Roswell Daily Record (Newspaper) - June 15, 1928, Roswell, New Mexico Generally HK Fair Tonight K Arid d to v ROSWELL DAILY RECORD DAILY RECORD AND EVENING NEWS COMBINED The Dally Record Complete 4 Eight Hour Day Associated Press 4 ASSOCIATED LEASED WIRE CHAYES NEW MEXICO 1928 NUMBER 6S Curtis for Hoover Gets 837 Votes Out Of Total Vote Of 1084 In Convention On First Alliance of Candidates Against Him Scattered and Collapsed Conjecture As to Seriousness of the Farm Relief Dispute Lowden Quits BURSUM AND LEE CASTWO VOTES AGAINST HOOVER Kansas June Clinging hopefully to Senator Curtis after the s withdrawal of former Governor Lowden froum the race for the presidential New Mexicos two SINGERS BEGIN mm ROSWELL FOR CONVENTION Officers of the Plateau Singing the annual meeting of which will be held in Roswell Sat and hegari arriving The officers will meet this evening at seven oclock the Chamber of Commerce committee to perfect details of the The committee designated by the Chamber of Commerce to assist in this convention is and The sesions of the convention will be held in the high school au starting at ten oclock Sat Indications point to one of the largest crowds which ever attended a convention in Ros All sessions of the convention are open to the without ad mission Business houses were preparing to day to extend a welcome to the visitors by special window displays held by Chairman Holm Bursum and welcome signs in their windows and threw their i The regulas flags will be used Satur CONGRATULATIONS POURING IN UPON HERBERT HOOVER support to the Kansan the vice presidential who as chairman of tho delegation and a Lowden sup porter fought for inclusion in the re publican platform of the essential principles of the for farm today seconded froim the platform the nomination of Cbar day on Main The Chamber of Commerce rooms are open each night until 9 and the man on duty there will assr t in placing peo ple in The Plateau Singing Convention is an organization of people interested in This organization has thousands of members in West Texas HERBERT HOOVER i Kansas June overwhelming choice of his party Herbert Hoover is the rej publican presidential nominee of j His nomination was voted late last j the first ballot in a slide that piled up at his feet nearly of the entire vote of the The alliance of candi dates him collapsed scattered and his chief Frank withdrew disappointed and dissatisfied with the party platform plank on farm re Selection of a nominee for second place was left to todays final ses sion of party called together at noon after republican leaders had sifted over a score of candidates at confabs throughout Kansas Citys downtown hotel and had sought the ad vice of himself in Washing it has come to an agreement on the vice presidential the convention will be ready to ad journ and go A few hours before it made its for head of the ticket it had completed adop a platform modelled on the Coolidge style of political architec ture with a few extra buttresses here and there to fortify it against the Special strains of this particular pres serious the fanan relief dis pute may yet become was a subject of speculation everywhere as the dele gates prepared to After sending his message of withdrawal to the convention Lowden board ed a train for his home at without making a further state HOOVER TO STAY IN THE CABINET les Gurtis for Originally declared for Lowden for the presidential nomination and en tering the convention last night to cast the one vote for Lowden in the New Mexico Bursum immediately after being informed of the former Illinois governors with switched to Curtis to team up with Seven of New Mexicos votes went for but Lees vote which been switched for Hoover at the elev stood pat on the roll call On the original calculation Lee was expect d to contribute another Hoov er vote so that New Mexico would have cast eight for Hoover and one Cor Bursum was outspoken in faction with the republican platform as adopted insofar as it related to farm New Mexicos state standard pinn ed to the convention floor was snatched from its only once last cial quartett of the convention has been singing each Sunday at a dif ferent place in the territory and the convention and Roswell have been advertised at each place they have Officers of the a socia tion are expecting visitors dur ing the two A night session will bc held Sunday session will start at and final adjournment will be about Sun day afternoon June 15 An authorized announcement indicating that Secretary Hoover would retain his place in the cabinet for the time was made today in behalf of the republican presidential nominee by hii George Akerson For the Hoover will remain secretary of Akerson We will continue hi duties in the department just as he has always Whether the statement meant matter of weeks or days of continu tion in office Akerson would not It was said that Secretary Hoovers plans called for his re maining in Washington until he has seen the party leaders who will be returning from the The question the selection of campaign managers also was said to be post poned for the timp Although an invitation was re from Thad Brown who man aged the Hoover primary campaign in Ohio urging that his first cam speech made in Youngstown it was said that Hoover would not decide such matters until he had an opportunity to deliberate with his most of whom now are in Kansas Continued on Page 3 Kansas June ator Curtis left here by automobile for Topeka immediately after expressing his appreciation to the re publican convention for nominating him for the vice He was accompanied by by his Harry Curtis of night during the demonstrations for the nomination of Secretary Then it was carried only a few feet and carrird back to be firmly planted in its Bursum de nied the apparent of enthusiasms among New Mexicos contingent any political We just thought we could show enthusiasm from where we he He pointed out in support of his contention that it had no political sig that New went pre for the commerce tary and additionally that New Mex icos captained by State Chairman Safford remained in their One of the alternates today observed westerners dont get as but our party patriotisms is NATIONAL LEAGUE R H E Pittsburgh 000 000 6 1 At New York 510 102 11 0 Batteri s Tauscher and Smith Aldridge and Spohrer R H E Chicago 020 002 11 0 At Boston 010 001 8 1 and Hartnett Delaney and R H E Cincinnati 000 060 13 1 At Philadelphia 301 202 15 1 Rixey and Picinich Walsh and Continued on Page 5 CONVENTION HAS ADJOURNED AT Convention Kansas June completed a ticket of Hoover and the Republi can National Convention adjourned sine die today at after a session lasting 2 hours and 21 minu Curtis Gets Reception Convention Kansas June few minutes he had been nominated for the vice Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas came to Convention Hall and was a rousing ovation 000 200 000 000 010 000 010 000 Louis At Brooklyn Johnson and Wilson and De AMERICAN LEAGUE 400 113 0 At Cleveland 130 000 0 and Perkins Grant and H E Boston 000 201 7 0 At Chicago 000 000 4 1 and Berry Connally and Washington 040 000 00 At Detroit 000 003 00 Marberry and Ruel Stoner and New York 012 At Louis 000 and Grabow ski Crowder and Ruth hit homer first of Brannon hit homer last of Supc June Coolidge sent Herbert republican presidential nom a telegram of congratulation and personal appreciation immediately upon reaching Superior Praising the personal qualities of Secretary President Coolidge said You have been nominated for the most important position in the Your great ability and your wide ex will enable you to serve our party with marked I wish you all the success that your heart could May God con to bestow upon you the power to do your Coolidge associated herself with Coolidges graphing The president and I send you and yours our love and best Coolidge was informed arly today on the train hy Edward bis personal of the nomination of Herbert Hoover at the Kansas City The news reach d the special train carrying to his summer white houso on the Brule river after the chief executive had The telegram to Hoover waa prepared on the train and dispatched as soon as the train stopped v Franco Is June nom of Herbert Hoover as re publican candidate for the presidency was given much favorable in the papers It I was breakfast time when news of the nomination was to Paris and j the morning papers therefore had no For weeks there have been columns in all the papers about the man whom France knows so well through his food and other war One paper in friendly enthusiasm said He has every chance of re placing In Circles June nom of Herbert Hoover by the republicans is viewed with Ini terest by League of Nations circles where the opinion is expressed that if American policy will be come more active and more This is state ment that as far as the is developments of American cooperation with the league which President Harding and was accentuated under President is looked for no matter who becomes What Rome Thinks June Hoovers nomination by the republi cans for the presidency has produced a generally favorable impression Rome in the sense that if he is elect ed it presaged a continuation of the policies so far pursued by the United The nomination was especially in to the Vatican where it was recalled that when chair man for the committee for the re lief of Belgium appealed directly to the It was also recalled that as chairman of the greater relief work the tie sent an expressly to Rome with an ad dress to the late Pope Benedict XV who became the first subscriber to the fund for the children of the near BY REPUBLICANS STRONG SWITCH OVER NIGHT TO BY BOTH EAST AND GAVE HIM THE NOMINATION ON FIRST BALLOT CURTIS i HAS ACCEPTED THE CHARLES CURTIS DONKEYS FOR THE DEMOCRATS AT June die manager of a theatre in j today purchased fifty don keys at each and shipped them to Houston for presentation to the State Delegations to the National Democra tic Each state delegation will get one of the animals and the Alaskan and Philippine delegations will receive the other two Convention Kansas June and So reads the republican In a landslide of proportions even out doing that iu which Herbert Hoover himself named last for rhe republican national convention at its concluding session today selected Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas as his running East and west and in o tumultuous rivalry to give the tri bute and confidence of their sup port to the swarthy of In dian once a now tho leader of his party in the United His selection was urged by his partisans and accepted by the deletes of other sections as a link between the pres and the McNary Haugen farm bloc which was so over beaten yesterday in an attempt to write the Tee into the republican Senator Curtis voted for both the bills were ve toed by President When the attempt was made three weeks ago to pass the over the the Kansas senator stood by the He himself had been a candidate for the presidency with the support of Kansas and Okla homa to the Although his vice pr candidacy had been handicapped by the record of his stubborn resistance against his supporters pointed out that he not only announced his allegiance to the standard hearer and as soon as the presidential nomination was but sent a ringing telegram of congratulation to Like Curtis was nominated on the first and there were only a few scattered votes for During the final period of convention oratory set aside for nominating and seconding other names were but before the roll call every one of them had been Senator Borah of already a convention favorite by vir tue of his speech yesterday against the farm made the nominating sp cch and the last of a long series of seconds was de livered just before the roll call be by Senator Curtis own daught Leona Curtis Knight a de legate from AFer a night of conferences among the the to nom inate the Kansan came on with a rush and a of had been for him all but the big boost that nally put him over was started by that same Pennsylvania delegation of 79 that figured so de in turning the tide for Hoov er in the early this In a morning with a dozen candidates still in the the Penn went over to Curtis in a were followed quickly by the biggest state delegation of that of New then in turn by Illinois and many Although convention officials felt it necessary to go through the formalities of a roll it was virtually a nomin ation by The final vote was Curtis 1052 Herman Ekern of Wisconsin 19 Vice President Dawes 13 Hanford of Iowa by Curtis Plans for an early conference Herbert Hoover and the republican national committee made by Senator Curtis today immediately af ter he had been nominated as the party nominee for the vice pres After appreciation for th honor the Kansan said I greatly appreciate the hon or which has been conferred upon I came to Kansas City Doping to receive the nomination for the My friends made a gal lant fight for me and remained loyal until I cannot find words sufficient to express my gratitude to When the result was I gladly bowed to tho will of the majority and was ready to begin work for the 08
