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Show COOLIDGE WILL LEAD DLD PARTY i BRIGADIER GENERAL CHARLES G. DAWES 13 NOMINATED FOR VICE PRESIDENT I Dr. Burton Makes Strong Appeal I For Support of President ! Coolidge in Masterful I Oration i I Convention Hall, Cleveland, Ohio. j Riding a rumbling tide of party en-i en-i thusiasm, Calvin Coolidge was swept into nomination for the presidency , Thursday by one of the largest r.-.a-! jorities ever given by a Republican ! convention. ; Before the first and only roll call was half completed the story of his I victory had been told as state by j state the votes of solid delegations ! from east, 'west, north and south were j thrown to his support, i No other name was presented for-I for-I mally to the convention, but the j twenty-eight of the twenty-nine Wis-j Wis-j consin votes and six from North Da-I Da-I kota were cast for Robert M. La ! La Folletle and ten of the South Da- kota delegates followed out their ' primary instructions and voted for i Hiram W. Johnson. The totals were as follows: Coolidge, 1065. La Follette, 34. Johnson 10. Necessary to a choice, 53G. It was 10:40 o'clock when Chairman Chair-man Mondell began rapping for order. or-der. The chairman couldn't get order, but the strains of the "Star Spangled Banner" quieted the disorder and brought the delegates to quiet. Then Bishop Schrembs of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland offered j prayer. j After the prayer the song leader got into action again and led the con-I con-I vention in singing "America." Chairman Mondell then recognized Senator Wadsworth of New York who took the platform and got a demonstration from all parts of the hall. He told the convention he had I been directed by his delegation to i offer a resolution to send a telegram j to Chauncey M. Depew, who was un-, un-, able to come to the convention for the j first time since the nomination oi Lincoln. It was a telegram of felici-i felici-i tation on Mr. Depew's recent nine-' nine-' tieth birthday. I Convention Hall, Cleveland. Char !es G. Dawes of Illinois, the "Hell 1 and Maria" general was nominated i for the vice presidency by the Repub-j Repub-j lican national convention Thursday I after it once had nominated Frank O. Lowden, former governor of II!- inois, and he had refused to accept j the place. j In a brief and spectacular fight in which Williasi Butler, President Coolidge's campaign manager, had said to Senator Reed of Pennsylvan-j Pennsylvan-j ia, "It must be Hoover," arid Senator j Reed had replied, "It can't be done; ; it must be Dawes," the Dawes sup-' sup-' porters, after the declination of for-; for-; mer Governor Lowden of Illinois, marshaled their forces and put the j general across for the nomination. Earlier in the day Mr. Butler's forces has passed the word that the ! administration men desired the nom-' nom-' ination of Theodore E. Burton of ; Ohio, anil in the voting of which fol-' fol-' lowed the supporters of Frank O. j Lowden of Illinois ran away with the i nomination for their man, only to j have him decline it. |