The border vidette., 1928-06-30
DEMOCRATS NOMINATE AlF RED
e. SMITH FOR PRESIOENT
AND JOSEPH T. ROBIN
SON, viCE-PRES.

Houston, Texas, June 28.-
Alvin r.. Smith. four times gov
ernor of New York, was nomi
mated for the presidency tonight
by the Democratic national con
vention, on the first ballot. The
official tabulation after all the
changes of votes in favor of the
leaders had been recorded gave
Governor Smith $40 2-3 OF the
100 votes in the convention.
He needed but 733 3 to nomi
nate.
Nomination of a running mate
for Governor Smith will be &C.
complished tomorrow and it is
the expectation of most of the
leaders that the vice-presidential
choice would be Senator Joseph
T. Robinson of Arkansas, Dem
ocratic floor leader in the Senate
and permanent chairman of the
convention.
1t was the Ohio delegation that
first joined ia the scramble to
supply the votes that nominated
Smith on the first ballot. The
Buckeye delegation changed As
of her votes from Pomerene to
Smith. Mississippi came next
with 81 votes for Smith; Indiana
with %, and Nebraska %; Kan
sas turned over liz to Smith, and
Tennessee turned % votes over
to the New Yorker.
OF 55 state and territorial del
cations ia the convention Gov
ernor Smith, in the end, had the
solid support OF 35.
ROBINSON NOMINATED
Houston, Texas, June %
The Democracy presents to the
Nation: For president, Alfred
E. Smith of New York; for vice
president, Joseph T. r Robinson
of Arkansas.
The ticket was formally placed
on the political roster OF 1923 to
day when the party's national
convention at it's concluding ses
sion overwhelmingly named the
Arkansan as running mate Of
the New York governor to whom
it entrusted the party standard
but few hours earlier.
The nomination of Robinson
was like that of Smith, a smash
ing first ballot triumph over q
scattered field of rivals. For
the past "a hours there had been
little doubt of his victory and at
the outset of today's proceed
ings be left his post as presid.
ing officer of the convention and
retired to his hotel while his
nomination was being consum
| mated.
Those who first proposed the
Arkansas senator and Demo
cratic senate floor leader to bal
ance the Smith ticket. argued
that be would strengthen the
party in both south and west and
that argument went like wild
fire. It was in the south that
opposition to the nomination Of
Smith centered until the very
end and it is to the west that
both Democrats and Republi
cans are looking for the ans wer
to questions about the farm re.
lief issue.
Robinson is dry and in his
speech as permanent chairman of
the convention be, warned his
kparty against listening to pleas
for a modification plank in the
platform. In the same speech
he started a tremendous demon
stration by quoting Jefferson and
the cons titution in support OF
religious equality.
He supported the McNary
Haugen bill in the lastsession OF
congress and voted to pass it
over President Coolidge's veto.
Out of a possible LOO votes
in the whole convention Robin.
son received more than 900 on
the first ballot.
His nomination was virtually
by acclamation.
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR
PRESIDENT
Dec. 80, 1873-Born in a tene.
ment on New York's east side.
1900 Married Catherine A.
Dunn of New York.
19O3-Was elected to the New
York assembly. serving there
until 1915.
1911-Became majority leader
in the assembly,