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middle west, but his sympathies are
as broad as the nation and as ccep
as the heart Of humnity itself"
Fully two-thirds Of the conven-
tion rose and cheerei IS the Idahoan
concluded.
The next candidate to be paraded
before the convention WIS Governor
Fuller of Massachusetts. nominated
by 3. Loring Young Of Weston, Mass.
On behalf Of Michigan, Ira W.
Jayne put in nomination former Gov
ernor Osborn Of that state.
Although the speaker played sew
eral times on the fact that Osborn
had been a friend and follower of
Theodore Roosevelt the convention
hardly heard and gave no applause.
Immediately after Judge jayne had
finished his nominating speech, for
mer Governor Osborn himself ask
ed the privilege Of addressing the
convention. He made a speech prais-
ing Herber Hoover, thanking Kansas
City for its hospitality. and wound
up by asking his state to withdraw
his name "and join the Lion of Idaho
IN support Of Senator Curtis Of
Kansas"
Governor Sam Baker Of Missouri
vas nominated by representative
Dyer Of st. Louis.
Taking q leaf from the book of
former Governor Osborn Of Michi-
gan. Governor Baker followed his
nominator on the platform with a
short speech withdrawing his candi-
dacy and seconding the nomination
Of Curtis.
North Dakota yielded her place on
the roll call 20 Wisconsin, and Sem
ator Blaine of that state announced
that his state would make no nom
mating speech but would vote for
IA favorite son." it was indicated
the Lafoilette delegates would sup
port Herman l.. Extern, a former
state attorney general.
That completed the roll call for
nominating speeches.
Hoover's nomination was voted
!ate last night on the first ballot in
a landslide that piled at his feet
nearly four-fifths Of the entire vote
Of the convention. The alliance
against him collapsed and scattered
and his chief opponent, Frank o..
Lowden, withdrew entirely, disap-
pointed and dissatisfied with the
party platform plank on farm re-
lief.
How serious the farm relief dis
pute may yet become was a subject
Of speculation everywhere as the
delegates prepared to separate. Aft
er sending his messages of withdraw
al to the convention Mr.. Lowden
boarded a train for his home at Ore
gon, Ill, without making a further
statement or sending his congratula-
tons TO the successful candidate.
Some of the other farm leaders who
had tried in vain to put the party
on record as favoring the princi-
pies Of the McNary-Haugen bill said
they were preparing to carry the
battle TO the democratic convention
meeting in Houston on June 26.
The administration farm plank.
which led to Lowden's withdrawal.
proposes a program Of Economic
equality" for the farmer but makes
no mention of the McNary-Haugen
Dill or its equalization fee. This
plank was given q three to one pre-
ference vote by the convention IT.
self: In his message Of withdrawal.
read 70 the convention in place of
the speech that was to have placed
him IN nomination, Lowden said that
IN MS opinion the plank adopted did
not contain the guarantees agricul-
ture must have to save il from ruin
and was so disappointing that he
would not care TO be a candidate on
the platform as it stands.
Lowden's elimination was followed
BY the accession Of many Of his
delegates to the Hoover standard
although IA Of the $50 or " that
had been credited to him stuck To
me captainless ship and voted for
.owden despite his withdrawal. Out
the total Of 1854 votes cast
hoover had in the end S37 with only
o4S needed TO be nominated. Most
the rest were scattered anon
curtis, Watson and Norris with none
Of them having enough to match
"a.
Despite further personal word
from President Coolidge that he did
not want his name before the con
vention he was nominated formally
by Representative Ralph Cole OF Ohio
and IL votes were cast for him-l3
from Illinois and four from Ohio.
The nomination was voted by a
convention which had undergone q
great change since its drab and I'M
interesting opening last Tuesday.
The Hoover people came to the night
session manifestly determined to
make a fete of it while the remnants
Of the opposition, realizing the bat
tie was all over were plainly dis