THE CAMPAIGN: At Cleveland

Two came from the southern and the eastern hemisphere; two came from the middle of the Pacific; two came from the land that borders on the Arctic Ocean; two came from a rectangular island in the Caribbean; two came from the Nation's Capital. But it wasn't all a two-by-two affair. From the state of New York came 91, from Pennsylvania 79, from Ohio 51. There were 1,109 in all.

Indeed it was not unlike the episode of the Ark, when the delegates came to Cleveland. They came to escape...

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