Milford chronicle., 1924-06-20
For President,
CALVIN COOLIDGE
of Massachusetts,.
For Vice President,
cHARLES G. DAWES
of Illinois.

CIeveland.-The above is Ii
ticket selected by the Republican n;
tiOnaI convention to make the figf
for the party in the forthcomin
Presidential election.
Before the roll call had been hal
completed the story had been tolC
The vote resulted: Coolidge, 1,Oe5
La Toilette, "a; Johnson, 10.
Thomas Scott the lone Coolidg
delegate from Wisconsin, moved t.
make the nomination unanimous.
with the exception Of a very few
Oices the nomination of Calvin
Coolidge is made unanimous" an
nOunced Chairman Mondell.
The hrst ballot for vice presiden'
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 it was
finished Dawes was so far in the lead
over Hoover that the nomination was
made unanimous amid the widest en-
thusiasm.
With President Coolidge's nomina.
tiOn a foregone conclusion and every.
thing else prearranged, there was
really nothing to do but give the
stamp Of official party approval when
the various matters were brought be-
fore the convention.
President Coolidge's name was
placed in nomination by DR.. Marion
Leroy Burton, president of the Uni
versity Of Michigan. He presented
a scholarly eulogy Of the President,
which was frequently interrupted
with wild demonstrations. His first
mention Of the Presidents name was
all that the crowd had been waiting
for. It was the signal for the wild
est orgy Of noises that the convention
had yet experienced. 1t made pre-
vious outbursts pale into insignif-
canoe and has been equaIled seldom
In the history of party conventions.
As One Who Knows Him.
II shall speak as one who for years
has known the President" said Doctor
Burton. II follow this plan, because
1 believe you want to hear from one
who has a hrst-hand knowledge of his
subject. The people have an un-
satiable desire to learn about the life |
and ways Of this man. The better YOU
know him the more you will trust him.
The more carefully you study his writ
ten words the more certain you will
become Of the clarity Of his mind. the
depth Of his thought, and the sound
ness Of his judgment.
There is no real craftsmanship
without these qualities. My function
is to present the man. The emphasis
must be just there.
HE Is not superman, and would
be the last to think so. There is not
a trace Of show or ostentatiOn about
him, for he does nothing merely for
appearance. He may be an example,
but he would never set one. His
quiet, unobtrusive, and natural way
of doing things was beautifully and
illustrated during the sad
days Of last August when he assumed
the duties Of the Presidency. He per-
soni1ed the plain, simple virtues Of
our citizens at their best.
'Yet this is not all. If It be said
that he is rarely common, it must also
be known that he Is nobly uncommon.
A great man is always simple and di-
rect. About this man there is some
thing elemental. He can see into the
heart Of things He knows that every
person has a soul and that the great
est thing about America is her spirit
He never lacks dignity. The Office he
is exalted, for when he per-
forms a public duty 1t is a ceremony" '
only One Problem.
The vice presidential nomination
vas the hard nut to be cracked. Days
and nights Of milling, maneuvering,
comforting, deciding and
had failed to crystallize 1
sentiment for any considerable length
If time on a candidate for second
)lace on the ticket. Time and again {
| name would be proposed that '
jeemed to solve the problem only to t
lave the whole thing upset either by 4
he declination of the gentleman In Of o
question or for geographic reasons. s
)ne after another, the party leaders t
vent down the list Of names ad-
anced. Some objection was found v
0 each one. So it went on and on, r
umping from one name to another, a
nd getting nowhere. r
The Republican national conven-
ION Of 1924 will go down In history g
s one Of the most unique gatherings o
f the kind ever held. Old-timers b
no have been attending conventions p
,r years never saw anything like It. q
was much like a prayer meeting. u
yith everything settled long before u
le convention met, save only the
anne of the man to be chosen running
ate for President Coolidge, there
as nothing much to get excited over.
he President completely dominated
e convention. The delegates were
ere to carry out his w1shs, eagerly,
illingly. Not that he attempted to
terfere. They had accepted him