| Show awo ion E 1 x A W nl HERBERT HOOVER FOR PRESIDENT ga 0 Ps BIG SHOW AT CHICAGO WAS A masterpiece greatest interest centered in fight over prohibition repeal plank 1 by y WRIGHT A PATTERSON chicago the convention tion met nominated herbert hoover as an the bartys cob condl didato dato for president and charles charlea curtis as its iti candidate for or vice president adopted a platform that embodies a modification of the prohibition airen dment to tho tha states as aa one plank and adjourned that la Is what was accomplished by 1163 delegates senator horah borah riot not being presen tand and 1154 1114 alternates who going to and frons rol t the t convention SM estimated total I 0 of tallies at h cost for 1 raila ro road d fare are ot of something over so far BS as tho the actual news of tho the convention was concerned any reporter oven even the cub could havo written it at any time during the past throe three months and possibly at any time during the past three years rut but there had to be a convention the ilia properly designated delegates had to have their lay day in the spotlight oven even though there was no contest for votes for or a presidential nomination and nil all bad to pay their own railroad fare and hotel bills members of tho the national committee had find to have the tha opportunity port unity of sitting in the reserved seats at the big chow allow distinguished guests had to hays have the opportunity of being known as distinguished guests tho the assistant sergeants Berge acts at arms arma and tile the ushers would never have been satisfied had they be been en do de priced of wearing their badges and even the peanut renders lind had to have their chance to earn on an honest dime the when the roll call of states for the naming of candidates began on thursday the california delegation was the first one to respond and james scott presented the name of II herbert erbert hoover hooner ner ills naming of the president produced the greatest demonstration of the convention when oregon was reached tho the name of doctor france W was as presented to be followed by the one ballot needed to name a candidate Il president resident hoover received all the votes with the exception of three or four our for coolidge three tor for france three tor for maine of 0 wisconsin and one for senator wadsworth of new york doctor franco proved a magnanimous candidate for the nomination after 4 it Saud sandblast blast of 0 portland ore ora had presented in a modest way the qualifications of his states chum charo plon pion for tho the presidential job doctor france attempted to secure from the chair and when refused attempted to force his way onto the plat platform forat the audience presume presumed he wanted to say something more in his own behalf but that wits waa not the good doctors purpose what he be want ft ant ed cd to ao 30 do was to withdraw his own name and present to the convention contention the name of the distinguished massa churetta chu setta trout fisherman calvin cool idge idee the police took a hand in the affair ejected the doctor from the platform and the name dame of calvin cool idge was not mentioned except that thai during the roll call tor for the presidential President lal nomination three or four delegates from as many states insisted upon vo voting for him with general dawes out of the race there was practically no opposition to vice president curtis and he be received the nomination for second place on the ticket on the tha first ballot tito tin formalities begin tuesday morning at 11 there were close to one hundred thousand people in illIng about the chi cago stadium inside there wore were some fifteen thousand to occupy seats beats in the section reserved for delegates there was but ono one vacant chair the one no reserved for senator corah borah in the alternate section they were all filled the national committeemen and women momen wore were all present the distinguished guests had bad arrived the assistant sergeants at arms all properly labeled with pretty badges were in evidence but all too many of that more mora than seats provided for paying guests at from 3 to 5 per guest were vacant tho the people of chicago had failed to evidence their appreciation of thy tho entertainment provided by a catl national onal republican publIcan Ite convention ven vent tion lon it was only IS 18 minutes after the scheduled hour of eleven when senator fess national chairman with ft a bung starter for a gavel called tor for order ond anti announced to those who persisted in continuing their conversation that their time was up and lie he was now in charge and would temporarily pora rily at least run the allow ordinarily dina din rily artly tho the next number on the program would have I 1 leen t te e prayer bUt before that in get through with the welcome by the democratic major of tho the city it would never do to include in the plea for divine guidance the actions or words worda of a democratic mayor tho the Rey keynoter lion hon lester jesse dickinson of iowa made a good speech the samo same quality of speech made before a democratic national convention would have produced hours of boisterous demonstration but the republicans are moro more given to voting than to shouting though senator dickinsons Dickin sons speech ila did riot not produce any number of wild outbursts nay any prolonged parade of howling delegates it did make a profound impression on the assembled republican hosts while looking on at a Ite republican publican national convention seems like watching the operations of a well oiled and perfectly geared machine it Is not BS as simple as it seems jones and smith and brown and dr nicholas It hurray urray butler all havo have a chance to air their views but all of this Is in committee meetings held in hotel rooms it Is the final result that Is brought to the floor of the convention and goes into the record as tho ilia unanimous verdict of the assembled delegates the wednesday morning session was another of those formal occasions that did not attract the crowd it took ten minutes to listen to tho the report of the organization committee and an hour to listen to tho the speech of the permanent representative snell of new york but it was a good spell speech and appealed to the delegates ills first mention of the name of president hoover started a 0 halt hour tion that would have been unanimous had oregon joined in but that state was loyal to former senator france of maryland Maryln nd the adopted favorite of oregon and its banner was not carried in the parade of states chicago sees seen the show chicago went to the convention wednesday night and chicago was wot wet when senator bingham ning ham of connecticut read the minority platform report demanding straight repeal of ilia eighteenth amendment tho the thunderous applause came from froia choso 3 to 5 seats t ui be chicago people had paid for and the assistant sergeants at arms the rather mild delegate demonstration on was led by wisconsin and joined lu in by many states including prohibition maine when previously the majority report was presented providing for modification with federal control of the tha liquor traffie le kansas led the demonstration but did not receive any appreciable support from the chicago audience wednesday night it looked like it ft convention the vacant seats that had been so BO noticeable during the tuesday and wednesday morning sessions were all filled all of the chicago aunts and uncles and cousins Ile republican publIcan and democratic had turned out to hear bear what the G 0 P was goerg calra to do about prohibition and these theme chicago aunts uncles and cousins cousin knew what they wanted done with it t when james IL garfield of 0 ohio attempted to make a plea for the adoption of at the majority plank CM chicago in tho the galleries refused to listen esven a threat to clear the galleries was ot of no avail and very little of what mr garfield said was heard beard by any of tho the delegates to whom lie he was waa talk talking ln dr duller butler in the limelight chicago thought differently about dr nicholas murray butler when he had hla his ten minutes on the platform the gallery gods recognized him as their champion and the threat to ad journ ourn tho the convention was not needed to bevurn attention to tits hla speech when ogden mills of new york told the vast audience why he favored the majority report the gallery gods listened they had to ills powerful voice over awed them and dim demanded attention altogether those gallery soda gods did much to counteract the good impression made by the gracious welcome extended to the delegates by democratic mayor cermak ceramic speech followed speech starting with a time limit of ten minutes and getting down to one minute until every one who wanted to have hla his say had been given an opportunity it was such buch a talk fest test as would have been expected at a national democratic powwow pow wow but the oratory lasting until one thursday morning did not change a single vote and when the roll of states was called tt it resulted in the adoption of the majority report by to platform and prohibition the party platform as worked out by the resolutions committee contains 28 planks when it was read to the convention on wednesday evening the delegates and especially the wet chicago visitors evinced interest in only ono one of the 28 there was but little interest in the fact that the party stood for a reorganization of the government bureaus in the interest of 0 economy that the party proposed to have the government loan money to the states for emergency relief work that it stood for a reduction of public expenditures for the balancing of the national budget for adherence to the gold standard and against currency inflation for revision of the banking laws to protect depositors 1 1 1 Z 21 49 CHARLES CURTIS for continuing assistance to co opera tives through the tha farm faria marketing act but when the secretary after an hour got down to that one vital all ink ha subject prohibition they wera were interested the majority of the resolutions committee proposed a plank that would modify the eighteenth amendment permitting people of any state to decide for themselves whether they wished to be ba dry or wet it if dry the federal government to assist in the tha prevention ot of the manufacture of liquor in the state or transportation into or the sale of liquor within the tha state it if wet the federal government to control and regulate the sale sala of at liquor within the thai state it implied that government control and regulation would be through the medium of government dispensaries dispensa ries to be established in yet wet territories only other planks call for tax reduction for tariff and the extension of tariff protection to cover natural resource industries farms forests mines and oil wells tor for a shorter work day and shorter work week restrIct lor of immigration collective bargaining freedom of speech and assemblage sem blage tor for a home loan discount bank system for giving the tha federal power commission authority to regulate charges for electric current when transmitted between states and others that are arc usually found in any party platform spotlights and observations it if nil all of those wearing assistant sergeant nt at arms badges vote the republican ticket next november mr hoover Is sure of election welcome to the g 0 p ANTON J mayor was the message carried on the arm of every city policeman on duty in and around the stadium alice roosevelt noo sevelt longworth was much the lion of the occasion of the women but will rogers got the majority of the attention from the women at every session the women romea crashed the gates of the press stand seeking wills autograph and he signed until he be developed it ft severe seven case of writers cramp and wore out nt all of his lead pencils pencil |
