| Show I DOMESTIC Nothing else was so Interesting to tl people leople of the United States us as the business of selecting their next resi resident dent The campaigning started early curly and from the beginning It was tolerably tolerably toler ably apparent that lint Secretary of Com Commerce Corn Corn- om merce melce Herbert Hoover would win the Republican nomination and that Gov AI Al Smith of New York would head fiend the Demo Democh Democratic ticket The fhe G G. G O. O P P. P national national na na- na- na convention met net on June 12 In Kansas 1 City It with the Hoover Houver delegates strongly entrenched the only other prominent cnn candidates being Frank O. O Lowden n of Illinois and S Senator Charles turi mils is of i Kansas 1 Lowden wa was wis supported d tty bv y the lenders leaders of fin farm m or Ill who willi wanted the Nary Mc agricultural relief hill bill and they promised N that there he be u 11 tremendous demonstration lion bv h farmers if the tile loi loil convention l did nut not lICIt at nl li least ast adopt adapt n a platform plank t to their ilk III Ing This turned out to I im ie n U false r.-ilse alarm and louver Hoover went weD over easily on au the fire first ha ballot after r the resolution had fixed up Ull a n platform Io i Ic conform to his ills policies Senator Cur ur consoled with the nomination for Vice President Mr Hover er selected select select- ed Secretary of the Interior Robert C Work for or chairman of the national s 9 no nn nore 4 lie re soul south south- li linearly eng nearly Tit Lit made such y con cou and on June 28 c the nomination of Smith on ont t e first ballot with wry faces The enthusiasm of the governors governor's support supporters ers era was such that lint there here were many assertions that the party would woul stand solidly behind him How low wrong the prediction was Is known to oil nil It II took only one ballot for the conven to choose Senator Joe Hobin Robinson son of Arkansas as Smiths Smith's running mate He was the first resl resident below the Mason l and DIxon line since the Civil ivil war nr to tobe he be named on a u Presidential ticket by either of the major parties and his selection was regarded as a wise strategic move mo Governor Governur Smith on receiving word of his nomination rather rath rath- er cr upset the convention by hy a telegram In which he declared he had hud not changed his opposition to the present prohibition laws and methods of their enforcement John J. J Raskob chairman chairman chairman chair chair- man of the finance committee of the General Motors corporation was made Democratic national chairman and under under un der del his leadership the party for the first time In many long years obtained ample funds for the campaign Both candidates made several speakIng speaking speak speak- speaking ing tours und and for the first filst time radio was used extensively In the campaign The people were wele thoroughly aroused and the tile religious Issue though deprecated deprecated depre depre- by the leaders of f both hoth parties would not down own It and also the prohibition pro pro- issue cut both hoth ways In the middle western and western rn states the question of farm relief was played up but hut In the end it was overshadowed overshadowed owed by the fact that the lie country in general was exceedingly prosperous and the voters oters did ld not care Ire to make an experimental change The American people men and women women women wom wom- en went to tile the polls on November G In unprecedented numbers an and when their ballots had been cast Hoover Hoo and Curtis carried forty states with a total total total to to- tal of electoral votes and find Smith and Robinson had carried eight states with 87 votes In the electoral college Hoovers Hoover's majority exceeded even that thai of at Wilson In 1912 Moreover he smashed the solid South winning whining Florida Maryland New Mexico North Carolina arolina and Texas Smiths Smith's states were Alabama Arkansas Geor Georgia la Louisiana Massachusetts Mississippi Rhode Island an and South Carolina He failed to carry New York thou though h Franklin Roosevelt Dem was elected elected elected elect elect- ed governor of that state When the popular vote was considered the defeat defeat de de- de feat of Smith did ld not seem so Tice total vote cast was approximately ap proximately and of these thes Smith received about Two weeks after the election Mr Hoover sailed from San Pedro Calif on a goo good will tour of the republics of Central an and South America that was to last lust about two months end and he announced announced an an- that he would not select his cabinet until after his fits return On his trip he lie was received everywhere with enthusiasm by the officials and leOpie people peo leO pie of the countries visited and It was believed the tour would do much t to o cement the friendly rein relations het between the Latin American nations anti and the e United States Legislation for naval construction flood control and farm relief occupied much time In congress from the first filst of the year The first as finally passed provided for the construction of fifteen cruisers and one plane cartier carrier carrier car car- rier tier and carried In th the e matter of flood control President Coolidge CoolIdge Cool- Cool l Idge ge Insisted that the states especially v Interested must share the cost nu and ond d the measure a adopted opted recognized tit this s principle and appropriated U for the work The President W wa was S equally Insistent a against the ire McNary Haugen farm relief measure and und when hen both houses passed It he be vetoed It Another major piece of legislation was the finance bill which reduced tuxes taxes more than The Boulder Canyon Canon dam project so dear to California Cull Cali forma fornia was the subject of a It lon long anti and bitter fight ire house passed the hill but when wilen congress adjourned on May Iny 20 It was left as unfinished business inthe Inthe In Inthe the senate Congress assembled assemble for r the he short term tenn on December 3 a wit with h prospect of ot passing nn any Important measures except the necessary supply bills The fhe Republicans decided that the matter of tariff revision le should he be betaken taken up earl early In January but It If was virtually agreed upon that this nut farm tarm relief should be passe passed on to toa a 0 special session which Mr louver Hoover ha had fiat said he would woul call cull President Coolidge In his message gave an on account of his lug stewardship for five live and anel a n hn half If years Ears and pictured the state of the n nas nas as most fa favorable hie with pl pence peace nce prosperity prosperity pros pros- and good III ill unprecedented The senate passed I the he Boulder data dam bill umen amended ed to lo meet objections President and Mrs 1 Coolidge spent their summer vacation at n II fishing siding lodge In northern Wisconsin Their son John lohn went to work in the ollices of an nn eastern castern railroad and anti In Novem NII November her ber his bis engagement to Miss Mis Florence 1 Trumbull daughter of the governor gu of Connecticut Connecticut was announced The convention of the tile American Legion was held It In Sun Antonio Tex u as In October and Paul V V. V McNutt MC was elected national commander At AI the same time rime the tile United Spanish War IVar Veterans met In 41 Havana Cuba Cuhrt fn En September the Grand Army Almy of the lie Re He Republic public held belch Its encampment In Den Dell Denver vet ver and lInd chose chase John lohn Reese Heese for Cor Its core com mander-in mander ln chiet |
