The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-09

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 A first ballot nomination is indi- cated, but Q second ballot nornina- ton s likely. If Landon failed to pull the hill on the third or fourth roll call, the unexpected trouble which has been variously promised him would be considered to have arrived.
 Vice. Presidency Black
 Selection of c vice-presidential candidate remains Q matter of cor1- lecture, with the odds favoring Sen- ator Frederick Eteiwer, Oregon's pride, who will be the keynote speaker before the convention to- night.
 Senator Borah, c presidential can- didate in his own right, has dared Landon to ignore his platform blanks on currency, foreign affairs and against industrial and commercial monopoly. Borah is baking at joining any anti-Landon movement but threatens to demand the privi- lege of the convention floor to fight for his principles if the republican platform goes awry.
 Bcrah as orator before such . crowd would pack Q punch. He may end . career aS William Jen- nings Bryan began one by starn- peding a national convention, per- haps not to himself but to some other than Landon.
 Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan would be the probable legatee of many votes if Landon could be stopped and Bhorn.
 Frank Knox of Illinois is the third of the second place candidates who have been straining for six months to head the KanSan away from victory.
 vandenberg, BOrah in Walk
 Vandenberg and Borah took . walk last night. It was walk around the block, two senate friends arm in arm. But the sortie set tho town crazy with talk of last minute miracles which were going to ditch the Landon bandwagon somewhere near Sixth and Superior streets, c safe 300 yards from public auditorium. Former Senator George 1T. Moses conferred soon afterward with Vandenberg and there was a new furry of stop-Landon talk. Moses is co-manager of the Knox campaign.
 Platform Dispute
 Dispute over the party platform almost compensateS for the anti- climactic windup of the presidential nomination race. Every state and almost every delegate has from one plank to a complete platform for submission to the people as the state- ment of principles upon which the republicans hope that Mir. Roosevelt and the New Deal can be evicted from the White House, Borah has chosen to make his fight on the issue of platform rather than cal1di- dacies. His challenge to the Lan- don camp was uttered yesterday in a demand that the governor state his position on:
 1. A currencw policy.
 2. Foreign policy.
 3. Control of industrial and com
 mercial monopoly.
 COwardIy Struggle
 Borah called the tentative Landon foreign policy plank Q cowardly struggle because he believes 1t does not sufficiently renounce all foreign entanglements likely to lead the United States into war. He charged that "gold money" men of New York had sold their plan to Kansas. And he rumbled protests against any anti.monopoly plank which fails to outlaw monopoly.
 Landon managers said the senator could write their monopoly plank for them, and said Landon had put himself sufficiently on record about money not to need to explain fur- ther where he stood. But Borah was convinced that the Landon platform was the instrument of Wall Street and the old guard, and sus- pected that Landon was their man, too.
 The Borah blast had enough fire