 While covering the convention, H. L. Mencken described Curtis as "the Kansas comic character, who is half Indian and half windmill.Charlie ran against Hoover with great energy, and let fly some very embarrassing truths about him.But when the Hoover managers threw Charlie the Vice-Presidency as a solatium, he shut up instantly, and a few days later he was hymning his late bugaboo as the greatest statesman since Pericles."