MOCK CONVENTION WILL OPEN TONIGHT

The mock Democratic Convention sponsored by the Harvard Democratic Club will come to order in the New Lecture Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The doors will be opened one hour earlier, as registration of delegates will take some time. All members of the University may become delegated in the convention by registering at any time during the evening. The galleries will be open to the members of the Faculty and to the public.

The convention will probably last two nights. Tonight the chief features of the program will be the keynote and nomination speeches, the adoption of a platform, and the first ballots for a Presidential candidate. Strong opposition to the nomination of Governor Smith has made itself felt in the Harvard Democratic ranks, and an intense and prolonged contest may result. A hot struggle is likely tonight over the prohibition plank in the platform.

Favorite Sons May Figure

The nominating speeches will be five minutes long each, while seconding speches will be still more limited. The leading candidates, Smith, Ritchie, Reed. Walsh, and Baker, will be put in nomination in the convention early this evening. Other candidates they be nominated, and many favorite sons not officially nominated are expected to receive votes. These include Senator Dill of Washington and Huston Thompson of Colorado, both of whom have spoken before the Harvard Democratic Club this year. Senator Walsh of Montana won many supporters through the speech he delivered in Boston under the auspices of the club a month ago.

Tonight's gathering will be the second of its kind in Harvard history. Four years ago some 300 students gathered and after two energetic evenings, nominated Carter Glass of Virginia.

The committee at the head of the plans for the convention is composed of Arthur Barnhart 1G., G. W. Smith '29, T. H. Eliot '28. David Scoll '28, Eugene Kraetzer '29, R. B. Hocking '28, C. J. White 3L., Edward Dumbauld 2L., A. B. Hawes '28, and G. W. Harrington '30.