The Republican Convention at Kansas City has carried through its
hectic operations amid the din by day and by night which seems so strange to us, but serves to drown the noise of the grinding of axes and pulling of wires. It adopted a platform of international peace and the largest Navy allowed under the Washington Treaty ; it Stands for high protection for manufacturers and shipping, but rejected the farmers' threatening demands for the McNary-Haugen plan. On Friday last the expected, though unprecedented, nomination of Mr. Hoover as candidate for the Presidency was carried. The second candidate, Governor Lowden, received less than a tithe of Mr. Hoover's votes. It was unprecedented in so far as Mr. Hoover has not worked his way up in his country's political sphere through any office in his State of California or in any other. Nor has he truckled to -the caucus or any of the party-managers whose power is so great in the United States even when unseen. They would never have wished to see the great office fall to a strong man of independent views like Mr. Hoover ; rather they would have seen him put, like Theodore Roosevelt, on the Vice-Presidential shelf.
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