The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-15
Hoover Is Selected on
First Ballot, With
837 Votes.
OVATION is THUNDER0US
ConCIave'S Verdict Is Final
Answer to SeCretary's
Bitter Foes.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER,


KANSAS CITY, June Is
The Republican party has Sc.
lected Herberet Hoover of CAL
ifornia for its presidential
nominee, and in so doing has
taken an epochal step.
For the first time it has passed
over the professional politicians, the
men who make a business of run
ming for Office, and has picked a
product of the new industrial age as
the man best fitted, in its judg-
ment, to guide the Nation through
the next four years.
And the convention spoke most
decisively on this point. The first
ballot taken in convention hall late
last night gave Hoover the nomina-
ton with 837 votes.
His nearest rival was Frank o.
Lowden of Illinois, with "A. Hoover
was 763 votes ahead of his nearest
opponent-none of whom received
even near a hundred votes in the
convention. President Coolidge re-
ceived seventeen votes.
1t was as decisive a victory as a
convention could give, and the de-
cision was made after the most
searching kind of campaign, during
which Hoover's life record was scru-
tinized closely by hostile eyes.
The result of the ballot was the
final answer to the campaign OF
hostility which the rival candidates
all recognized veterans in the
political world-carried on against
him.
Never Politician
Hoover never has been regarded
as one of the politicians, and that
was partly the reason the Repub-
lican party has decided to cast its
lot with this new sort of figure on
the political horizon, a young man
as statesmen go, an engineer, a
business organizer, a man Of the
machine age.
BY a freak break, Hoover's nom
ination was assured by the work Of
William S. Ware Of Pennsylvania
politician, who has been excluded
from the Senate for large campaign
expenditures and has led the Penn
sylvania machine.
However, fundamentally, Hoover
owed his nomination not to any
man, but to a combination OF cir
cunstances that made him an in
evitable choice.
Demonstration Lasts Long
The demonstrations for him in
Convention Hall last night prob
ably would have caused him to
cringe with modesty, had he been
there. 1t was the only real show
so far, put on III this convention.
When John !. McNab of Cali
fornia, took the platform to place
Hoover's name in nomination, he
violated the rule requiring that the
name be held out until the end Of
the speech, and, instead, mentioned
it at the start.
This set off a demonstration
which lasted twenty-five minutes.
producing the most terrific mixture
of noise from several thousand
throats, scores of cowbells and other
tumult-makers.
Utah delegates marched around
the hall, bearing a huge paper ele-
phant on their shoulders. A six
foot portrait of Hoover held up be-
fore the convention produced fresh
outbursts of cheering. Colored bal
looms were batted back and forth
among the delegates. Every per-
son on the arena floor had a flag.
Mellon in Parade
Even Andrew w. Mellon, the
esthetic financier and art patron,
recently introduced to the world Of
active politics, fell into the parade
of Hoover boosters and shuffled
along with the crowd. He was be-
tween precinct heelers and Negro
delegates.
Hoover's campaign is expected to
be dignified one in which liberal
use will be made of the radio.
Hoover's radio voice is entirely
satisfactory.
His tentative plans are to go to
Palo Alto Cal, for notification and
then establish a summer front porch
base in the Middle West, probably
in southern Wisconsin or Michigan,
within easy distance of Chicago.