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Article: Democrat conventions boast long, storied tradition.(A)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- August 24, 1996
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"There is something about a national convention that makes it as fascinating as a revival or a hanging. It is vulgar, it is ugly, it is stupid, it is tedious, it's hard upon both the cerebral centers and the gluteus maximus, and
yet it is somehow charming." - H.L. Mencken, 1924
No other political convention in American history was as exhausting to the body or spirit as the 1924 Democratic gathering that inspired these words from Mencken, the famous political journalist for the Baltimore Sun.
That convention was notable for its duration and internecine fighting.
More on that later. First, it's worth reviewing the storied ...