The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-02
CERTAIN LEADERS
 PLAYING b|G CAME
 ID SQUELCH M 'ADOO
All Depends on Taggart and Only the Balloting Will
 Tell the Outcome
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE

San Francisco, July l.
 (SpeciaD Leaving aside all other occupations and duties, at least three delegations to the convention here in session are today engaged in hurling brick
 bats at the head of one William Gibbs McAdoo. McAdoo became the. dominating fg- ure of the quarrel today because he wasn't made the victim of a nominating speech.
 The deftest and quickest way to put candidate out of the game is to talk from half to three quarters of an hour in his favor
 candidate can stand up pretty well
 under the objurgation of his enemies,
 but it takes marvel to survive the
 boost of his oratorical friends. After most of the contenders had
 been put out of the running yesterday l by words in their favor a gentleman named Jenkins arose and put McAdoo I into the game with neither praises nor | encomiums, employing altogether about as many words as you can get into q ] night letter to New York at the ex- l pense of $1.30.
 | Immediately there was reaction in
 McAdoq's favor and today all the | forces that are arrayed against him are doing their dardnest to stop it. If McAdoo could he nominated by majority of the delegates. this would be the last story to he sent out of San Francisco on the cOn- vcnti0n.
 1 But his busy disIikers have. or l say they have got, more than l third of the votes the floor l pledged against them. They l spending today trying to hold i those votes, and are not my too | sure of how they are going to suc- l ceed. The difference between pleds- | ing a delegate and making him vote 1 the way he is pledged K much the | same as the difference between l making q bet and collecting it If you happen to win. l While the peerless leader and others were wrangling over the platform to- day, the real figures in the big dispute were trying to settle the McAdoo ques- tion.
 l As 1dSt as deleBdltS ltlL luCii oFelt9 | they were seized by the collars ana dragged into back rooms to be boiled | and tagged. After that men were set
 to watch them.
 l At least two hundred are parked ir | hotel rooms, and only permitted to gc | out under escort. By the time tht | balloting begins, and it ought to starr
 the first thing tomorrow, the people who do not want Mir. MeAdoo nominat- ! ed will nearly know where they stand nearly. but not quite. l Tom Taggart of Indiana is most O | the trouble. If Tom wants to be Unite States senator from Indiana bad enough | to loosen d few delegates to McAdoo lit will be all over. If he sticks to th' anti -McAdoo promise, he is supposed t' have made and votes his delegates ac cordingly, the convention will have t' hunt for some body else to nominate. l Any way, the fig&t is beginning t' warm up.
 l The well-known team. viuihcatioi and abuse, have been called in and ar working over union hours. Every stor, | that can be unearthed about any can didates, including divorces whose rec ords have long since gathered dust h ! the old county court houses, are beins used as weapons.
 The republican convention starte' with fine prospects of satisfying rov and ended as tamely as q gathering of Y M. C. A. secretaries in gay Parec This one started without any indica tions of a storm. and may Peter out 8 a story before another twenty-fon hours for the reason that it will breal up in a fight