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Show CODLIDGE. DAWES . STA N D A R U GE A R E R S Choov:T Running Mate Only Sruig Hit by Rcpub-. Rcpub-. ..' ii'iin 6:u'fnuiii, ..." LOWDEN ST.WDS FIRM Chosen on Second lillot lie StnJs Contention FL:t Re-i Re-i fusoJ CooliJge Wat Whole Thing From Start to Finish. i THE REPUBLICAN TICKET For President, CALVIN COOLIDGE OF MASSACHUSETTS. MAS-SACHUSETTS. For Vice President, CHARLES G. DAWES OF ILLINOIS. By WRIGHT A. PATTERSON , , Cleveland. Ohio. It Is over. The national Republican convention of lO'.M has passed into history. The delegates tfcat gathered from every section of the cation. Ineludir.il those from Alaska, i i'rai uie inuai one and the far-away Philippines, to perform a task they had been told to perform have i- - completed their labors and scattered to the fjur wluds. At Cleveland they ratified the nomination, made by the rank and file of the Republican voters, . of Calvin Coolidge sis their candidate ; . . for the presidency of the United States. The first ballot for vice president showed Lon don In the lead, with Rur-. Rur-. . ton. Pawes. Hoover and Kenyon fol-, fol-, lowing closely. On the second ballot the convention turned to Low-den and fce was unanimously nominated. In ., a telegram to the convention the . former governor of Illinois absolutely refused to accept the nomination. After s three-hour recess nno-her . ballot was taken and before It was finished Pawes was so far In the lead over Hoover that the nomination was made unanimous amid the wildest en-. en-. .. thusissm. That convention is comparable to but few other national political conventions In the history of this nation. To some extent it was similar to the Democratic meeting at St. Louis In 1915. at which Woodrow Wilson was nominated to y-r- succeed himself. To some extent, too. I L It was similar to the Republican con- . vention held at Chicago in l-.XM. when - Theodore Roosevelt was nominate! to encceci himself after having suoeoed- rt tJ th? presidency 1-jst as Calv'n 5 Coolidite did, by the death of his chief. " In all of these cases there was a lack .. of competitive candidates, the delc-gates delc-gates had assembled with but one man lrview for first place on the partv - : ticket, and these conventions. like the one Just closed, were but ratifications - of nominations that had alreadv been made In the minis of the rank and file of the party they represented, .v But this convention nt Cleveland - went even further than those of 1CV4 aid 1916. It was not the man alone but his policies that were to be ratified. : In the previous instances cited the poll- -rs vi ie men to be nominated had been also the policies of their partv -p. as represented in the legislative branch of the government. In this case It was x: to some extent, nt least, a choice be-;r. be-;r. tween the policies of the legislative branch and those of the executive J.'-- ranch as represented bv President r Coolidge that the rank and file of the party were called upon to Judge, and ,z the verdict was almost unanimous In ; . favor of the executive branch. --. Touches Popular Chord. Representative Theodore E. Burton ; of Ohio, the temporary chairman. In his keynote address at the opening session on Tuesday noon, touched a :j . popular chord when he said : ''With some disappointment as one ''hose public service has been In a leg-. leg-. ulaUTe position, truth compels me to ay that by far the gTeater share of our citizenship looks to President Cooled Cool-ed . EMp"ather thSn t0 conress for leader-That leader-That reference to the man and the v- Policies the delegates were assembled t0 ratlfy brought forth the first and oe of the notable demonstrations of Q the convention. Several times In that kevnote speech Representative Burton took occasion I? eTPhasIze those Pcies of the Pres-11 Pres-11 lS bf'lDg the Po'icles of the party though they differpd wtt-K k- - IT Y5 f tlle majry of the mem-hrn,h mem-hrn,h Party In the legislative ' ' ' to ? 6 g0Terame"t. He referred r-'; of H connectJon with the subject ltente bDU3 ,eS,s,o. with I o'"' 30(1 wlth nese ex-.-: Z n the Iatter he said : 'th. regretted "'it in the passage of den,7ntbl" the FeqUeSt of the p-t p-t jt-We" for time for further negotiation, ' ; the t W3S refused-" Throughout '" the r, ,re, SPeech t!,e ke-vnot" Praised than s f the President rather ! ,0Se,0t the Republican repre- --'--whp j , " ,he ,eglslative branch. . whe-wer the two policies differed. Bu o congress he said: -Much of the ; hlame v.sited upon Republicans In the oau, " C0DgreS3 13 Dot deserved. be-: be-: ,i nart r maJor ostlons their 1 ?n eith.MK0t C0mmande1 majority . .i n either branch." oeen"? "f,,"'6 men whose faces have eD famlllar at national RepubUcan ; co.uontton, for o.n year, past wero "ot to , found t ciovolMiul nt ull Other, of the ld tl.ue! lender, wrro l"' !.ei,t, ,, ,,,.v tlu,1. innrr M'ectntor. than as nrtlve piirtlelpniit.. S. -Minor l.ode, bull, tho temin.nu-v and ':'''"'"''! cl.nlnnau of tl.e lust It'eiutb-I'cau It'eiutb-I'cau co,uoii(ln, was pre-., -at ns m del-e:-;aie, but ,e imil ),,, '. ! .1 ar.- n "'tlonnl coMimlitooman r,-,., Massn-ehiiNous Massn-ehiiNous and i:,n,.nir ( ov had been ehoMMi to sueeood I. In.. T-.-e was cvl-... cvl-... nee everywlierc of a now controlling loree la the party ami that new forre 'or a time, at 1,-a-t, is Cah in o.olldro. Many Names Mentioned. After tho an-Ual ,,f tin- first del, .ates two das prel,.us to tl.e open-lug open-lug of the convention and .luring the thst two days of Its sessions there crt but two subjects of conversation. 'l"he first, and considered the most Important Im-portant by the Ooelld.re delegates, was that of a running mate for the President. Presi-dent. Many names were mentioned, and several of those named bad detl-nltely detl-nltely expressed a wish, and In some cases practically n demand that thev not be nominated for second place on the ticket. Members of the delegations wanted to hear from Cooll.lge. Tlicy wanted to know bis choice, and thev were more than willing to ratify his selection. As one of the new leaders expressed It, "Jho delegates, rep resenting, resent-ing, ns they do, the rank and tlle of the party, realize that. President Cool-Idge Cool-Idge Is the greatest asset of the party and they wish to follow the lead of the man who has commanded the respect re-spect of the rank and tlle." The President, on the other hnnd, preferred that the delegates should make their ow n selection If they would. Those who were qualified to speak for A..-'-. CALVIN COOLIDGE him Insisted that be did not wish to appear In the light of a party dictator. In the end the question was solved by the selection on Thursday of Charles G. Pawes of Illinois as the nominee of the party for vice president Tho La Follette Platform. The second subject was that of the attitude of the LaFolIotte wing of the party on the question of platform planks. Early In the first session on Tuesday there wa distributed to the delegates copies o -he platform propose-! by the Wise. n senator and bis followers and offer. 1 to the resolutions committee by Henr Ulen Cooper, the Wisconsin member f the committee. This proposed platfo: n carried a drastic dras-tic condemnation of the legislation enacted by both parties during several past administrations. It declared for the public ownership of water power, the public control of natural resources; re-sources; repeal of the Esch-Cummins law; public ownership of railroads; drastic curtailment of war and navy expenditures; a tax on excess profits; the making public of tax returns; election elec-tion of federal Judges without party designation; a reduction in freight rates for farm products; abolish injunctions in-junctions in labor disputes; protection for fanners' organizations and collective collec-tive bargaining; granting of a cash bonus to soldiers ; deep waterways from the lakes to the ocean; amendments amend-ments to the Constitution to provide for the direct election of President, a federal Initiative and referendum, and a referendum on war. There were some other less Important planks. The whole question of the platform was fought out In the resolutions committee com-mittee on Tuesday night and Wednesday, Wednes-day, and when Its report was made at the convention session on Wednesday night it was adopted with but little fuss, and despite the protest of Senator Sena-tor LaFoilette's followers. Political history was made by the adoption of the report of the committee commit-tee on credentials on Wednesday morning. morn-ing. The party now stands definitely committed to a limitation of representation represen-tation from the southern states. This was done by providing for representation representa-tion in the conventions of the party based on the percentage of Republican .1 l-.... r.tn T. I. cev.loi tr.ceicvJ Alum criici. aia.c, il is so worded as to rather increase the representation in both the number of delegates and the members of the national na-tional committee in Republican states Instead of materially decreasing either the number of delegates or national committeemen from those states that are recognized as distinctly Democratic. Demo-cratic. Political history was made In another an-other instance when It is voted to give the women the same voice In party affairs as that enjoyed by the men. The movement for this was led by Mrs. Medill McCormlck of Illinois, and when proposed to the convention It went through with but few- dissenting votes and was loudly cheered by the women. Reporters at Sea. There was n continuous commotion In the press stand at the Cleveland show. The gray heads of the news- . paper world who have been reporting political conventions for yea.s found It 1 : difficult to get n story out of thl. on. Not beenusu there, wn. not . story to be bad, but becau.so the htory utu.C l.nv the iinmo.i of peoplu who wer doing tliiiiKS and tho men of the pre did not know by slight the men, and tb women too, If von please, who w ere th. moving and guiding spirit of thin Ittt-pul.llcnn Ittt-pul.llcnn gathering. Tho old timers, the men who have made liepul.lictin history for the hmt quarter of a century nu.l more, hav. either disappeared entirely, or were with hut few exceptions in tho background. back-ground. It w;ih new and, In many eases, strange faces one saw- upon the platform. "Who Is the man in (he gray suit sitting beside the railing?" asked h veteran vet-eran New- York new t niper writer, a man who has covered every convention since the late eighties "Search mo," said the man next to him, another veteran, "One of the numerous nu-merous Interlopers who have butted Into the game to make It hard for us. Ask Jim Preston." . 1're.ton, the superintendent of the senate press gallery nt Washington, th one man who knew all of them, the old and the new, was appealed to and Informed the perturbed newspaper men that the gentleman In question win William M. Butler of Massachusetts the Incoming chairman of the party. And so It went throughout each e slon. The men and the women who to n large extent are doing thing, wen unknown by sight to the newsrapoi men and they were kept busy trying t catch the names of those who wort making motions, reporting to the convention con-vention as chairmen of Important committees com-mittees the names of those who wen running the show whether if h of th stated performances or about the committee com-mittee rooms or the hotel lobbies. Old Pa;a. Absent. The face, of such men a Senator. Lodge, Smoot. Watson and other, of the senatorial coterie, of Will Haya, oi Harry M. Daugherty, of Mr. Corlnni Roosevelt Robinson, of T. Colemnn Do-pont, Do-pont, of Charles I), miles and a lonj list of other, who filled the speaker1 platform at Chicago in 1020, were not seen on the platform at Cleveland. T be sure ninny of them the majority, In fact were present, but they wer. merely among those present They were not on the platform sitting In th . big, easy, Uather-upholstered chain j provided, for the ultra-dlstlngulahed Several of them occupied the bard- ' bottomed seats arranged In long rowi on the floor of the convention hall pro- I vlded for delegates and alternate I Others had seats In the guest section. 1 far up In the balconies, and othen 1 wandered about the rotnnda of the bij j on their faces. Prominent among those on the rlat-form, rlat-form, and the few who were generally general-ly known, were those members of iht President's cabinet who were attending attend-ing the convention. These Included Secretary Mellon, Secretary Weeks Secretary Work, Attorney General Stone, Postmaster General New. Asidi from Attorney General Stone, a new comer la the cabinet, these men wer generally known by sight at least, but aside from the temporary and permanent perma-nent chairman, and some minor officials offi-cials of the convention, they wer about the only ones who were known I to either the audience or the nevvspa- j per writers. It all marked a new deal In the hi tory of the party, a passing of party government into new bands. The ' President and his advisers rather thar the leaders In the legislative branct are In control. What the result of the change Is to be will be determined when the votes are counted npit Vn. vember. It Was All Coolidge. It was a strictly a Coolidge conven tion. Quite as much so as was the Progressive convention of IMS at Chicago Chi-cago a Roosevelt convention. Thej did what the President would wist them to do, they did nothing h would wish them not to do. It was . convention that was satisfactory t r . .-v - -e. e a V -A Jr- ;s,Vv CHARLES G. DAWES the great majority of the delegates. They had assembled to do a certain job they had been told to do by the rank and file of the party at home, and they did it. It was all accomplished accom-plished without any great amount of noise, with no blatant trumpeting of jazz music, with but little oratory aside from the keynote speech of the temporary chairman and the nominating nomi-nating speech delivered by Dr. M. L. Burton, president of the University of Michigan, in naming Calvin Coolidge as the standard bearer of the party at the session on Thursday morning. The usual hurrah, the din, the verbal fireworks of a political convention were distinctly absent. As for the city of Cleveland It han- I died a big Job in a big way. It pnt itself on the map as one of the fore- i most convention cities of the nation, t |