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f.l COX RECEIVES DE
NOMINATION FOR THE PRESIDENCY
JVFTER STEADILY BEATING DOWN HIS CHIEF OPPONENT, WIL
LIAM G. McADOO, THE OHIOAN WALKS OFF WITH THE
PRIZE ON THE FORTY-FOURTH BALLOT
ATTORNEY GENERAL PALMER III GRATEFUL SPEECH RETIRES
i
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Is Prominently
Mentioned For Nomination to Second Place on the Ticket;
Exhaustion and Other Reasons Compelled Recess.
Auditorium!, San Francisco, July 6.
James. M. Cox, governor of Ohio, was
nominated for President of the United,
States in the democratic national con
ention at lr40 o'clock this morning.
The nomination camo at the conclu
sion of a fprtyjfourth ballot struggle
la which he had steadily beaten down
the forces of William G. McAdoo, for
mer secretary of the treasury and'
President Wilson's son-in-law.
When the balloting on the forty
fourth vote had gotten to a point
where Cox had 702 votes and was rap
idly approaching the necesary 729,
Sam B. Amidbn, of Kansas, manager
of the McAdoo forces and vice chair
man of the democratic national com
mittee, took the platform and moved
that the nomination of Governor Cox
be made unanimous. Immediately
there was a roar from the tired and
worn delegates which lasted for a full
Jfour minutes before Chairman Robin
son could put the question on Ami
don's motion to suspend . the rules and
nominate Cox by acclamation.
At 1:43 o'clock this morning the mo
tion was formally voted over with a
rolling chorus of ayes and a erasing
of the brass bands. State standards
which had surged back and forth in
the desperate battles of the deadlock
raced to the front of the hall and to a
place before the platform.
In the confusion and excitement of
a nomination 'after the body forgot
about a nomination for vice-president
but the leaders were figuring on a list
which prominently included Franklin
D. Roosevelt of New York, assistant
secretary of the navy. While the
crowd was demonstrating its release
from the deadlock the leaders arrang
ed an adjournment until today noon
to canvass the uqestion of second
place in the meantime and meet again
prepared to complete the ticket.
The Cox band wagon movement
really started late yesterday afternoon
before the recess for dinner.
During the recess between the 41st
and 42nd ballots Georgia caucused and
it was decided to stick with McAdoo
for another. Some change was hinted
at but not defined.
A roll call was ordered on a motion
to adjourn until 10 o'cl'oc tomorrow.
Former Governor Linebaugh of Ok
lahoma moved it and the Cox people
opposed it fearing the effects of an
overnight rest on their lead.
- The Georgia delegation, It was re
ported on a caucus, went over to Cox
under the unit rule for the next bal
lot. The mption to adjourn was defeat
ed. The Cox people thus won their
determination to continue striking
while the iron was hot and" press their
advantage. The McAdoo states for
most part voted for an adjournment,
although some of them did vote
against it.
Mitchell Palmer asks me to express
his sincere thanks and appreciation to
every delegate who had voted for his
nomination, but he is unwilling to de
lay the proceedings further, and au
thorized me to finally, positively ano:
McAdoo boomers,, the Palmer TOQpIethe.Cr etendbywer tXamoved. Tha
and the Coi shouters one 'verse each lines. --st.',.
of their, favorite air.
Chairman ; Robinson called Senator
Phelan "a great California democrat"
to the platform to announce the re
sults of) the 38th ballot.' ; . "
Hopes Go Glimmering. i
Hopes and prospects that the con
An attemnt at "a recess during the
earlier part of the session was drown
ed out in shouts of its approval.
When Palmer on " the thirty-fifth
ballot hit a higher mark than he had!
at any time since the eleventh, the
Palmer people wanted one more Dai-
ventioo mirtt nominate -today w.nt lot.
absolutely release every delegate j gotten back to 241
glimmeringteoon after it "got down to
business today.
It was apparent that? the lines were
going to hoId. ,The 3ox lines did hold
stoutly in the face of two breaks to
McAdoo, one from Indiana and .an
other from Washington. They came
back in some other delegations soon.
Palmer sentiment was rather flag
ging when the sudden rush of. the
votes to the attorney general's column
gave it u sudden, rise late today and
his supporters were taking new heart.
There was no evidence of any plans
which would assure that the conven
tion could finish its work tonight.
The three candidates have run a
wide range in the balloting. Palmer,
starting out at 256, fell as low as 144
in the second, and" by the 26th had
nledeed to him, that the convention
may proceed to nominate the next
President of the United States."
There,, was a roar or "Hurrah for
Palmer," as the lines broke and the
convention went into a recess. The
denouement, coming at the end of the
39 hard-fought and fruitless ballots,
srave the same affect as does an over-
Jnflated automobile tire when it bursts
with a bang and then sizzles down.
The entire Palmer vote, added to
McAdoo's total on the thirty-eighth
ballot, would give him 616 1-2. The
Palmer votes added to the Cox total
on the same ballot would give the
Ohio governor 594 1-2. Both leading
candidates would fall short of the two
thirds, which is 729.
Delegates voting solidly under the
unit rulebut at heart divided between
McAdoo and other candidates have de
veloped ill feeling, so much so that the
caucuses which took place on the floor
during the recess gave evidences of
the feeling. There were shouting,
waving of arms and some shaking of
fists and a 'great deal of scurrying
about. Platform and convention hall
floor were jammed with an arguing
gesticulating mass of men and women
mostly men but the argument was
not greater in volume with them de
spite their preponderance in number.
During the' recess there was circu
lated about the floor copies of a tele
gram from Judge Moore, Cox's man
ager, to Daijiel C. Roper of New York,
Judge Moore, of Youngstown. Ohio
accredited with being one of the Mc
Adoo managers, charging that "a
crowd of government employes and
treasury officials are for their own
personal ends and in defiance of Mr.
McAdoo's expressed wishes, improper
ly using his name to create a deadlock
in this convention."
Charging that . several delegations
were packed with government em
ployes, holding out for the nomina
tion 'of Mr. McAdoo, Moore's telegram
charged that "the action of the pay
roll brigade is creating a national
scandal to the ruin of the democratic
party."
Auditorium, San Francisco. July 5.
Heading strong for the 46 ballot
record set by the Baltimore conven
tion which nominated Woodrow Wil
son eight years ago, the democratic
national convention went into its 37th
ballot tonight at a session which be
gan at 8:30 o'clock and contained
good prospects for daylight.
With McAdoo, Cox and Palmer run
ning nearer even than they have al
most at any time before, and each in
practical possession of a veto power,
strong efforts were being made to
hreak the line at one of its three cor-
Auditorium, San Francisco, July 5. : ners.
Attorney General Palmer, at 9":45 Tammany holds the key was the
o ciock tonignt, at me ciose ui mo i
Cox was at his lowest with 134 in
the first ballot. His high water mark
was 468 in the 19th.
Sagged Down at Last.
By the 36th, he had sagged down to
377.
McAdoo, starting out with a lead,
was 266 in the first ballot. Cox soon
took the first place, however, by the
32nd ballot, McAdoo was not only back
in first place but had struck a high
water mark of 421 1-2.
In the 36th he was at 399.
During the recess the Cox people
went into a conference. There was a
proposal in the air to see if the New
York delegation could not be swung
to the Palmer column.
The report which went with the
stor yof the conference was that if
the search for a dark horse were un
availing the Cox strength might be
thirty-eighth ballot, released his dele
gates and left the democratic national
convention free to move out of its
deadlock and nominate a presidential
candidate.
At the end of the second ballit, after
the recess, when the Palmer vote had
touched 211, and it was apparent that
it could be driven no higher, former
Representative C- C. Carlin, of Vir
ginia. Mr. Palmer's manager, took
the platform and announced the with
drawal of the attorney general from
the race.
Chairman Robinson, in presenting
him told the convention significantly
that he was presenting a man who
had an announcement to make which
lie was confident the convention would
want to hear.
Expectation was in the air, and the
convention, which (only a moment be
tore had been in the height of disorder
Is 'a rackety - demonstration, quieted
down like magic, until a pin might al
most have been heard to drop in the
great auditorium as Carlin took the
, speaker's place and said in substance:
"I am about to make an announce
ment of greatest importance to the
convention, at me conclusion of which
I shall move a recess of 20 minutes to
give the convention opportunity to de
cide what course it shall take.
word passed after conferences in
which both Cox and McAdoo forces
had participated with Charles F.
Murphy and other leaders of the New
York delegation. Each side was pull
ing for Tammany support and so
many arguments entered into the
complex situation that it was practi
cally impossible to assess them accu
rately. On the 37th ballot the leaders stood:
McAdoo, 405; Cox, 386; Palmer,
202 1-2.
When the1 chairman announced no
choice on the 37th, the Cox, McAdoo
and Palmer factions rose up and
called to one another to join and end
the deadlock.
The organ and band, which always
seemed to be ready for the McAdoo
rooters, lit into "Over There." It was
all the McAdoo people needed to
start up a parade. They took their
tip from the music balcony and with
Texas leading, started a procession of
the McAdoo states.
The changes on .the 37th were:
Palmer lost 38 1-2; Cox gained nine;
McAdoo gained' six; Davis
22" 1-2.
At the close of the
flwjtUn There was a
movement on fot for a recess until
8 oclockL after the, thirty-fifth ballot,
but the 1 Palmer people wanted one
more ballot before that And the recess
moA was hot Tressed. While the
i Pennsylvanians were chanting "Pal
mer, Palmer, Pennsylvania," to tne
tune of "Glory, Glory hallelujah," the
Cox people took a hand at making a
parody and when the ; McAdoo people
set upa counter demonstration, the
Ohio and Pennsylvania crowd chanted"
out a verse which went: ,
36th Ballot
"All the boys are on the payroll.1
They directed their mega-phones to
ward the McAdoo crowd.
When the convention got back to
order and Alabama was called on the
36th ballot, Palmer made another
gain, taking 'seven from Alabama. He
took them from McAdoo, Davis and
Oox. It was the vote which the
Palmer people had 'been promised and
was. the reason they did not want to
recess.,
Then Palmer picked up four more
in Illinois, taking from both McAdoo
and Cox. Knetucky, having previous
ly cast one vote for Miss Laura Clay,
cast one for Miss Cora Wilson
Stuart. The Kentucky delegation
was giving complimentary presiden
tial votes to Kentucky women. Pal-.
Auditorium, San Francisco, July 5.
. The first evidence of a break in
the deadlock in the democratic na
tional convention today came on the
twenty-ninth ballot, when Tom Tag
gart rose in his place in the Indiana
delegation and' gave 29 of the Hoos
ier state's 30 votes to McAdoo.
the Cox manager,, viewing the dem
onstration without evidence of alarm,
said :
"All right, we will still have 50
votes the best of McAdoo when this
ballot closes."
A McAdoo man nearby remarked
that Moore had just lost $500 betting
on the early nomination of Cox.
The McAdoo crowd got a lot of
state standards in their procession
and left about half of them at heir
places. The demonstration was
rather a tired one. It seemed as
if everybody had demonstrated him
self to exhaustion in the roaring
spectacles of last week and had lit
tle energy left.
The band, oto, laid off during the
demonstration today and without its
blaring accompaniment the racket
failed to gather such momentum but
trailed along steadily with efforts to
whoop it up being not over success
ful. Yells of "Come on, Georgia,
from the McAdoo paraders, failed to
bring the Georgia votes for Palmer
into the parade. The Georgians wers
determined not to have their state
standard snatched by 'any of the pass
ign McAdoo crowd and four husky
lads held it dow nto the floor, taking
no chances.
JAMES M. COX, DEMOCRATIC
NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT.
thrown to the Palmer column. This
CONVENTION BULLETINS.
Auditorium, San Francisco, , July 5.
On the twenty-ninth ballot, as fore-
- cast, inaiana xnrew uj iuuauw.
of course, was dependent on convinc-; Tarart cast the vote and for a
that thov had ' . .
ing the Cox managers that they had
struck their limit in the balloting.
Predictions All Go Wrong.
The forces went in session this
morning with predictions on every
hand that a nominee would soon be
found. Large bets were laid that tne
moment the McAdoo crowd was
stunned. Then catching its breath
it set out to make an uproar.
Auditorium, San Francisco, July 5.
Despite a slide of 29 Indiana votes to
convention would nominate within an McAdoo on the twenty-ninth ballot to-
hour and a half. But such poor prog-1 day, tne cox lines nem rase.
ress was made that a vote was forced
on proposals to suspend the rules, and
drop the low man on each succeeding
Auditorium, San Franc;3CO, July 5.
seding A s1i,A flf 14 Washington votes to
ballot until a nomination was made. : jy took place on the twenty-
Tne plan iaiiea ior iacK ui me uewa-
sary two-thirds vote, but it showed the j
growing temper of tne convention.
Even when the day session was
drawing toward a close and these
were prospects of another session to-
ninth ballot.
Auditorium, San Francisco, July 5.
When Senator King, of Utah, acting
at the gavel for Chairman Robinson,
o,.t.- tho WnirntA lpflfjprs were ' called for order after the McAdoo
still looking for some way to break j demonstration had been going about
the deadlock. ' nftn minutes, he had no difficulty at
The McAdoo forces reversed the ; all in getting it. The band oar
order of the progression in the bal-' ently was the secret to the demon
loting and took the lead today in the strations. Without it all attempts fell
thirtieth ballot. McAdoo had lost the through.
lead to Cox on the twelfth ballot last
week. 1 AnriitnHmn. San Francisco. July 5
Cox Lines Hold Fast
For a moment, when Indiana tum
bled in 29 of her 30 and Tom Taggart
hfmself cast the ballot it looked as il
a forecasted slide to McAdoo had be
gun. When, a little later, Washing
ton, which had been scattering her
votes, cast them all for McAdoo, the
McAdoo people wev aure the move
The changes shown In- the twenty
ninth ballot were: McAdoo gained
26, Cox lost 18 1-2, Palmer gained a
half vote, and! Davis gained a half
vote.
Auditorium, San Francisco,' July 5.
Rftfiisinar to extricate Itself from its
ment was on, but it was too late on ; thirtieth ballot deadlock by suspend
. t--n i. i j 1 mi,. r , in o- it ml pci Ha democratic national
tne Daiiot lu uu miiy guuu. x 11 c vv. o --
gained pe0ple probably a little nervous but ' convention today voted down a pro-
professing the confidence which the posai to arop tne low cana'udae nuiu.
Tl3tfioT axnf wnrvi tn .thAir each . successive ballot until a nami-
Chairman Robinson seemed 0 have ; war horses to stanr pat and refuse to nation had been made. A two-thirds
hit nn n impartial manner of oarcell- be stampeded. The word was effec- vote was necessary to suspend tne
A. ing out themusic. He alloweaV the tive and the blocks which have been rules and could not be mustered.
Reed Denounces the League of
Nations as League of Treason
Kansas City, Mo. Tne league of
naions was denounced at a "league
of treason and covenant of national
death" by Senator James A. Reed,
who returned here from San Fran
cisco, where he was refused a seat
A", delegate .o the convention.
"If there is one less&n. that this
country needs to learn," Senator Reed
aid in his speech, "it is that this is
not a one-man country. It is a 110,-000,000-men
country-."
President Wilson Kept m Toucn
With Balloting at San Francisco
Former Congressman Lever Speaks
to Farmers at Greenville, S. C.
Washington. President Wilson
kept in close touch with the balloting
at San Francisco but after the fifth
he ordered his motor car and went on
a two-hour ride over Maryland.
Word tonight that the convention
had recessed until nearly midnight,
Washington time, was sent immediate
ly to the President but it was said,
that he had' retired without waiting j
up. J
Greenville, S, C "The towns take
all they want and you farmers get
what is left. Some day, if you dont
protect yoursejlves, there will Be
nothing; left for you "
This was the statement made to a
large gathering of Greenville county
planters at a farmers day mass
meeting today by former Congress
man A. F. Lever. The meeting fol
lowed a parade which was led by ah
airplane pulled' by 'its own power.
Secretary Meredith Attacks Unit
Which Binds the Iowa Delegation
San Francisco. Secretary of Agri
culture Meredith has attacked the
unit rule which is controlling the
Iowa delegation to the democratic na
tional convention.
"I am embarrassed by the action of
the Iowa de!ega"on." he said. "We
have been working on the delegation
and I hope to cast an Iowa vote for
McAdoo I promise that we e'ther
will have a vote for McAdoo or there
will toe a different situation in Iowo."
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