Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-06

democratic national convention Went
into its ninth session and it's twenty
third ballot today for a presidential
nominee. There was nothing to IN
dictate that any marked change was
in prospect from the last roll call
of Saturday night.
The twenty-second ballot had left
the four leaders: Cox, $50; McAdoo;
| 372 1-2; Palmer, 1865 IL; Davis, 81.
A remaining seventy votes were scat.
tered among the favorite son cons
| tenders, Owens, Glass, Cummings.
with two recorded for President Will
son and a couple for Champ Clark.
Both McAdoo and Cox supporters
were emphatic in claims for victory
today, but they had no definite basis
| for their confidence to make pub
| lie.
| 1t has been a rule Of Democratic
conventions under two-thirds nom
ination rule that the first man to
secure a majority, which would be
54S votes on the full roll Of this
convention, got the nomination. Pres
ident Wilson's first nomination at
Baltimore in 1912 was an exception
| into which unusual circumstances en-.
| tered.
/ On the face of the twenty-second
ballot Palmer forces were holding a
key to open the door to a major
ity. The favorite son votes presum-
ably were being withheld from the
Cox-McAdoo deadlock for some def
mite purposes. In some cases they
were looked upon as lightning rods
kept up in hope of a storm and
sourry for a dark-horse nominee.
They may also have to do with vice
presidential ambitions. The Palmer
forces were the main reservoir from
which Cox and McAdoo hoped to draw
reinforcements to capture major
| ity
Dark-Horse Talk Rife
Palmer's main guard is composed of
70 of the rs votes of his native
state, Pennsylvania allied with Geor-
gia's solid %. The Georgians made
complimentary excursion to the
McAdoo ranks on the twenty-first
ballot, but the twenty-second found
them back in Palmer Entertainments.
1t was tribute from McAdoo's ma
tive state.
Dark-horse speculation still was
running riot today. Almost every \
living Democrat who ever got head
line prominence in a newspaper was
trotted out at one time or another.
It was an unusual delegate who did
not have a what about Jimmy this
or Bill that" to fire at any friend
he met. Leaders combed the list
for availables, but of all the talk
there came nothing even to suggest
name on which a new mobilization
might be made.
The convention assembled with
prospects of more uproarious demon
strating, such as has characterized
it from the start. Unless some Who'll
ly unexpected shift occurred in the
twenty-third ballot, rival workers
planned to try again, at the first
opportunity, to jar the great body
out of it's poise and into landslide.
There was spirited guessing, de-
duction and attempted conclusion
at what President Wilson might
wish, hope or acquiesce in, but ap-
parently nothing more.
Senator Glass confirmed reports
that President Wilson was not TAX
ing any hand in the situation.
"The president has not commune
Gated with me regarding candi-
dates" said Mr.. Glass. "a report
that, in recent conversations he had
indicated men whom he opposed, is
not true. AS the situation looks to
me each crowd thinks their candidate
tan win, and until someone is COZ
WINGED otherwise the deadlock will
continue"
The Cox people outwardly expect
to win. The McAdoo people, having
checked their downward slide, grid
ed up for new drive to break the
Cox column. The Palmer people de-
claring that neither Cor nor McAdoo
can have their votes, expressed hope
for themselves, but not Indifferent
Nly.
Delegates Impatient
Each Of the three appears to have
a stranglehold on the other two. Nc
Adoo forces IN the late Saturday
night balloting recovered the one
third veto power they had lost. Cox
forces retained theirs steadily from
the time they acquired it in the
first ballot, although their margin
f1uctuated. Palmer forces possessed
it, in fact, through state delegations,
which, although held in block for
McAdoo or Cox by the unit rule,
contained discordant elements,
which, when released, would become
effective in adding to the deadlock.
The growing Impotence of the
delegates, with repeated casting OF
solid blocks for candidates WIZ
show itself tomorrow. Late Satur-
day night there was increasing evil
dence of temper aginst the ada
mant attitude of those who would
not release their votes. The poll
cies of their apparent stubbornne5s
were that they lost control Dy
abandoning the unit rule. Their posi-
ton was greeted Saturday night
with shouts of come out of it" and
hire a hail." and the like.
McAdoo forces tonight were
banking on the proposition that the
Cox forces, if they hope to win,
must trot out every reserve vote
they possess when the balloting is
resumed Monday morning at 10
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