The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-04
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Ol thc SoA PSOPAt W nO were tTyAhS
 to avoid it. The Palmer people and
 the McAdOo people welcomed it,
 for it gave them opportunity to
 confer and strengthen their lines.
 Senator Harrison of Mississippi, one
 of the leaders for the Cox candi-
 dacy, tried to hold the convention in
 session, but the delegates were
 tired, hungry and sick of ballot
 ing, and to all practical purposes sthe convention was in recess before
 the clerk finished calling the roll
 to decide the question. for the dele
 gates were piIing through the doors
 In a noisy, hubbub long before
 Chairman Robinson had oppor-
 tunity to announce that the recess f. resolution had been carried by 619
 votes in favor of it to 456 against 1t.
 All through the sixteen ballots Gov ernor Cox had made steady gains until he had taken the lead from McAdoo and was heading toward a. majority. Then on the last ballot of the session, the sixteenth. John w. Davis. American ann bassador to Great Britain, whose votes from West Virginia had been standing steady all day, suddenly loomed up with new strength which he drew from all others. He figured in the center of the dark horse talk.
 The language of the parleys between McAdoo and Palmer was in effect, Now that you've stopped McAdoo. help us stop Cox"
 Administration leaders who saw the Cox boom growing in the convention made no secret of their fear of it's pro- portions.
 Chairman Glass of the resolutions
 committee, who spoke for President
 Wilson i'm the framing of the party
 platform, declared in talking with
 friends that it must not be Cox"
 and when asked what would hap
 pen if Cox got the majority of the
 convention and according to custom,
 the expected two-thirds vote, Glass
 replied that "Champ Clark had
 majority at Baltimore." How MT.
 Clark had majority but failed of
 nomination is only recent political
 history.
 OUTSTANDING FEATURES
 Several things seemed to stand out above the noise and clamor and dis comfort of~the days ballotiAg. Prin cipal among them was the fact that the McAdoo movement had not taken on the glacial movement which it's boomers had predicted for ih and tha. the Cox people, who were openly picked up and made constant and con sistent gains which amazed their opp ponents and the convention.
 The Palmer vote dwindled away, much to the dismay of the Pennsyi- vanians. who Loyalty stood by the At torney General all the way through. The recess, while ostensibly for dim ner. really gave the opposing forces their much needed opportunity to find some sort of common meeting ground Outwardly there was little prospect of a get-together movement between the three leaders, and the general indications were that the suc- cessful forces would be obliged to con- centrate on a dark horse.
 Davis, in view of his rising vote, had the edge on the dark horse position when the convention reassembled. Chairman Cummings was not en- tirelv out of consideration. ROOSEVELT VICE PRESIDENT Franklin D, Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy. was being dis cussed among the New York delegates as a possibility for the vice presl- dential nomination.. AS an administra- tion man, it was argued that he wouls command administration support for whatever candidate the New York delegation would support. It was also reported in convention circles that AIr. Davis was the second choice of Wii- liam C. McAdoo.
 As they went into the twelfth ballot, the Cox men kicked up great demon stration to attract the attention of the convention tq th>zr candidate with cries