1928 Republican National Convention
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The 1928 Republican National Convention was held in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, June 12-15, 1928.
Because President Coolidge in 1927 had jolted the nation with the statement that he had chosen not to run in 1928, Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover became the natural front-runner for the Republican Nomination. Former Illinois Governor Frank Lowden and Kansas Senator Charles Curtis were candidates for the nomination but stood no chance to the hailed Commerce Secretary. The future President was nominated on the first ballot with 837 votes to 72 for Lowden and 64 for Curtis and the rest scattered. John L. McNab delivered Hoover´s nomination address. In his acceptance speech he said that "We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty ever before in the history of any land" this and other optimistic remarks about the country` s future were held against him in the 1932 presidential election
Hoover went on to win the election but lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932.
The Platform
The platform praised the Coolidge administration for the prosperity, it also promised reduction of the national debt, tax reduction, retention of the protective tariff, opposition of cancellation of foreign debts, settlement of claims fom WWI from foreign geovernments, continuation of the Coolidge foreign policy, support of arbitration treaties, civil service protection, a tariff for agricultural protection and continued farm exports, aid to the coal-mining industry, continued approriations for highway construction, the right to collective bargaining, regulation of rail-roads, an continued independent american merchant marine, government supervision of radio facilities, construction of waterways to help transportation of bulk goods, support for war veterans, federal regulation of public utilities, conservation, vigorous law enforcement, honest government, continued reclamation of arid lands in the West, improvement of air-mail service, restricted immigration and naturalization of foreign immigrants in America, continued enforcement of the Washington Naval Treaty, continued status of territory status for Alaska and Hawaii and called for more women in public service, right of the President to draft defense material resouces and services, creation of an Indian Commission, an Anti-Lynching Law and promised continued Hom-Rule for the American Citizien.
Candidates for the Presidential Nomination
- Frank Lowden (Illinois)
- Charles Curtis (Kansas)
Candidates for the Vice Presidential Nomination
Chase S. Osborn (Georgia)
