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

On the twentieth ballot Connecticut S vote, which had been solid Cummings gave him only four, while six went to Cox and four to Palmer
 Indiana, which. had been holding for Cox, passed.
 Cox lost two in Kentucky to Davis. McAdoo got one of Louisiana's twenty. which had been solid for Cox Indiana cut Cox to nineteen and gave the remaining eleven to McAdoo In Massachusetts Palmer lost six, of which four went to Cox. Owen gained three in Missouri, talk ing two from McAdoo and one-half each from Cox and Palmer.
 McAdoo gained one from Cox in Cox gained one in turn from Palmer in South Dakota
 Tennessee split, Cox losing sixteen of which two went to Palmer, ten to Mo- Adoo. two to Davis and two to Cum mings.
 McAdoo lost three to Cox in Wisconin With Cox, Palmer and McAdoo in a deadlock in that order prospects for a nomination tonight were bad McAdoo had been going down since the sixteenth ballot and his recovery started noise among the McAdoo boosters At the opening of the twenty-first bal lot all eyes were turned toward Pennsyi- vania. What Pennsylvania did Georgia was expected to do also. The Cox people claimed that when the break came they would have the best of tin both states. M'ADOO DEMONSTRATION When Chairman Robinson attempted l to announce the result of the twentieth ballot, he got as far as the name of lMcAdoo, when the McAdoo crowd, appar- ently all set with demonstration and with the accompaniments all fixed. be-
 gan to whoop it up again. The band in the gallery, which was silent when the Bryan people attempted demonstration for their champion, blared and boomed without ceasing. helping Nthe- McAdoo demonstration along. as it had on pre- vious days.
 Many women crowded the floor and took part in the McAdoo demonstration. Many of them who danced about in the winding line of McAdoo boomers or who were carried along on the shoulders of men were neither delegates nor alter mates to the convention. but spectators who invaded the floor in the excitement of the moment and took part in woopng up the circus.
 There appeared to -bs no stopping the noise for McAdoo. Although not par ticipated in by a large proportion of'the delegates, it made up in volume for that
 which it lacked in numbers. and when- ever the racket on the floor gave ev'- dence of slump the galleries bolstered it up with new enthusiasm.
 Meanwhile Chairman Robinson sat pa tiently twirling his gavel in hand, al
 most fondling it as a hunter fondles a gun with which he has brought down
 much game. He did not seem to be much
 l disturbed at the way the noisemalers were using up time. and there was 2
 | suggestion that the convention officials were perfectly agreeable to letting the convention wear itself down to the point
 of exhaustion where it would not resist
 | an adjournment.
 RECESS TILL s O'CLOCK | After sixreen futile ballots to fin i
 l a presidential nominee. the democratic
 national convention found itself in a
 practical deadlock and after having
 {, been in session eight continuous hours.
 1 during which it disposed of ballots at
 the rate of thirty minutes each, re- cessed for rest and conference to re- sumc again at o'clock this evening. Reeeps was fske1 ppeer protest