REPUBLICAN PARTY

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1932, Page 7

REPUBLICAN PARTY

CONVENTION'S CHOICE

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

CURTIS ♦ VICE-PRESIDENT

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CHICAGO, 16th June,

President Hoover was nominated to-day by the Republican Convention as the Republican Party's candidate in the presidential election this year. He was nominated on the first ballot. »

The President was described by his sponsor as a master in human engineering, whose shield remains unsullied after four years at the White.House.

Senator France, of Maryland, was the only other name, officially placed on the nomination list. The Senator received only four votes upon the roll call,1 but he gave a dramatic touch to tn'e proceedings when he attempted to gain thY platform to address the delegates. He was violently lifted up and carried out struggling into the anteroom by the Sergeant-at-Arms and attendants upon the orders of the chairman, Mr. Snell. Mr.-France was in a tremendous rage and on the verge of collapse. Later he explained that he had-been authorised by the Oregon delegation and had credentials therefore to place Mr. Coolidge's name for nomi- j nation. There is considerable conjecture as to whether his plan, if successful, might not have stampeded the delegates into a demonstration other than the carefully-guided one which nad been arranged to greet the naming o° Hoover for nomination, as it wad during the rpll call that .Mr. Coolidge received 4J votes, even though his name was, not officially pleaced before the Convention. The delegates surrendered themselves to a tremendous noisemaking when Mr. Hoover was nominated aad the nomination was made unanimous. \ ..-.-.

Hoover made an almost clean sweep of the first and only roll call, getting 1126} votes out of 1154. Others were: Senator' John. Blairie, of Wisconsin, 13; Mr. Calvin Coolidge, 44; Dr. France, 4; former Senator James Wadsworth, of New York, 1; former Vice-President Dawes, I...'■■' The Convention spent nearly all its concluding session in shouting Hoover's praises. ' i ,'.. •. ' ."'-' .■' ' . Senator Curtis was renominated for the'Vice-Presidency. \ '.''.'. On the'initial roll, call,. Mr. Curtis was just short of the's7B votes needed to. nominate' him, but the Pennsylvania delegation of 94 changed its vote, giving him victory. ..; ■ The Convention adjontned'sirie die. The' nomination of Mr. Curtis was an anti-climaxi Five other names besides his were offered for nomination, and the roll call gave a scattering vote to six others, ..including- the ' American Minister to Ganada, Mr., Macnider, who received 178; and General' Harbord, chairman of directors of the Radio Corporation of .America, 161, but. in thev Vice-Presidency issue,, as in the platform and other phases of the Conyention^President'Hoover's will was paramount. It is no secret that a direct telephonic wire from the "White House dictated the choice of Mr. Curtis as it dictated the working of the, Prohibition plank. . ... .. -.. . . The Convention adjourned sine die forthwith,' but not without first sending good, wishes and-affectionate greetings to ex-President Coolidge, and informing President Hoover of his nomination, and receiving word from him in •return, pledging himself to " labour as I have laboured to meet the effects of the world-wide storm."