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STiDMIlEIIS Choosing Running Mate Only Snag Hit by Repub lican Convention. LOWDEN STANDS FIRM Chosen on Second Ballot He Sends Convention Flat Re fusal—Coolidge Was Whole Thing From Start to Finish. THE REPUBLICAN. TICKET For President, CALVIN COOLIDGE OF MAS SACHUSETTS. For Vice President, CHARLES G. DAWES OF ILLINOIS. By WRIGHT A. PATTERSON Cleveland, Ohio.—It Is over. The national Republican convention of 1924 has passed Into history. The delegates that gathered from every section of the nation, Including those from Alaska, Porto Rico, the Cana! Zone and the far-away Philippines, to perform a task they had been told to perfor^have completed their labors gad s^ttered to the four winds. At Clev^nd they ratified the nomination, mad^ by the rank and file of the Republican voters, of Calvin Coolidge as their candidate for the presidency of the United States. The first ballot for vice president showed Lowden In the lead, with Bur ton, Dawes, Hoover and Kenyon fol lowing clo.sely. On the second ba'lot the convention turned to Lowden and he was unanimously nominated. In a telegram to the convention the former governor of Illinois absolutely refused to accept the nomination. After a three-hour recess another ballot was taken and before It was finished Dawes was so far in the lead o\er Hoover that the nomination was made unanimous amid the wildest en thusiasm. That convention is comparable to but few other national political conventions In the history of this nation. To some extent It was similar to the Democratic meeting at St. Louis In 1915, at which Woodrow WTlson was nominated to succeed himself. To some extent, too. It was similar to the Republican con vention held at Chicago In 1904, when Theodore Roosevelt was nominated to succeed himself after having succeed ed to the presidency Just as Calvin Coolidge did, by the death of his chief. In all of these cases there wms a lack of competitive candldhtes, the dele gates had assembled with but one man In view for first place on the party ticket, and these conventions, like the one Just closed, were but ratifications of nominations that had already been made In the minds of the rank and file of the party they represented. But this convention at Cleveland went even further than those of 1904 and 1916. It was not the man alone but his policies that were to be ratified. In the previous Instances cited the poli cies of the men to be nominated had be^n also the policies of their party as represented In the legislative branch of the government. In this case It was, to some extent, at least, a choice be tween the policies of the legislative branch and those of the executive branch as represented by President Coolidge that the rank and file of the party were called upon to Judge, and the verdict was almost unanimous In favor of the executive-branch. Touches Popular Chord. Representative Theodore E. Burton of Ohio, the temporary chairman. In his keynote address at the opening H®slon on Tuesday tiomi, touched a popular chord when he said: “With some disappointment as one whose public sendee has been in a leg islative position, truth compels me to say that by far the greater share of our citizenship looks to President Cool- Idge rather than to congress for leader ship." That reference to the man and the policies the delegates were assembled to ratify brought forth the first and one. of the notable demonstrations of the convention. Several times In that keynbte speech Representative Burton took occasion to emphasize those policies of the Pres ident as being the policies of the party though they differed with the repre sentatives of the majority of the mem bers of the iiarty in the legislative branch of the government. He referred to this in connection with the subject of the soldier bonus legislation, with tax legislation, and with Japanese ex clusion. On the latter subject he said : "It Is regretted that In the passage of the re-ent bill the regues-t of the Pres ident for time for further negotiations with Japan was refused.” Throughout the entire speech the keynoter praised the policies of the President rather than those of the Republican repre sentatives In the legislative branch, where\er the two policies dllfered. But of congress he said: "j'luch of the blaia* visited upon Republicans In the present congress Is not deserved, be- • causs on many major questions their parti has hot commanded a majority In either branch.” Many of the men whose faces have l*«an fantlilar at national Republican conventiona for some years past were not ^to be found at Cleveland at alL Others of the old-time leaders were present, but they were there more as spectators than as active participants. Senator Lodge, both the temporary and permanent chairman of the last Repub lican convention, was present ns a del egate, but he had been displaced as national committeeman from Massa chusetts and Governor Cox had been chosen to succeed him. There was evi dence everywhere of a new controlling force In the party and that new force for a time, at least. Is Calvin Coolidge. Many Names Mentioned. After the arrival of the first dele gates two days previous to the open ing of the convention and during the fir.st two days of Its sessions there were but two subjects of conversation. The first, and considered the most Im portant by the Coolidge dele’gates, was that of a running mate for the Presi dent. Many names were mentioned, and several of those named had defi nitely expressed a wish, and In some cases practically a demand that they not be nominated for second place on the ticket Members of the delegations wanted to hear from Coolidge. They w-anted to know his choice, and they w'ere more than willing to ratify his Selection. As one of the new lenders expressed It, "the delegates, represent ing, as they do, the rank and file of the party, realize that President Cool idge is the greatest asset of the party and they wish to follow the lead of the man who has commanded the re spect of the rank and file." The President, on the other hand, preferred that the delegates should make their own selection If they would. Those who were qualified to speak for CALVIN COOLIDGE him Insisted that he ^d not wish to appear In the light of a party dictator. In the end the question was solved by^ the selection on Thursday of Charles 6. Dawes of Illinois as the nominee of the party for vtoe president The La qoll«|tttt Platform. The second subject was that of the attitude of the LaFollette wing of the party on the question of platform planks. Early In the first session on Tuesday there was distributed to the delegates copibs of the platform pro posed by the Wisconsin senator and his followers and offered to the resolutions committee by Henry Allen Cooper, the Wisconsin member of the committee. This proposed platform carried a dras tic condemnation of the legislation enacted by both parties during several past administrations. It declared for the public ownership of water power, the public control of natural re sources; repeal of the Esch-Cummlns law; public ownership of railroads; drastic curtailment of war "and navy expenditures; a tax on excess profits; the making public of tax returns; elec tion of federal judges without party designation; a reduction In freight rates for farm products; abolish in junctions in labor disputes; protection for farmers’ organizations and collec tive bargaining; granting of a cash bonus to soldiers; deep waterways from the lakes to the ocean; amend ments to the Constitution to provide for the direct election of President, a federal Initiative and referendum, and a referendum on war. There were some other less Important planks. The whole question of the platform was fought out In the resolutions com mittee on Tuesday night and Wednes day, and when Its report was made at the convention session on Wednesday night It was adopted with but little fuss, and despite the protest of Sena tor LaFollette’s followers. Political history was made by the adoption of the report of the commit tee on credentials on Wednesday morn ing. The party now stands definitely committed to a limitation of represen tation from the southern states. This was done by providing for representa tion In the conventions of the party ba.sed on the percentage of Republican electors elected from each state. It Is so worded as to rather Increase the representation in both the number of delegates and the members of the na tional committee In Republican states instead of materially decreasing either the number of delegates or national committeemen from those states that are recognized as distinctly Demo cratic. i Political history was made In an other Instance when It Is voted to give the women the same yolce In party affairs as lhat enjoyed by the men The movement for this was led by Mrs. Medlll McCormick of Illinois, and when proposed to the convention It went through with but few dissenting votes- and was loudly cheered by the women. Reporttrt at Sea. There was a continuous commotion in the press stand at the Cleveland' show. TKe gray heads of the news paper world who have been reporting iwlltlcal conventions for rears found It difflcnlt to get a story out of this oi|e. Not because there wa» not a story lo be had, but because the story mn>t have the names of people who were doing things and the men of the pre« did not know by. sight the qken, and tie women too. If you please, who were tie moving and guiding spirits of this Re publican gathering. The old-timers, the men who haie made Republican history for the last quarter of a century and more, ha^ie either disappeared entirely, -or we*e with but few exceptions In the baci- ground. It was new and. In maiy cases, strange faces one saw upon the platform. ” "Who Is the man In 'the gray salt sitting beside the railing?” asked a vet eran New York newspaper writer, a man who has covered every convention since the late eighties. “Search me,” said the man next to him, another veteran. “One of the nu merous interlopers who have butted Into the game to make it hard for us. Ask Jim Preston.” Preston, the superintendent of the senate press gallery at Washington, the one man who knew all of them, the old and the new, was appealed to and informed the perturbed newspaper men that the gentleman In question was William M. Butler of Massachusetts, the incoming chairman of the party. And so It went throughout each ses sion. The men and the w-omen who, to a large extent are doing things w.ere unknown by sight to the newspaper men'and they were kept busy trying to catch the names of those who were making motions, reporting to the con vention as chairmen of Important com mittees—the names of those who were running the show-, whether It be at the stated performances or about the com mittee rooms or the hotel lobbies. Old Facos Absent, The faces of sucR men as Senators Lodge, Smoot, Watson and others of the senatorial coterie, of Will Hays, of Harry M. Daugherty, of Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, of T. Ck>leman Du pont, of Charles D. Hllles and a long list of others who filled the speakers' platform at Chicago in 1920, were not seen on the platform at Cleveland. To be sure many of them—the majority. In fact—were present, but they were merely among those present. They were not on the platform sitting In the big, easy, leather-upholstered chairs provided for the ultra-distinguished. Several of them occupied the hard- bottomed seats arranged In long rows on the floor of the convention hall pro vided for delegates and alternates. Others had seats in the guest sections far up In ^e balconies, and others wondered about the rotunda of the big building with a look of bewilderment on their faces. Prominent among those on the plat form, and the few who were general ly known, were those members of the President's cabinet who were attend ing the convention. These Included Secretary Mellon, Secre^ry Secretary Wortr, Aftfi'riillr'Sleheri Stone, Postmaster General New. Aside from Attorney Qeperal Stonp, a new comer In the (ublnet, these men were generally kj|own by sight at least, but aside from the temporary and perma nent chairman, and some minor ofli- clals of the convention, they were about the only ones who were known to either the audience or the newspa per w’rlters. It all marked a new deal In the his tory of the party, a passing of party government Into new hands. The President and his advisers rather than the leaders In the legislative branch are In control. What the result of the change Is to be will be determined when the votes are counted next No vember. It Was All Coolidge. It was a strictly a Coolidge conven tion. Quite as much so as was the Progressive convention of 1908 at Chi cago a Roosevelt convention. They did what the President would wish them to do, they did nothing he would wish them not to do. It was a convention that was satisfactory to 1 CHARLES G. DAWES the great majority of the delegates. They had a.ssembled to do a certain job they had been told to do by the rank and file of the partx^at home, and they did It. It- was all accom plished without any great amount of noise, with no blatant trumpeting of jazz music, with but little oratory aside from the keynote speech of the temporary chairman and the nomi nating speech delivered by Dr. M. L. Burton, president of the University of Michigan, In naming Calvin Coolidge as the standard bearer of the party at the session on Thursday morning. The usual hurrah, the din, the verbal firewmrks of a political convention were distinctly absent. As for the city of Cleveland It han dled a big job in a big way. It put Itself on the map as one of the fore most convention cities of the nattoo. BUILIBIB. 8 L RESOURCES INCREASE BY 11 MILLION DOLLARS DURING PAST YEAR Raleigh Six thousand and sixty-eight homes costing approximately thirty million dollars were built partially or ■wholly through the help of the 228 building and loan associations in North Car olina last year, according to a sum mary of their operations made public by State Insurance Commissioner Sta cey W. Wade. The figures sho-yv a gain of 500 homes oVer the preceding year. Resources of the building and loan associations in the State, increased from $45,007,853.46 to $56,811,457.57 during the year and direct loans made on property for erection of resi dential property amounted to $21,535,- 894.75. The number of outstanding shares of stock in force increased from 1,127.112 to 1,331,050, or an increase of over 200,000. During the year 459,480 shares of building and loan were taken out, and in the same period 240,704 were ma tured and ret'red. Commissioner Wade points out that it is an indication of the developing tendency of North Car- and invest it safely. The building and olina men and women to save money loan savings amount to more than sav ings bank accounts. Charlotte is the outstanding center o f the business in the State, its four companies having resources totaling nearly nine million dollars. Nine hun dred and fifty-seven homes were built in , Charlotte during i the year through the help o fthe associations. ( Raleigh has four companies with total resources of $1,600,000 ■which as sisted in the construction of 62 homes during the year. Winston-Salem gets into the million dollar group with three associations of resources of that figure. Greensboro, Concord, Asheville, Hickory. Wilmington and High Point have a million dollar company each. Governor Makes Statement Governor Morrison’s statement an nouncing his purpose to ask a special session of the Legislature to submit the water transportation measure to the people follows: I have definitely decided that if the Council of State will advise and consent thereto, I will call, at an early date, an Extraordinary Session of the General Assembly, and urge the enact ment of the necessary legislation for the development of water carried com merce, and name a Commission to of. the whole matter, sp thd people will have full Information as to who is to administer the law and spend the money contemplated by the development, but not to be operative unless approved by a majority of the voters at the next general election^ I have recognized all the while that this proposition is one of great mag nitude, and I have sympathized with those who feared the investment being assured of popular approval. I believq^the fair, and in the long run, wise/thing is to enact the neces sary legislation, subject to the appro val of the people of the State. It can never be successful without the appro val of the people, and, deeply convin ced as I am of tite wisdom and justice of the measure, I recognize that this is a government by the people, and I think that a movement not be under taken without their approral. I am confident that the people of the State do favor the development of our waterways and the setting up of water competition with rail trans portation. I am quite confident that the measure can be fully presented to the people. Bij^t if I am wrong about this, after all A Is the business oi the people and finally would be determined by them. This will avoid political difficulties which might accompany direct and final acton of the General Assembly. Fire Relief Fund Shows Increase. Checks aggregating $33,837.82 rep resenting the State Insurance Depart ment contribution to the firemen’s re lief fund in cities of the State having organized fire department have been mailed out to more than a hundred ci ties and towns In the State. The fund this year is increased from $28,787.52, .. Truck Growers Show Increase „ which was distributed a year ago. Charlotte is the largest single partici pant In the distribution of this fund toward firemen’s relief, with a quota of $3,324.29 and Winston-Salem takes second place with a quota of $2,656 Raleigh ranks well down the list witti a total of $1,561.20. Other large parti cipants include Greensboro with $1,840, Wilmington with $1,732. Durham with $1,438, Goldsboro with $963. Wilson with $883. Will Make Survey Of Couties i To secure accurate and trustworthy Information relative to the cost ot producing cotton, the Bureau ot Ag ricultural Economics at Washington Is co-operating with the Department of Agricultural Economics at the State College of Agriculture In making a study of cotton growing in the terri tory around Benson. Cotton farms in Johnston and Harnett counties,, will be studied in the survey. The work in this State is under the direction of Dr. O. W Forster.- ILL BOILD LI1R6E MNNERK .dost Modern Machinery and EquiF "ment-Obtainable is Now Being Installed Aberdeen,—What promises to be come, perhaps one of the largest can neries in the south is now being es tablished here by W. M. ^ ^ has at various periods been in cnarg of large cannery propositions all over the country. Mr. Ketchum came here last year and made a survey o le canning field, being attracted by t e steadily increasing yield of peaches, of course. When he came here be also found a big field in the canning of dewberries, the acreage of which is a - BO being increased with each year^ I e found, too, that certain vegetables pur poses and yield a good profit to the growers. Mr. Ketcham’s concern will operate as the Carolina Canning company regularly incorporated in th:s state. The most modern machinery and equipment obtainable is now being in stalled here, consisting of peelers, washers, heaters, steamers, cookers and syrup mmers. The concern will begin at once with the putting up of dewberries. The canned dewberry should prove a ready seller as it is i«tt up in heavy syrup, and will be far superior to the ordi nary blackberry now on the market. Immediately after the dewberry sea son the canning of peaches will be gin. The crop this year in the sandiiills will be the biggest yet and the quali ty promises to be of the best. The can nery being located at Abedeen is in the center of the peach belt as it is spread out over the sandhills, and Mr. Ket- cham hopes to realize $20,000 dally for the sandhills growers out of the canned peaches to be put on the mar ket through the regular channels. A special effort is now being made by him to interest the North Carolina and other southern jobbers in the superior flavor of the North Carolina canned peaches, which alone should recom mend them to the trade. Truck Growers Show Increase. Kinston.—Truck growers in this part of North Carolina have increased by hundreds this year, sectional cham ber of commerce officers estimate, larger quantities of potatoes, beans, beets melons an dother food crops will be produced in some localities than many years past. Bumper lettuce and berry crops have been made in the belts in the southeastern counties de noted to those crops_ Craven county growers report in creases in a number of lines of truck. The beet crop in Beaufort county has amounted to many carloads. Little at tention has beeo given the product in Beaufort heretofore Lenoir, In the past paying little attention to other crops other than tobacco and cotton, has pro duced quantities of peas, potatoes and strawberries and will make shipments of a number of other products in the summer. The diversification appears to have been general in the eastern part of the State. “Additional millions of dollars will pour into the farmers’ pockets this year from food crops,” chamber of commerce men say. “Coupled with this is the whirlwind development of the poultry industry, the increased demand for dairy prod ucts by ice cream manufactureres and others, and the planting of more pas tures for cattle and s^wine. If cotton and tobacco prices are as good as last year’s and the co-operative move ment to control the bool-weevil is as restful as is anticipated. Eastern Carolina farmers will reap the biggest harvest of prices in 1924 that they have known since the fat war years. In districts hard hit by the past-war depression the last of the deficit due to the slump will be paid off and there will be a good surplus.” Invents Machine To Ink Soles Rockingham,—W. L. Boone, mana ger of the Boone shoe repair shop here, has just received letters of patent for a new Invenfon, known as a sole ink ing device. This new machine, which he expecls to manufacture and put on the market, provides a novel method for inking the soles^ At the same time the new machine is provided with means for applying any one of a plur ality of different colored inks to the soles as desired. Record ^atch By Fishing Party Elizabeth City_—What is believed to be a record catch of big drum was made at Oregon Inlet by a fishing |M- ty composed of Sam B. Parker, l7r. H. D. Walker, M. Leigh Sheep, and A. C Thurman of Raleigh, who returned from the inlet Monday. Twenty big drum weigh’ng from 25 to 49 pounds with the average size between 35 and 40 pounds, was the catch brough in.. Ship Strawberries To Factory Wallace.—A new business has been added to the industries of .W'allace within the past two weeks. The firm of J_ G. Townsend, Jr., and Co., of Del aware, are shipping cold packed straw berries. This means a great deal to the strawberry growers of this sec tion, because the shipping season Is over, and still there ' Is a market for all berries, even the full ripe. The ber ries are brought In already stemmed, or capped, for which the grower Is paid 6 'cents per pound, thua a crate brings on an average of $3. n Need , HANCOCK. Sulphur Cohpouhd Physicians aaree that sulphur Is one of the most effecldve blood purifiers known. For plmpi^ black-heads, freckles, blotche*, and tan^^fweil a s for more serious face, scalp and body eruptions, hives, eczema, etc., use this scientific compound of sulphur. As a Ip- tipn. 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Once clear keep your skin clear by using them for dally toilet purposes. Don’t fall to In clude Cuticura Talcum, AdvertisemenL We Understand It was a dear old Brookline lady who made the Malapropinii reiLiurk: “Say what you will. I’ve trietl all iny life to live up to my ordeals.”—Bos ton Trunscrli)!. Philosophical Wife—Tomorrow Is the anniversary of our wedding. What shall we do about It? Professor (absently)—I suppose we shall have to nvake the best of It.— Bo.ston Transcript.
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