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■ SCENES OF ENTHUSIASM CONVENTION UNANIMOUS United Presi 'Association—By Electric T«l«----trapli—CopyriKut. Australian Tress Association—United Service. ', (Received 30lh June, 9 a.m.) 1 HOUSTON (Texas), 29th June. The Democratic Convention adopted unanimously the nomination of Governor "Al" Smith, of New York, as the Democratic Party's candidate for the' United States Presidency. Senator Joseph T. Robinson, of Arkansas, was selected as the Democratic candidate for the; Vice-Presi-dency. l Trie Convention also adopted a platform including a. Prohibition plank, promising an "honest effort to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment." The Convention received a telegram from Governor Smith accepting nomination and the' party's platform, but reiterating his belief that ''the States alone are able to secure real temperance aiid respect-for tho law and the present conditions relative to Prohibition arc unsatisfactory to the great mass of the American, people."
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 151, 30 June 1928, Page 9
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