Evening star., 1920-07-06

On the opening ballot Friday the
Ohio governor was in third place.
He soon passed Palmer. however, and
on the twelfth ballot went ahead of
McAdoo. Then began a see-sawing
between the Cox and McAdoo totals
roll call at midnight. found the two
virtually the same.
Procession to Cox.
On the forty-second ballot the as
cession of most of the Palmer
strength to Cox put him well ahead,
and after that great and little state
delegations went into the Cox column
in procession. On the forty-third he
got majority for the first time of
all the votes case. and on the forty
fourth he was plunging toward the
required two-thirds when Colorado
nomination obvious. 1t was made
unanimous on motion of Sam b. Ami
don of Kansas. a leader of the Nc
Adoo forces.
OF the forty-four ballots, two were
taken last Friday night, fourteen at
the first session Saturday and six at
the Saturday night session. There
were twenty-five recorded yesterday,
fourteen at the all-day session and
eight last night.
Climbed to TOP Steadily.
Cox began the fight with 1874 on the
first ballot and climbed steadily until
the fifteenth, when he had 1851 His
lowest vote after that was on the
thirty-fifth. the first taken at last
nigt's session. when it fell to 3761b.
A curious thing in the voting for
McAdoo was that he received 266 on
the first ballot, the lowest cast for
him. and 266 II on the last ballot His
high water mark was 467 on the
fortieth ballot. At that time Cox had
400
Palmer opened with 256 votes. His
highest vote was 2671. on the seventh
ballot.
Fight for McAdoo to End.
AS the Cox total passed that of Nc
Adoo and surged upward the McAdoo
managers made a desperate fight to
stop ii in time. Their candidate twice
had held the lead. He lost it, how
ever. and many delegates supporting
him had given up hope that he ever
ballots McAdoo lost steadily, several
solid state delegations deserting his
banner for that of the leader.
Besides, the scattering Palmer dele
gates who at first had swung to Nc
Adoo drifted over into the Cox camp
in increasing numbers and he began
to take a commanding place in the
balloting. Once he had more than
majority the fight was easy. At the
end of another day of furious strug-
gle the convention stampeded to Cox,
flung aside its rules and made his
nomination unanimous with roaring
shout
Terrific Uproar Over Decision.
A terrific uproar followed. The
whole mass of delegates threw them
selves into a final wild demonstration.
greater than any of the orgies OF
noise that had preceded.
In the midst of the din Chairman
Robinson succeeded in restoring a
semblance of order to get the adjourn
ment until noon so that Gov. Cox's
wishes as to his teammate could be
learned.
f H Moore of Youngstown, Ohio,
national committeeman from the state
and leader of the tireless and uphill
fight that won the nomination for the
Ohio governor. said 1t had been made
without promises.
The struggle was exceeded in voti g
duration in democratic annals only
by the fight at Baltimore in 1912
which gave the President his first
lot.
Deadlock Tight Monday.
Fresh from an over-Sunday study
of the twenty-five ballots taken last
week, the convention went to work
Monday seemingly hopeleSSly tied UT
in a triangular deadlock between Cox
McAdoo and Palmer. Leaders had nc
predictions to make although they
then thought that Cox, with a lead OF
some sixty votes over McAdoo and
more than 200 over Palmer on the
twenty second roll CALL which events
proved TO be just the halfway point.
had a decided advantage.
Neither Palmer nor McAdoo sup
porters were daunted, however, and
the twenty third poll. first of the
twenty-five more the convention was
10 go through during the day and
night to follow. showed their forces
relatively as strongly entrenched as
ever. Time and again the rival force