The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-06
Cleveland Convention

The republican convention coHi- vening in Cleveland next Tues- day is the 21st in g. o. p. his- tory. The first was held in Philadelphia in 1856, nominated John 0. Fremont of California. !. This years convention with 1,001 delegates, will be smaller than the 1892 gatherin gwhen l,- 154 delegates took part. The de- crease is due to @ decline in the party's vote in the last general election Since 1860, when the republicans won their first Victroy with Abraham Lincoln as the standard bearer, they have had twelve incunbents in the White House For the first time in the history of a national convention, lnicrophones have been placed on the floor of the hall, one for each staet delega- ton. Thus the radio audience will be able to hear both the main speeches and those from the floor of the auditorium The 6. 0. D. brain trust has collected copies of all the state platforms adopted by republican state com- mittees and has tabulated them bN subjects for the convenience of the Cleveland platform draft CTS The toughest problem facing the drafters is a farm plank. c. 0. D. chiefs are count ing strongly on Senator Charles McNary, republican floor leader and co-author of the famous Mc- Nary-Haugen equalization fee plan, to work out Q solution for them.
 If Governor All LandOn is
 nominated, the next republican
 chairman will be John ITamiI-
 ton, his dynamic campaign
 manager.
 Unfinished Business
 When the Supreme Court ad- journed this week for it's four months recess, 1t had not passed on four major New Deal meas ures-the Securities Act, Stock Exchange Control, the Utility Holding Company and Social &c., curity Acts. All of them are cer- tain to reach a court test next year J. Edgar Hoover's latest quarterly report places Florida ahead in the number of murders, South Dakota in rape cases and Illinois in robbery. The senate munitions investigat- ing committee has on file more than 00,000 requests for copies of its report. Seventy-five thou sand requests are from members of the House and Senate who want them for inquiring consti- tuents. No copies are yet avail- able, because the resolution auth orizing printing of the report is being held up in the House Print ing Committee Republican National Chairman Fletcher re- ceived a letter from @ small town editor complaining about failure to obtain press tickets for the Cleveland convention, and warn- ing that if they were not imme- diately forthcoming T will take the matter up with some of the higher-ups in the party. MT. Hilles and MT. Roraback."
 .
 Representative Marion Zion-
 check, Peck's bad boy of Capi-
 tol Hill, is strangely modest in
 his biography in the Congress
 sional Directory. He lists him-
 self merely, Marion Zloncheck,
 Democrat, of Seattle, Wash"
 He Thought
 Senator William E. Borah re- ceived numerous telegrams con- graduating him on the radio speech in which he castigated Old Guard 6. 0. p. leaders. But one wire, signed Radio Listener, read: T thought you were rum ming for the republican presi- dential nomination" Tn its annual report to stockholders, Commonwealth and Southern. bitetr foe of the Tennessee Valley Authority, declares: whenever citizen of Tupelo, Miss, (one of the cities purchasing Cheap IVA