Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-08
great block Of votes went down for
Palmer amid a surprised hush.

ballot, however, started another tu-
| multi, led by Cox adherents. 1t SHOW
| ed he had outstripped McAdoo In the
race for Palmer delegates and again
reached the lead.
The Cox forces scented victory
right there. The Cox band trooped
| into the gallery and hurled tho
strains of the Cox battle song, ohio.
time was required to get quiet enough
to start new roll call.
l. When Pennsylvania was reached
| the delegation asked for a poll. One
|, by one a big McAdoo majority in
the Pennsylvania ranks was disclosed
| and Cox supporters looked a little
disturbed. The drift to the Ohio
| standard was on, however, and even
| the more than two-score Palmer men
| who joined from the Pennsylvania
forces would not push McAdoo back
| in the lead.
A fight to adjourn for the night
was started by McAdoo supporters
against shouts of mo! MOI" all over
the floor. The motion went down
on vote that left no doubt of the
out then and there. The forty-first
ballot was started.
Both McAdoo and Cox gained
ground and McAdoo, supporters dug
| themselves in grfmly. 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
indispensable murmur among the
delegates, now regardless of the IA
though the great galleries above
! them were almost vacant. Great
blocks of empty seats showed where
worn-out spectators had given it UP
by midnight and gone home, expect
14ie neaSioo1- 1zro1ran
Georgia started the slide toward
Cox on the forty-first ballot, al
though the release of Attorney Cen
eral Palmer's delegates had dislodged
the keystone of the Democratic con-
vention jam, and Florida precipitated
the breakup on the final ballot by
swinging solid delegation to the
Ohio governor.
Both sides waited in vain for Ten
| nessee to take her twenty-four votes
from Davis, but they remained stead
| fast in the ambassadors column UNI
| til the last.
Both leaders were under the 500
mark on the forty-first ballot at mid
night, with each sniping into the
others camp and the Davis voters :
votes on the forty-first, Cox rose
on the next to $40 IL, or only Ia
less than a majority of the conven-
ton, while McAdoo dropped from 400
to APT. Then Georgia inaugurated
Eight ehs 0 aeiid for McAdoo. Cox packed
! up more scattering votes.
| Cox shot twenty over majority
on the forty-third ballot, getting .56S
as against $40 1-2 on the previous
forty-third, going from APT to Az;
Cox's principal gains were a solid
| vote from Louisiana, taking a half
dozen from McAdoo. and 10 II from
Virginia, which previously had re-
turned to Senator Glass. On that
| ballot also Cox drew away numerous
scattering votes from McAdoo.
The final ballot began at 1918
o'clock. Almost from the start Cox
began taking single and double votes
from the McAdoo delegations. The
real breakup developed when three
fast for McAdoo for many ballots
swung over and gave Cox a solid
twelve. Cox held Georgia intact,
! gained four more Illinoisans from
! McAdoo and then Tom Tagart an
| nounced a solid block of thirty from
indiana for Cox, taking ten from
McAdoo. Kentucky likewise gave up
| three McAdoo votes and made 1t
twenty-six for Cox.
Louisiana gave another unbroken
With the Cox tide in flood, the
Colorado change was announced ana
the long battle ended with the adopt
ed motion for unanimous vote. :.
The West Virginia sixteen, stood
steadfast for Davis during the en-
tire battle. Also the score of OKLA
| Romans instructed for Senator owen
and Nine Nebraskans controlled py
| BRYAN and voting almost from the
first for owen. never Wavereo. r..
Georgia votes for coz 49,.
When Georgia was reachedN Ine
da1a
! chair and shouted that his state, Tor
! merly in McAdoo ranks, would JOIN
i hands with Ohio Ito name the next
president" He cast the solid Geor--
gia vote for Cox and the shout that
| Followed seemed to rock the build
McAdoo followers were, still hold
ing grimly. Again the Texas pi0 S, !
of forty votes went in for nm am w nnv
in his drives, stuck hard and even
| the fact that Cox had swept beyond
| the first majority vote recorded Tor
| any candidate did not shake them
| loose. =.
The forty-third roll call began in
| a riot of noise that made the poll
| audible only as the serges of sounq
| paused to let the figures reach the
Little by little the drift to the
| Cox column continued gaining as it
| ran "Get into the wagon" roared
| a man in the galleries and the Cox
| rooters took it up. Votes for other
! candidates, than Cox or McAdoo
| brought yells to come out of it,
In the New York delegation a
challenge for a poll sent dozen
men scurrying to argue with the
! challenger. He was the center OF
, fire Of argument and adjuraton
! he could not resist. Finally, after a
new move by McAdoo supporters to
adjourn in q last desperate effort TO
stave off defeat had been roared
down. the last ballot, the forty
, fourth, began.
! The result was forecast with the
first vote. Alabama swung solid to
/ Cox. State by state, delegations who
had stuck out for McAdoo with
divided delegations. followed suit
The slide had set in and there was
no stopping it. hTe convention had
it's mind set to nominate on that
ballot. Cp and no mounted the
Ohioians total Of votes. AS it passed
the 700 mark with the necessary
two-thirds just ahead, the tumult in
creased minute by minute until the
last votes were heard only vaguely
on the platform. Pennsylvania went
over and the Colorado chairman
leapcd 70 his chair to change the
vote of his state to Cox. Half n
dozen other charm Oh We're waving
for recognition to make sifniler an
noUnCC} INt@.
domination Unanimous
Chairman Robinson hurried to his
de-; with Sam r. An1idon. OF Kan
sa&, a McAdoo chief, who was pre-
al E fal~ mil nj