The Washington times., 1920-07-04
Twenty-Five Ballots At San
Francisco Show How Dead
T., lock Was Reached.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 4.-The con-
vention was called to order at GAG
a. IN. yesterday.
Senator Robinson, the chairman
pounded for order.
-"All delegates will be seated" he
called.
There were many empty seats in
| the delegate section at the opening
hour. Only about half of the Tam
| many group were present. Among
the missing were the Tammany chief
tain, Charles Francis Murphy, Gov.
AL Smith, and others.
Senator Robinson experienced his
| usual difficulty in getting things
| started. The delegates were crowd
ing the aisles and were taking their
| time about getting into seats.
Senator Robinson finally got a
semblance of order and introduced
DR.. j.. L. Gordon. of San Francisco
who offered prayer. When the min.
lister declared, God bless all of u.s.
emotion. yelled Good" .'.
PRAYER UNUSUALLY LONG.
The prayer was unusually long.
Senator Robinson then announced
the chairman of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee would read tele-
gram of interest to the convention.
Homer S. Cummings walked forth and
was applauded. He read a message
from the President, thanking the con-
vention for the message of felicita.
ton it had sent him on opening day.
McAdoo's two principal accessions
on third ballot were North Carolina
and South Carolina. North Carolina
voted solidly for Senator Simmons
last night, but swung to McAdoo this
morning.
DEMONSTRATION FOR COX.
There was a big demonstration on
| floor for Cox after New York vote is
announced on seventh ballot.
A woman grabbed the New York
standard and endeavored to start a
parade through the aisles. She wa
urged by floor leaders to return stand
ard to it's place so balloting could
proceed, and did so.
During the twelfth ballot William
Garden, of Arkansas, grabbed the
Arkansas banner and tried to get into
the parade. Several other delegates
tried to prevent him doing so. and in
the struggle several blows were ex-
changed. Garden was knocked down.
officers stopped the fight before any
serious injury had been done.
PALMER MEN GLUM.
During tn eleventh ballot a large
American flag-draped picture of Cox
was paraded in the aisles. The Ohio
delegates led the parade. They were
Immediately followed by delegates
carrying New Jersey. Illinois, Indiana,
Maryland, New York. Kentucky, and
Florida standards.
Arizona Joined in the parade. The
Palmer delegates were very yluln.
One of the floor leaders for Palmer,
who refused to give his name, stated
that the Palmer forces had been "dou-
blecrossed." In an attempt to get the
canvas standard in the Cox parade,
fist fight broke out on the floor.
An excited scene followed this &C
tion on the floor, and for a few min
utes it was believed the band wagon
was standing before the door of the
Ohio governor. However, the ballot
was passed and the thirteenth fol-
lowed, but still the big stwo-thirds
ma jority had not been reached
Connecticut had been induced, to
give Palmer ten votes on the twelfth
ballot. 1t failed of effect.
Cox made scattering gains in thc
superstitious thirteenth ballot.
UNIT RULE SUSTAINED.
The chair sustained the unit rule
and Cox caught the vote of Iowa.
When w. d. Marsh cast the Iowa