Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-03

friendly to McAdoo in the last TWEEN
ty-four hours, and inside the New
York delegation a nucleus of twenty
FIVE votes has hammered away for
chance to go to McAdoo:
Tom Taggart of Indiana promised
to help Vice President Marshall as
long as he could. but planned to go
to McAdoo on the fourth or fifth bal
lot.
Illinois has; had a substantial Me-
Adoo following ready to swing.
Pcnnsylvania-Palm own dele
Adoo as a second choice If the Attor-
ney Generals, chances dwindled.
Minnesota Vas ready to give prac-
ticaily all of her votes to McAdoo and
Missouri was prepared to add several
more.
California was inclined to hold off. but
the swing was toward McAdoo, with
the prospect of big vote on the fourth
or fifth ballot for the former Secretary
of the Treasury, who has made his
home in this state for the last year.
Others Await Trend Of Vote.
Many a state delegation had decided
to go to McAdoo if the general trend Of
was the winner. The psychology of to-
day is the band wagon idea. All dele
cations like to be there at the finish.
Whether justified or not. the McAdoo
people managed to work up to climax
80 that practically all the correspondents
went to bed last night absolutely sure
that McAdoo would be named on the
morrow.
Should the McAdoo forces have had
a majority and yet failed to get two
thirds, the convention faced confusion.
Dark horses have been talked about all
the way from Gerard and Meredith to
Cummings and John w. Davis. Objec-
tons were mentioned to all.
Attorney General Palmer was repre-
sented early today as saying that If he
couldn't get the nomination he would
dictate the selection. He told the Penn
stick until given their release by him.
Who would Palmer favor? He has
felt on equally friendly terms with Nc
Adoo and with Cox. Should the Attor-
ney General be opposed to either. this
convention would try out Homer Cum
mings. and if he failed then John W.
Davis of West Virginia, ambassador to
Great Britain, would begin to gain votes.
But fundamentally the McAdoo forces
have been of the kind that do not turn
to dark horses. but prolong the ballot
ing till victory is in sight.
Wilson Idea Prevails.
The Wilson idea has prevailed here
on the platform. 1t routed Bryan and
mas wanted man to carry out Wilson
policies McAdoo and Palmer have been
closest to the Wilson administration,
John w. Davis is the appointee of Presi-
dent Wilson to Great Britain He is a
splendid lawyer and has not been en-
mcshed in internal politics in the last
two years.
He voted against woman suffrage
when a member of the House Of Rep
resentatives, but with the present
platform ami the changes which can
didacy would naturally make. Davis
was represented as all right on the
woman suffrage issue.
Probably the nomination of Nc
Adoo will have been made by late
this afternoon. Otherwise the con-
vention must turn to a dark horse
Cummings or Davis. This would run
the sessions into next week. That
is an important factor in the psy-
chology of the McAdoo fortunes The
delegates, anxious to get away. could
easily compel a stubborn minority to
give way and join the band wagon.
McAdoo's chances have been of the
band wagon variety. Everybody was
ready to come to his aid at the psy-
Geological moment.
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