The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-06
FEELING
 IS B|G FACTOR IN ! CONVENTION FIGHT
Palmer Forces Bitter To- ward McAdoo, While the Cox Crowd Is Against
 Them Both
By CLINTON w. GILBERT

The democrats spent Sunday waiting for q sign. and while they waited for n sign they peddIed the vice presidency While they reached the heavens for star of Bethlehem which should shine over the head of the candidate who had the favor of the White House, they took men apart and said: "You can have second place on the ticket if you will deliver the delegation to Cox, to Palmer or to McAdoo," as the case ,1igks be.
 Senator Pat Harrison found Senator Carter Glass talking quite seriously of his own prospects as dark horse. sNow Carter" said Harrison. you and I speak the same language. You know as we'll as do that no one from south of the Mason and Dixon line can be nominated for the presidency. How about Cox and Glass ticket?"
 Senator Glass was one of the more distinguished persons to have second place offered to him. There was no one too small not to have his chance to be tail of the ticket. ~Up and down on the
 
 the vice presidency in hand. Who'll buy?" Who'll buy?" Nobody bought and though the game went on till yes terday nobody seriously thought that way out of the deadlock could be found by peddling the vice presidency.
 SIGN FROM THE SKY
 Nothing short of sign in the sky placed there. by Woodrow Wilson will lead the delegates to a candidate
 N T s.. 1,c morning they asked instantly: Has the White House done anything to get Palmer out of the way?" They were ',caught in a deadlock. which they felt lonly the White House could break, Nand they hoped the White House would break if in such way that tn candi- date would profit.
 They watched eagerly Secretary Daniels, Secretary Colby, Carter Glass whom might have the word from the White House, and they, doubtless, had their own direct communications with Washington by telephone
 This convention is in jam because it is Wilson convention which Wilson has declined to lead. The administra tion forces were divided between Mc- -Adoo and Palmer and as result of this division the opposition to the ad- InlnlSLTdIlOu ndu Deell dple tO ihdhc d great show with Cox.
 They had not been able to bring Cox in sight of the nomination, but they had been able to stop McAdoo. who on Saturday morning looked sure of nomination. They felt, or pretended to feel they had the votes to prevent his nonni1e ton. Their policy had been to put braKas rpon the McAdoo band wagon And 1t suecseded beyond their lf-r. $1,> ,,; ton aturday morAfHs where he might hava eess naminates ig a few basiatss It was generally expected that he woRl4 be nominated early. But The combinassor aeat0st htrn surpassed, is own expectations. J It did not beel confident tfat tf eald hold against McAdoo delegations fcl ] were ready to break to him at tho first sign since he was likely to win. Once the rush to McAdoo has started, the nomination would have been made. { But the rush did not start. The Mc-f Adoo total rose in. tlss Dalloting, but it rose slowly. The deAsgates arxiousl to pick a winner watcned the Mc&doo' vote and grew weary Was 1t after all a bandwagon? terrible a5ubf ss-, sailed the job hunters.
 HAD. ABLER LEADERS
 And while they hesitated the NNts- McAdoo leaders, who al m abl@F let of men than the McAdoo leaders. Ifnada the Cox candidacy look paqFa sS,ke a bandwagon than the andi~ dacy McAdoo's chances sl'' Jed Virginia did not come to elt ga stayed off except for one s IT. nessee threw itself every a frantic effort to start sois put did not commit itself to M Aas ec- retary Meredith failed b5 Tow margin to deliver Iowa ta NJ. loo. Palmer had bis Pennsylvanis delegakes, who in the morning had their yves fixed on the McAdoo bandwa gon stsad- fly throughout the day.
 That was the story of the aeadlo1iy The McAdoo candidacy jus mssta. According to beliefs of those prsc tice politics fortune only smilef npoa you once. You either win VI s sTour chance comes, or you won't w-.s at all, And McAdoo's chance came on the early ballots Saturday morning and he did not win. Those who say like the triumphant group who stopjed his bandwagon that he is now eliminated. pin their faith in the political truism that a candidate once thoroughly stopped will not start again
 The key to the situation al day Sat urday was the Palmer vote. f Palmer could have been broken. so much
 
 and other places would have gone to McAdoo that all the hesitants would have rushed to his support But Palmer could not be broken. He)seems bitterly determined to proven the nomination of McAdoo.. and hsd his ground. thus preventing unon of the administration strength in tie con- vention upon the leading admiretra- tion candidate. Although memler of { the Presidents cabinet. he playa into me hands of the anti administration group in the convention He as got Himself into such a false pcsittn with 2respect to Wilson that men crlit here the report that he will soon reFe from the Attorney Generals office:
 PERSONAL BlTTERNSS
 Personal bitterness againsthdcAdoo nrobably accounts for Palmet obsti-
 nate hanging to his pwn defeked c5n-l didacy. Various incidents cftributed
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