The Holly chieftain., 1920-07-08

THE Successful Candidate Tor Nofai-
satlon for President on the Democratic
Ticlcst, Nominated at San Francisco.
1t could be driven no higher. former
Representative c. c. Carlin Of Vir-
ginia. Mr.. Palmers manager, took the
platform and announced the with.
drawal of the attorney general from
the race.
Dsissatss chssr Attorney General.
Chairman Robinson, in presenting
him, told the convention significantly
that he was presenting . man who
had an announcement to make which
he was confident the convention would
want to hear.
Expectation was in the air and the
convention, which only . msment ~
fore had bssn IN the height OF dis
order In racksty 1smonstration,
Quistsd down Ike magic. until q pin
might almost have been heard to drop
IA the great auditorium ~ Carlin tosk
the apeAker's place and said in sub-
stance:
II am about to maks n announoe-
meat of greatest importance to this
convention. At the conclusion Of which
I shall move recess for fwenty min
utss to give the convention Oppnrtu.
nifty to decide what course It.. shall,
take.
"A. Mitchell Palmer asks me to ex-
press his sincere thanks and apprecia.
tion 10 every delegate who had voted
for his nomination, but 10 unwilling
to delay the proceedings further, and
authorized me to finally, positively and
absolutely release every delegate
pledged to him that the convention
may proceed to nominate the next
president Of the United States"
There was roar Of "Hurrah for
Palmer" AZ the lines broke and the
convention went into recess. The
denouemsnt. coming at the end Of
thirty-eight hard-fought and fruitless
ballots, gave the same effect as dOss
an over-fiated automobile tire when II
bursts with q bang and then siEzlsa
down.
The entire Palmer vote, added to
McAdoo's total on the thirty.eighth
ballot, would give 816h. The Palmer
vote added to the Cox total on the
same ballot would give the Ohio gov.
ernor 594h.
Both leading candidates would fall
short of the. twoithirds, which 10 728.
The consensous Of opinion seemed
to be that Cox would gain Massachu-
sstts, Michigan and Maine, while Nc
Adoo would gain heavily In Georgia
and that Pennsylvania would split be-
tween Davis, McAdoo and Cox.
Delegations voting solidly under the
unit rule but at heart divided between
McAdoO and other candidates, have
developed illfeelings 30 much so that
the caucusses which took place on the
floor during the recess gave evidences
of the feeling. There was shouting.
waving Of arms and some shaking Of
fists and Il a. great deal of hurrying
about.
Platform and convention hall floor
were jamnfedswith an arguing, gesticu-
lating Lass Of men and ndfwomen--most-
~ men-but the argument was not
greater In volume with them despite.
their p,cpondssaneesin,n number.
Both tho McAdoo and Cox forces
We're claiming the bulk of the Palmer
delegates. The claims were 10 con-
nictlng that 1t was apparent that only
tile thirty-ninth ballot would tell the
story.
During the recess there was circu-
lated about the floor copies of a tele-
gram from Judge Moore, Cox's mana
ger, to Daniel c. Roper of New York,
accredited with being one Of the Nc
Adoo managers, charging that "a
crowd of government employees and
treasury officials are for their own
personal ends and In defiance of Mr..
McAdoo's expressed wishes, improperly.
using hissname to create Z deadlock In
this convention"
Charging that several dsaskatlaN