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Honesty. Speeches and resolutions are very well, but the Democratic party is traditionally the party of individualism. There are as many brands of Democracy as there have been outstanding Democratic leaders?Jeffersonian, Jacksonian, Cleveland, Bryan*, Wilsonian. Now there was to be a Smith Democracy. The convention waited to hear Nominee Smith's interpretation of his leadership. When the telegram arrived, it contained three important statements...
...mother, the ample, friendly woman who had been Kitty Dunn, would be perhaps the most conspicuous, not the most distinguished of Houston's unofficial guests. Edith Boiling Gait Wilson, widow of Democracy's last President, held the Wilsonian mantle over the shoulders of the Brown Derby, deciding the dynastic succession. Observer Smith and Observer
Barnhart, who is president of the Harvard Democratic Club, made the keynote speech, calling for a return to Wilsonian ideals and a cessation of government by and for monopolies. At the mention of Wilson's name, a picture of the late ex-President was unveiled and greeted with prolonged cheering. Barnhart's attacks upon the policy of isolation and corruption in government also brought aplause...
During the week, Governor Smith was called "outstanding Democrat of his day" by Roland Sletor Morris, Wilsonian ambassador to Japan (1917-21), and controller of at least half of Pennsylvania's 76 nominating votes at the Democratic convention...
...Smith of New York. But is he high or is he low?-that has been the vexing question. If and when Governor Smith is nominated, astute hindcasters may point back to last week as a turning point. For of all "high" Democrats none is higher than Newton Diehl Baker, Wilsonian War Secretary. And last week Mr. Baker said, not only that he admired Governor Smith, but that he knew the nomination would be "an entirely creditable one to the Democratic Party...