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Convention Confronts Farm Relief and Party Platform
Delegates clash over the farm relief plank as Senator Smoot reads a long platform with cries of louder while Chairman Moses enforces order. Wisconsin’s LaFollette presents a minority plank on farm relief. renewed debates highlight the tense battle ahead for the Republican ticket.
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Moses
Herman M. Cohen
Kansas City
Smoot
House of Representatives
President Coolidge
Utah
United States Treasury
Mellon
Treasury
Pennsylvania
Department of Commerce
Herbert Hoover
California
Texas
C. O. Harris
San Angelo
Tors
Cleveland
Robert M. LaFollette, Jr
Wisconsin
Massachusetts
LaFollette
Bob
Senate
Resolutions Committee
North Dakota
la Follette
C. H. Smith
Illinois
Smith
Republican Party
Convention
Ilinois
Frank O. Lowden
Illinois Farmers’ Organization
Great Western
Middle Western
McNary-Haugen
Dawes
Deneen
Sion
Hoover
Mr. Dawes
Reed
New Hampshire
Senator Edge
New Jersey
Fuller
Tilden
Connecticut
Hamilton Fish
Theodore Foosevelt, Jr
William J. Donovan
New York
Sam R. McKelvie
Nebraska
Senator Curtis
Kansas
Henry J. Allen
Baker
Missouri
Wanford MacNider
John J. Pershing