The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1924-06-20
COOLIDGE, DAWES
STANDARD BEARERS
Choosing Running Mate
Only Snag Hit by Repub-
lican Convention.
LOWDEN STANDS FIRM
Chosen on Second Ballot He
Sends Contention Flat Re-
fusal-Coolidge 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 a task
they had been told to perform have
completed their abors and scattered
to the four wigds. At Cleveland they.
ratified the nomination, made by the
rank and file of the Republican voters,
of Calvin Coolidge as their can, c re
for the presidency of the United s. tes.
The first ballot for vice presi ant
showed Lowdep In the lead, with R',r-
ton, Dawes, Hoover and Kenyon iaI-
lowing closely. or the second ba It
the convention tvrned to Lowden and
he was unanimously nominated. In
telegram to the convention the
former governor of Illinois absolutely
refpsed to accept the nomination.
After. three-hour recess her
ballot was taken and before It 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 INT !
few other national political convent ms
in the history of this nation. To srle
extent 1t wes similar to the Democi 'c
meeting at st. Louis in 1916, at Will HI
WoodroW Wilson was nominated TO
SUCCEED himself. To some extent, too,,
" was similar to the Republican COM
ventfon 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 burt one man
In view for first place on the party
ticket, and these conventions. like the
one just closed, were but. ratifications
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 1915 1t was not the man alone
but his policies that were to be ratified.
In the previous instances cited the poll
cies of fhe men to be nominated had
been also the policies of their party
as represented in the legislative branch
of the government. In this case twas,
to some extent. at least, choice be-
tween the policies of the legislative
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 E. Burton
of Ohio, the temporary chairman, in
his keynote address at the opening
session on Tuesday noon, touched a
popular chord when he said:
with some disappointment as one
whose public service has been in a leg
islatlve 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 partv
though they differed with the renre-
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-
clusion. On the latter subject he said !.
1T is regretted that in the passage Of
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