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GOVERNOR JAS. NJ. COX
NEXT PRESIDENT
After What Seemed Indeterminable Deadlocl
Ohio Candidate is Nominated on 44th. Bal
lot.-Slide To Cox Comes When Palmer
Releases His Delegates.-Floor Scene
Similar To Stock Exchange After
Nomination Is Made Unanimous

Nomination Is "
Mid scenes of confusion and direst
complaint James NJ. Cox, thrice gov
ernor Of Ohio was early yesterday
morning nominated for the presiden-
cy by unanimous vote of the Demo-
cratic Convention assembled in San
Francisco. Upon selecting Gov. Cox
as it's standard bearer the convention
adjourned having in two days taken
"A ballots before agreeing upon
nominee. .S5'
Gov. Cox began the fight with 1874
votes on the first ballot, and climbed
steadily upward until the 18th when
he had 468 1-2. His lowest vote after
that was on the 35th, the first taken
at Monday nights session when it
fell to 376 1-2. The landslide for Cox
started on the 39th ballot when Pal
mer released his votes and on the
next ballot Cox showed a gain of
practically 100 votes. He climbed
steadily after this jumping on the
44th ballot to 702 1-2 against 56S,
the total number he had on the 43rd
ballot.
McAdoo Makes Great Fight.
McAdoo's supporters made a great
fight for the man of their choice and
never gave up while there yet re-
mained the slightest chance of vic
tory. AS the Cox total passed that Of
McAdoo and surged upward the Nc
Adoo managers made a desperate
fight to stop it in time.
Their candidate twice had held the
lead and lost it, however, ane many
delegates supporting him had given
up hope that he ever could be nomi-
mated. On the last four ballots Nc
Adoo lost steadily, several solid
state delegations deserting his BAN
ner for that of the leader.
Like Panicky Stock Exchange
The scene just prior to Cox's NOM
ination seemed more like the floor of
the Stock exchange than anything
else. AS state after state changed
their votes from Palmer and McAdoo
to Cox in the last ballot the chairman
was unable to prevent the widest
confusion. Chairman Robinson hur-
ried to his desk with Sam B. Amidon
of Kansas, a McAdoo chief whom he
presented only after a furious assault
with the gavel forced a partial lull in
the cheering. Through a continuous
racket Amidon moved that the rules
be suspended and the nomination be
made unanimous. All over the great
hall men climbed up on chairs to wave
their arms for the silence that\never
came.
Vote Made Unanimous.
Banging his gavel in a ana1 thump
Chairman Robinson put the question
and the answer roared back to him
with all the volume of a thousand
voices in shouting the tremendous
faye" that made Governor Cox the
Democratic nominee.
J. The 44th ballot was never COM
pleted. In the. great chorus Of affir-
nation it was swept away as unnec-
'essary. Many of the changes that
would have carried through were
never recorded and on the face of the
ballot, Governor Cox received offici-
ally 702 1-2 votes but they were nev-
er totalled for he was nominated by
the unanimous voice of the conven-
tion.
Gov. James NJ. Cox like Senator
Harding, the Republican nominee is
from Ohio and also like the senator
Gov. Cox is a newspaper editor.
Whatever else happens it is safe
bet that the highest office in the ma
ton will be filled by one of the
Fourth Estate.
Congratulations.
The gubernatorial Office in Ohio
has been flooded with hundreds of
messages of congratulation and felic-
itation for the Democratic nominee.
Among the first messages received
by Gov. Cox was one from President