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...this platform of its principles." Senator Reed Smoot, the statistical Mormon from Utah...
...convention's morning session received the platform from the resolutions committee. Senator Smoot read the long document...
slow-footed Borah insisted on phrasing the Prohibition promise his own way. Farmers' Friends kept the convention waiting, and the platform-builders sleepless, with their vain insistence upon a different farm plank (see p. 15). In the end, Senator Smoot pumped all the breath he could into a document containing the following phrases...
...black-furred cub of a silver-tipped sire, boyish Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") La Follette of Wisconsin, mounted the convention platform last week as his dead father had so often done before him, to voice the "conscience" of the G. 0. P. He followed Senator Smoot. He presented what has been called, since 1908 when the senior La Follette began the practice, "The Minority Report on the Platform...
...listened attentively at the radio, nodded approvingly as Senator Smoot droned the G. O. Platform into the Missouri microphones...