Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-04
and Opponents Bitter Battle From Very Start of Cnreno
CONVENTION ADJOURNS
UNTIL MONDAY WITH
GOV. cox IN THE LEAD
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Montana WnOie vote OF elSnt went
to McAdoo. taking four from Cox.
McAdoo 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 max
| ing gains stuck to the senator with
| her twenty. The senator was work.
| ing among the delegates on the floor
| at the time.
Pennsylvania made Palmer's seven
ty-three seventy-four. Cox lost the
one.
McAdoo took three from Cox in
South Dakota and Palmer took one
from the Ohio governor.
Tennessee's twenty-four remained
with Davis and the Texas forty and
the 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.
On the seventeenth Palmer gained
eleven and a half. Cox lost twelve
and half and McAdoo lost one.
Davis gained five. Cummings got
nineteen and Owen thirty-six. Davis
got fifty-seven.
Tennessee divided her twenty-four
votes previously given solidly for
Davis, giving Cox II. Davis 10, Nc
Adoo, Palmer and owen one each.
The eighteenth ballot was a see
change.
The Cox people made the conclusion
Of the eighteenth ballot the occasion
for another noisy demonstration.
Pictures Spring Up.
peared in the administration Bearing
aloft the first picture Of McAdoo
which appeared in the convention
hall. 1t was evidently a homemade
attempt at a Autograph drawn from
memory. probably. 1t looked more
Cox made their appearance, cheer
leaders sprang up from unexpected
places as the state standards moved
round the hail in winding line.
The pipe organ, the convention
band and the Cox band were in an
Chairman Robinson and other con-
vention officials, realizing the futility
OF attempting to check what amount
ed to everybody's demonstration, sat
placidly, hoping the racket and the
exhibition of energy. nervous and
otherwise. would wear itself out
If the tradition that a democratic
convention never worked on Sunday
was good. the demonstration signal
lied the postponement Of the nomina-
tion contest until Monday because
with two hours and a half left for
business. before midnight the crowd
showed. no disposition to get to BUSH
ness. 1t roared and pranced and hop
ped and cavorted and reeled and
crawled and wiggled and screamed
and shouted and hooted and the con-
vention looked for all the world as
If it had gone mad.
Demonstration Dies Away.
Then as suddenly as it had begun
the demonstration began to die away,
and the convention went back to
examine itself and see whether it had
shouted and wiggled itself out of
deadlock. 1t apparently had not and
Cox gained two in Alabama, one
from McAdoo and one from Davis
The next change came in Colorado
where Palmer gained two, taking
them from McAdoo.
McAdoo gained two in Delaware,
taking one of them from Cox.
Kansas stuck on the ballot evidently
having decided not to break up yet
anyway.
In Massachusetts, Cox lost three to
Palmer.
Palmer lost one in Missouri and
Cox lost. one in New York. where a
Cox vote went back to Gerard.
During the nineteenth Tennessee's
entire twenty-four Topped back to
Cox from a split.
The changes shown were:
Palmer gained and Cox 10. while
McAdoo lost 3. Davis lost IL.
On the twentieth ballot Connec-
ticuts vote. which had been solid
Cummings, gave him only four. while
six went to Cox and four to Palmer.
Indiana. which had been holding for
Cox. passed.
Cox lost two in Kentucky to Davis.
McAdoo got one Of Louisiana's
twenty, which had been solid for Cox.
Indiana Cuts Cox to 10.
Indiana cut Cox to 10 and gave the
remaining II to McAdoo. In Massa-
chusetts Palmer lost 6, Of which
went to Cox.
owen gained in Missouri. taking
2 from McAdoo and " each from Cox
and Palmer.
McAdoo gained from Cox in Rhode
Island.
Cox gained in turn from Palmer in
South Dakota.
Tennessee split, Cox losing 16, of
which 2 went to Palmer, 10 to Nc
Adoo, to Davis and 2 to Cummings.
McAdoo lost to Cox in Wisconsin.
Twenty ballots still found the dem
ocratic national convention tonight
making no progress toward selecting
a nominee and confronted with the
probability Of continuing it's work
next week.
With Cox McAdoo and Palmer in a
deadlock in that order, prospects for
! a nomination tonight were bad.
Changes Shown on Twentieth.
The changes shown on the twentieth
ballot were: Cox lost HE; Palmer
lost 1 "; McAdoo gained 10; Davis, 5,
and Owen, 4.
McAdoo had been going down since
the sixteenth ballot and his recovery
| started noise among the McAdoo
boosters.
At the opening of the twenty first
| ballot all eyes were turned toward
does Georgia is expected to do also
| The Cox people claimed that when
the break came they would have the
| best of it in both states.
New McAdoo Demonstration.
| When Chairman Robinson attempted
to announce the results of the
twentieth ballot he got as far as the
| name Of McAdoo when the McAdoo
crowd apparently all set with a DEM
, onstration and with the accompani-
I ments all fixed, began to whoop it up
| again. The band in the gallery which
| was silent when the Bryan people at
tempted a demonstration for their
champion 6lared and doomed without
ceasing. helping the McAdoo demon
! stration along as it had on previous
days.
| Many women crowded the floor and