AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19197, 13 June 1924, Page 7

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. MR COOLIDGE’S ACTIVE INTEREST. INSISTENCE ON HIS OWN VIEWS. Press Association —By Telegraph-Copyright. NEW YORK, Juno 11. The second day’s session of the convention opened for the purpose of adopting the platform, considering reports from the various committees, and listening to several speeches, including one by Mr Mondel (chairman). . All night long the Resolutions Committee laboured under the chairmanship of Mr Warren (a personal friend of Mr Coolidge) to put tho document in permanent form, after listening to tho claims of more than 500 advocates of every conceivable cause, who desired the inclusion of special planks. It is a Coolidge platform in oveiy sense, and it is being carefully read to Mr Coolidge over the telephone in order that the last minute changes in phraseology mav receive his approval. home slight verbal concessions were made n’l order to avoid offending the various groups, but Mr Coolidgc’s determination to maintain his attitude on various questions remains unaltered, although current Congressional opposition continues. The anomaly of surface unanimity with active disagreement underneath persists, as it persisted during the recent Congressional session. The convention adopted the ruling giving women equal powers in party organisations. Tho Republican Convention will tonight receive and actant the party platform. Mr Coolidge will probably be asked for an expression of his views. Regarding the Vice-presidential nomination, Mr Hoover, after conferring with Mr Coolidcre, vigorously reiterated his declaration that he will not be a candidate for tho Vice-presidency, henator Borah also ordered his name to be withdrawn from consideration.—A. and N.Z. Cable.