South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-07-04

| hen after the adjournment
resolution had been beaten once
by the convention recess OF the
Cox people. Sen. Harrison
made a new motion that the con-
vention recess until Monday morn
ing at 10 o'clock. 1t was said that
Georgia was about 10 give some OF
her twenty eight votes 20 McAdoo
as a complimentary vote and that
the Cox people wanted 10 avoid It.
roll call of Harrison's motion
was demanded and Harrison with
drew his motion, the convention
went back TO the roll call Of states
for nominees.
By Associated Press:
AUDITORIUM, San Francisco,
July 3.-R econvening after a brief
recess tonight, the democratic ma
tional convention started oalloting
again and in the first three attempts
OF the new session made no more
progress toward selecting a presi-
dental nominee than it had in the
sixteen futile ballots which marked
the previous sessions.
The seventeenth, eighteenth ana
nineteenth attempts were more or
less see-saw performances and kite
flying exhibitions in which candi-
date managers tried TO find someone
upon whom 10 center.
Dark Horse Talk.
Dark horse talk centering about
whole paddock Of mentioned posi-
brities characterized the renewal OF
the balloting After the nineteenth
attained. the convention evidently
decided il wanted a little relaxation
for a demonstration started by the
Cox people soon became everybody S
demonstration IN which a lot OF
state standards mixed indiscrimi-
nately and the usual number OF
scrinnn1aCes took place without very
laanv Of the sCrimmagers knowing
what they were scrimmaging about
The Cox band, which had been
kept out Of the hall, was in again
tonight whanging its mOnotonous
rrone Something About Ohio. the
words OF which were drowned out
IN the din when the Cox boomers
tried 10 sing them.
Start Demonstration.
Congressman Connolly, Of Texas,
appeared in the demonstration.
bearing aloft the first picture OF Nc
Adoo which appeared in the conVen-
ton hall IL was evidently home
made attempt al a lithograph. II
looked more like a caricature. Lith-
ooraphs Of Cox made their appear
ance. cheer leaders sprung up from
unexpected places as the state
standards moved around the hall IN
winding line.
II the tradition that the demo-
cratic conventions never work on
SUNDAY was good. the demonstration
s!gnalized the pOstpCnement OF the
nomination contest until Monday.
With PIP hours left for business
before midnight. the crowd showed
no disposition TO get 10 business. Il
roared and p~anced and hoped and
cavorted and reeled and crawled and
wizgled and screamed and shouted
looked for all the world as II II had
gone mad.
Then as suddenly as IL begun. the
demonstration began 10 die away,
and the convention went back 20
examine itself and see whether Il
had wiggled itself out Of a deadlock.
Il apparently had not and proceed
ed 70 the nineteenth ballot
Hurried Conferences.
The Cox. MCAQOo anu fdAIIltl
forces and those hoping 10 develop
dark horse. spent the hours be-
tween recess and reassembllng at
p. n. IN hurried conferences and
despite efforts 70 line up a COM
promise ticket. Word from Wash
ington that President Wilson was
pursuing a hands OF" policy added
10 the confusion OF the situation.
To every argument advanced for
some dark hoyse objections were
heard in opposition. Those op-