Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-07-06
CEORCLASTARTS
BREAK, LEAVING
M'ADOO FOR COX
Great Yell Goes Up AS
Switch on 42d is An
nounced
By Fl. N. RICKEY.

Jas. M. Cox, of Ohio, was nominated
for president by the Democrats on
,44th ballot at L 80 o'clock Tuesday
morning. The McAdoo people fought
gamely to the last, but finally went
down to defeat under a terrible
pounding ty the Cox forces.
Fourteen ballots from 10 o'clock
Monday morning to o'clock in the
afternoon failed to break the dead
lock which held the convention as in,
a wise. Then from sheer exhaustion
and in the hope that during the ad-
journment some solution of the prob
lem of how to get 729 for somebody
might be found adjournment was TAX
en- until $50 in evening.
During the fourteen ballots the
pendulum of favor swung back and
forth from Cox to McAdoo, the net
advantage being with McAdoo.. Nc
Adoo started the day with 364 1-2
votes Cox with AIS. At the s.
o'clocA adjournment McAdoo had in
creased to 399 and Cox had fallen
back to 377. Palmer got a sudden
boost :; before the adjournment
and ih--Aed with 241, his biggest
vote since the 18th ballot and with
Agreed to Release.
During the adjournment Palmer
and his leaders conferred and it was
decided that during the first ballots
at the evening session if he fell back
he would release his delegates from
any further obligation to him and
permit them to vote for whom they
pleased. This announcement was
Lc1 4ha
ond of the evening session, and a.
recess of 20 minutes was taken toI
give the McAdoo and Cox managers
a chance to work on the released
Palmer delegates.
During the seth ballot following
the recess the air was electric with
suppressed excitement. Would Nc
Adoo or Cox get the bulk of the
Palmer vote? Georgia's 38 votes
went to McAdoo and the McAdoo
delegates paraded and yelled for five
minutes. The Massachusetts, Palmer
strength went to Cox and led by Sem
ator Walsh, the Massachusetts dele
gates headed a Cox parade which
lasted ten minutes. The Pennsyl-
vania delegates stuck to Palmer on
this ballot, the net result of the bal
lot being in Cox's favor. The figures
were: McAdoo, 440; Cox, 468; and
the deadlock was tighter than ever.
On the 40th ballot the Palmer vote
in Pennsylvania began to disinte--
CRATE. McAdoo got "A of them and
Cox IA, the balance still voting for
Palmer. On this ballot McAdoo
gained 27, going to ACT, and Cox
gained 21 1-2, going to 400. Davis
got 76, has high, and Owen was still
in with 80. With all but 19 of the
Palmer votes divided, Cox was still
238 short of the necessary two
thirds and McAdoo 261 short on the
40th ballot.
"Here is where we dig in and
stay," was the sentiment of both the
McAdoo and Cox leaders at midnight
as the 41st ballot was being taken.
Cox Gains; McAdoo Loses.
Cox gained and McAdoo lost
slightly on the 41st ballot and at
1915 a delegate from Oklahoma
moved to adjourn until 10 o'clock
Tuesday morning. The purpose OF
this motion was obviously to give the
Owen people chance to call a con-
ference and try to arrange to have
Owen chosen as the dark horse.
Owen and his delegates had been
busy all day on the floor and in the
corridors trying to popularize the
Owen idea and he was probably as
much talked of as any one else as
dark horse possibility. The Cox dele
gates voted against adjournment
and the McAdoo delegates in the
main were for it. The Cox people
seemed to be afraid that a deal
might be made to line up all the op-
position delegates either for McAdoo
or some other administration candi-
date. The motion to adjourn was
defeated by margin of about 200
votes.
At 1890 the clerk began calling
the roll for the 42nd ballot. The
convention had resolved itself in al
contest of physical endurance. When
Georgia's 28 votes were swept from
McAdoo to Cox on the 42nd ballot
the Cox delegates all over the hall
yelled like Indians. Then they be-
gan working like Trojans among the
McAdoo delegates trying to follow
up their advantage. That they
worked to good purpose was shown
by the result of ballots: Cox $40,
McAdoo AIT. This put Cox within
five votes of majority. 1t was the
highest vote polled by any candidate
since the balloting began, and it was
freely predicted that if he could
reach the majority on the next bal !