The Washington times., 1920-07-03
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|NPOW-WOWS
Delegations Work Desperately
on Deals to Grab Votes for
1 Their Candidates.

SAN FRANCISCO. July 3.-All-night
conferences. at which weary, blear-
eyed delegates worked frantically on
deals whereby their favorite csndi-
date might grab enough OF the other
csndidates' votes TO take the lead In
the tsiioting today. were held until
down broke this morning.
Palmer and his Pepnsylvania lieu
tenants were In conference In PAIN
er's room on the third floor or the
Palace Hotel until an early hour this
morning.
: Joseph G. .Guffey, Democratic ma
tional committeeman from Pennsyl-
vsnia; Vance c. Mccormick, former
Democratic national chairman; and
Roland 8. Morris, formerly American
ambassador to japan. were busily en-
gaged with Palmer In directing the
Palmer maneuvers.
In a room In an adjoining corridor
ED" Moore. campaign manager Tor
Cox. was equally busy with his OHIO
lleutenahts..
on the sixth floor Norman e. Mack,
of Buffalo, .held court"
Of. All over. the city conferences or
some kind were under way ALI last
night. Pretty soon we shall get In
the polls the Significance OF what was
agreed. upon. by the state leaders last
O.. night But we know that most or
them are confused.
FORM COx-PALMER PACT.
In the Illinois delegation a Cox-Pal-
mer pact was actually made during
the night to check McAdoo. 1t is
an offensive and defensive alliance.
Forty of the ffty-eight delegates
from Illinois signed a paper, or gave
N
Brennan, to vote them for Cox or Pal
msr, as he saw fiat, and when he saw
At Lenders in the Illinois delegation
assert that what happened within
their ranks occurred later within
other State delegations,
Here's a statement by Thomas B.
Love, former Assistant Secretary OF
the Treasury, now a. Dallas, Tex''
lawyer, here working like a beaver
for McAdoo:
"McAdoo leadership on the frst two
ballots makes his nomination GER
tainty He was a man without an
Organization behind him-a man who
really wasn't candidate. But he
has been drafted for the honor. The
very fact chat he jumped into the
lead on the first ballot, although pit
ted against men with great machines
behind them, and then outgained
them on the second poll, convinces
me that McAdoo will be winner
without a doubt.
SURE MeADOO WILL WIN.
= II am not making guesses as to
the exact ballot he will win on, but
l don't think 1t will go beyond eight
maybe ii will be less. McAdoo Is
the popular candidate-the candidate
of Democracy"
In rebuttal Joseph G.. Guffey, Of
Pittsburgh. Democratic National Com
mitteeman from Pennsylvania, said:
'McAdoo cannot be nominated.
His maximum strength will be 343
votes. We feel that Palmer never
had a better chance of being nom-
mated than right now"
The condolences of the Palmerites
was further expressed in this way by
ex-Congressman Carlin of Virginia,
who Is Palmers campaign manager:
"A Mitchell Palmer will be the
Democratic nominee for the Presi-
dency. Don't let anyone tell you
otherwise, Palmer gathered exactly
the number of votes on the first ballot
that we had anticipated; he gained
as we expected on the second The
swing to Palmer will really manifest
itself on the third poll. and from then
on it will be Palmer all the way. He'll
pass all his rivals. take a great lead,
and win easily and with a lot Of
votes to spare"
e. COX CROWD HOPEFUL.
The Cox crowd. despite the well
win" predictions of the Palmer and
McAdoo factions, were overfiowing