The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-04

others the democratic convention found no nominee. A few scattering shifts and changes were all that it produced.
 The nineteenth ballot. as officially announced, was: McAdoo 327h, Cox 46S, Palmer 179N, Cummings .19 owen 37, Glass 26. Clark 2. Gerard l, Davis 31
 The changes shown were; Palmer gained and Cox 10. while McAdoo lost 8. Davis lost II.
 TWENTIETH BALLOT
 The twentieth ballot as officially announced follows:
 McAdoo F. Cox 45sh. Palmer IFS, Cummings 10, owen Al, Davis 36. Glass b26, Clark 2, Gerard 1.
 The changes on the twentieth ballot were: Cox lost 11h, Palmer lost F, Me- Adoo gained 13, Davis and Owen 4. The twenty-first ballot as officially announced follows:
 McAdoo 395 F, Cox 426ta, Palmer IA. | Cummings ', Davis 54, owen S6, Glass 26, Clark 2.
 | The changes of the twentyfirst ball. lot were: McAdoo gained 55, Cox lost 30. Palmer lost 34. and Davis gained 1 IS; Owen lost i.
 l A recess to Monday morning at 10 o'clock was again postponed and de- mand for roll call followed. It failed. On vive voce vote the convention again refused to adjourn.
 | The convention went to the twenty second ballot.
 The twenty-second ballot was as much out of luck as all it's predecessors. 1t produced nominee.
 The twenty-second ballot officially announced follows:
 McAdoo s72l2, Cox 4so. Palmer 1s6lz. Cummings 6, Davis 52 Owen 5. Glass 25 Clark 2. Wilson 2
 The changes were that McAdoo lost g. Palmer gained 22h. Cox gained four. Davis lost two. Then there was another motion to adjourn until 10 o'clock Mon day morning and it went through with out opposition
 MANY HURRIED CONFERENCES
 The Cox McAdoo and Palmer forces and those hoping to develop dark horse spent the hours between recess and reassembling at s D. m. tonight in hurried conferences and desperate efforts to line up compromise ticket , Word from Washington that President , Wilson was pursuing a hands off" policy added to the confusion of rhe , situation.
 , To every argument advanced for , some dark horse objections were heard in opposition. Those opposed to Cox argued the Ohio governor had reached : the maximum of his strength and lost his opportunity when the suspension of the balloting was permitted for tho i, recess. McAdoo and Palmer forces were importuned by each other to find way to stop him.
 Despite the statement of some ad- ministration leaders that it cannot "go to Cox" the Cox forces pointed out , that the dark horse movement had found no rallying and that Cox still remained potential force which from a small number at the start had taken the lead in the balloting and nosed t McAdoo out of first place.
 McAdoo supporters had conference e and according to their announcement
 decided to stand pat" and attempt to 0 hold all the votes they could. They said no attempt would be made to
 coalesce with the Palmer people be- = cause they felt breaking of the Pal
 mer block would turn votes to Cox. The Cox people at the same time had Fla conference and announced they also
 would be willing to go to somebody else if the transition resulted in losses y to each other.
 ,, Tn short, the Cox people were de- 7. termined to beat McAdoo and the Mc-
 Adoo people were no less determined ' to beat Cox. There was talk of the !" convention going over to next week. g but many of the leaders planning to
 hold the convention in session through " | the night if necessary. said they were 7. sure there would be nominee before daylight
 :. LATE, AS USUAL "a At o'clock, the hour set for the res
 assembling the leaders and delegates as l. lusual were late in arriving. Thousands IoF had tick
 to the convention were deprived of sees ,a ing the session because of the recess. - Tickets for today's session had been
 taken up for the day and none were
 provided for the night session. The re-
 suit was that a block of general admis-
 sion tickets were issued and the galleries
 were packed indscriminately.
 At SIT Chairman Robinson began call
 ing for order. Vance Mccormack. form . CT chairman of the democratic national v committee. recalling that democratic - rational convention never sits on Sum
 day and predicting no nomination be-
 fore midnight. said he thought the con-
 vention would go over to Monday. The
 Palmer forces were making drive tt
 get back some of their lost strength as
 the convention was coming to order
 It was reported that Kansas had de
 cided to stick with McAdoo for ont
 more ballot and then caucus to datermins its course, There were reports that del
 agates would be released from the uni
 rule in that delegation, Louisiana. thu
 Cox people said. would come to them 1T
 a block they hoped and they expected . 1 return to their coutnn of the F Ten
 nessee votes they had before the whol'
 delegation went 10 Davis. The Cox peo
 pie were counting on d larger proportion
 of the Wisconsin vote and also acces
 sions from the state of Washington.
 Prayer opened the evening session. |
 was followed as usual by the singing O the Star Spanged Banner. FAVOR ADJOURNMENT The Cox people. Sentor Harrison Q
 Mississippi said. would not particular! oppose an adjournment until Monday. inc convention wanted 1t. because the, , were sure of winning then, and wer