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Here is the platform which Mr. LaFollette presented to the C. P. P. A. in Cleveland, which was adopted with a roar. Unlike the Republican and Democratic platforms of some 6,000 words each, the LaFollette document, in its entirety, is composed of less than 1,000 words. Excerpts are given from the prologue and peroration; the 14 planks appear in full text...
North Dakota sent up a Catholic who denounced the Klan. There was a spontaneous roar, mostly from the galleries. The anti-Klan
...unfamiliar are the Gauls, seeing the much-laden tenders labor shoreward, with hearing a mighty shout go up to Heaven, with hearing an answering roar from the U. S. S. Pittsburgh, with seeing some 300 picked American athletes spring ashore to the blaring strains of Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here and The Stars and Stripes Forever...
Next to come forward was Mrs. Elizabeth P. Martin, the first woman ever to be Chairman of one of the major committees of a Republican National Convention. She presented the report of the Committee on Permanent Organization, naming Frank W. Mondell of Wyoming as Permanent Chairman. With a roar for her and a roar for Mondell the Convention agreed...
...this the women delegates went wild. The men expressed approval. The other was a provision giving the National Committee power to oust any committeeman who refused to support the Convention's nominees?a threat for the Wisconsin group if they should turn from Coolidge to La Follette. The roar of approval which this provision produced was as great as that which had followed the clause for equal female representation. Wisconsin sat stolidly in its seats. There was no opposition to the adoption of the report...