The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-07-11

Chosen on Second Ballot He
Sends Convention Flat Re-
fusaI-Cooiidge Was
Whole Thing From
Start to Finish.
THE REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President,
CALVIN COOLIDGE OF MAS
SACHUSETTS.
For Vice President,
CHARLES C. DAWES OF
ILLINOIS.
By WRIGHT A. PATTERSON

Cleveland, Ohio.--It is over The
national Republican convention OF 1924
has passed into history. The delegates
that gathered from every section of the
nation, including those from Alaska,
Porto Rico, the Canal Zone and the
far-away Philippines, to perform task
they had been told to perform have
completed their labors and scattered
to the four winds At Cleveland they
rank and file of the Republican voters,
of Calvin Coolidge as their candidate
for the presidency of the United States.
The first ballot for vice president
showed Lowden In the lead, with Bur-
ton, Dawes, Hoover and Kenyon fol-
lowing closely. On the second ballot
the convention turned to Lowden and
he was unanimously nominated. In
a telegram to. the convention the
former governor Of Illinois absolutely
refused to accept the nomination.
After a three-hour recess another
ballot was taken and before II was
finished Dawes was so far In the lead
over Hoover that the nomination. was
made unanimous amid the widest en-
thusiasm.
That convention is comparable to but
few other national political conventions
In the history of this nation. To some
extent 1t was similar to the Democratic
meeting at st. Louis in 1915, at which
Woodrow Wilson was nominated to
succeed himself. To some extent, too,
It was similar to the Republican con-
vention held at Chicago in 1904, when
Theodore Roosevelt was nominated to
succeed himself after having succeed
ed to the presidency just as Calvin
Coolidge did, by the death of his chief
In all of these cases there was a lack
of competitive candidates, the dele
gates had assembled with but one man
In view for first place on the party
ticket, and these conventions, like the
one just closed were but Publications
of nominations that had already been
made In the minds of the rank and file
of the party they represented.
But this convention at Cleveland
went even further than those of 1904
and 1916. 1t was not the man alone
but his policies that were to be ratified.
In the previous instances cited the poll
cies of the men to be nominated had
been also the policies of their party
as represented in the legislative branch
of the government. In this case 1t was,
TO some extent, at least, choice be-
%ho % -.
branch and those Of the executive
branch as represented by President
Coolidge that the rank and file of the
party were called upon to judge. and
the verdict was almost unanimous in
favor Of the executive branch.
Touches Popular Chord.
Representative Theodore f. Burton
of Ohio, the temporary chairman, in
his keynote address at the opening
session on Tuesday noon, touched
popular chord when he said:
with some disappointment as one
whose public service has been in leg
islative position, truth compels me to
say that by far the greater share of
our citizenship looks to President Cool
idge rather than to congress for leader
ship"
That reference to the man and the
policies the delegates were assembled
to ratify brought forth the first and
one of the notable demonstrations of
the convention.
Several times In that keynote speech
Representative Burton took occasion
to emphasize those policies of the Pres
ident as being the policies of the party
though they differed with the repre-
sentatives of the majority of the mem
bers of the party in the legislative
branch of the government He referred
to this in connection with the subject
of the soldier bonus legislation, with
tax legislation, and with Japanese ex-
cluslon. On the latter subject he said:
ut Is regretted that In the passage of
the recent bill the request of the Pres
ident for time for further negotiations
with Japan was refused" Throughout
the entire speech the keynoter praised
the policies of the President rather
than those of the Republican repre-
sentatives In the legislative branch. |
wherever the two policies differed. But
of congress he said: ''Much of the
blame visited upon Republicans In the
present congress is not deserved. be-
cause on many major questions their
party has not commanded q majority |
In either branch"
Many of the men whose faces have
been familiar at national Republican !