Bisbee daily review., 1920-07-04
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 AUDITORIUM, SAN FRANCIS
 co, July 3. - After 16 futile bal
 lots to find a presidential nom
 inee, the Democratic national
 convention found itself in a prac- tical deadlock this evening and after having been in session eight continuous hours, during which it disposed of ballots at the rate of 30 minutes each, recessed for
 rest and conference, to resume
 again at p. m. this evening.
 Recess was taken under pro- test of the Cox people who were trying to avoid it. The Palmer = people and the McAdoo people welcomed it, for it gave them op- portunity to confer and strength en their lines. Senator Harrison of Mississippi, one of the leaders for the Cox candidacy, tried to hold the convention in session, hut the delegates were tired, hun ery and sick of ba!Ioting and to all practical purposes the conVen- ton was in recess before the clerk finished calling the roll to decide the question, for the delegates were piline through the doors in a noisy hub-bub long before Chair man Robinson had ? chance to announce that the recess resoiu- tion had been carried by 519 votes in favor of it tc 455 against 1t.
 All through the Is ballots Cover nor Cox had made steady gains un- til he had taken the lead from Me Adoo and was heading toward a ma jority. Then on the last ballot of the session, the 18th. John w. Davis American ambassador to Great Bri' tain, whose votes from West Virgin ia had been standing steady all day suddenly loomed up with new strength which he drew from all the others. He figured in the center of the dark horse talk.
 The language of tho paiieys Le tween McAdoo and Palmer in effect Now you've stopped McAdoo help us stop Cox" Administration lead CTS who saw the, Cox boom growing in the convention made no secret oi .heii fear of its proportions.
 Chairman Glass of tHe r"Sclu
 tor. committee who spoke for President Wilson in the framing of the party platform, declared in taIkinq with friends that "lt
 must not be Cox" and when ask ed what wculG happen if Cox got the majority of the convention and according to custom expected the t~o-thirds vote, Glass replied that "Champ Clark had a major ity at Baltimore" How MT. Clark had a majority and failed
 of nomination is only recent po-
 litical history.
 Several things seemed to stand ou above the noise ana clamor and cis comfort of the days hallOting. Pi1n cipal among them was the fact tha the McAdoo movement had not Iak -en on the glacial movement whicl its boomers had predicted for it, an' that Cox people who were openly very discouraged a day or two ag' picked up and made constant anC consistent gains which amazed thef opponents and the convention.
 Palmer Strength Fades
 The Palmer vote dwindled away much to the dismay of the Pennsy vania delegation. who loyalty stoo by the attorney general all the wa, through. The recess, while ostens bly, for diEner. really give the oppo' ing forces their much needed oppol tunity to find some sort of a commo meeting ground Outwardly ther was little prospect of set-to-gethe between the three leaders and tn general indications were that the Su' cessful forces would De obliged concentrate on dark horse.
 Davis Stock Rises
 Davis, in view of his rising volt had the edge on the dark horse Dc sition when the convention reassen bled. Franklin D. Roosevelt. assis ant secreary of the navy. was bein discussed amoug New York del gates as a possibility for the Vic presidential nomination. As an a' ministration man he would comman administration support for whatevs candidate the New York delegauo would support