The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-07-09
COX IS NOMINATED
ON 44TH BALLOT
OHIO GOVERNOR WEARS OUT ALL
CANDIDATES FOR DEMOCRATIC
NOMINATION. FOR PRESIDENT.
VICE PRESIDENT OVERLOOKED
McAdoo, Last # Opponents, Fir ra,iy
Beaten After Day and Night Of
BaIIotine-ralmsr Previously
Released His Delegates.

! San Francisco, Cal.--James NJ COX.
| Cover or OF Ohio, was nominate iJr
President Of the United States in ihr
| Democratic Nl.ional Convention 1T
| l 40 tuesday morning.
The nomination came at the cOncIu.
sion of 44-ballot struggle in which
he had steadily beaten down the forces
| Of William q. McAaoo, former Secre.
tary of the treasury and President VII.
sons son-in-Iaw
| When the balloting on the 44th vote
had gotten to Il point where Cox had
T02 votes and was rapidly approaching
the necessary two-thirds of 729, Sam
II. AmdsOn of Kansas, manager Of the
McAdoo forces and vice chairman Of
the, Democratic National Committee,
| took The platform and moved that the
nomination Of Governor Cox he made
| unanimous.
Immediately there was a roar from
the tired and worn delegates which
lasted full four minutes before Chair
man Robinson could put the question
rules and nominate Cox by acclama-
tion.
Al :43 Tuesday morning the motion
was voted over with rolling chorus
of ayes and crashing of the brass
bands. State standards which had
surged back and forth in the desperate
battle Of the deadlock raced to the
front Of the hall and to place before
the platform.
In the confusion and excitemea- Ct
nomination after the strenuous and
hard sessions Of the convention, almost
everybody forgot about nomination
for the vice presidency but the lead
ers, who were figuring on a list which
prominently included Franklin D..
Roosevelt of New York.
While the crowd was demonstrating
Its release from the deadlock the lead
ers arranged an adjournment until
noon to canvass the question of second
place in the meantime again prepared
to complete the ticket
The Cox band wagon movement
ner During intervals both sides of
the fight made desperate appeals to
Tammany. Throughout the evening
New York's vote stood the same, 20
for McAdoO and 20 for Cox.
On the third ballot of the session the
slide to Cox started and before the
leaders of the opposition could realize
1t the voters were fiOpping over in twos
and threes and fOurs in a fashion
which sent him over the majority mark
and put him at new level. After that
the going was easy. Georgia went INTO
the Cox column with her entire %.
the withdrawal of Attorney General
Palmer had released not only the Penn.
sylvania delegation, but others.
San Francisco.--An 11th.hour re-
lease Of Attorney General Palmer's
delegates left the Democratic National
Convention with a fight between Me.
Adoo and Cox on its hands and both
of them claiming the other could not
possibly get enough out of the Palmer
wreck to attain nomination.
d Cox's vote of 1851 was exactly his
previous hlgh-water mark as 1t an.
peared on the 18th ballot. Attention
of Senator Harrison of the Coz forces
was called to that fact by National
Committeeman Guffey of Pennsyl-
ivania, who asked what the Cox forces
were going to do about It. Harrison
said they were going out for more.
Among numberless movements re-
ported during the evening recess was
one finding favor among McAdoo sup.
'porters to have Governor Cox take Sec
ond place, but the governors friends
declared he would not consider such
q plan.
The McAdoO people tried to explain
the Palmer rise by saying 1t was really
an excursion to carry the attorney gen.
eral as far as he could go. They de.
clared the Cox people had done the
same thing and failed to put 1t over.