Scenes of Intense Enthusiasm at the Republican Convention Kansas City, June 16.
The Republican Party Convention to-day adopted the programme on which it will fight the Presidential Election campaign.
The main planks of the me are the enforcement of Frank B. Kellogg's proposals for a treaty outlawing war; position to the cancel eign debts; maintenance of the Navy to the full ratio of the Washington Convention for all classes of ships; reaffirmation of the belief of the Republican Party in a protective tariff; endorsement of President Coolidge's Latin-American policy; maintenance of an American built, owned and operated merchant-marine; sale of the Shipping Board fleet to private owners, and rigorous enforcement of the Prohibition Law.
The shadow of the recent cil scandals is seen in insistence on th appointment of officials whose inieeity 14 beyond question. nater LaFollette, pat up ous losing "battle for more favourable treatment of farmers.
Nomination Made Unani The conference hall was swept emotional waves of The Republican National Convention has nominated Mr. Hoover for the Presidency, on the first ballot, by 837 votes against 74 for the nearest competitor, Mr, Frank Lowden, formerly Governor ed the repeated warning ax to what happen in the Middle-West the November elections if farm relief were not granted. water Borah vigorously sup-arted Mr. Hoover's stam, un the Other candidates balloted were Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas Senator James E.
Convention rejected a farm relief prog: by R17 votes to
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