Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-12
CHOSEN AFTER REFUSAL.
Norris Stand Made Known to Conveu-
tion Before Nomination,

I
CHICAGO. July IL P).-Unitec
States Senator George w Norris O.
Nebraska today had become an unwill.
! ing candidate for presidency of the
uhiIeo states on the Farmer Labor
| ticket.
| Despite his reported refusal to heac
any third party slate. the Nebraska
Senator was placed in nomination al
| last nights session of the convention
| He was chosen on the third ballot. re.
! celving is ballots to IA for Norman
THOMAS. the Socialist nominee fol
President.
For Vice President the Farmer-L,abor.
ties named win Vereen of Moultrie, Ga.
a cotton mill owner.
Merger Plan Vetoed.
Possibility of merger of the prohibi.
ton party and the Farmer-Labor grour
ended last night when both vetoed the
proposal.
Nomination of vereen created a con-
tfoVersy In the Farmer-Labor camp
Wnen 1t was charged that he had oper-
ated non-union plant. and had never
been farmer or iaboring man.
The platform Of the Farmer-Laborites
adopted before nominations were made
ola not make a specific declaration or
the prohibition question. but declared
Tor IAN enforcement OF all laws"
Norris nomination was made afte,
report had been received from a
correspondent, who had been directed
| 10 ascertain If the Senator would ac-
cept. The reply read: Negative at.
Soiute. Reconsideration impossible"
FavOrs Equalization Fee.
Other planks in the Farmer Labor
PLATFORM declared for farm relief with
| equalization fee. abolition of iniunctions
in labor disputes, public ownership 81
| Boulder Dam and Muscle Shoals, scrap.
| ping of all armaments. and policy
| OF non-interference in Latin American
| disputes. A deep waterway from the
| Great Lakes to the Atlantic was also
| approved.
| On the liquor question, the Prohibi-
tionists platform makers stressed thei,
| opposition to the methods of the Anti.
Saloon League. as manifesting a "falss
| political philosophy" Other planks in
the platform, which was PRACTICAL,
ready for adoption today. included q
| denunciation of the power trust" The
! McNary -Haugen and Boulder Dam bills
were favored.
The Prohibition party platform. as
| drafted, also urged reform in judicial
procedure. uniform marriage and di-
Vorce laws, entrance of the United
| States into the World Court, and con.
oemned election laws of several States
| Hoover Aid Debated.
/ The struggle for and against the in
/ dorsemenL of the Republican presi
| Dental candidate. Herbert Hoover. con
tinued at the Prohibition partys con
| Vention today,
A resolution indorsing Hoover pre-
| sented by II. Rea CARRIER, Pittsburgh
| brought OH the prohibition debate
| Action on the resolution was delayed
until after a platform Is adopted
w A. Gay of Birmingham, Ala,
Baptist minister mentioned the nam
OF Senator Thomas Hefiin of Alabama
a foe OF Gov. Smith. Democratic presi
dental candidate, during a plea for 4
union of dry forces"
Gay declared that Alabama was {
pioneer prohibition State and that /
had given to "the cause" Senator
Hefin and Senator Hugo Black.
God bless Hefiin," delegate inter
| jected
Hugo Black heads $4,000 men IL
| Montgomery, and they are doing som,
! good" said Gay. I'm not a Ku Kiln
either. but I'm against AL Smith ant
| so IS every other Baptist, and one ii
every three men in Alabama is Bap-
list. I've swallowed my Democracy
and that means something to a mar
| whose grandmother was jefferson
Davis cousin"