New-York tribune., 1920-07-05

Salmer and one for McAdOO.
The delegates came up on the
steamer together, they have adjoining
rooms in the same hotel and thew eat
breakfast together three times week,
but neither can argue the other down.
Ihey have gone into conference during
the Sunday recess, but nothing much
is expected to come of it, 1t was sug-
gested to the Zone delegates that they
ought to get together by all means as
an example to the warning Democrats
and they were advised to deal cold
hands for decision. That fell through
because the Palmer man insisted that
1t should be two out of three and the
McAdoo man wanted one hand to de-
eide it.
Dice and Coins Fail
Dice were no better. McAdoo's man
! said that he always played that any
five of kind tied Palmers man said
that he didn't. Coins were no coed
because each wanted the other fellow
to do the matching.
1t is up TO the Democrats here as
semblcd to get together and make a
domination which will end the dead
lock in the Canal Zone The two dele
gates want to go home and they want
to 60 home friends. Unfortunately, the
other thousand odd delegates are no
moro successful in getting toget thcr
than the Panamanians. The conven-
ton has reached point where the
only sensible thing to do is to put the
names in hat and let some delegate
whom the rest can trust thrust in his
hand and pull out the name of the
IoAo
dent. Of course, if he picks the Palmer
slip that ought not to count, and he
should draw again.
Probably this plan would have been
be some little difficulty in finding the
delegate trusted of all men.
Democrats do not seem to be par
ticularly familiar with the Bible They
made special point of recessing over
Sunday. although there is scriptural
sanction for them to stick to business.
We remember that somewhere in the
New Testament it is stated that the
Sabbath does not suffer if a donkey
is pulled out of {. hole on Sunday
The Democratic mule is certainly
mired, but the delegates and the spec
tators glory in the deadlock When
the twentieth ballot was announced
and showed that nobody was getting
anywhere one of the widest demon
trations of the convention occurred.
Everybody cheered, and the meteor
brass band, which is working for Cox,
paraded around the gallery playing
"Didn't He Ramblc ?" The official
convention band. which seems to be
working for McAdoo, gave the visit
ing musicians scant profess onal
courtesy, but sought to drown out
their fellow artists with yankee
Doodle" and Dixie"
Can't Even Agree on Tunes.
The Democrats are so terribly split
that they cant even get together on
tunes. Nor is there any unanimity
of opinion about the one subject con-
cerning which everybody hereabouts
is supposed to agree. A man with a
Cox badge came out Of the hotel this
morning and, looking up at the sunny
and cloudless sky, said to Palmer
man "This is certainly lovely cli-
mate" HELL" said the Palmer man,
/ isn't it ever going to rain %
Personally we are through with this
convention. Even on the wing. Demo-
Gratis are no treat to Us and becalmed
Democracy doesn't begin to come up
to a painted ship as a lively summer
resort. We don't make the figures in
the ballots come out right and we
can't even care whether they do or
not Bes des, as Mr. McAdoo said,
when he quit the Cabinet, we have
our family to consider.
Your correspondent is leaving the
convention fat, but that's just the way
he found it.