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NO NOMINATION
AFTER z BALLOTS
THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
HOLDING ITS TwENTY.sEc.
OND BALLOT LATE SATURDAY
EVENING REcEssEs UNTIL
THIS MoRNlNc.-cox LEADS
MeADoo AND PALMER IN LAST
BALLOT SATURDAY. &

Auditorium, San Francisco, July g..
After % fruitless ballots, the
Democratic national convention just /
before midnight gave up hopes Of se- !
lecting presidential nominee within !
the first week of its session and adj
journed until 10 o'clock Monday
morning. ,>.' 49, " 4 81
Repeated attempts to adjourn were
defeated throughout the early part Of /
the night, but as midnight approach
ed and it was about to become Sum-
day the tradition that q Democratic
national onvention never works on q i
Sunday, oupled with the fact that the
convention was tired, worn and fraz-
zled had it's effect, and the final mo-
tion to adjourn was unopposed. ~;
When the convention stopped Cox
was leading with four hundred and
seventy-two and half.
Palmer was down to a hundred and !
sixty-six and half. 81
The final ballots of the night were
full Of McAdoo movement, but it
failed to make much iheadway. Geor-
gia, his hcme state, pledged to Pal-
mer swung over with her ,twenty-eight
votes in block for one ballot to see
if it would start her native SON to-
ward victory, but it failed to do so
and she swung back to the attorney
general. ts
No dark horse appeared during the
nights balloting to carry off the
honors and the convention adjourned
just as much in need of somebody to
rally about as it was when 70 began
the balloting.
| 1t was in a deadlock with nobody
in sight to break it. Sunday will be
devoted to efforts to finding some
body to whom the convention can
swing. =
{ Wilson Hands Off,"
! The Cox, McAdoo and Palmer
forces and those hoping to develop
a dark horse, spent the hours be-
tween recess and reassembling at
eight p. m. tonight in hurried confer
ences and desperate efforts 20 line up
compromise ticket. Word from
Washington that Presidenr Wilson
was pursuing "hands-off' policy
added to the confusion of the situa.
! ton. -.
To every argument advanced for
some dark horse, objections were
heard in opposition. Those opposed
to Cox argued the Ohio governor
had reached the maximum Of his
strength and lost his opportunity
when the suspension of the Daiioting
was permitted for the recess. Nc
Adoo and Palmer forces we1e I'M
portuned by each other to find way
to stop him.
Despite the statement of some ad-
ministration leaders that it cannot
"go-to Cox" the Cox forces pointed
out that the dark horse movement
had found no rallying point and that
Cox still remained potential force,
which from a small number at the
start had taken the lead In the bal
loting and nosed McAdoo out of first
place.
At SIT Chairman Robinson began
calling for order. Vance McMormick
former chairman of the Democratic
national committee, recalling that
Democratic national convention nev-
er sits on Sunday, and predicting no
nomination before midnight, said he
thought the convention would go
over to Monday. The Palmer forces
were making a drive to get back
some of their lost strength as the
convention was coming to order.
The first votes to be cast for
Woodrow Wilson in the convention
came tonight from Missouri, two
of them on the twenty-second ballot.