The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-07
full STORY OF
COX'S VICTORY
McAdoo People Made Nomina-
ton Unanimous When Cox.
Reached Two-Thirds.
(BY n. NJ. RIcKEY.)

San Francisco, July 6.-Governor
James M. Cox of Ohio was nominated
for president by the democrats on the
44th ballot at 1:30 Tuesday morning.
The McAdoo people fought gamely to
the last but finally went down to de-
feat under a terrible pounding by
the Cox forces.
Fourteen ballots, from 10 o'clock
Monday morning to 5 in the after
noon. failed to break the deadlock
which held the convention as in a
wise.
Then from sheer exhaustion and in
the hope that during adjournment
some solution of the problem of how
to get 72S votes for somebody might
be found, an adjournment was taken
until $50 in the evening. During the
fourteen ballots the pendulum of IA
vor swung back and forth from Cox
to McAdoo, the net advantage being
with McAdoo.
McAdoo started the day with
3641a votes and Cox with 425. At the
o'clock adjournment McAdoo had
increased to 399 and Cox had fallen
back to 377. Palmer got a sudden
boost just before adjournment and
finished with 241, his biggest vote
since the eleventh ballot, and within
26 of his high at any time.
During the adjournment Palmer
and his leaders conferred, and it was
decided that if during the first two
ballots at the evening session he fell
back he would release all of his del
egates from any further obligation to
him and permit, them to vote for
whom they pleased.
This announcement was made after
the 36th ballot. The second ballot of
the evening session and a recess of
20 minutes was taken to give the Nc
Adoo and Cox managers a chance to
work on the released Palmer dele
gates.
During the 39th ballot following the
recess the air was electric with sup
pressed excitement Would McAdoo
or Cox get the bulk of the Palmer
vote? Georgia's Is votes went to
McAdoo, and the McAdoo delegates
paraded and yelled for five minutes.
The Massachusetts Palmer strength
went to Cox and, led by Senator
Walsh, the Massachusetts delegates
headed Cox parade which lasted ten
minutes. /
The Pennsylvania delegates stuck
to Palmer on this ballot, the net re-
9oAS VI tAAS ossAAot bSlIiS III SOA s Ia
vor. The figures We're, McAdoo 44o. |
Cox 468, and the deadlock was tighter
than ever.
On the 40th ballot the Palmer vote
in Pennsylvania began to disintegrate.
McAdoo got A of them and Cox IA. |
the balance still voting for Palmer.
On this ballot McAdoo gained II, go
ing to 467, and Cox gained 21k. go
ing to 490.
Davis got rs votes, his high, and
Owen was still in with 33. With all
but 10 of the Palmer votes divided.
Cox was still 23s short of the neces-
sary two-thirds, and McAdoo 261
short on the 40th ballot. Here ia
where we dig in and stay was the
sentiment of both the McAdoo and
Cox leaders at midnight as the 41st
ballot was being taken.
Cox gained and McAdoo lost
slightly on the 41st ballot, and at
2:15~ a delegate from Oklahoma
moved to adjourn until 10 o'clock
morning. The purpose of this
motion was obviously to give the
Owen people a chance to call a con-
ference and try to arrange to have
Owen chosen as the dark horse
Owen and his delegates had been
busy all day on the floor and in the
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