Leaders of the Republican Party in the United States are confident of the ultimate result of the presidential campaign which is to be launched shortly to place Governor London the White House. This confidence is Dased on. their estimate of political strength in different sections of the country and also has possibly some connection With the excellent report-{ing of the convention held at Cleveland recently, According to "Editor and Publisher," although it produced. nothing really exciting, not since 1672 have newspapermen so ruled a political convention, The number of words written and spoken over radio "hook-ups" "defies computation but the proceedings of such a convention have never before been so widely re-arted and di A writer in this journal Thirty auter were cone ianly operated five days the four major wire services-and isa conservative (estimate that these alone "handled" 800000 words uring the Supplementing them. both for. press services. and Individual " correspondents, were. a couple of "hundred Morse There. wer ness on their output. Oecd that 40" pres atend scale ware Site tte another haltsmflion words Into' ably
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