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stripped McAdoo in the race for Palmer
delegates and again reached the lead.
Band Plays "Ohio, Ohio"

gallery and hurled the strains Of the Cox
battle song, "Ohio, Ohio" down into
the din below. Again time was required
to get quiet enough to start new roll
When Pennsylvania was reached the
delegation asked for poll. One by
one big McAdoo majority in the Penn
sylvania ranks was disclosed and Cox
supporters looked little disturbed. The
drift to the Ohio standard was on, how
ever, and even the more than two score
Palmer Joined from the Pennsylvania
forces could not push McAdoo back into
the lead
On this ballot, the fortieth, Cox
climbed from 46SR to 400 and McAdoo
from 440 to iG7, while Palmer divcd to
10. including 1S steadfasts from his
home state and the one Louisianan. Nc
Adoo held the Georgia block for that
and the succeeding ballot also. but Cox
scooped up scattering delegates from
the McAdoo column from Illinois,
Washington and other spots Of the Nc
Adoo organization. Both sides watched
in vain for Tennessee to swing her "a
votes from Davis. They remained in
the ambassador column until the last
The fortieth ballot had failed to decide
the issue.
The forty first ballot showed net
gain of IN votes for Cox and loss of
7 for McAdoo, who took four more
Pennsylvanians. In the first break of
Pennsylvania from Palmer, McAdoo
got AZ to Cox's IL, but both got few
more later.
Both leaders were under the 500
mark on the forty first ballot ut mid
night. with each sniping into the
others camp and the Davis voters hold
ing fast.
themselves in, grimly determined on a
last ditch fight.
The forty second rollcall showed new
drifts to Cox as the votes were shouted
back to the platform from the unsup-
pressable murmur among the delegates.
now regardless of the fatigue of the
prolonged fight. although the galleries
above them were by then almost vacant.
Cox made his first big gain on this
ballot which portended the finale. Clos
ing with 4071a votes on the forty first.
Cox rose on the next to 540k. or only
IN less than a majority of the con-
vention, while McAdoo droppcd from
400 to 427. Then Georgia started the
slide toward Cox by swinging % solid
from McAdoo. Cox picked up more
scattering votes, including four Davis
delegates in Michigan.
McAdoo, however, still held the bulk
of the Pennsylvanians. and his follow
ers were sticking grimly.
When Georgia was reached the dele
cation chairman leapcd to his chair
and shouted that his state. formerly in
McAdoo ranks, would Join hands to
Ohio ito name the next President. " lie
cast thS solid Georgia vote for Cox and
the shout that followed seemed to rock
the building.
Again the Texas block Of forty
votes went in for him. The western
states. which led the way in his drives.
stuck hard, and even the fact that Cox
had swept beyond the first majority vote
recorded for any candidate did not shake
them loose.
Get Into the Wagon"
The forty third rollcall began in a
riot OF noise that made the poll audible
only as the surges Of sound paused to
let the figures reach the clerks.
Cox shot 20 over a majority. getting
56S as against 5401a on the previous
roll. McAdoo dropped 10 on the forty
principal gains were a solid vote from
Louisiana, taking half dozen from
McAdoo. and 1917 from Virginia. which
previously had returned to Senator
Glass. On that ballot also Cox drew
away numerous scattering votes from
McAdoo.
Little by little the drift to the Cox
column continued gaining momentum as
1t ran. "a
In the New York delegation a chal-
lengc for a poll sent a dozen men
scurrying to argue with the challenger.
He was the center of n fire of argu-
ment and objurgation he could not re-
sist. Finally. after new move by Nc
Adoo supporters to adjourn in last
desperate effort to stave off defeat had
been roarcd down, the last ballot, the
forty fourth. began at rs o'colck.
The result was forecast with the first
vote. Alabama swung solidly to Cox.
State by state. delegations who had
stuck out for McAdoo with divided dele
cations. followed suit. The slide had
set in and thcr, was no stopping il.
The convention had its mind set to
nominate on that ballot. Up and up
the Ohioan's total of votes. As
il passed the 700 mark with the nPces
sary two thirds just ahead, the tumult
increased minute and minute until the
last votes were heard only vaguely on
the platform.
Pennsylvania went over aud the
Colorado chairman leaped to his chair
to change the vote of his state to Cox.
When the point was reached that Cox
had 7O2 votes the nomination was made
Half dozen other chairmen we're
for recognition to make similar
Chairman Robinson hurried TO his
desk with Sam b. Amidon, of Kansas,
a MCAdoo chief, whom he presented only
after q furious assault with the gavel
forced a partial lull in the cheering.
Through continuous racket, Ami
don moved that the rules be suspended |
and the nomination be made unani- |
nous. All over the great hall men
climbed up on chairs to wave their
arms for silence and then stand poised |
like college yell leaders to signal the
answer to the question.
Thousand Voices Shout "Aye"
Banging his gavel in a final thump,
Chairman Robinson put the question |
and the answer roared back at him with |
all the volume of thousand voices in
the tremendous FAYE" that |
made Governor Cox the Democratic
at l :43 a. m.
The forty fourth ballot never was
In the great chorus of af-
1t was swept away as un-
necessary. Many of the changes which
would have been made had the vote
been carried through were never re-
corded and on the face of that ballot
Governor Cox received officially 1929
votes, but they were never totaled, for
ne was nominated by the unanimous
voice of the convention.