Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-07-06
GOVERNOR cox
NOMINATED ON
44TH BALLOT

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ant Secretary of the Navy, seems to
be a fayorite. but IL the nomination
goes to the West there are several
possibilities talked about by the
leaders
Supporters OF Governor Cox won
the way to the nomination by persist
ent battering at the McAdoo and Pal
mer forces in many States throughout
long series of ylcissitudes and rail-
lies. which left now one and then an
other OF the candidates in the lead.
Moved steadily To Cox
On the opening ballot the Ohio Gov
ernor was in third place. He soon
passed Palmer. however and on the
twelfth ballot won't ahead of MeAdoo
Then began a see-sawing between the
Cox and McAdoo totals. which al the
end Of the goth roll call at midnight
found the two virtually the same.
On the 42nd ballot the accession of
most Of the Palmer strength to Cox
brought him well ahead and after that
great and little State delegations went
to the Cox column in a procession.
On the forty-third he got major
ity for the first time all the votes cast,
and on the 44th he was plunging to-
ward the required two-thirds, when
Colorado changed its vote to him and
made the nomination obvious. The
iS roll call began in riot of noise
that made the poll audible only as
the surges of sound subsidized TO let the
figures reach the clerks. s .bs
Little by little the vote gained
Get into the game" roared a man
in the galleries, and the Cox rooters
took il up Votes for other candidates
than Cox or McAdoo brought yells TO
Come out of ii and wake up"
Alabama Began "Slide-
In the New York delegation a chal-
Ienge for a poll sent a dozen men
scurrying to argue with the challen-
ger. He was the center of argument,
which he could not resist Finally,
porters had been roared down, the last
ballot, the 44th, began. The result
was forecast with the first vote. Ala
bama swing solidly to Cox. State by
State, delegations followed suit. The
slide had set in and there was no stop
ping It, The convention had its mind
set to nominate on that ballot. Up
and up rolled the 0hioan total of votes.
After it passed the 700 mark with the
necessary two-thirds Just ahead. the
noise increased minute by minute I'M
til the last votes were heard only
family on the platform. Pennsylvania
went over and the Colorado chairman
leaped to his chair to announce the
change in that delegation. Half a
dozen other chairmen were waving for
recognition to make similar announce
ments. Senator Robinson walked to
his desk with Senator Amadon, of
Kansas, McAdoo chief, who he pre-
scented only after furious assault
with the gavel for partial lull in the
cheering and through continuous rae
ket Senator Amadon moved that the
roll call be suspended and that the
nomination be made unanimous. sa
Unanimous BY A Roar
All over the great hall men leaped
up on their chairs to wave their an
swers and then stood like college yell
leaders to signal their answers to the
question The tremendous 81" the
vote that made Governor Cox Demo-
cratic nominee. rolled out in a volume
of sound from thousands of threats.
The 44th ballot was never COM
pletod Many of the changes that had
been made were not recorded, but on
the face of that ballot Cox received
officially 1924 votes, but they were
never totalled, for he was nominated
by the unanimous vote of the con-
vention.
Cox Also Newspaper Man
The nomination of Governor Cox
means that the two great parties not
only have gone into the same state
for their candidate but have picked
men who for years have been asso-
ciated more or less closely in the
same profession. Like Senator Hard