The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-05
DELEGATES TAKE ID
 WOODS FOR DAY OF
 MUCH NEEDED REST
Everybody Now Trying to Explain How Things Hap pened and How They
 Didn't Happen
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE

San Francisco. July 4.--Every clump
 of redwoods, every eucalyptus grove,
 every valley within twenty-five miles
 of San Francisco is full of vacation
 ing delegates today.
 All they know or want to know is
 that they got away from the job awhile
 and have nothing to do till tomorrow.
 Leaders are paging them madly in
 the hotel corridors and not finding
 them. Now and then an individual dele
 gate is discovered and led in chains into
 camp. But the fact that this is the day
 of rest, and a particularly glorious one
 as to weather isn't helping in the least
 to settle the deadlock.
 Tonight the leaders df leaders they
 may be called) expect to bring the
 boys in and talk to them seriously
 After all, this is d convention. It
 was called to nominate candidates for
 President and vice president. 1t would
 be a rather exceptional convention if it did neither of these things. Yet if
 affairs keep going the way they are going now, there will be nothing but a platform with less than three-points seventy-fivc punch iii is to show for all this trip across the continent and all this San Fran hospitality. BUSTED ROOMS Today the boys that owned booms in the last few days are around in the hotels trying to pretend that they still matter.
 Postmaster General Burleson. who staked his life, his liberty and his sacred honor on the nomination of McAdoo on the fifth ballot, is trying to compromise his bet.
 The Cox boosters are determined. but it is fake determination. They know they are through.
 A. Mitchell Palmer is still holding tenaciously to his 160-odd votes and
 cumming the game by refusing to get out.
 Nobody can be nominated as long as he maintains the attitude that he does and as long as his delegates stick to him. As a consequence plans arc not being matured to give him what is vulgarly called the buns rush--an eliminant very often applied to candi- dates who continue to stick around after their last chance Is faded. TOUGH PICKING What you, as reader of convention tidings would like to know is whom these delegates are going to nominate. We'll, in that respect you have noth- ing whatever on the delegates. This is a genuinely deadlockei convention. There is no fake about it. The candi- dates that deadlocked it did such a good job in stopping the other booms that they stalled their own. In getting rid of their chief enemies they got rid of themselves--a consummation which they little expected, and now bitterly regret.
 Three or four plans are suggested for breaking the deadlock and nomi- mating candidate for tomorrow. One is to get strong masterful man to address the delegates and tell them to nominate d candidate who can unite the entire party.
 There are two objections to this One Is that there is no strong, masterful man--the other is that there is no can didate who could unite the factions. A second plan is to abrogate all unit
 rules and release all instructed dele gates. That could. of course, be done. But if it was done and these birds all ready intoxicated. with liberty were permitted to select their own candi date without any help or duress they would probably stay here the rest of the summer. Tomorrow we'll know more about it. The balloting begins early in the day. If you read that either John w. Davis or Vice President Marshall is picking up, you'll be in a position to do little predicting. If you read that the votes are going to Colby, be careful There may be a
 demonstration in Colby's favor, but the democratic party is thirty-third de- gree lodge, and Colby as yet has only taken four or five degrees. Copyright. 1920, by Bell Syndicate Inc)