Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-18
Cox Supporters in Kentucky :
Clash With MCAdOOS Friends
Program of Democratic Party Leaders Under-
stood to Be for Uainstructed Delegation
to San Francisco Convention

LOUISVILLE. Ky. April L (Spe-
ciaD uninstructed delegation.
most of whom will vote for Gov Cox
of Ohio for the presidential nominal
ton and for former United States SEN
ator Johnson Y. Camden for national
committeeman. This is the program
which the democratic state conven-
ton here next May 4 very probably
will adopt.
Just now a very vigorous fight is
being waged between the Cox and Nc
Adoo interests, with Senator A. O.
Stanley and Senator Camden on the
one side and Gen. Percy Haly and
James b. Brown, Louisville banker. on
the other. as the reputed leaders in
the contest
The present program of the broad
visioned leaders Of the party, which
includes Senator j. c. W. Beckham,
who is aligned with neither faction
but interested solely in his own race
for senator this year. is to permit each
district convention to recommend to
its delegates to San Francisco which
| candidate they shall support and to re-
frain from giving any instructions in
the state convention or adopting the
| Unit rule. This would permit the big
| four" to go uninstructed and allow
the district delegates to cast their bal
| lots in accordance with their conven-
| ton recommendations.
Opportunity for Gov. Cox.
And here is where Gov. Cox will
show his strength. When each dis
trict organizes for itself" it means
/, that the congressman largely will
control. In the first. second. third,
! fourth, sixth, seventh and ninth dis
tricts the democratic congressman are
| for Cox.
The democratic big four" will be
composed of Senators Stanley and
J Beckham. a woman-probably Mrs.
Cora Wilson Stewart. founder Of the
moonlight" schools-and fourth.
who must be man high in party
| councils. but member of neither the
! Stanley nor Haly factions.
Outside of party machinery. 1t is
| probable that Cox is the strongest
avowed democratic candidate with the
governor has campaigned in this state
| in behalf of numerous party candi-
dates and is well known. Every year
| he comes to the third district to hunt.
| His former secretary. Howard c. Bur
| ba. who is at the head of the COVER
tucklan. native of Larue county, in
| the fourth district
McAdoo's strength. outside the rail-
road organizations, which are admit
tedly strong, lies in the thoroughly
organized revenue service in the state
Percy Haly was only recently deputy
mmissioner of internal revenue and
his staunch supported. Elwood Ham
ilton. was appointed to the Kentucky
collectorship during his incumbency.
Apathy shown by Straw Vote.
The Louisville Times, an independ-
ent democratic newspaper, this week
announced the result of a straw vote
taken among it's readers. 1t showed.
the Times said. unusual apathy, eX-
cept among certain interests. Fifty
percent Of the vote cast was by demo-
Gratis thirty-five by republicans and
fifteen by independents. The vote
| largely being cast in the city, the
wet" element showed itself strong.
Edwards being second in each party
poll. Cox leading the democratic
balloting ard Lowden the republican.
Hoover was third in the balloting
among both democrats and republi-
cans and led the independent vote by
a wide margin. In the total vote. ir-
respective of party affiliations. Ed
wards led by a small margin. with
Cox and Hoover close together in
second and third place. Then came
Lowden, Wilson. Wood. McAdoo.
Johnson. Bryan. Palmer and Lansing
in the order named. OF the vote for
Hoover. ~ per cent was cast by demo-
Gratis. mostly before his announcement
of republican aspirations: IS per cent by
republicans and 80 per cent by indie
pendents.
Second Choice Indicated.
The readers were asked to indi-
cate their second choice. Without re-
gard to party utilization. Cox led in
this second choice balloting. with
Harding close second. Harding.
who polled few first choice votes. was
named as second choice by practically