Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-14
BY BYRON PRICE,
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Associated Press Staff Writer.
CONVENTION HALL, Kansas City.
June 14.-tPt-Advancing with swing
ing stride toward the nomination of N
ticket and final adjournment by noon
tomorrow, the Hoover majority in the
republican national convention to-
day rallied in overwhelming num-
bers 20 repel a final, spectacular at
tack by western insurgents and mem
bers Of the McNary- -HauEen block ~
an administration party platform
emitting mention Of the equalization
Zee.
In n floor fight Of real proportions,
the dissenters made repeated salies
az the steadfast ranks of the Cool
idge- forces, with the farm
relief plank as their central objec-
tive Linked us il was with the pro-
test Of. the allied candidates against
Hoover himself as the party candi-
date, the farm plank warfare conn
pletely oTershadowed a lesser dis
pute over the prohibition plank.
Young Robert NJ In Toilette or
wisconsin, following in the footsteps
Of father whose insurgency spread
its record during his lifetime On the
history Of a whole string of repub-
lican conventions, took the lead in
the assault on the tentative platform
draft submitted by Smoot w Utah.
chairman Of the platform committee.
Offering complete platform of hfs
own, IN which farm relief took the
nlace ot greatest prominence, the
wisconsin senator was smothered un-
der chorus of noes" after the con-
vention had paid him the personal
re
end OF his speech. He did not ask for
rol call.
The second major attack was
launched under leadership of Earl q.
Smith Of the Lowdsn-pledred Illinois
delegation who spoke for m minority
plank supported by fifteen members
OF the platform committee, and ap-
proving the twice-vetoed equalization
fee for agriculture.
IL was this proposal which precipf-
tated division Of the convention AT
along the line, between the Hoover
and Coolidge delegates supporting
the presidential vote, and the dele
gates OF the allied forces standing
out against the Hoover majority.
The fighting speech or La Toilette
was one Of the most colorful of the
convention. in a manner cf delivery
reminiscent Of his father, bob" the
elder the young senator kept the
attention Of every delegate as he
pleaded for the policies OF the insur-
gent Wisconsin republicans. At one
point, when he mentioned President
Coolidge's veto OF the McNary-
Haugen bill, the speaker was show
cred with ironic applause from the
ADMINISTRATION delegates, led by the
Massachusetts, delegation IN the front
row just before the speakers stand.
TIC ~ so unusual for n delegate
from Wisconsin to receive applause
IN a republican convention" ne re-
piled, smiling down on Massachu-
setts, "that ] thank you from the bot
tom Of by heart"
NO reply was made TO the La Fol-
lette speech. the convention voting
overwhelmingly mn instant later q
reject out OF hand his minority re-
port.
Smith laid down what sounded like
q direct challenge to the administra-
tion when he said that II the party
hoped for success at the polls in
November, il must 20 further than
the majority had gone in the tenta-
tive platform draft
IF you expect the support Of the
republican farmers OF the great re-
publican middle western states, you
must face this issue fairly and
squarely," he yrif "We are through
with generalities.
Senator Smc1t or Utah. head or
the platform committee and center Of
the day and night unsuccessful
struggle for a .eomprosiise farm re-
lief plank that would avert n floor
fight was one of the earliest arriv-
ais Looking even .aller and leaner
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