The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-09
LONDEN REJECTS
 SECOND PLACE

DEUUlVU-ILHUE (Continued From Page One)
 didates for vice presidet, or third party for that party may in fact name president.
 Dawes Boom Renewed
 In the meantime the Dawes people renewed their efforts. The boom for Senator Curtis of Kansas, showed a good deal of activity. Word came from Washington that Senator Borah of Idaho, who had flatly said he would not accept the nomination was undecided whether a good deal more activity, and some national committeeman declared that Representative Theodore E. Bur ton, the keynoter, and temporary chair man of the convention had brought encouragement for the Hoover forces with him from Washington,
 There was renewed talk for Dr. Marion Leroy Burton, president of the | University of Michigan, who will place President Coolidge in nomination. Dr. Burton seemed well up toward the top of the dark horse list Governor Hyde of Missouri, was among those too, and his candidacy. was being pro- noted by Senator Spencer. Repre- sentative l.. J. Dickinson of Iowa, for whom the Iowa delegation has been in- structed, it was announced, will be pre- sented to the convention by Senator Cummins. His friends undertook an active canvass for. votes among arriv- ing delegates from the, agricultural states.
 Mg. Warren, brought up from his post at Mexico City, to head the reso- | lutions committee and handle the. for eign relations plank, was being dis, cussed as one of the vice presidential possibilities, although there was no or ganized boom working for him. ! None of these candidates is without opposition-the sort that develops in the .pre-convention lobby talk and i'm promptu conferences, but which is not opposition when sentiment crystalizes l and the time for action comes on the l floor of the convention. Plainly, the Lowden boom, having been punctured by MT: Lowden, no longer was foremost in the field. Some supporters, taking the former governor at his word were ready to turn to some body else, but others pointing out that many men have" made similar state ments and later accepted the nomina- tion were reluctant to quit until they can further sound out the sentiments of the arriving delegates.
 In His Favor
 r Those of Lowden's friends who re- fused to concede that a candidate could eliminate himself, declared that the grounds on which he sought to decline the nomination were among the strong est arguments in his favor. They re- ferred to his aeceptability to the farmers. " .I,s~ The Lowden boom, in the advanced form in which it came here, really was started in Washington by leaders who were inquiring about the type of man who would be acceptable to President Coolidge. They say they were informed with emphasis that the President had no candidate, that he was promoting the candidacy of no. one and wished to leaee it sto the ,conv veRtion.. They were f9told, however, that" the President want ed man of the same school of political thought as himself; that he did not want the national ticket to attempt to represent both ends. of the party and wanted nothing that might be construed as n concession to radicalism. J
 When these men came to Cleveland for the preliminary sessions of the na- tional committee, they found sentiment among committeeman, leaders and dele gates already here crystalizing on Low den. They so reported to Washington and were informed that Lowden was among "the excellent men" whom the White House considered acceptable, al- though they were reminded that the president was in no sense selecting, or endorsing him.
 The President was, firLI in his de- termination, they were told, to pursue his -hands-off policy, but if Lowden were the choice of the delegates, he would be satisfactory to him.
 With that the men who come from a class among the party managers which feels that 1t has been overlooked in the convention, management, took off their coats and went to work for Lowden. Something Happened
 Meantime something happened, not fully disclosed. William Butler made it point to emphasize that the presi- dent had not "selected or endorsed' Mir. Lowden and the word was passed out here to "go slow on the Lowden talk" At the same time a rumble was heard from Illinois, and it was suggested that the selection of two Illinois men-Roy o. West to be secretary of the repub- lican national committee, and Senator Mckinley to be chairman of the creden- tials committee of the convention, was sufficient recognition of that state.
 All this confused the Lowden people a good deal because they considered their man as good as nominated. The rumblings grew until this morning when they eliminated in an explosion with the arrival of delegates and po- ltical war. horses from Illinois. Be- fore the LOwden, people had time to assess carefully whether the Illinois op- position would cost them much, Mir. Lowden issued his statement of decli- nation.
 That is the simple story of the rise and descent of the Lowden boom to the point where 1t now hangs, without the intimate details of how the change was brought about.
 By the time the convention assemblies Tuesday at II o'clock, there may be new candidate with united backing in the field, or it may still remain free for-all for the convention.
 Mir. Lowden reiterated the stand he has maintained since he was first dis cussed for the nomination, and after he was informed he would be highly acceptable to the administration as President COolidge's running mate.
 "I am not unmindful of the impor- tance of the high office of vice pr0si- dent" the statement said. However. since my retirement from public office | three years ago, have become daanIv interested in many farmer organizations.