Show DOMESTIC Nothing r else was so Interesting to the people of time tile United States us as the time business of selecting their next dent d The campaigning started early und from t the beginning It was IS uhl ably ulily apparent that thai Secretary l of Commerce Toni Com 11 merce Herbert Hoover er would a win In ln I the flit ht Republican nomination and tutu that lill Gov Guv Al AI Smith mith of mf rev New York nil would head III IIII I Democratic ticket The G n n O. O P P. national na tar I convention 1111 en t lUll rued met on 0 June Judie J ulle 1 In 1 Kansas I City c It with the toe Hoover Cr delegate strongly entrenched the till only at oilier uther her prominent candidates heln being C lowden of Illinois anti and Senator I hides Charles Curtis fortis of f J II Kansas L lowden 1 was vas sump supported h by the Ille leaders of farm or who the Nary Mc-Nary ll u relief relict hill bill mind and andI I they hey promised Him Ilium there w old lei he III UI u tremendous I demonstration i 11 Ii h in Iii fu rub If It the Ilene con l did Illel not at lit ImM 1 a II platform pili plunk plank Ilk to III licit III UK Ing This turned out mull to 10 r. r hv a II f. alarm mild and Hoover went er user easil ih on nn till the I first n 1 ballot titter after the flIP resolution resolution- laud had fixed up ji ii pl 11 im III I conform to 10 his policies Senator Cur Us Ifs u uns consoled a with the nomination for fur Vice Tice President Ic Mr fir It Hoover er select lell selected ed lII Secretary of Ih the Interior Robert I II I Work for chairman of the national committee and the campaign work was promptly organized The Democrats met In national conn convention con In Houston Texas Texus on June 20 26 and from that moment there was no nl doubt of Smiths Smith's victory The file southern southern south south- ern Democrats however ho being nearly all dry and Protestant made macle such ti fight ht as ns they could and on June 28 accepted the nomination of Smith h on the first ballot with wry faces The enthusiasm of the governors governor's supporters support ers was such that there were many assertions that the time party would stand solidly behind him How lIow wrong the prediction was is known to all It took tool only one ballot for the time convention COD conven tion to choose S Senator Joe Robinson of ot Arkansas as Smiths Smith's running mate He tie was the first resident below the Mason and Dixon line since the Civil war to tobe tobe tobe be named on a Presidential ticket by either of the major parties and his selection was regarded as a n wise strategic move Governor Smith on receiving word of ot his nomination rather rath rath- er upset the convention con by a n telegram in which be he declared he hud had not changed his opposition to the present prohibition laws lows and methods of ot their enforcement John J. J Raskob chairman chairman chair chair- man of the finance committee of the General Motors corporation was made Democratic national chairman and under under under un un- der his leadership the party for the time first time In many long years obtained ample funds for the campaign Both Doth candidates made several speaking speaking speak speak- ing tours and for the time first time radio was used extensively ely in to the campaign The people were thoroughly aroused and the religious Issue hsue though deprecated deprecated deprecated depre depre- b by the leaders of ot both parties would not down It and also the prohibition pro pro- Issue cut both ways In the middle western western and and western states the question of farm r relief was played up but hut In the end It was overshadowed overshadowed owed by the fact that the country In lu general was exceedingly prosperous and the voters oters did not care to make moke I Ian an experimental change I The Time American people men and women wom worn women en went to the polls on November 6 C in unprecedented numbers and when their ballots had been cast Hoover bower and Curtis carried forty states with a total total to to- tal of 44 1 electoral votes otes and Smith and Robinson had carried eight states stItes with 87 81 votes In the electoral college Hoovers Hoover's majority e exceeded even that thai of Wilson In 1912 Moreover l he lie smashed the solid soUd South winning Florida Maryland New Mexico North Carolina and Texas Texus Smiths Smith's states were ere Alabama Arkansas Georgia Louisiana Massachusetts Mississippi Rhode Island and ond South Carolina lIe He failed to carry New York though Franklin Roosevelt ett Dem Oem was elected elected elect elect- ed governor of that state Wh When n the popular vote was considered the de defeat defeat de- de feat fent of Smith did not seem so The fhe total vote v cast was US ap op proximately and of these Smith received about l Two weeks after the election Mr Hoover sailed from San Sun Pedro Calif on a good will tour of ot the republics of Central and rind South America that was to lust last about two months and he announced announced an an- that he would not select his cabinet until after his return On his trip he was received everywhere with enthusiasm by the officials and people peo peo- imie of the countries visited and It was believed the tour would do much to cement the friendly relations between the Latin American nations notions and the time United States Legislation for naval construction flood control and form farm relief occupied much time In congress from the time first of the year ear Time The first as finally passed provided for tor the construction of fifteen n cruisers and one plane carrier carrier car CHr- rier and carried In the tile matter of loud flood control President CoolIdge Cool Cool- ool Idge Ide Insisted that the states especially Interested must share the cost and the measure adopted recognized this principle and appropriated 3 for tor the tile work The President was equally Insistent against the time McNary- McNary Haugen farm relief relle measure und amid when both hoth houses passed it he vetoed It Another r major piece of legislation was the tire finance hl hill bill which reduced taxes more mure than The Boulder Von Canyon on dam project so dear to California California Cali Call fornia was the subject of a Ion long and ond hitter bitter fight lime house passed the bill hulk but hut when congress adjourned on May 29 It was left as unfinished business In Inthe Inthe inthe the senate Congress assembled for the short tern term on December 3 a with stimuli small prospect lr of passing any tiny Important mE measures except the necessary supply hills The lre Republicans decided that the matter of tariff revision should be taken up early In January tint nut It was virtually n agreed reed upon that this and farm arm relief should be passed on to a n special session t. t hick Mr lr Hoover hud hod said suld he would call resident President Coolidge In his message e gave e an un account of his stewardship for fur live five and a II half years and pictured the tire state stute of the nation us as most favorable fu with peace lUC prosperity pros pe mind and good III ill unprecedented I Tire time senate passed the Boulder data dam bill amended to lO meet objections resident President I and amid 1 Mrs Airs rs Coolidge 0 spent their summer SI vacation l at lit a am ti-hlll ti tilling fishing Im luel lodge In iii t northern Wisconsin Their sun son John went to III work In f the rhe ollices of un an eastern railroad oud wind and In November Novem NII tier her hl his engagement to Mis lIs-l lIs Florence II daughter of If tl the II of wais as announced 1 The lOn convention of the American Legion was sits held II Ii Sun San Antonio Autumn Tex as tas In October Om-loher and Paul 1111 V V. V McNutt II If I II was elected national commander Al AI the Ihl same saute lime titue the t Spanish Will Wai Veterans ns met In III Havana f whom In September Ih the Crand Army of If the Re He Republic public held It Its encampment In III I hen men vi 1 unIt anal hose chose John Reese fill fat Its lis com In rill Ill r. r II 11 c |