Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-07-06

49,
multi led by Cox adherents. It showed
he had outstripped McAdoo In the race
for Palmer delegates. and again reach
ed the lead.
Pennsylvania for McAdoO.
The Cox forces scented victory right
there. The Cox band trooped into the
gallery and hurled the strains OF the
Cox battle song, "Ohio, Ohio" down In
to the din below. Again time was re-
quired to get quiet enough to start =
new roll call.
When Pennsylvania was reached the
delegation asked for a poll. One by
one a big McAdoo majority in the
Pennsylvania ranks was disclosed and
Cox supporters looked little disturb
ed. The drift to the Ohio stanuard
was on. however, and even the. more
than two score Palmer men who
Joined from the PENNSYLVANIA forces
could not push McAdoo back into the
lead.
A fight to adjourn for the night waa
started by McAdoo supporters agasnnS
shouts Of mo. no." all over the fl00r-
Then motion went down on vote thae
left no doubt f-the conventions de-
termination to fight 1t out then ana
there. The forty-first ballor was
started Both McAdoo and Coz
gained ground and McAdoo support
ers dug themselves in grlmly letter
mined on a last ditch fight. The for
ty- second roll call was started.
showed new drifts to Cox as the votes
were shouted back to the platlorm
from the unsupressible murmur AMONG
the delegates now regardless OF tn9
fatigue of the prolonged right, ~
though the great galleries above Inen
were by then almost vacant Grear
blocks Of empty seats showed Where
worn out spectators had given II up
bv midnight and gone home expecting
another day.
/ Georgia Changes Vote.
when Georgia was reached the dele
cation chairman leaped to his chair
and shouted that his state formerly In
McAdoo's ranks would join hands -
ohio .sto name the next president. He
east the solid Georgia vote for Cox ana
the shout that fUfIowsd a seemed to rock
the building.
grimly. Again the Texas block 81 4v
votes went in for him. The western
st ates which led the way in his drives
stuck hard and even the fact that Cox
had swept beyond the first maJol,.y
vote recorded for any candidate ui0
not shake them loose.
THE forty-third roll call began a rsss
90 noise that made the poll audipis
on,,, as the surges Of sound paused 60
Iat the figures reach the clerks
COY Movement Gains.
ritt1a hv little the drift to the Cox
column octinnued gaining momeneunH
as Il ran "Get into the wagon roar
- q. man in the galleries and the 90
rootars took it up. Votes for otner
30 ndidates than Cox or McAuo
brought yells to ''come out OF II ans
Tn the New york delegation, cnal-
',arse for poll sent dozenimen scul-
,.,,ine to argue with the chaiieuss.-
u WAS the center of a fire on arsu
ant ad abiuration he scould not
sist. Finally, after a new move
McAdoo supporters to aoJou,n
been roared down, the last paiio
gan. ue,,aen
Tho result was forecast VIII WIZ, ~ -
rirst vote. Alabama swung SUI 10
Gov state by state, .delega.lonss s,',,d
had stuck out for McAdoo VII WI. Tha
cd determinations. followed sun. .tar
tide had set in and there was ~. ~ ,,si,,a 4
ming it. The convention iiau Iru
cot to nominate on tnat 80, AZ
and up mounted the 'ohioah H. with
votes. AS it passed the wv haoA
the necessary two-thirds jug. s,n,,ts.
the tumuit increased minute o orIv
until the last votes were nannsvf-
,,, ui'.n m the platform. Pennsyn-
vagueiy W. @ over and the Colorado
aai..,,an leaned to his chair to cnans0
cnai. ~ of his state to Cox. Hail 3
.he o.har chafrmen were waitinE
oozer .,i.;on to make similar an
nouncements. ,,r;ad to his
,,,itt, sam 3. Amidon of kansas
MoAdoo chief who he presented oniy
d - furious assault with the sav
sarcad a martial lull in the cneerins-
Through a continuous racket Aiiie
,a,,ed that the rules be suspehusr
"a the nomination be made unan
,,,o,,s All over the great nan u1
o,;,r,had upon chairs to wave tne
o,.,,s for silence and then stano poise
,,,,a college veil leaders to signai 'i'
answer to the question.
RalIot Never Finished.
Ranging his gavel in final tnuinp.
chairman Robinson put the quession
and the answer roared back AT nm
with ali the volume of thousdnu
voices in shouting the TREMENDOUS
..ave', that made Governor cox ehe
democratic nominee.
THE 44th ballot never was conipiee
cd. In the great chorus OF atlirin
tion. it was swept away as unneees
sarv. Many of the changes "hicn
would have been hade. the vote peen
carried through We're never reeorueo
and on the face of that ballot. GOV
ernor Cox received officially 7ozhr
votes but they were never totaiied ior
he was nominated by the unanimous
voice of the convention.
The nomination of Governor Coz
means that theftwo great parties Ect
only have gone into the same state ior
their candidates but have picked men
who for years have been associa,eo
more or less closely In the same pro-
fession. Like Senator Harding, Gov
ernor Cox is a newspaper man ana
their home towns in Ohio are not far