The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-10


 ing. There was Q time when the presidents speeches were as dry as .r--weli, as Mir. Hoover's speeches-but recently he irrigated them, 50 to speak, with the aid of what Broad way calls "gag" man. He's good for q ohuckle an hour, now, and has been setting box-ofilce records all oyer the country
 Just what MT. Hoover will speak on is not definitely known, but 1t is reported he will touch lightly on three subjects: the failure of the New Deal, the New Deals failure, ana the New Deal and its double failure.
 Go to . Singer
 Tt was believed by astute critics, when the delegates began staggering into the hall today, that if Governor Als Landon fails to get the nomina- ton 1t is certain to go to Q singer. The republicans have shown tre- s1sndots enthusiasm for music. At the opening session yesterday the most prolonged cheering followed Q series of spirituals by a quartet.
 At the end of the quartet's T Been Working on the Railroad" a delegate from Rhode Island, whose eoul had been moved by the music, jumped to his feet and placed the entire quartet in nomination. He withdrew 1t, however, when 1t was explained to him that the car used for conveying incoming presidents tp Pennsylvania avenue on inaugu- ration day was only a coupe, and that 1t wouldn't be dignified to have two presidents sitting in the rumble seat.
 Baritone Owned House
 Last night Reinald Werrenrath, the baritone, took down the house with "On the Road to Mandalay" and it was obvious that the first tenor to get here and cut loose with Mother Machree" is a cinch to get the nomination on the first ballot. A report has 1t that the "stop-Lan- don" forces have an ace up their sleeve in Lawrence Tibbett in case the Kansas governor gets more than 300 votes on the first ballot on Thursday or Friday. Bing Crosby will be Tibbett's running mate, and will use a unique platform consist ing of I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket" And nothing more.
 Speaking of platforms, the repub- Jican platform drafters are having more trouble laying It's keel than the British shipbuilders did with the Queen Mary.
 4. Borah an Old Sailor
 Senator Borah, an old ship of state man for 40 years, is holding out for 8 keel of managed currency, with All Landon, who learned his ship building on the Kansas waters, equally as stubborn for a sound cur Teilcy keel. The details of the plat form ship are not definitely known but it is believed 1t will have two social security decks, an old page pension playroom, and an orthodox Crankshaft which will transfer the administrative power directly back to the states or propellers.
 One of the first to arrive at public hall today was Jay Lewis, publicity relations counsel for the A. F. T. E. Q. A. ". P. P. o. P. P. O., or the Association for the Election of a Woman for President or Other Pub lie once. Mir. Lewis took @ seat, folded up the initials of his organi- zation and placed them on the floor beneath his chair.
 Green Cloth BOthers
 The speakers platform came in for q bit of criticism from the working reporters who sit at its, edge today. The platform rises directly in front of the reporters eyes and is covered with green cloth very similar to that which covers billiard tables. Some of the reporters have looked ct the green cloth so long, they said, that they found it impossible to keep from writing of Willie Hoppe and not Landon, as the chief can- k7ifate for the nomination.
 Democrats in the audience charged today that the patch on the seat of the pants of Chairman Henry P. Fletcher was a deliberately planned slam at the New Deal.
 Two Pants Suit
 sIt's obviously a two pants suit" they said, "and he could have worn the other pair had he not wanted to make it reflection on the ROose- xelt regime. That patch. when it shows up tn the news reels around the country. will cost US lots of *otes."
 Convention leaders have iban-