The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1920-07-17
Bv WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
For President:
JAMES M. COX, Of Ohio.
For Vice President:
r. D. ROOSEVELT, of New York.

JAMES M. WA, " S''o'
For Vice President:
Ed. ROOSEVELT, of New York
Convention Hall, San Francisco,
July 6.-After eight days of the most
strenuous political battling any party
has seen in many years, the Demo-
cratic gathering at 2:45 Tuesday
morning of the second week named
James NJ. Cox of Ohio for president
and on Tuesday afternoon named
Franklin D. Roosevelt for vice presi-
dent
The nomination of Governor Cox
was made on the forty-fourth ballot,
and after a night of the most intense
excitement.
Beginning Of Break.
When the convention convened on
Monday morning, after fruitlesS Pc
Rod of balloting on Friday night and
late into the night of Saturday, it
seemed to be in Il deadlock, out OF
which no one Of the three leading can
didates could possibly be. picked as a
winner. This condition continued
! throughout the day. and until after
recess taken at 5 80 until $50.
No evidence of any serious break
| could be found in the lines of any or
! the three leading candidates until af-
ter the thirty eighth ballot, when Con-
gresham Carin announced the with
drawai of Attorney General Palmer
and the release Of his instructed dele
gates. On the next ballots the Penn-
sylvania delegation continued to vote
almost solidly for Palmer, but AFTER
that they broke, the majority going to
| McAdoo. On the fOrty-first ballot the
McAdoo forces began to break, and be-
fore the forty-fourth ballot was COM
pleted ii was evident that Governor
Cox had won, and "a motion to make
the nomination unanimous was carried
| with shout.
| Real Democratic Convention.
| 1t was real convention, and more
especially a real Democratic conven-
ton. that adjourned on Tuesday after
noon. 1t was convention that was
run by the 1903 delegates and an
equal number Of alternates. 1t was
leaderless, and, in fact. if it may be
said to have had fault ut all 1t was
this lack of leadership that for many
weary hours made it seem impossible
| for the necessary two-thirds to reach
an agreement on the choice of can
ddate. During these hours and days
there were number of men who were
quite willing to assume leadership, but
no one of them, or no group OF them,
| could find sufficient number of fol-
lowers TO make their leadership effec-
tive. The delegates insisted that they.
and not any self-appointed group or
leaders. represented the rank and file
of the Democratic party, and each del
egate insisted on voting the way he
believed. or professed to believe. his
people at home wished him TO vote.
regardless of any plea for compro-
mise. and regardless Of the use Of ev-
cry expedient known to politicaI
/ strategy 10 inHuence tlIH-
Opening Was Featureiess.
The opening Of the great gathering
was as featureIess. as all such open
! ings are. There was an air of ex-
pectancy in the great audience. for the
majority OF whom this was. their first
experience In political convention
Of such magnitude. The audience had
looked for fight starting with the fall
Of vice Chairman Kremer's gavel but
they were rewarded with nothing
more exciting than the masterful Key
note address of Homer Cummings, In
which he outlined the issues on which
| the Democratic party would ask the
people for support. This address was
devoted almost exclusively to the
League of Nations. and its point was
a demand for ratification without
multiplying reservations. He laid spe-
cial emphasis on the point that the
president was not opposed to reser-
vations SO long as they did not seri.