If the Democratic National Convention, after careful consideration, should decide it wants me to lead, I will make the fight; but I will not make a pre-convention campaign to secure the support of delegates.
By action of the Democratic National Convention of 1928,1 am the leader of my party in the nation. ... 7 shall not in advance of the convention either support or oppose the candidacy of any aspirant for the nomination.
In these words, pontifically handed from his high office in Manhattan's Empire State Building, Alfred Emanuel Smith last week announced his...
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