Today -100: October 25, 1926: Of interested minorities, matches, and booze

Vice President Charles Dawes denounces primaries as creating “rule by an interested minority.” Selection of candidates by a nominating convention “would make possible an open fight by impartial delegates against possible corruption or a controlled candidate and better precipitates the issue before the people in the election.”

The steamship Falcon sets fire in England, coming ashore near Dover. Its cargo: 203 million matches.

Metropolitan Life Insurance Comp. says deaths from alcohol among its policy-holders increased 14% in the first 9 months of 1926, with the greatest increase in young persons.

W.C. Fields’s “So’s Your Old Man” premieres. I’ve not seen this one, and all the versions of it on YouTube are low-quality.

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