-mugger and hocus-
pocus, and it is. But they had to put
on six-day baIlyhoo TO make it easy
to take, TO sugar the pill, and they
did
There have been thousand nevs-
paper reporters, radio reporters and
special writer's here 10 cover this con.
vention and their universal complaint
has been that the only news of it was
the noise. Sure enough, that has been
the only apparent news because all
the rest of it has been ge-managed,
pre-arranged, e-printed ballyhoo.
still there has been one piece of news
I- TN -
news brought forth in these dispatches
earlier in the week and I am closing
with a reiteration of that identical
piece of news.
1t is this: LandOn and Knox will
be elected next November.
Behind Landon Prediction.
The reason that I make that state-
ment is this: I have been a news
paper and magazine writer for so
years. and for more than 80 years I
have paid particular attention to poh-
tics, not as a partisan, but as writer
seeking the real fundamental news of
politics. l make this statement not
because of opinion or because OF
partiSanship, but for this reason:
went to the Grass Roots Convention
in Springfield, Ill, year ago and saw
the beginning of the movement that
will reach its elimination next
November. Since then have been in
every State in the Union, and have
talked to thousands Of people in all
walks of life, and of every shade OF
political prejudice, purpose and
opinion.
I was at the Cleveland convention
that nominated Landon and saw that
it was the organized beginning OF the
great crusade started in a diffuse way
year ago this month in Springfield,
a crusade to -Americanize America
for Americans.
The details are superfuous. The
great motivating, basic idea is to de.
feat Roosevelt. The symbol is KAN
san. He could as well have been a
man from Michigan, from Iowa. from
any Mississippi Valley State, but all
WAYS he would have been a symbol
a symbol set up by the people Of this
countB as a rallying point, leader,
for the battle that is now joined and
for the reclaim of the United States,
from the Vaccinations and manipu-
lation of the economic theorists. the
sociologist poseurs. the opponents OF
collectiveism. the proponents OF cen-
tralization, the hslf-baked idealists
and the self seeking pay roll patriots
who now control it.
(copyright. 1850