The Archive · 1924

Vice-President

Cleveland, June 12.

A_ prolonged pro-Coolidge de monstration marked the brief of the Republican Convention Inst night, at which the plat form was adopted and the planks proposed by Senator La Follette andthe insurgents rejected, Wisconsin insurgents refused. to take part in the voting on the plat. form or in the pro-Coolidge demon stration, They remained silently in their seats, ignoring the jeers, cat-coalls and hisses levelled at them as the other delegates formed in a Towg queue and marched. round the hall for a quarter of an hour. They only rose when the crowd sang the Star-Spangled Banner.

Daring the debate of the committee on the platform there was Bitter dissension over some of the planks. "The World Court plank was only approved after the members of the committee had been informed that President Coolidge personally written it.

Later.

The Convention has practically unanimously nominated President Coolidge its Presidential eundidate.

Later.

President Coolidge secured 1,005 votes, Senator La Follette 24 and Senator Johnson 10.

The Convention went into recess until this afternoon, when it nominate a Vice-President. Judge William S, Kenyon is a strong favourite for the post.

Later.

After Mr, Frank €, Lowden, ex: Governor of Ilinois, was nominated ut declined the Vice-Presidency, the Convention nominated Generat Dawes.—Reuter's American Service.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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