The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-06
0h;o's Favorite Son Receives
Nomination on Forty
Fourth Ballot. i.
CONVENTION IN UPROAR
Tired Delegates Go Wild When
Final Ballot Is Counted
and Cox Wins. . .

E,r Francisco, July 6.-JdmeS NJ. COX
or 0h.o was nominated by the demo-
cr. tc convention to lead the party in
u.o 1910 campaign on the l4th ballot
TITO nomination was made at 1 40
orlo,k this morning, Pacific coast
time
As soon as it became apparent Cox
had won the convention went into an
r,oroar. The tired delegates began
s,rorming toward the doors and it will
he hours before further business is
transacted. 1t is 80 o'clock. Pacific
time and the leaders are uncertain
when the convention will complete it's
business.
san Francisco, July 5.-Heading strong
for the forty sixth ballot, the record
SET bv tnr Baltimore convention which
'romDat.u Woodrow Wilson eight years
eo tho uemoCratic national convention
,,.u; nto its thirty seventh ballot when
IN Jrmdn Robinson called it to order
AZ 80 tonight. There were good pros
poets for an all-night session, with
lfcAdoo Cox and Palmer running nearer
even that at almost any time before,
and each in practical possession of veto
power strong efforts were being made
corners. Each side was pulling for
Inents entered into the complex situa-
ton that it was practically impossible
to assess them accurately.
A coincidence of the balloting was
that on the thIrtieth ballot today when
McAdoo gained his lead over Cox. On
the thirtieth ballot in the Baltimore
convention President Wilson passed
Champ Clark in the 1912 deadlock. Will
con was nominated on the forty sixth
ballot.
TIE convention took fourteen ballots
at it's first session today, a total of
thirty six, and failing to nominate a
candidate, took recess at 4 :5S till 8 30
tonight.
Just before the recess the Palmer
boom was taking an upward excursion,
the first it had enjoyed since the
twelfth ballot. MeAdoo had the leading
place with Cox second.
The McAdoo people tried to explain
the Palmer rise by saying IT, was really
IN excursion to carry the at!r on2y gen.
nral as far as he could go. They de-
Ciared the Cox people had done the
same thing and failed to pu. their man
over when the Palmer Cox Dooms had
Goth been given Joy rides, t. Use the
language Of McAdoo managers. 1t wos
plan Of the McAdoo people to begin
a new drive for him.
Hopes and prospects that the con-
yention might nominate today went
rIiuGncrng soon after the convention
got down to business as lines held
despite the various langes.
The Cox lines he'd Stoutly IN the
face Of breaks of Indiana and Washing
ton 10 McAdoo Votes were rather lag
gng until just before recess. There
was no evidence at recess that the
convention will finish its work tonight.
The three leaders have run n wide
Hlnge in balloting, Palmer starting out
with 256 fell to 144 in the second and
hy the thirty sixth was back to 23S.
COX was at the lowest with 134 on first
ballot His highest was 46S in nine
ieonth; by the thirty sixth he had sag
Eed to BIT. McAdoo starting in the lead
with 266 on first ballot soon dropped
below Cox, but by the thirty first was
back in first place with high water
marx OF 42t12 on thirty sixth.
During recess the Cox people went
,''''' N'''i' t'Ai't' itIC Ntt6 Ct PA OPCoNA
n the air to see if New York could be
swung to Palmer. Another report was
NAT if the search for a dark horse
was unavailing, the Cox strength might
ne thrown to Palmer, provided Cox
managers had shown they had reached
me limit Of their strength.
Both the McAdOo and Cox forces
used the recess to make a desperate
play for the Tammany delegations sun
'ort Tammany holds the key to the
>luaton,' was the word passed around. |
y was reported that Indiana. after
heading break to McAdoo, was going
~ lump back to Cox Georgia con-
"nund to vote for Palmer today.
Nj"mnt to recess during the earlier |
'arj OF the session today was drowned |
I'M in shouts of disapproval, when |
pamoT on the thirty fifth ballot hit a |
I1,Shor mark than at any time since the
'N'nih. Palmer people wanted one |
more ballot and the recess idea was not |
''N>'d, While Pennsylvari1ns were
gnanfing Palmer, Palmer, Pennsyl- |
,an!a to the. tune of Glory, Glory, |
.,'ufIuiah, the Cox people took hand |
making a parody and when McAdoo |
n"I"' set uD counter demonstration |
I 'E1o and PENNSYLVANIA crowd with |
,,lcS2Phones lie pointed toward the Nc
N 90 'orccS and choGted "An the boys
on the payroll
rs the favrrit2 son votes stood pat |
IN the tWonty~tllird ballot some of the
"".dteS added a touch of humor. Mis-
,'" threw 8 h3lf vote for Ring |
,,'''Edner, and Washington and Ken
.'[NN between thrln threw vote and
a half for irwin Cobb.