The Washington times., 1920-07-04

TWELFTH BALLOT TOTALS.
The twlfth ballot totals were:
Cox, 4O4; McAdoo. 375: Palmer, 201.
This was a net gain OF ~ votes for
Cox. a loss OF 8 for McAdoo, and
slump OF 81 for Palmer.
The thirteenth ballot increased the
lead of Cox over McAdoo.
Nevada started it by switching her
six votes from McAdoo to Cox. who
picked up two more In Missouri; his
total gain on this ballot was 24H.
McAdoo lost 12h and Palmer slipped
back S1a vote more.
The leaders stood as follows:
Cox. 42sh; McAdoo. 363h; Palmer.
1891.
on the fourteenth ballot Cox
further increased his lead. the vote
standing:
Cox. 443h: McAdoo. 355h: Palmer,
1872. The Palmer forces were rapidly
going to pieces. the bulk of their
votes being switched to Cox.
AGREE ON RECESS.
At p. m., after the sixteenth bal
lot had been taken the McAdoo and
Palmer forces conferred and agreed
for a recess until 8 o'clock in order
/ to give them an opportunity for con-
! ference. Mrs. Antoinette Funk. one
| of the McAdoo workers. conferred
| with z. c. Carlin. Palmer's manager,
and fixed up the agreement for re-
| cess.
The motion was made by Spellacy,
of Connecticut. and was adopted on
roll call demanded by Senator Pat
Harrison. The vote on taking the
recess was 6l9 to 455.
The period of the recess was busy
time for all the leaders in the various
camps. Few Of them bothered about
getting any dinner. Most of them
spent their time in conference with
! plans to break the existing deadlock.
| The Palmer and McAdoo men went
| into conference at the Hotel Whit
| comb where he has his headquarters.
| Charles c. Carlin, chief of the Palmer
| forces. met there with Judge Amidon
Stuart Gibboney and others OF the
McAdoo organization.
cox AT MAXIMUM.
The Cox men gathered together but
they had no negotiations with the
representatives of the other candi-
dates. 1t was said they had begun
to realize that Cox had reached the
maximum of his strength and 1T was
useless to think longer of bringing
about his nomination.
There were rumors that representa-
tives of the administration had been
in communication with the White
House and had learned from the
President his wishes with resp;.t
to the nomination. The vote by
| ,rh tnh
ed the anti administration men could
not muster enough votes to nominate
q candidate of their own, although
they had it within their power to
Ilock the nomination OF candidate
not acceptable to them.
When the recess was ordered the
| Cox supporters threw up the sponge
| and declared the fight for Cox would
have to be abandoned. The Ohio dele
CATION and some of the others strong
ly inclined to Cox insisted they would
stick to him to the end. But the
Cox men had seen the process by
which Cox had been elevated to first
position only to have his votes taken
| away from him when the word was
given. They had seen Cox undergo
| the same sort Of thing that was
given to McAdoo, who started out
| ahead and was gradually brought
down to second place behind Cox
cox MEN LOSE HOPE.
For these reasons hope departed
| from the Cox men, and they began
| casting about to see whom they
| should support after the break of
| the Cox voters began. They quickly
realized that Murphy, Taggart and
| Brennan, who had stood by Cox long
| enough to shove him into first place
| would not be with him when the band
| wagon rush began.
| There was a good deal sf talk dur
| ing the recess of Ambassador Davis
| and of Senator owen. Many OF the
delegatestwere found seriously discuss.
| ing each of these candidates and
urging the throwing OF votes to either
one OF them in the hope of breaking
| down the Cox support.
| In the sixteen ballots taken before
the recess. Davis and owen had de-
veloped little strength beyond the
| votes of their respective States, West
| Virginia and oklahoma. But dele
gates from Maine, Vermont, Massa-
| chusetts, and other States in the
North, began to do a lot Of serious
thinking about both of them.
Among the supporters OF McAdoo
there was found considerable bitter
ness over the way In which their can.
didate had been handled in the con-
vention. Last night the McAdoo men
Iwere fully confident that on the FIRST