Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-06-19
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

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
ratified the nomination, made by the
rank and file of the Republican voters,
of Calvin Coolidge as their candidate
for the presidency of the United States.
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
1t 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 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 notifications
of nominations that had already been
made in the minds of the rank and file
of the parry 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-
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 .
popular chord when he said:
with some disappointment as one
whose public service has been in a leg
islative position, truth compels me to
say that by far the greater share Of
our citizens, lip 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.
s 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 tie party in the legislative
branch OF the government. He referred
to this IA 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
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. he
cause on many major questions their
party has not commanded a majority
In either branch"
Many of the r5en whose faces have
been familiar al national Republican
conventions for some years past were
not to be found at Cleveland at ALL
Others Of the old-time leaders were
present, but they were there more as
spectators than as active participants.
Senator Lodge, both the temporary and
permanent chairman Of the last Repub-
lican convention, was present as del
egate, but he had been displaced as
national committeeman from Massa-
chusetts and Governor Cox had been
chosen tossucceed him. There was evil