Nations was nominated on the first ballot for President of the United States, with 20 votes to 7 for Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot, whose supporters announced that he had declined the party's nomination, insisting that he preferred to work within the Republican Party.
Former California congressman Charles Hiram Randall was nominated for vice-president, with 16 votes to 10 for Georgia congressman William D. Upshaw; Upshaw supporters announced that he planned to seek the Democratic nomination for that office, and (failing that) to seek re-election to Congress.
[1] Randall later declined to run, in order to concentrate on a race for Congress in California on both the American and Prohibition party tickets;[2] and the national committee selected Leander L. Pickett, a former member of the Prohibition Party in Kentucky, as the vice-presidential nominee.
The party platform adopted called for treaties looking to outlaw war; for censorship of foreign-language newspapers, prohibiting "foreign schools" from disseminating foreign propaganda, and restriction of immigration; for the limitation of excessive wealth; for more stringent laws against polygamy, white slavery and kidnapping; for more effective laws against election fraud; and for stricter law enforcement, especially of Prohibition.
The party was only on the ballot in Washington State,[4] Tennessee,[5] Kentucky,[6] Florida,[7] West Virginia,[8] Pennsylvania,[9] and New Jersey.