1924 newspaper US SOCIALISTS NOMINATE FRANK JOHNS 4 PRESIDENT Lenin on Platform

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1924 newspaper with long and detailed front page and inside reports announcing that American SOCIALISTS NOMINATE FRANK JOHNS for US PRESIDENT, including an inside printing of the Party platform, including a long tribute to Vladimir Lenin, who had recently died -
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SEE PHOTO-----COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
Weekly People
(NY) dated May 24, 1924, with fantastic EARLY U.S. COMMUNIST PARTY history!  This paper includes a front-page historic photo of Frank Johns, US Presidential nominee.
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Frank T. Johns was born February 23, 1889. He was a carpenter by trade and made his home in Portland, Oregon.
Johns ran twice for U.S. Congress in the Oregon 3rd District, where he was the 1920 and 1922 nominee of the "Industrial Labor Party." This organization was the name by which the Socialist Labor Party of America (SLP) was forced to appear on the Oregon ballot in those years due to state electoral laws.
Johns was nominated for President of the United States by the Socialist Labor Party of America (SLP) in 1924. At the time of his selection, Johns was the youngest person ever to be nominated by a political party to run for president, just 255 days over the constitutional requirement of 35 years. Johns and running mate Verne L. Reynolds received 33,904 votes from 20 states in which they appeared on the ballot.
The official report by the SLP's governing National Executive Committee to the organization's 1928 convention cast the 1924 campaign of Johns and Reynolds in a favorable light:
"An intense campaign was carried on in 1924 with the two candidates heading the force of agitators in the campaign. Both Comrades Johns and Reynolds performed splendid work for the Party, both of them exerting themselves almost to the point of exhaustion. Both candidates toured from east to west and addressed a great number of outdoor meetings with the number of attentive listeners running into the thousands. We succeeded in getting on the ballot in twenty states and although the vote that was cast might not seem proportionate to the effort expended, still we have cause to be satisfied with the result, for the SLP understands that it is not primarily a question of the number of votes cast, but the amount of agitation done and the number of workers reached, that counts."
Satisfied with their previous performance, the May National Convention of the Socialist Labor Party in New York City renominated their 1924 ticket of Frank T. Johns for President and Verne L. Reynolds for Vice President for the 1928 campaign.
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