The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-04
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 NIGHTS VOTING 1
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 sympathetic with the indisposition to run the convention proceedings Sunday.
 Before the convention got under way a farewell message to the delegates from Mayor Rolph was read. The band played "Auld Lang Syne," the organ pealed in it's rambling notes. and the delegates sang. The mayor evidently did not know that the farewell was being endangered.
 The roll of the states was resumed at S:33 o'clock. On the seventeenth ballot Alabama started d movement to Davis. taking votes from McAdoo.
 Arizona threw four to owen from the column
 Colorado threw one to Cummings and two to Glass, bringing them back into the ~balloting Palmer and McAdoo stood the losses. It looked as if the Palmer people were calling back borrowed"
 Cox lost on Illinois, Palmer also lost one there, which went to Davis, and Me Adoo strength there stood. Indiana stayed with Cox, did Iowa. Kansas stuck with McAdoo, and Kentucky re- mained unchanged, with twenty-three to Cox and three to McAdoo.
 LOUISIANA FOR COX
 Louisiana flopped to Cox with her whole twenty votes, giving him gain of five. The Cox people set up new uproar.
 Cox lost one to Palmer in Massachu- setts and owen got one which had been scattered.
 Cox took one from Palmer in Michi- gan.
 Minnesota stood unchanged.
 Cox lost four and a half in Missouri, which went to Palmer. Montana's whole vote of eight went to McAdoo. taking four from Cox. Me Adoo lost two in Nebraska to Cox.
 McAdoo lost one in New Hampshire to Palmer. McAdoo lost one in New York and Cox took it.
 Cox lost one to owen in North Da- kota
 Oklahoma, in the face of owen mak- ing gains, stuck to the senator with her twenty The senator was working among the delegates on the floor at the time.
 Pennsylvania made Palmers seventy three seventy-four. Cox lost the one. McAdoo took three from Cox in South Dakota and Palmer took one from the tOhio governor. Tennessees twenty four remained with Davis, and the Texas forty and Utah eight remained with McAdoo Virginia's twenty-four remained with Glass.
 West virginia's sixteen stood firm for Davis
 McAdoo lost four in California of ! which three went to Cox. VETO DAVIS, RUMOR As it did so, the word spread about that administration spokesmen at the convention had vetoed Davis and that | the McAdoo and Palmer people were con tinuing their efforts to find some can didate on whom they could agree beat Cox. The eighteenth ballot turned out to he a see-Saw contest without prospect of big changes. Davis lost one to Palmer in Illinois. Iowa stood solid for Cox. Kansas stood solid for McAdoo. That was a fair example of the way things were going. Louisiana, which had jumped into the Cox column on the seventeenth ballot called for a pass, evidently talking it over.
 Palmer got two new ones in Massa- chusetts and Cox lost one. Palmer and McAdoo lost in Missouri and Cox made a small gain. Tennessee divided her twenty-four votes, previously given solid for Davis, giving Cox Il, Davis 1O McAdoo, Palmer and Owen 1 each. Davis, giving Cox Il, Davis 10, McAdoo, Palmer and Owen one each Congressman Connolly of Texas ap- peared in the demonstra tion bearing aloft the first picture of McAdoo which ap- peared in the convention hall. It was evidently a home made attempt at a Autograph drawn from memory proo- ably. It looked more like caricature. Autographs of Cox made their appear ance, cheere leaders springing up from unexpected places as the state standards moved around the hall in a winding line. The pipe organ, the convention band