The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-06
TIDE TURNED IN

tCcntin led from PaEe One.l
Amidon made his formal motion that
the rules be suspended and Cox de-
clared the unanimous choice of the
convention. 1t was some minutes be
fore the resultant demonstration
cooled sufficiently for Robinson to put
/ the question. The pit before the
rostrum was jammed with disheveled
| men and women, the surging mass
| bristling with state standards, flags
and banners ard yelling up from it a
volume of noise that made the air
| trem BILE.
Killed Dark Horse.
There was only a moment of quiet
then a tremendous shout of ayes and
/ then super-bedlan.
! Dark horse talk was rustling thru
/ the convention hall when the Cox
drive that captured the nomination
! developed. The plan had been to give
each of the three leading candidates,
| Cox McAdoo and Palmer, a try for the
nomination and then compromise on a
dark horse
McAdoo led at the outset but soon
was passed by Cox, and when the
| Ohioan failad to go over, another trial
| was given McAdoo. Indiana gave him
all its votes save one, but he could not
get within reaching distance of the
prize.
] n
ton adjourned until noon today to
name a candidate for the vice-presi-
/ dency.
Should it be decided to give second
place on the ticket to the east, Frank
lin D. Roosevelt of New York. assist
! ant secretary Of the navy, seemed to
be favorite but if the nomination
goes to the west there are several pos
sibilities talked about by the leaders.
Palmer Staged Show
Then followed PalmeR's show" yes
terday afternoon. 1t failed to de-
didates and after the dinner recess
there was no serious effort to keep it
/ going.
The outlook was for an indefinite
continuance of the deadlock when.
| without warning, Charles c. Carlin.
Palmers manager, appeared on the
platform and made the momentous
announcement that Palmer was out
of it.
The first reaction to this during the
time that the delegates were meeting
to decide what to do with the Palmer
| votes, was that it was a clever STRAIT
| egic move, that McAdoo and Cox
would~eontinue battling away at each
other without gaining materially, I'M
til Palmer would be called back as a
compromise candidate.
The Georgia delegates, however,
went to McAdoO at once, as did the
bulk of the Pennsylvania contingent.
But despite this, the solid standfa st
strength of Cox maze itsels felt and
it soon developed that McAdoo was on
the run. Cox had seventy votes in
New York, Iowa solid, most of Illi-
nois, all of New Jersey, and other i'm
portant blocks that had stood with
him thruout most of the balloting.
Cox Line Held.
With this as a nucleus he soon be-
gan to overshadow McAdoo. The lat
ter's floor managers exhorted their
delegates to hold the line" But Coxs
McAdoo ballots began dribbling over
to him, in ever increasing numbers,
The band paraded the galleries, which
We're but partially filled as most OF
the spectators had departed when
midnight passed, and it looked as If
the deadlock were permanent Cheer
ing Cox delegates made the walls re-
sound with their noise.
| When Georgia swung over to Cox,
bedlam prevailed, and when Pennsyl-
vania delivered the bulk of its
strength, abandoning McAdoo, the end
was in sight. The voices of McAdoo
men pleading with their delegates to
fstand pat were drowned in the swell
ing chorus of victory from the
Ohioan's supporters.
With every shift from McAdoo to
Cox. the noise pressure was increased
until, carried away with the con-
I taeious enthusiasm and excitement
MoAdoo's stafwarts, who only a few
hours before had held a rally and
sworn to stand fast to the last ditch,
flocked over to the Cox camp in
droves. AS a last desperate expedi-
ent, efforts were made by the McAdoo
generals TO adjourn the session until
tomorrow. but they were howled down
and the stampede developed, q verita-
BILE landslide, and CARED Jimmy Coz
into the nomination in the wee srna
/, hours, while most of America slept.