Evening star., 1936-06-11
Cleveland Fan
Dancer Nav
Take Walk
Of All the Crises, This
Breaks in Convention
Midst.
BY JOHN LARDNER,


~ LEVELAND June II, CNAN.
A).-The second day of the
Republican National Conven-
- ton was day of sensational
developments and tremendous crises.
| With a burst of enthusiasm which
Dordered oh mass coma, the party
wrassled with the following issues:
1. The stop-me if-you'v e-heard-Lan-
don movement.
2. The off-keynote speech.
3. Soundproof money.
4. The fan dance crisis at the
Great Lakes Exposition.
5. The sinister Bolshevik intrigue
to cut all the wires at Convention
Hall.
6. Mr.. Hoover's speech.
z. The project to conciliate Ohio
voters by offering cabinet portfolios
TO all members of the Cleveland In
dians and sentencing Jesse Owens to
lifetime college education at Ohio
State, with board
8. The winner of the fifth at Aque-
duct.
/
The most significant debate Of the
day centered around Miss Faith
Bacon popular and homespun candi-
4 date for the fan dance franchise at
the Great Lakes Exposition, who re-
peatedly refused to accept any other
Office as a compromise Baked by
| exposition officials, Miss Bacon held
her ground and refused to be dragged
into the reciprocal tariff controversy.
The tariff may be reciprocal, but
/ it is not artistic" stated the candi-
date in the course of a penetrating
analysis of the issue. If they don't
permit me to dance at the exposition,
will take a walk, and so much the
worse for civilization"
To your correspondent, who has
passed judgment on every party plat
form since the election Of John
! Quincy Adams, it looks now as if the
Republican planks will be a compromise
| between the forces committed to Gov.
Landon and Manager Steve O'NeiI of
the Cleveland Indians, with Senator
Borah forming a third party, and
possibly a fourth, for bridge.
The Summary.
The platform, unless I miss my
guess (and DO, terribly will shape
up as follows:
Complete Endorsement of Abraham
/ Lincoln.
A "hands-off" foreign policy, with
double pay for overtime.
Relief legislation for Cleveland,
which would bring Gomez. Grove,
Foxx, Gehringer and Di Maggie to the
Indians in straight trade for Frankie
/ Pytlak
Soundproof money. including a
/ noiseless dime. a streamlined dollar
and an alr-conditioned nickel
! Endorsement of George Washington.
Party leaders also are urging that
the party make a clean breast of it and
confess that a Republican victory Will
be the salvation Of the country.
AS soon as the platform is okayed,
which may happen in time for the cleo
ton in November, the convention will
get down to the business of nominating
its candidates. An informal poll COM
piled by Landon hackers on the eve of
the roll call shows that the Kansas
Coolidge IS sure of l100 votes on the
first ballot. which. in view of the fact
that there are only 1908 delegates,
would be a distinct personal triumph
for Aft as his friends call him, and his
friends are legion, if not more.
"a Votes for Underwood.
A less partial and more accurate
ANALYSIS of the delegates indicates that
the first ballot will go more or less like
this:
Alabama-24 votes for Underwood.
Arizona-Uncommitted
If the roll call proceeds beyond this
point-and 1t has just been learned
from a reliable source that the diff
Guilty of pronouncing the names of the
other States may cause the convention
tc skip As of them-there will be a
strong Landon trend and possibly a
scattering of votes for J. Hamilton Fish
by labor sympathizers.
A private poll on a candidate by
candidate basis shows the following
distribution as they go to the post:
Landon-550
Vandenberg-550
| KnoX-550.
| Borah-550.
These totals will be more than ade-
quate for the nomination of all four
men, and, if it turns out that way,
let the New Deal beware
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