Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-04

| McAdoo Sustains First Loss.
The eighth ballot showed the first
loss McAdoo has sustained. Cox dur
ing the whole baIloting had shown a
steady rise from 1874 on the first to
S15 on the eighth. and his supporters
were jubilant.
| The Virginia delegation, which had
decided not to. because conditions
did not justify it"
Nine unsuccessful ballots aroused
talk of a dark horse. Neither the
Cox, Palmer or McAdoo forces showed
any signs of giving up to one another.
from the field.
AS compared with the preceding
| ballot. the eighth, these changes were
shown in the ninth ballot: Cox gained
six and one-half, McAdoo gained six
and Palmer lost FIVE. The changes
progress toward a nomination, and 1t
was noticeable that an undercurrent
| of conferences was going on among
state delegations leaders in the
rather nebulous search for somebody
on whom to coalesce.
Tenth In Tug Of War.
On the tenth ballot McAdoo and Cox
| were engaged in a tug of war, each
| making slight gains at the expense Of
sions pointing to ''the break which
would nominate him. The results of the
tenth showed not a change of a vote for
Palmer. while Cox lost half vote and
McAdoo won a full vote.
McAdoo had retrieved his slight loss
and Cox continued to sustain his record
of having made steady gain on every
ballot since the voting began.
The two-thirds necessary to nomi-
nate was the greatest factor blocking
crY anYp1a ~ 4hA l~1~
gate leaders declared that while it
would always prevent the nomina-
ton of candidate in hotel room
'at o'clock in the morning." it GER
tainly made it difficult to get a dead
locked convention together on a can
| between the eleventh and twelfth
votes. a big bunch Of toy balloons
which had been brought in to cele-
brate somebody's victory were burst
ing all over the hall as the crowd
batted them about.
AS they went into twelfth ballot the
Cox men kicked up a great demon
stration to attract the attention Of
the convention to their candidate with
cries of Cox, Cox" and more cries
Parade Starts for Cox.
Further breaks in the solid delega-
lions were reported imminent. The
state delegations standards which
previously had carried votes to Cox
which the casting of the block of
votes from Illinois occasioned and
the parade for Cox started around the
hall. led by Ohio and followed by New
Jersey. Illinois. Mississippi. Maryland
and Indiana, Florida. Kentucky and
other states which had been casting
Cox votes. Rhode Island also fell in.
The break in Illinois on the twelfth
ballot gave Cox thirty votes more to
his string. The Cox people in the con-
All the votes were taken from
Palmer and fourteen were retained
for McAdoo.
Iowa Topped to Cox with her whole
Is on announcement and members of
the delegation made a protest, de-
were McAdoo votes in the delegation.
A poll was ordered later, and the roll
call went.
The poll of the Iowa delegation
showed Is for Cox and 10 for Nc
Adoo.
The ruling of the chair was that
the unit rule stood and Cox got the
26 votes.
On the twelfth ballot Cox passed
the 400 mark and McAdoo for the
first time and touched 404 votes. Nc
Adoo on that ballot had 3754 votes
and therefore a veto power under
the two-thirds rule of the convention.
Cox's Lead Crows.
Thirteen ballots still found the
! democratic convention without a
nominee. Cox continued to climb.
and had taken the lead from McAdoo,
and also the veto power of one-third
which his opponent had held through
out the twelfth ballot.
Steadily increasing on every ballot,
0f
cessions from many of the large
states and scattering votes from the
smaller ones.
Despite the gain of Cox there
seemed no prospect of enough Of a
| break to nominate anybody when the
ballot.
| All the way up to and through the
| fourteenth ballot Virginia stuck to
Glass and West Virginia stuck to
Davis. 1t was said the Virginia votes
were being held to Glass because they
could not be wholly turned to NC
Aaoo and West Virginia was sticking
for Davis on the tip that he prob
ably might be the dark horse.
Enthusiastic over their prospects
for nominating the Governor OF ONO
| the Cox people followed each SubStan-
| tial gain with noisy and prolonged
demonstration that stopped the ball
loting and filled the convention hall
with singing. shouting. scrimmag-
ing throng.
Dark Horse Hopes Revived.
! 1t was known there were many
votes in the Palmer forces opposed
to McAdoo which also did not want
Cox. The prospects of dark horse
were revived again.
The increasing vote for Davis on
the sixteenth ballot brought him
| forward again in the discussion as a
| possible compromise.
| When the District of Columbia voted
| six for Palmer, Judge T. T. Ansberry
| demanded a poll and it was ordered
after the roll of states had been IN
ished.
In the poll cambridge Colby, Sec
rotary of State, was absent and his
alternate did not vote. Judge Ans
berry voted for Cox
] The District of Columbia poll was:
Palmer. 3k votes; McAdoo, 1; Cox,
1; absent, X. Under the unit rule
six votes had to be cast for Palmer.
sixteenth ballot. Cox fell short IA,
McAdoo and Palmer 2. These votes
were almost all given to John W.
Davis, ambassador to Great Britain,
whose total on that ballot was 81:
Mr.. Davis was being much talked OF
/ as d udi-aS Nurse On WHICH the AoACCS
might unite with administration sup
port.
Cox Suffers First Loss.
1t was the first loss Cox had suf-
fered since the balloting began.
4 The failure to nominate on the six
lteenth ballot threw all the leaders on
their feet Plainly they were at a
loss to know what move to make next.
The talk OF recess was reSum ed. land II
seemed as if some of the forces would