Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-07-07
FRANKLIN 3, ROOSEVELT MADE: NOMINEE VICE: PRESIDENT
 WITHOUT BAL LOT BEING TAKEN
New Yorker Best Known As Assistant Secretary of
 Navy
OPPOSITION CREJMBLES
 AS NAME IS CALLED
Cries of Cox and EoaScvcls' ia Closing Hours of Co1vca. .ioa Seen Others Nominated to
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San Francisco, July 6.--Fra-klin D. Roosevelt of New York, assistant geo.
 retary of the navy, was nom anatcd for vice-president today by the democratic I national convention and became tho
 running mate of Governor James NJ. Cox of Ohio, the democratic choice for the presidential nomination.
 The first cries of Cox and Roosc-
 welt rang through the convention hall
 and were mixed with the shouts of
 the vote of exclamation by which he
 was nominated without q. ballot. I Despite the disinclination of the Tammany organization to accept him.
 Roosevelts name went over with a : band wagon movement during which all other candidates were withdrawn.
 James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois
 was withdrawn early by former Gov- ernor Dunn, Governor Stewart of
 Montana announced his own with
 drawal; Edward l.. Doheny of Cali
 fornia, and former Governor Hawley
 of Idaho, were withdrawn and Major
 General l.. D. Tyson of Tennessee, in l, person announced that he would not
 be contender as did David R. Fran , cis of Missouri. Nomination of w. FIT. Vaughn of Oregon, who. had re- ceived state primary indorsement was
 changed into second for the success full nominee.
 Bainbridge Colby, secretary of state. who was considered as candidate and refused to allow his name to be :. used finally was urged to consent if he should be drafted. It so happened that the Tammany crowd decided to accept Roosevelt, who brought to the ticket the participation of an admin-
 istration man, and MT. Colby's name was not considered further. N
 MT. Roosevelt was placed in nomi- nation by Timothy l.. Ansberry,
 former representative from Ohio, who sat as Cox delegate in the District
 of Columbia delegation Seconds
 sprang from all parts of the conveu,., ition hall
 Robinson to Notify.
 Never was there very strong oppo- siton to the nomination and the sec z
 York from the Tammany delegation, ,clinched it. : Senator Robinson of Arkansas, per-. manent chairman of the conventional Z was appointed chairman of the com-s mittee to notify Governor Cox of hia nomination and Chairman Homer s. :. Cummings of the democratic national
 committed, was appointed chairman of the committee to notify Mir. Roose-s welt.
 After it's tumultous session of 44S ballots the convention reassemhled at
 noon to finish it's work. There was 1t first delay utilized by the Cox man. agers to hear from the governor about his wishes on the vice-prcsidential nomination. H. H. Moore of Youngs- town, Ohio, who managed the govern- OTIS fight, let it be known that Coz + wos willing to leave the selection oz his running mate to the convcntion. With that.the forces easily and quick ly coalesced and after Roosevelt'S
 nomination applauded an appreciation : of him by his chief, Secretary Jose phus Daniels.
 During the closing moments of the convention the usual formal resolu- tions affecting the national commits :, tee and the convention organization , were adopted with a resolution cxsN
 pressing the thanks and apprcciation
 of the convention to the city of San
 Francisco.
 Poughkeepsie, N. Y, July G.-Ths < little village of Hyde Park, birthplace t and summer residence of Franklin D. r Roosevelt, assistant secretary of ths e navy and democratic candidate for I the vice-presidency, received quietlys
 but with elation, the news that ital , favorite political son had been named g as running mate to Governor Jamo3s|
 M. Cox.
 l The Associated Press carried tl e first news, of his nomination to M |, Roosevelt's residence, but attemr to communicate with his mother, Nil : James Roosevelt, were unavailine IT she was out for the evening. e Mir. Roosevelt first sprang into pQ r litical prominence in 1910 when < g was drafted by the democrats of 5 Twenty-eighth New York state ;, torial district consisting of the eoun- : ties of Duchess, Putnam and Colum.
 bia, in an efofrt to defeat Senntor
 John F. Schlosser of Beacon, who VIII a candidate for reelection. Roose-
 welt was successful, rolling up a ma-
 jority of 356 in the democratic hnd-
 slide which carried John A. Dix into d the governors chair. One of the sto- , y ries still told Of MT. Roosevelt's s first
 campaign js that he corxalled the
 farmer vote by running on platform
 (which advocated uniform apple bar- 5. Irels.