South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-20
BOOM CUMMINGS
AS M'ADOO QUITS
Movement TO Name Senator is
Short Lived - Race Re-
mains Free-for-All.

SAN FRANCISCO. Calf. June 10.
William @. McAdOo's definite and
emphatic withdrawal from The pres
| idential race has been accepted as
final ~ tho seasoned democratic
/ political veterans here for the con
vention. They unanimously credit
( McAdOO with being entirely sincere
/ and have counted him out for good.
AS MCAdoo faded out Of the demo-
cratic picture today another came
! more clearly into view. Homer s.
Cummings chairman OF the demo-
: crat,c national committee. was being
Z talked orr more and more among
. the party leaders There were in
tiraatiOHs that "A Strong Cummings
movement would be started Just
after Cummings has made his speech
I opening the convention.
Bring Cummings TO fore.
The iuuaters Of the Cummings
| boom seized on McAdoo's with
drawal as means OF bringing their
man 10 the fore. having boosted him
( freely TO the party leaders who are
/ here, they viii do the same on a
larger scale as soon as delegates
begin arriving
Nobody seemed 10 know today
where the McAdoo delegates would
go. IL has been claimed that Nc
AdoO would get as many as $50
votes on the first ballot, but his
strength in delegates. like that of
all the candidates, Is really un-
known
Palmer and Cox, now the lead
ing candidates, will go after dele
gates next week with all the vim
they can muster. As they have a
broad field Of UninStrUcted dele
gates 10 work in. both the Cox and
Palmer forces are preparing TO eX-
tend their activities as broadly as
they can in an EFFORT To get first
claim on as many votes Is possible.
only Few Pledged.
OF the 1929 delegates. only 800
had been instructed by state con-
ventiOns or primaries. These were
divided among the following can
didates and non-Candidates:
Atty. Gen. 4. Mitchell Palmer
104; Gov. James NJ. Cox, "a; Her
bert Hoover. 30; Sec'y Of Agricul-
ture h. T. Meredith, %; Sen. Car
ter Glass, "a; Gov. Edward l. Ed
wards 2S; Sen. simmons, "a; Sen.
Robert owen. 20; Sen Gilbert
Hitchcock, 10; Homer ;. Cummings
IA; James W. Gerard. 10. William
I =
10.
If presented Hoover. a candidate
for the republican presidential nom
nation, probably would get all of
| Michigan's 80 votes on the first bal
lOt-more than ne obtained at any
time during the republican conven-
tion-by virtue of having carried
the presidential primary in that
state before he repudiated the
democratic party.
Planners Lead Threatened.
William r. Connolly. national
committeeman, has since confirmed
the fact that Michigan VIII first vote
tor Hoover.
Palmers lear in the instructed
delegates was threatened because of
the contest Med by Tom Watson
over Georgia : rs delegates - the
only democratic contest hled TO
date.
owing TO the two-thirds rule in
democratic conventions. 72S votes
are necessary for "a choice.
Another factor regarded as indi-
Cative of a long session was the fact
| sentiment had failed to crystalline
about candidates sufficiently TO give
the delegates a rallying point.
Wilson May WicId Influence.
That Pres't Wilson might have
| TO throw the administration strength
behind some candidate to avoid
long deadlock in the convention was
regarded as probable.
Pres't Wilson's interview with the
New York World experimenting his
| previous Endorsement of the Nir-
ginia democratic platform left no
/ uncertainty as TO the policies the
administration democrats will seek.
Democrats here declared Gov
James NJ Cox. with McAdoo's with
| drawal, would get the democratic
nomination early ii il were not for
the opposition OF w. j. Bryan and
other drys.
There was talk of an attempt To
! get Cox and Bryan together by haV-
ing Cox declare for a law enforce
ment plank.
Democrats expected Cox would
carry New York. New Jersey. prob
ably California. Ohio and the demo-
cratic solid south. running on a light
wine and beer palnk.
Glass Boom Fails.
The movement To- Carter Glass.
which McAdoo supporters started
/ aDparentlv lost momentum shortly
after il got under way Glass said
I he lived in a section which is re-
! lied upon TO furnish the electoral
! votes but not the candidates IL
was also pointed out that McAdoo's
strength came from labor and that
/ Glass could not hope 10 inherit this
The name Of Secy of State Colby
7 was also on a mum Der OF democratic
lips and there was a squirt i'm talk
of John ". Davis. American am
bassador TO Great Britain.
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