Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1920-07-08

MCAuOO boomers, tu0 Ealm0T peOple
snd the Cox shouters one verse each
Of their favorite air.
Chairman Robinson called Senator
Phelan "a great California democrat
to the platform to announce the re
suits OF the 3Sth ballot VI
Hopes Go Gllmmerlne.
Hopes and prospects that the con
ventlon might nominate today went
glimmering soon after 1t got down To
business today.
1t was apparent that the lines were
going to hold. The Cox lines did hold
stoutly in the face Of two breaks to
McAdoo, one from Indiana and an
other from Washington. They came
back in some other delegations soon
Palmer sentiment was rather lag
cling when the sudden rush Of the
votes to the attorney generals column
gave 1t sudden rise late today and
his supporters were taking new heart.
There was no evidence Of any plans
which would assure that the conven.
ton could finish its work tonight.
The three candidates have run q
wide range in the balloting. Palmer
starting out at 256, fell as low as LA
in the second, and by the 26th had
gotten back to 241. +
Cox was at his lowest with 134 in
the first ballot. His high water mark
was 1853 In the 18th.
saeaed Down At Last.
By the 36th, he had sagged down TO
377. ~
McAdoo, starting out with lead,
was 166 in the first ballot. Cox soon
took the first place, however, by the
32nd ballot, McAdoo was not only back
in first place but had struck high
water mark Of 421 10.
In the 36th he was at 399.
During the recess the Cox people
went into a conference. There was a
proposal in the air to see If the New
York delegation could not be swung
to the Palmer column.
The report which went with the
stor yof the conference was that II
the search for dark horse were un,
availing the Cox strength might be
thrown to the Palmer column. This
Of course, was dependent on convinc
ing the Cox managers that they had
struck their limit In the balloting.
Predictions All GO Wrong.
The forces went in session this
morning with predictions on every
hand that q nominee would soon be
found. Large bets we're laid that the
convention would nominate within an
hour and a half. But such poor prog
ress was made that q vote was forced
on proposals to suspend the rules, and
drop the low man on each succeeding
ballot until a nomination was made.
me plan failed for lack Of the neces.
sary two-thirds vote, but 1t showed the
growing temper Of the convention. %
Even when the day session was
drawing toward close and these
were prospects Il another session to-
morrow, the desperate leaders were
still looking for some way to break
the deadlock.
The McAdoo forces reversed the
order of the progression in the bal.
loting and took the lead today in the
thirtieth ballot. McAdoo had lost the
lead to Cox on tho twelfth ballot last
week.
Cox Lines Hold Fast.
For moment, when Indiana tum.
bled in 20 of her 80 and Tom Taggart
himself cast the ballot 1t looked as il
forecasted slide to McAdoo had be-
gun. When. little later, Washing.
ton, which had been scattering her
votes, cast them all for McAdoo, the
McAdoo people weAv sure the move
ment was on, but it was too late on
the ballot to do any good. The Cox
people probably a little nervous but
protesting the confidence which the
outcome justified, sent word to their
war horses to stanr pat and refuse to
be stampeded. The word was effec-
tive and the blocks which have been
he Cox standby, were unmoved. The
hnes held fast. :
An attempt at recess during the
earlier part Of the session was drown
ID out in shouts of its approval.
When Palmer on the thirty-hfth
ballot hit higher mark than he had
at any time since the eleventh, the
Palmer people wanted one more bal
lot. The Palmer people set up an
other demonstration. There was
movement on foot for a recess until
8 o'clock after the thirty-fifth ballot,
but the Palmer people wanted one
more ballot before that and the recess
idea was not pressed. While the
Pennsylvanians wcre chanting "Pal-
mer, Palmer, Pennsylvania" to the
tune of GLORY, Glory, haIleluJah," the
Cox people took hand at making
parody and when the McAdoo people
set up counter demonstration, the
Ohio and Pennsylvania crowd chantsd
out verse which went: