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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH SELECT HOOVER : i .j AND CURTIS TO LEAD THE G. 0. P. Republican Party Names Both Candidates on the First Ballot Long-wort- h For President: j HERBERT C. HOOVER i For Vice President: 1 CHARLES CURTIS ' - f ! ment as could be obtained from ' 106 convention. None of the ladies attracted mor attention than Mrs. Ruth Hanna IK Cormick of Chicago, candidate for ren. resen tative-at-larg- e from Dlinois, and Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wif of the speaker of the house, who wouldnt miss a Republican convention for a farm. The two are old friends, and when Alice went to a hotel u! stead of to the house that Ruth had rented there were rumors that the? had split because Mrs. McCormick was a Lowden manager and Mrs. was believed to favor Hoover Both, when questioned, declared the Idea was absurd, that they frequently didnt agree but that made no difference in their friendship ; and later they were much together. Alice was recognized wherever she appeared and it seemed she had inherited much of the popularity of her famous father as well as much of his vividness of personality and his love of life. Five planks were brought to Kansas City by four women who represented the National League of Women Voters. They asked the party for support of the effort to obtain by uniform agreement with other nations the renunciation of war, the substitution of arbitration for war in the settlement of International disputes, and the entrance of the United States in the permanent court of international justice. They also sought approval of an amendment to the Constitution doing' away with the long Interval between election of members of congress and the beginning of their terms; further development of the policies of the present administration toward child welfare ; government operation of Muscle Shoals, and the removal of legal discrimination against women by specific measures not. prejudicial t womens labor laws or to social conditions" Instead of dealing with the subject by blanket legislation. The four women who appeared before the committee on resolutions were Miss Belle Sherwin of Cleveland, Mrs. James W, Morrison of Chicago, Mrs. George Geilhorn of St Louis and Mrs. Herbert Knox Smith of Farmington, . By EDWARD W. PICKARD Convention ITall, Kansas City, Mo. Deftly extricating themselves from a situation that was admittedly embarrassing, the Republicans In national convention nominated Herbert Hoover for President oiy'the first ballot, and placed under him a platform so skillfully devised that no faction In the party, save perhaps the wets, could find cause for serious complaint Most of the aggrieved farmers of the Middle West, even though they did not obtain what they had asked, seemed to accept the agricultural relief plank with good grace and to concede that the G. O. P. was alive to their troubles and could be relied upon to help them If given another four years in control of the national government That farm plank was pronounced by experts to be one of the smoothest pieces of political carpentering seen In many a day, and the craftsmen who shaped and planned it believe It will easily stand the strain of the national campaign. Hoovers most threatening competitor for the nomination, Frank O. Low-dewithdrew his name before balloting began because he believed the convention had not met the farm problem fairly and squarely. His pledged votes were scattered across the board. The other aspirants stuck but the result had been assured for many hours. On the first and only ballot. Hoover scored 837 votes. Despite his withdrawal, Lowden was second with 71, and Senator Curtis and Senator Watson followed with 64 and 45, respectively. Senator Norris was voted for by 24 radicals, and Senator Goff by 18 West Virginians. Seventeen delegates voted for President Coolidge, 4 for Vice President Dawes and 1 for Charles Evans Hughes. Five were recorded as not voting. On motion of Governor Paulen of Kansas, the nomination of Herbert Hoover was made unanimous. ' With Hoover and the platform put over, those in control of the conventions actions, having a full realization of what they had done, selected Charles Curtis for second place on the ticket Then, completing the necessary business of the convention, the delegates adjourned and left for home with the conviction, often exWe have a good pressed in words: ticket, a good platform and a fight on our hands for victory in November. It Is quite true that the disgruntled leaders of the many farm organizations, who failed to put the equalization fee feature In the platform, said they would never vote for Hoover, that they would go to the Democratic convention In Houston to get what they wanted, and that they and their followers would bolt the Republican party, it is also true that the radical group headed by Senators Norris, and Nye talked about bolting, as was expected. But the wise politicians could see no real Indications of a third party of the disaffected. Putting Hoover Across. Nomination of Herbert Hoover was not accomplished with any especial finesse or delicacy of treatment It was done by mere force of numbers. From the start only the remote possibility that President Coolidge might be drafted and consent to run again stood in the way of the secretary of commerce, and when, the night before the convention opened, apparently authentic information came that Mr. Coolidge really would not again be a candidate, and Andrew Mellon was forced by Bill Vare to advise the Pennsylvania delegation to vote for Hoover, all doubt of Hoovers victory vanished. The allies, the supporters of Lowden, Curtis, Watson find Goff, declared they were not yet beaten and that they would carry on the fight to the bitter end, but their d and their assertions were faces were glum. Privately they that all hope was gone. Visitors found a beautiful city, reasonably pleasant weather, fine hotels and other desirable things, even if they didnt find much to stir them to wild enthusiasm. The victors themselves were comparatively calm and repressed, which may have been due t their advance confidence that they were going to be the victors. It was all very businesslike. ( Opening the Big Show. More than 12,000 delegates, alternates and spectators were seated in the auditorium when, promptly at eleven oclock Tuesday morning Wil-lalM. Butler, national chairman, called the convention to order. The calcium lights in the photographers gallery flared Into action, the cameras clicked, and Bishop Partridge of Kansas City was led forward to deThen Mme. liver the invocation. Schumann-Heintook her stand before the array of "mikes on the d speaker's stand and sang The Banner. Ail will now stand while the offi half-hearte- m k Star-Spangle- ' cial photograph Is taken, announced Chairman Butler. "No, no, yelled a camera man with a megaphone, all sit down and keep still. So they all sat down and blinked pleasantly at the calciums all except Mr. Butler, who scowled at this revolt against his authority. Followed the tedious reading of the official call by Secretary Roy O. West of Chicago, the almost equally tedious remarks by Chairman Butler on behalf of the national committee, and then Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, long before selected as temporary chairman, was formally elected to that high honor, and was escorted to the platform. Senator Fess Is an' accomplished public speaker and had taken great pains In building his speech. But no one expects anything more than eloquent platitudes in a keynote address, and no one was disappointed. The Ohioan set forth at great length the good qualities of Republican doctrine and the good accomplishments of the Republican party, and he did not neglect to mention the supposed fallacies e and failures of the Democratic and party. His audience listened with a good deal of apathy. There was applause when he first mentioned Secretary Hoover, and cheers greeted the naming of great Republicans of the past But at no time did anyone show a desire to grab a standard and march through the aisles. Two Slips by Senator Fess. Mr. Fess delivered his address without manuscript and made numerous departures from it as given in advance to the pres.-- In naming the heroes of Republicanism he omitted all mention of Theodore Roosevelt because, as he explained that evening, he was temporarily disconcerted by a flashing of the spotlights just as he Another reached that paragraph. omission by the senator from the printed copy of the address was responsible for the loss of what severe critics called the only intestinal stamina In the entire production. As written, Mr. Fess had this to say concerning enforcement of law, meaning especially the prohibition law: No backward step can be tolerated upon whatever pretext which would permit a noisy minority to exploit the great mass of our population. It is not a question of tolerance or of liberty,' but of life, both individual and national. The Republican party is ready to c:.ll tho roll on this false under the doctrine masquerading mask of liberty. It is ready to sound the moral tocsin against the present minority campaign of a whether in the Int -- est of business profit or jiiere human indulgence. The fact that he left out this paragraph was noted with surprise but the omission didnt matter because the press of the country carried the address as furnished it in advance. Committees on resolutions, credentials, rules and permanent organization were named and after some further routine business the convention adjourned to' Wednesday morning. The afternoon and evening were busy times for the committees, especially the one whose duty It was to build Innumerable planks the platform. were submitted, by farmers, drys, wets, women and dozens of other groups or Individuals, and all were given due consideration, even the proposition of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of New York that the party declare for repeal of the Eighteenth Of course that plank amendment didnt have a ghost of a chance, although: the highbrow. wet made an eloquent argument which was seconded by former Senator Wadsworth. Senator Borah already had drawn up a fairly strong dry plank and that was adopted. Rebuffed Farmers Demonstrate. Gov. Adara McMullen of Nebraska presented the cause of the farmers to doe-trin- noise-makin- plea for of sevtell speSenator opposed said the After a warm debate the majority report was adopted by the convention. This result had been a certainty, but bill advocates had the McNary-Hauge- n effectively registered their protest statements on behalf of the farmers were exceedingly able, moderate and based on what he conceived to be a just cause. I differ with them, he added, only on the issue of the equalization fee. By nightfall the farmers had recognized that they could not force that equalization fee issue on the committee, so they began their demonstrations designed to impress the convention as a whole. There were somewhat noisy night parades, one of which even butted into a Hoover meeting; and next morning came their big march on the convention hall." Led by a band garbed In nice new overalls, several hundred men and women paraded the streets to the Auditorium, carrying numerous Improvised signs telling what they demanded and threatening that they would neVer vote for Hoover. Some of these marchers were quite evidently dirt farmers, but as evidently a considerable proportion of them never had laid hand to the plow or the hay fork. They were marshaled on their way by Edgar D. Bush of Indiana, candidate for lieutenant governor. Reaching the Auditorium, they made an attempt to crash" the doors and perhaps a score did force their way past one of the doorkeepers, but were speedily ejected by one lone police captain. With the band playing armers shouting loudly and the and singing, the procession went round and round the building trying to find an unguarded door, and then To tell the truth, the dispersed. d crusade of embattled farmers turned out very much of a fizzle. Moses Permanent Chairman. Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire had been selected as permanent chairman of the convention by the committee on permanent organization, and Wednesday morning, after prayer by Bisk- p Lillis, he was handed the gavel by Chairman Fess and delivered a brief address. The report of the committee on credentials provided the only Interest of this session. Days before the national committee had heard all the contests on delegates and had decided nearly every one in favor of the Hoov-eriteThe contests were carried before the committee, with the same result In the case of Texas there was involved a legal question and consequently the contestants called on the convention to decide. In that as in all other contests the body of delegates sustained the decisions of the The Texas delegation, committee. headed by National Committeeman Creager, was seated. Chairman Moses, calling for the report of the committee on resolutions, was informed it was not ready, so a recess was taken until evening, and another until Thursday morning. The platform makers had been hard at work, through a subcommittee, for many hours, but had not yet arrived at a satisfactory solution of the farm relief problem. Late Wednesday night, after long hours of discussion, the resolutions committee, by a vote of 35 to 15, adopted the administration plank on farm relief and In the morning offered It, along with the rest of the resolutions, to the convention. In this plank there was no mention of the equalization fee, but the party pledged Itself to devise ways and means of remedying the admittedly serious condition that the agricultural industry faces, chiefly in the disposition of crop surpluses and their marketing. The creation of a federal farm board was advocated. A minority report was presented, offering a plank embodying the equalization fee, and the battle was oa swept the field for the nomination for vice president at the closing session of the convention late Friday after-noo- a The senator received 1,052 votes on the first ballot, the remainder of the votes were scattered among who apparently several candidates were placed in nomination merely out of courtesy, as It was evident from the beginning that Curtis was a sure winner. the committee In a dignified relief and called on officials eral farm organizations to cifically what they wanted. Borah, who has consistently the McNary-Hauge- n bill, d much-advertise- s. Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas Uncle Andy Loses His Grip. One of the most interesting and significant if not exciting events of the week was the smoking out of Andrew Mellon by William S. Vare, senator-elect For days every one was saying Mellon can settle It all," "Mellon holds the key to the nomination, V Wait and see what Mellon tells his delegates to do. Came Monday afternoon bringing the secretary of the treasury and his Pennsylvania delegation, and all the correspondents rushed to hear what Mellon would say. Retiring at once to hi9 room, he sent out a statement by Senator David Reed which really said nothing at all. Anxious emissaries of Hoover, Lowden, Curtis and perhaps other hopeful ones, succeeded in penetrating to the presence, but Uncle Andy sat much like a graven image and continued to say nothing. He merely let it be known that the delegation from the Keystone state would hold a caucus Tuesday morning to determine its course. Meanwhile the wily Vare had decided that it would be a master stroke to Issue a statement on his own account So he sent out word to the news gatherers to this effect : The Republicans of Pennsylvania, In my judgment are for Herbert Hoover. I said in Philadelphia last month that he would be the strongest candidate the Republicans could nominate and that statement I now emphatically repeat I shall use my Influence at the caucus of the Pennsylvania delegation to have Secretary Hoovers candidacy indorsed. It was accepted by all that this forced Mellons hand and In fact, if not nominally, took away from him the control of the Pennsylvania delegation. At the caucus next day Mellon sat with his brother on one side of him and Vare on the other, and to the knowing he looked foolish. In a low voice he advised the delegation to vote for Hoover. Draft Coolidge Dropped. hours before the arrival , For some of the Pennsylvanians and the developments noted above, there had been a recrudescence of the movement to draft Coolidge, and this pleased various elements for various reasons. But Vares action, coupled with statements that in the opinion of his closest friends Mr. Coolidge would not consent to run, put an effective quietus on all the draft talk. Whether the President would send any direct message to the convention remained a moot question, but those supposed to be in his confidence believed that a definite stand for Hoover by the Pennsylvania delegation would make it unnecessary. Even William M. Butler, chairman of the national committee, when he found that Mellon could not deliver the delegation solidly, if at all, for Coolidge, definietly abandoned that favorite plan of his and prophesied that Hoover would win on the first or second ballot He called together the Massachusetts delegates and informed them that the project to draft the President had collapsed and that therefore they were free to vote solidly for Hoover. One of the Coolidge drafters, who is credited with entire sincerity in that plan, was Charles D. Hilles of New York. During the early part of the week he was confined to his room with a slight attack of illness. Mr. Hilles had no enmity for the secretary of commerce, but he had told other party leaders that, while he could carry the Empire state against A1 Smith with Coolidge, Hughes or Dawes as the Republican candidate, he could not do so if Hoover were nominated. And this opinion he did not alter. Around the Headquarters. Curtis boomers really were the first to stir things up about the hotels so that the actual convention aspect began to appear. A group of young men bedecked with sunflowers went the rounds of the headquarters Monday n rendering parodies of songs designed to set forth the excellent qualities of their senator as Presidential timber. Then they went to Mr. Curtis private room in the Mueble-bac- h hotel and sang them all over again. Thanks, boys, that was fine, said the senator as he shook them all by the hand, but suppose you go downstairs and sing. I think maybe it would do me more good. Another of the Curtis aids was an American Indian in full war paint and trappings, who did his war dances in the hotel lobbies to the delight of the . crowds. . Elaborate Lowden headquarters, scattered all over the place, were numerously peopled with busy, workers who handed out masses of literature and plastered badges on all who would accept them. Chief ef these badges, naturally, was one demanding equality for agriculture," and ' it was worn by many farmers who nevertheless would not admit that he was irrevocably against Hoover. Californians who were here to boost the cause of Hoover, their favorite son, made the Aladdin hotel a popular place. In the lobby and in the roof garden they served unlimited quantities of iced orange juice to all comers, the cups being passed around by handsome young ladies of Spanish type and in Spanish garb. Of course this advertised Californias oranges, but it also made people think kindly of the secre' tary of commerce. Hooverites Always Confident. ' It must be said that no one displayed any tremendous, enthusiasm about Mr. Hoover, but this probably was because his supporters believed such display was unnecessary. However, they were on the job all the time and did not neglect the 'movements and devices of their opponents. One day an. elevator in, the Muehle-bac- h hotel went on strike and 16 men, were marooned between floors for several hours. Ill bet they are all Hoover delegates and Its a scheme of the allies, cried a Hooverite as he scurried off to Hoover headquarters . . with the news. Close to those headquarters was a g banner bearing huge the words, Lowden, the Man of the Hour. Yeah, said a Hoover-badge- d stock raiser from the Northwest, the man of just about an hour and then hes done." , If anything disturbed the supreme confidence of the Hooverites In the hours before the convention assembled It was the statement Issued by Senator Curtis- immediately upon his arrival that he had come hoping and believing he would be the nominee, but that In any case he was definitely In the camp of the This was depressing to those who had been seriously considering the plan of putting the Kansas senator on the Hoover ticket In second place. " Busy Women With Planks. Women, hundreds of them, energetic, eloquent and efficient i , . They pervaded the scene during the week, some of them active for the various candidates; some for the two causes that especially Interested their sex, equal rights and a prohibition enforcement plank; a few as newspaper correspondents, and many just for the fun of the thing and as much excite well-know- . street-spannin- ... - Conn. City Kind to Correspondents. Kansas City folk, proud of. the Heart of America, as they call their city, overlooked no opportunity to Im-- . press on the visitors its advantages and beauues. The newspaper correspondents always are well eared for at national conventions, and Kansas City paid them especial attention, with excellent results. They started off the week with u golf tournament : . the Hillcrest club, and the mere ride out there was a wonderful ad. vertisement for the city, for it took the writers through beautiful residential sections, aloDg perfect boulevards and up the green rolling hills fro i which they could overlook the country for many miles. We never realized how beautiful Kansas City was, said the correspondents, almost unanimously, and it was certain they would tell something of what they had discovered in the stories they wrote. R. M. Switzer, a veteran from Quin-chandsome 111., carried off the trophy donated by the Kansas City Star. His score 77 was so good that no one- - else had a Chinamans chance; the other boys were certain he could not be a very active newspaper man and spend the time on the links necessary to learn the game so well. Equally unapproachable, on the other end of the scale, was the score of Bugs Baer, the columnist His remarkable 130 won for him the booby prize. If the correspondents had any cos mplaint to make concerning the the that was It convention City news was too unexciting, and that was not the fault of Kansas City. Monday evening Kansas City staged its own spectacular feature of th week in. the. form of a revival of, the e flambeau parade. The torch bearers were there in large numbers but they were by no means all of the show. Many bands, National Guard units, fire apparatus and numerous elaborate floats depicting historical scenes and personages were in the line, and at Penn Valley park, where the parade disbanded, a fine exhibit of fireworks was given. hu' The proverbial solid mass of to avenue manity was out on Grand see this big show, and solid" Is the scarcely an exaggeration, for a mounted police could hardly force that down marchers for the passage Memorial bill broad thoroughfare. and the Union station plaza were Itself packed to the limit The hill whs a gigantic grandstand, the crowd wall ot stretching back to the north and memorial the Impressive Liberty buttresses and to the parapets dinging above. For several hours the lobbies of the hotels were relatively deserted. the Rain and a gale of wind greeted Tues-daarose it when convention crowd all primed for the opening The prospects were dismal o the sightseers as well as for most o" the candidates, and raincoats and cobrellas were dragged forth. One law rrespondent approached a grapious stationed at the information stw toe in the Athletic club lobby with brash question: Is this rain to stop soon? "Oh yes," was the w Before 11 oclock-Anhesitating reply. did. It sure enough, a On the whole, the weather was w those that could be asked, and had deplored the selection of Kansa becau City for the convention city su of its supposed extreme heat in mer were pleasantly disappoint" an Breezes from the Missouri river t part-tim- e clouds served to temper unwilted. warmth and keep collars Kan-sa- old-tim- , y s3-sio- . 1928. Western Newspaper Union.) |