The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-22
RAIN OR SHINE
REPUBLICANS
WILL PARADE
Presidential Candidate
Speech to Embrace
Vital Problems
BY WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON

This typical prairie capital of a
typical prairie State, gaily be-
decked in festive array, is pre-
pared to play host tomorrow to a
crowd of $4,000 visitors at official
ceremonies notifying Governor
Alfred M. Landon of his nomina,
ton by the Republican party for
the Presidency Of the United
States.
A huge parade of prairie pagen-
try tomorrow afternoon will pre-
cede the formal notification and
Landon's acceptance of the nomi-
nation at 8 p. m.
The governor will place his own
Interpretation on the Republican
platform, adopted at Cleveland,
sound a keynote for the coming
campaign and reveal some of his
personal philosophy of govern
ment in his acceptance speech.
It will free him for a vigorous
campaign in every section of the
country.
Smell Heads Group
Forty special trains and hun
dreds of motor cavalcades will
bring visitors here from every
State in the union. A formal noti-
fication committee, headed by
Representative Bertrand H. Smell
of New York, will have charge OF
the night ceremony, while a local
arrangement committee will stage
the afternoon parade.
The notification ceremony will
be held rain or shine" although
the weather man held out little
threat of rain. Members of the
local committee reported Landon
as saying he would "go through"
with the ceremony in the rain
because. if it rains, so much the
better"
The governor made little prep
aration for the ceremony, other
than to study his speech. He did
get a haircut, he admitted TO
newspapermen, but he smilingly
conceded he needed one anyway"
The afternoon parade will be
one of the greatest pageantS IN
the history of Kansas. Its Spon-
sors will seek to review the his
tory of the West, using Indians,
COWBOYS, Conastoga wagon trains
and stage coaches to direct the
early invasion and settlement OF
the midwest. Modern days Will
be depicted by replicas Of more
modern means of transportation,
including two miniature stream
line trains.
Plenty of Music
There will be 81 bands in the
parade. One Of the bands will
be from the famous Jackson
Twenty-third colored regiment,
which saw service in Cuba during
the Spanish-American war with
Col. Frank Knox, the Republican
nominee for the vice presidency.
The band lost half its member
ship in action but can still "toot
a mean toot." Fifty Negro JUDI
lee singers will lend a Southern
touch.
out at the fair grounds on the
edge of Topeka, history was being
written in the guise of an Indian
wigwam village. It's historical
significance rested in the fact
that it will house Indians from
some 40 different Eastern tribes.
One aged authority said it was
the first time so many cf1erenC
tribes had ever been Sneltereo III
a single village.
To See Lincoln Coach
One of the highlights OF the
narade will be the original car
rage, used by Abraham Lincoln
when he visited Kansas IN 1909.
It was built in New YORK State
and an Army officer brought it
tn Kansas a year before Lincoln
toured the State.
Local officials planned to get
frank McGlynn, Hollywood actor
who impersonateS Lincoln, to ride
In the carriage. They reported
this morning that McGlynn would
not be here because he said
Tjncoln never used an alrplane"
and that was the only means OF
getting here in time for the pa
rade.
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Chairman Smell and some other
members of the notification COM
mittee were expected to arrive
during the day. The committee
included:
Lloyd Adams, of Rexburg,
Idaho; B. o. Becker, of Ashland,
KY; Charles M. Blackwell, OF
New Haven, Conn.,; c. T. But
Ter, of Meridian, Miss; John R.
crews, of Brooklyn. N. Y; c. j.
Brown, of Manchester, Ohio;
Paul Correll, of Easton, Pa; Ed
ward F. Colladay, of Washington,
D. c.; Alex B. Cunningham, of
Helena, Mont: E. E. Chase. of
Atlantic, Iowa: P. E. Collier, Of
Portland, Ore: Roy E. Dunn, of
st. Paul, Mimi: Cornelius J.
Doyle, of Springfield, ILL.,; B. P.
Bristow Draper, Of Hopedale,
Mass; Charles J. Deland, of De-
troit; Gould Deitz, of Omaha,
Neb.