The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-07-07
FIGHT To Adjourn Falls

4 night TO adjourn for INC night was
started by Mc.\doo. supporters asmimS;
down on a vote that len no doubt ~
tho conventions determination TO night
it out then and there.
The iISt ballot WAS started.
Both McNdoo and Cox gained. cox
gained ground and supporters dug them
selves in grrmly determined on \ last
ditch fight. The 42nd roll call was start
cd. II showed now drifts to COX as the
votes were shouted back 10 ihc PLATFORM
from the prolonged nght, although the
galleries above them were" by men A.
most vnCant. Great blocks of empty
seats showed where worn cut spectators
had given II UP by midnight and como
home expecting another day.
When Georgia was reached the dele
Cation CHAIRMAN l"aprd 70 his chair ana
shouted that his state. formerly for Nc
Adou ranks. would join hands with ONO
TO mann" tho next president
He cast The solid Georgia vote for Cox
and the shout that followed seemed 10
rock the building. McAdoo followers
wer" stu holding grimly. Again the
TEXAS block OF forty votes went in for
him. Tn western states which led tho
way in his drives, stuck hard and oven
tho fact that Coz had swept beyond the
mrs. majority vGi" recorded Tor an! can
dIdatc did not shake them loose.
Tho 4Grd roll call began in a rot OF
noise. but made the poll audible only Ms
the surgcs OF sound paused to let the
figures reach the clerks.
Little by little the drift 30 tho Cox
! column continued gaining momentum as
1t ran Got into The wagon" r"ar"d a
man in the galleries and the Cox roo'crs
took Il UP. Votes FOR other candidates
tina Cox or McAdoo brought yClls Of
come ont 81 it" or wake up"
In the New York delegation a chal-
lcnGe for a poll sent a dozen men men
sCurryinr to argue with tho chairman.
He WAS the center of u fire or arEu-
m"nt that nc could not resist, Finally
after IA new move by McAdoo supporters
to adjourn in Il last desperate effort TO
stavC defeat had been roarcd down the
laSi lp'lOt tho l4th, began.
The result was forecast with the nrSt
vote. Alabama swung solid to Cox.
Stalc 10y state, delegations who had
STACK out for Mc.tduo with divided dele
cations followed suit. Tho slide had
SGT IN and there was not stopping it. The
convention had its mind set TO nominate
ON that ballot. Up and up mounted the
Oh!oan's total OF votes. As II passed tho
700 mark with the necessary two-thirds
just ahead. the tumuit increased minute
by miuut" until the last votes were
heard only vague on the platform.
Pennsylvania wcnt over and III" Colo
RADIO ChnirOan lcaped To his chair 10
ChSnEc tn" Vot" OF his state 80 Cox. Half
n dozen other Chairm"n were waving for
recognition 10 make similar announce
m"nt.
chairman Robinson hurried 10 his
desk With q MrAdnn chief from kansas.
and the chairman after n furious assault
with his Eavcl. secured Il partial hearing.
Through q continuous racket the Nc
Adoo chief asked that tn" rules he sus-
pended and tho nomination h" n'adH
unanimous. All over tho great hHll m1n
climbed upon chairs and waved their
hats for silence and then stood poised
like college leaders 10 signal the answer
fto the question.
I Banking his gavel in a final ihump.
Chairman Robinson put the question.
and thu ayes were rOAred back AT him