The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-07-09
BY EDWARD PlcKARp.

hooSevSit OF New YORK.
BY EDWARD PICKARD.
Copyrighted by Western Newspaper Union
Convention Hall, San Francisco
Cal, July 6.-Emerging from a
struggle that had had few if any
equals in American political history
the Democratic party assembled in
convention in the Golden Gate City,
has placed the above ticket before the
voters of the country. Governor Cox
was nominated on the forty-fourth
ballot, at LAS o'clock in the morning
of July 6. The vice-presidential nom
inee was selected at the closing ses-
sion of the convention which opened
at noon that day.
Long Deadlock.
For ballot after ballot a deadlock
had existed, the leaders being Cox,
William G. McAdoo and Attorney Cen
eral Palmer. Neither of them seemed
able to accumulate enough votes to
win and not one of them appeared will
ing to quit the field.
At last, after the thirty-eighth bal
lot. Congressman Carlin, manager of
the Palmer forces. mounted the ros-
trum and announced that Mr.. Palmer
was unwilling longer to tie up the con-
vention and therefore he uncondition-
ally surrendered all his delegates.
This left the fight to Cox and Nc
Adoo, and though the supporters of
the latter were still confident the
Ohioan gained steadily on each sue
ceeding ballot When the forty-fourth
was nearly complete it was apparent
that he was the victor, and in the
midst of wild excitement and tumult
Kansas moved that he be declared the
nominee of the conventions by accla-
nation. The motion was carried with
q mighty roar, and the long contest
was ended.
Without bosses, without real lead
ers, without any to direct their &C
lions, the representatives of the party,
1893 i'm number, struggled for eight
days with the great problem of select
ing candidates who might be expected
to command the entire party vote and
whose chances of defeating the rival
republican ticket named at Chicago
would be best.
Under the time honored rule of the
Democratic Party. a two-thirds vote
was required to nominate, and through
session after session it seemed i'm
possible to find the man upon whom
so large a proportion of the dele
gates could unite, the final result was
brought about by clever political man
agement combined with the WEAKNESS
of the delegates and the fact that
many of them were running short Of
money and were anxious to start back
to their homes. Nearly all of them
had come long way and were under
heavy expense, and several days be-
fore adjournment some of them had
tried to break away and go home.
Embossed Convention.
This was an Embossed convention
so far as the nomination of the ticket
was concerned. 1t is true that the
administration forces, represented by
several cabinet officers and many 9TH
er federal office holders. controlled
the proceedings of the earlier ses-
sions and the construction of the
platform, exercising this control,
however. smoothly and in way that
usually was devoid Of offense to those
who were controlled. But when it
came to the selection of candidates
the delegates had their favorites, and
they stood by them through the long
series of ballots. with remarkable
steadfastness.
Every day, almost every hour. there
were rumors that President Wilson
was exercising or about to exercise
his powerful influence in behalf of
this or that candidate. but the men
who sat beneath various state stand
ards in the civic auditorium only smil-
ed and said they were there to select
the man they thought best. for the
party and the country and that they
had no intention of receiving dictation
from any one.
Wilson Congratulated.
Each story of attempted dictation
from Washington was met with
prompt denial, and it was asserted by
the administration representatives
that President Wilson was not seek
ing to influence the convention in this
matter At the Saturday night ses-
sion long telegram from him was
read congratulating the convention on
the League OF Nations plank it had in
corporated in the platform and pre-
dieting that this would insure demo-
cratic victory in November but it
made not the least suggestion as to
the ticket
Strategy Is interesting.
The strategy of the various factions