El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-07-01
WILSON Idol
Of CONVENTION
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
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the nomination was due to their
strategy Wilson has been told again
and again how the deciding votes
were cast for him in the famous 1912
So a great deal Of the talk OF a
dark horse can be attributed 10 an
early desire 20 begin trading on the
future, especially If deadlock is in
prospect Now. il is obviously i'm
possible 10 tell how the delegates viii
vote after the first two OF three bal
lots The leaders have made mathe-
NAUTICAL calculations TO their own sat-
isfaction. The trouble about tabu-
lating the vote in advance Of the
ballOting is that the preponderance
OF strength is with AIcAdoo and there
is an undercurrent OF support which
is Enthusiastically ready to 90 10 him
whenever it looks as II he viii be
the winner. II the McAdoo forces
votes and push their candidate 10 the
necessary rs.
Strength to Develop slowly.
But the McAdoo strength will de-
velop more slowly than that OF any
other candidate The supporters Of
Palmer will stick TO him longer than
most people expect. The Cox leaders
and delegates aren't going to give
up without a real struggle Some
talk is heard OF promising the vice
should get to 500 and then making
a serious effort TO acquire Ohio's
votes and others sympathetic with
Cox 70 make the final l27 10 put Nc
AdOo across the two-thirds margin.
On the other hand. the Cox people at
this stage OF the game aren't think
ing about the vice presidency and
some McAdoo supporters insist that,
If McAdoo is named, Victor Murdoch,
OF Kansas. former Bull Moose leader,
shall run for vice president
It's all very well 10 talk about
coalitions but the Democratic ma
tional convention Of 1920 is not easily
controlled except on the Issue OF VIII
son or anti-Wilson- There isn't
one-third veto against the Wilson
forces in this convention. II Meade
isn't named, some out and out VIII
son man viii be. The people who are
supposed 70 have formed an anti
McAdoo combination would not sus-
tain such a move II Palmer and Cox
have apparently lost out For then
the common foe, the anti-administra-
ton candidates, would be trotted
forth. If McAdOo can't win, the con-
vention viii be indefinitely dead
locked.
Efforts in behalf OF Cummings are
already being made. There is a dis
tinct drift toward him as second
choice on the part Of McAdoo and
Palmer men. and even Cox supporters.
But thus far the lead is still held by
McAdOO with an excellent chance that
his following viii grow from ballot
10 ballot and with an excellent pros
pect. moreover, that the anti-McAdoo
combination viii never function as
smoothly as its analogy atNChicago,
which beat Wood
Wilson Made an Idol.
This is an emotional convention.
II has the same flights OF IDEAL
ism and the same outbursts OF i'm
FASHIONED enthusiasm as marked the
famous Bull Moose convention in
1872 Song. oratory. adulation for
the leadership of Woodrow Wilson
are evident here in the same spon-
taneous strains that came forth at
Chicago in 1912 for Theodore Roose-
Welt
Even Tammany hall. supposed to
be lukeWarm toward Woodrow VIII
son. offered a most eloquent tribute
TO the president which swept the en-
tire body Of delegates from the chairs
and sent them parading the hal with
cheers for New York state Every
mention Of 1lr. Wilson, every refer
ence TO the league Of nations, every
w0rsh ipfuI gesture as speaker after
speaker pointed 20 the brightly
lighted portrait Of the president
hanging over the rOstrumt was met
with outbursts Of applause and noise
making.
The discordant notes are few. In
the Missouri delegation, disappointed
supporters Of senator Reed who was
denied a seat in the convention
sulked in their seats and refused to
parade for any Wilson man Other
members Of the delegation fought for
possession OF the Missouri standard,
and. indeed, when DR.. Burris jenkins,
Of Kansas City, presented the name
Of William Gibbs McAdoo, the entire
convention responded with cheers
and shouts for Missouri.
Day OF Demonstrations
Yesterday was a day OF demOustra-
lions, artificial, manufactured, spon-
taneous and real, everything from the
lifting songs Of decades ago 10 cheer
ing led by ambidextrous leaders Of
the collegiate type.
It would be difficult 20 assess the
value OF demonstrations. They had
them at Chicago three weeks ago and
II was noticed that the galleries
yelled themselves hOarse for Hoover
while the delegates sat unmoved-
Here the galleries shouted loudest
for McAdOO and while delegation
after delegation marched around
shouting, the best showing made by
any Of the candidates was that de-
velOped by the supporters Ct COVER
nor Cox. Of Ohio. Led by its own
band, the Cox people stirred up the
most connection
Perhaps the most spontaneous
thing OF the day was the tribute Of
the convention TO governor Al smith,
Of New York After Bourlze Cochran
had nominated him. saying New
York wouldn't let him be a candidate
for vice president, as he was wanted
time. the famous orator from the En-
pire state began talking Of the
achievements Of Woodrow Wilson.
Coming from Iammauy, IL made hit,