The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-05
Anti--AdministratiOn L e aders
Unable to Find Darkhorse
Capable of Winning
PALMER is OUT OF RACE
Delegates He Controls Are Ex-
pected to Determine Ul-
innate Party Nominee
(BY n. NJ. RlckEY.)

(BY n. NJ. RlCkEY)
San Francisco, July 4-The only
reason that the situation in respect OF
nominating democratic candidate fol
the presidency does not seem utterly
hopeless is that it is certain that some
how, sometime somebody must be nom
mated.
AS the delegates are assembling fol-
the opening of the second week, there
are hundred rumors as to what has
happened over Sunday and a hun
dred guesses as to what will happen
during the day
+ When run down, most of the ru-
mors are found to be without sub
stance. There has been so much bad
guessing up to now that all of the
new guesses are discounted.
About the only thing that stands
out clearly and indisputably is that
we are the witnesses Of one of the
bitterest struggles in the history OF
American politics.
Very much more than the particu-
lar question as to who will be the
nominee is involved in the struggle
although on the surface that appears
to be what has deadlocked the con-
vention.
McAdoo and Cox and Palmer are
merely paWns in the game Behind
each of them Is a group of leaders
and bosses fighting desperately for the
control of the democratic party
Various and mixed motives animate
these men. Some of them are pa
triotic, others are greedy for gain OF
power.
Still others are moved by feelings
of personal loyalty to this, that or the
otber candidate. The last category is
the smallest numerically, the second
is the largest.
Up to midnight Saturday, when the
convention adjourned until Monday
morning, after twenty-five ballots
none of the groups had been able tc
gather under its banners even major
ity of the delegates, much less the two
thirds necessary to nominate.
Needing seven hundred and twenty
eight votes, the nearest Cox had come
to it was on the fifteenth ballot when
he got four hundred sixty eight and
one half. ..
McAdoos high was three hundred
ninety-five and one half on the TWEEN
ty-first, Palmer's highest was two hun
dred sixty-seven and one half on the
seventh ballot. By common consent
Palmer was eliminated from the sit
uation so far as getting the nomina-
ton is concerned, although his man
ager, Vance Mccormack, former ma
tional chairman refuses to accept this
view.
But the one hundred and fifty-six
and one half delegates who were still
for Palmer on the twenty second ballot
were and still are, mighty important
factors. They are important not alone
because of their numbers, but because
Mccormack and the group of leaders
who will finally decide to whom these
votes are to go go, are among the
strongest here.
During all of Saturday the Palmer
people were working with the Cox
people. Tammany, Taggart of Indiana
Brennan. of Illinois, Pat Harrison, OF
Mississippi, and Marsh, of Iowa, in an
offensive and defensive alliance to
prevent the nomination of McAdoo.
It was the making of this alliance
during the early balloting Saturday
that upset the plans of the McAdoo
people to develop all of McAdoo's Sec
ond choice strength after the first few
ballots and. from the vantage ground
of a majority which theys probably
would have had, drive through to a
band wagon victory. 1t was a lfear
thing and but for a slight miscalcula-
ton McAdoo would have been the
nominee before the convention ad-
journed Saturday night.
Several times during Saturdays ses-
sion all of the superficial signs pointed
to the proba ability of Cox being nomi-
mated. But as matter of fact at no
time was there the slightest possibility
of it because the 260 votes he had TO
have in addition to his top strength
could only come from McAdoo and
Palmer. The managers of each of the
latter were determined that if their
man could not make the grade they
would not permit Cox, backed by Muir
phy. Taggart, Brennan and the vets
to make it, and, so while there was
great hope among the Coxites as their
candidate forged slowly ahead and fin
ally took the lead it was a vain hope.
Broadly speaking, the situation has
frozen up tight with the bulk of the
administration delegates who consti-
tute about hundred more than a ma
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