Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1928-08-16

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around the world, Herber. Hoover
today enunciated the principles upon
which he asks the American people
to send him to the White House as
the third successive Republican
president.
He reiterated his stand against re-
peal of the 18th amendment and the
rigid enforcement of enabling acts
under it; proposed farm relief
through a three-fold plan; declared
for religious tolerance and promised
the direction of economic progress
in support of the moral and spiritual
progress of the nation.
AS he read slowly and concisely
the S,500-word message accepting
the nomination voted him by the
Kansas City convention two months
ago, the adopted son of California
faced vast army of his countrymen
banked tier upon tier in the huge
amphitheater who received his decla-
rations with noisy demonstrations.
Hoover chose this setting, here
upon the rolling campus of the uni
versity where he enrolled as a first
student, and his fellow citizens re-
sponded with perhaps the greatest
outpouring that ever had attended a
notification ceremony in any state in
the union. More than $4,000 people
were gathered in the stadium, al
most filling it to capacity.
Loud speakers, perched high upon
a column that lowered above him as
he read, carried his voice to the fur
thest reaches of the bowl. Broad
casting apparatus transmitted his
voice to more than 100 stations in
this country, a network reaching
from border to border and coast to
coast, while his utterances were
taken across the seas on short wave
lengths to Great Britain, Australia,
the Hawaiian islands, the Philip
pines, in fact everywhere the Eng
lish language is spoken.
Just as Hoover had set out to
make this rather unique campaign,
so his fellow citizens of California
strove to make this occasion differ
ent from any of the kind that had
gone before. Marching bands,
'stunting airplanes and brilliant day.
light fireworks furnished the fore
runner of the speech making.
The crowd bubbled over with
enthusiasm and it gave the Repub-
lican nominee a tumultuous welcome
as his open motor car drove into the
amphitheater and circled the rum
ming track. Mrs. Hoover sat beside
him and joined in responding to the
greetings.
: Senator George H. Moses of New
Hampshire, who notified the candi-
date, and Chairman Work of the
national committee, and other house
guests of the Hoovers entered the
stadium on foot and passed into the
stand almost unnoticed as the crowd
glued eyes to the nominees motor.
Small American flags We're waved in
unison with music as the automobile
moved at almost snails pace be-
hind an escort of police. AS Hoover
stepped forward to the place in front
of the microphones, the enormous
assemblage arose and cheered him
to the echo as thousands of little
American flags were again brought
into action Holding his hands
clasped in front of him, the nominee
bowed to right and left and then
stood at attention as the massed
bands played "The Star Spangled
Banner"
There was real outburst right at
the start Of the address when Hoov-
er announced that he accepted the
nomination Again the crowd was
to it's feet, cheering, whistling and
waving flags. Hoover read from a
large type copy of his address es-
pecially prepared for him by the
Stanford university press and con-
tanned in a brown leather binder