Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-07-04
SUPPORTERS OF M'ADO0
DECIDE to "STAND
PAT" FOR THEIR MAN
Continued from Page One)


Auditorium, San Francisco, July
3-Reconvening after a brief re-
cess tonight, the democratic ma
tional convention started balloting
again and in the first two at
tempts of the new session no more
progress toward selecting a presi
dental nominee than it had in the
sixteen futile ballots which mark
ed the previous sessions.
The seventeenth and eighteenth
attempts were more or less see
saw performances and kite flying
exhibitions in which candidate
managers tried to find someone
upon whom to center.
Dark horse talk centered about
whole paddock of mentioned
possibilities characterized the re-
newal of the balloting. After the
eighteenth ballot, when no result
had been attained, the convention
evidently decided it wanted lit
Tie relaxation, for a demonstration
started by the Cox people soon
became everybody's demonstration
in which a lot of state standards
mixed indiscriminately and the
usual number of sCrimmages took
place without very many of the
scrimmaEers knowing what they
We're scrimmaging about. The Cox
band, which had been kept out of
the hail. was in again tonight and
started playing something about
Ohio, the words of which were
drowned in the din when the Cox
boomers tried to sing them.
Congressman Connolly, of Texas,
appeared in the demonstration
bearing aloft the first picture of
McAdoo which appeared in the
convention hall. 1t was evidently
a home made attempt at lth-
ograph drawn from memory, prob
ably 1t looked more like a carrie
allure. Autographs of Cox made
their appearance, cheer leaders
sprung up from unexpected places
as the state standards moved
around the hall in winding line.
The pipe organ, the convention
band and the Cox band We're in
an ear splitting contest most of
the time. Chairman Robinson and
other convention officials, realizing
the futility of attempting to check
what amounted to everybodys de-
monstration, sat placidly hoping
the racket and the exhibition Of
energy, nervous and otherwise,
would wear itself out.
If the tradition that a demo-
cratic convention never worked on
Sunday was good, the demonstra
ton signalized the postponement
Of the nomination contest until
Monday, because with two hours
and a half left for business be
fore midnight, the crowd showed
no disposition to get to business.
1t roared and pranced and hoped
and cavorted and reeled and
crawled and wriggled and scream
ed and shouted and hooted and
the convention looked for all the
world as if it had gone mad.
Then as suddenly as it began the
demonstration began to die away
and the convention went back to
examine itself and see whether t
had shouted and wriggled itself
out of a deadlock.
1t apparently had not and pro-
ceeded to the nineteenth ballot.
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 We're turnsd to-
ward Pennsylvania. What Penn
sylvania does Georgia is expected
to do also. The Cox people claimed
that when the break came they
he hAc ~ tn hot Ia
states.
When Chairman Robinson at
tempted 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 demonstration and with the
accomplishments all fixed, began to
whoop it up again. The band in
the gallery which was silent when
the Bryan people attempted a de-
monstration for their champion,
blared and doomed without ceasin5,
helping the McAdOo demonstration
along as 1t had on previous days.
Many women crowded the floor
and took part in the McAdoo de-
monstration. Many of them who
danced ABOUT III tiie WlHulIS lile VI
McAdoo boomers, or who were |
carted along on the shoulders of |
men were neither delegates nor |
alternates to the convention, but |
spectators who invaded the floor |
in the excitement Of the moment |
and took part in whooping up the
circus.
There appeared to be no stopping
the noise for McAdoo. Although |
not participated in by large pro-
portion of delegates it made up In
volume for that which It lacked In !
and whenever the racket |
on the floor gave evidence of
slump the galleries bolstered 1t up
with new enthusiasm. Meanwhile
Chairman Robinson sat patiently |
twirling his gavel In hand, almost !
fondling it as a hunter fondles
gun with which he has brought
down much game. He didn't seem
to be much disturbed at the way
the noise makers were using up
time and there was a suggestion !
that the convention officials were
perfectly agreeable to letting the
wear itself down to the