Evening star., 1920-07-06
'0HI0AM is NOMINATED
BY ACCLAMATION; PICK
RUNNING MATE TODAY
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aisles. comforting to appraise the sit
uation before determining thei
Icourse. McAdoo and Cox leaders
worked up to the maximum effort tt
take advantage of the break. The
floor hummed and whirled, like the
stock exchange on panicky day
Great clusters of Cox and McAdot
workers gathered about the Palmer
groups. struggling for attention ant
to enlist for their own standard the
army about to be disbanded.
Back in their seats again under
the banging urge of the gavel. tht
delegates awaited the thirty -nintf
roll call. The effect of Mr.. Palmer
release to his friends was noticeable
once. BY twos and threes anc
larger groups tie uele.5ates previous
ly voting unrhangeabiy for him wen'
I to other candidates.
| Each change that brought gain tc
! McAdoo or Cox let loose a new roar
The faithful Pennsylvanians insisted
on casting one more vote for Palmer
, as final tribute to him. The dele
1 cation chairman's statement went un-
( needed for the most part and the
great block of votes went down for
Palmer amid surprised hush.
! The announcement of the whole bal
lot. however. started another tumult
| led by Cox adherents. 1t showed he
| had outstripped McAdoo in the race
! for Palmer delegates and agar
reached the lead
| Victory Near at Hand.
i The Cox forces scented victory righ'
! there. The Cox band trooped into the
gallery and hurled the strains of the
| Cox battle song. Ohio, Ohio, dowr
into the din below. Again time was
required to get quiet enough to start
a new roll call.
! When Pennsylvania was reached
the delegation asked for poll. One
by one big McAdoo majority in the
| Pennsylvania ranks was disclosed
and Cox supporters looked a little dis
| turbed. The drift to the Ohio stand
ard was on. however. and even the
more than two score Palmer men who
joined from the Pennsylvania forces
! would not push McAdoo back into the
! lead
A fight to adjourn for the night
was started by McAdoo supporters
against shouts of No, Mo-" all over
the floor. The motion went down on
a vote that left no doubt of the con-
vention's determination to fight ii
out then and there. The forty first
ballot was started.
! Fight to Inst Ditch.
! Both McAdoo and Cox gained
| ground. and McAdoo supporters dug
themselves in. grimly determined on
a last-ditch fight The forty-second
! roll call was started. 1t showed new
drifts to Cox as the votes were shout
| ed back to the platform from the un-
SuppresSable murmur among the dele
| gates. now regardless of the fatigue
| of the prolonged fight. although the
great galleries above them were by
/ then almost vacant. Great blocks OF
empty seats showed where worn-out
| spectators had given it up by mid
night and gone home expecting an
other cay.
When Georgia was reached the del
egation chairman leaped to his chair
and shouted that his state. formerly
in the McAdoo ranks, would join
hands with Ohio ito name the next
President" He cast the solid Georgia
vote for Cox. and the shout that fol-
lowed seemed to rock the building.
Noise browns Roll Call.
McAdoo followers still were. hold
ling grimly. 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.
The forty-third roll call began in a
riot of noise that made the pol
|
| paused to let the figures reach the
clerks. ~
Little by littl. the drift to the Cox
| column continued gaining momentum
as it ran Get into the wagon
| roared man the galleries. and the
| other candidates than Cox or. McAdoe
! brought yells to Come out of it" and
! Wake up"
Alabama Eliminates Doubt.
| In the New York delegation chal-
lenge for a poll sent dozen men
scurrying to argue with the chal-
lenger He was the center of hre
| of argument and abjurgation he could
not resist. Finally: after new move ;e
| by McAdoo supporters to adjourn, IN
last desperate effort to stave on de-
| feat had been roared down, the last
| ballot, the fortyfourth, began.
| The result was forecast with the
| first vote Alabama swung solid to
| Cox. State by state. delegations VINO
had stuck out for McAdoo with di-
/ vided delegations. followed suit. The
| slide had set in and there was nc
! stopping it. The convention nao lts
| mind set to nominate on that ballot
/ Up and up mounted the Ohioan's tota
of votes AS it passed the 100 marx
| with the necessary two-thlrds Jus'
ahead. the tumult increased minute by
minute until the last votes were nearc
! only vaguely on the platform: rem
| sylvania went over and the Coioraoc
! chairman leaped to his chair &c
change the vote OF his state 10 cox
! half dozen other chairmen were
waving for recognition to make sim
/ liar announcements.
| Chairman Robinson hurried to his
desk with Sam B. Amidon of Kansas
McAdoo chief, who he presehtee
only after furious assault with e the
payel forced a partial lull IN the
Cheering. Through continuous
racket Amidon moved that the rules
he suspended and the nomination oe
made unanimous. All over the grea'
| hall men climbed up on chairs &c
wave their arms for silence and tneI
| stand poised like college yell leaders
/ to signal the answer to the question.
Ballot Never Finished
| Banging his gavel in final thump
Chairman Robinson put the Questior
/ and the answer roared back at hin
with all the volume of thousand
voices in shouting the tremendous
save" that made Gov. Cox the demo
| cratic nominee.
The forty-fourth ballot never wa:
completed. In the great chorus ol
affirmation. it was swept away al
unnecessary. Many OF the changes
| which would have been mace hao th'
vote been carried through were nevel
recorded, and on the face of that pal
lot, Gov. Cox received ofnclally w
votes, but they were never totaleo
for he was nominated by the unani
nous voice of the convention.
| The nomination of Gov: Cox mean'
that the two great parties not oni!
have gone into the same state 10
! their candidates, but nave plcneo me
~ Tor wears have been associated
wore or less closely in the same pro
| ESsian Lie Senator Harding. Gov