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...statements, the Republican National Committee's choice of a convention city narrowed swiftly. City-boosters filled the Willard Hotel in Washington with their placards and overtures. San Francisco, Kansas City and Detroit were likeliest to please when the field of candidates for the nomination seemed reduced to Messrs. Hoover, Lowden & Dawes and Senator Curtis of Kansas...
...Dawes. In the non-Administration section of the party, Charles Gates Dawes remained silent too, adding nothing to his awkward insistence that he is not a candidate, that he is for his friend, Mr. Lowden...
...Lowden. "The next move will be Lowden's withdrawal," said observers, who already considered hopeless the undeclared ambitions of Frank Orren Lowden, famed Illinois economist, lawyer, farmer, businessman and onetime (1917-21) Governor. Mr. Lowden's friends claimed last week that he was already assured of 425 of the 545 delegates necessary for his nomination...
...Lowden, in Washington last week, held a press reception and said: 1) that his friends were responsible for his boom, not he; 2) that farm relief was his chief aim in political life; 3) "I stand squarely with President Coolidge" on Prohibion...
Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, the man without whose support Mr. Lowden cannot hope to enlist his own state delegation, continued hostile to Mr. Lowden. Mayor Thompson has enormous admiration for President Coolidge. Last week, Mr. Thompson's comment on the Coolidge statement was a clownish mixture of shrewdness and absurdity: "Well, I'll vote for him anyway...