The Democrats at Chicago The Democrats are • making Chicago
a much more lively place than the Republicans did a fortnight ago. The Republicans, after all, had only to nominate Mr. Hoover. The Democrats have had to decide whom to nominate, and there are plenty of candidates, all of them well versed in nomination strategy. Governor Roosevelt • is still first favourite, in spite of a certain loss of prestige resulting from the vacillation of his followers, who first decided to try for the abrogation of the rule requiring: the successful candidate to secure a two-thirds majority, and then decided not to. Nothing is certain at a party convention. Mr. Roosevelt may be nominated by the time these lines appear. On. the other hand, particularly if Mr. Al Smith, who cannot get the nomination himself, has his way, the struggle may go on for days. Not less important than the candidate is the platform, for the Democrats' final declarations on tariffs, prohibition and international consultations under the Kellogg Pact may. have • a determining- influence on immediate American history. The rumoured decision to go for full repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition) accords with expectations. •
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