Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1920 — SMITH NAMED FOR GOVERNOR BY DEMOCRATS [ARTICLE]

SMITH NAMED FOR GOVERNOR BY DEMOCRATS

Saratoga Springs, N. Y-, Aug. 4. Alfred E. Smith was unanimously acclaimed as the candidate for renominatipn by the unofficial democratic state convention tonight. Although convention leaders had decreed that there should be no designation dr recommendation of candidates at Jhe fall primaries,. on a roll call of the counties for an expression of opinion, ‘‘Alfred E. Smith,” was the only response. - . , Governor Smith’s name was rormally placed before the conation by former Governor Martin H. Glynn, who responded for Albany, the first county on the list.