The
platform praised the Coolidge administration for the prosperity of the mid-1920s, and promised reduction of the
national debt, tax reduction, retention of the protective tariff, opposition of cancellation of foreign debts, settlement of claims from
World War I from foreign governments, 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 appropriations for highway construction, the right to
collective bargaining, regulation of railroads, a 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, and continued territory status for
Alaska and Hawaii, and called for more women in public service, authority for the President to draft defense material resources and services, creation of an
Indian Commission, and an Anti-
Lynching Law, and promised continued "Home Rule for the American Citizen". Hoover's forces won an early victory by securing adoption of an agricultural plank which endorsed President Coolidge's position on the question and rejected all principles of the
McNary–Haugen Farm Relief Bill. Former Governor Lowden caused a sensation by announcing that since the agricultural plank was unsatisfactory, he withdrew from consideration as presidential nominee. ==Presidential nomination==