The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
been required.

Wuter mhrk when tue cOuNeutioh, "t'-
 CT the fourth ballot adjourned until
 10 o'clock tomorrow incoming. John
 son had received on the fourth seven
 and one-haIf votes less than he
 ccived on the third.
 The contest then stood; Wood 3l4@.
 LOsvdcn 2S9, Johnson 14O1a, Hoover !,
 Harding 61 1a, SprouI 70R, Coolidge
 Butler 20, Knox 2, POindexter I5, Suth-
 crIand 2, Borah 1. Dupont 2. LaFol-
 1ette 22, Watson 4.
 At the adjournment hour it still re-
 mained a three -cornered fight between
 Wood, Lowden and Johnson, for the
 remaining twelve contestants held only
 240 scattering votes among them and
 most of them had been losing steadily since the first ballot some one of the big three making accessions a t their ex- pense.
 HOLDS BALANCE OF POWER With these scattering votes Hiram Johnson still was holding the balance of power, his 140h votes alone. even 1 if cast for either. Wood. or Lowden, would not be sufficient to nominate either and there was not the slightest l indication of Johnson delegates desert l ing their nominee.
 The four ballots saw various shifts and changes, with q general declining l Ol lnt ldNOTllt Soll anu complementary vote. The vote for Dr. Nicholas Murray 7, Butler of New York steadily dwindled ] until on the closing ballot it stood at 20 Lowden forces took most of | the accessions from New York l Twentyfour votes from Wisconsin | cast for LaFollette on three successive ballots amid misses and catcalls fell | to 22 at the closing It was the first | convention in years at which LaFollette | himself had not appeared as candi- l date. Philander Knox's maximum was 1 two. Governor Sprouts high mark was S31a on the first ballot. l It was difficult to understand the l sudden adjournment after four ballots ! had been taken. At the end of the I third ballot the Johnson forces moved an adjournment and insisted upon a roll call after the motion had been de : ] feated by viva voce vote. The roll call showed the delegates voting over wheimingly to continue the balloting. Toward the close of the fourth bal 1 lot it was seen that Wood and Low den both had made small gains and that the Johnson's vote would show Us | first loss.
 BORAH URGES ADJOURNMENT | Senator Borah rushed to the platform 1 and urged that adjournment be taken. Some of the Lowden people had l been appealed to by delegates who sin cerely wished to avoid the hardship of | an all-night session and they consented not to oppose adjournment motion. | There is nothing to indicate that the | Johnson and Lowden forces are work | ing together by design, but adjourn | nent was obtained through their joint 1 efforts.
 l The Wood forces were bitterly disap- | pointed, as they believed they could con | tinue to gain until their total would climb over the 400 mark. if an adjourn | ment could be avoided. They hoped 1 that then would come a landslide or l band wagon movement from the tired delegates.
 The Wood forces are saying tonight | that there were more negative votes than affirmative, but they admitted that the | latter made more noise and that MT. | Lodge probably was justified in ruling | that adjournment had been ordered They are also saying tonight that they i showed bad strategy in not insisting on l roll call.
 ONLY TRANSFERRED BATTLE l The adjournment of the convention only transferred the battle from the floor
 of the Coliseum to the quiet of confer
 ence rooms downtown, where the lead l CTS worked all night reforming their l battlefront hoping to bring about re- alignment of fires and turn the tide in | definite direction at the session to- i morrow.
 l Unless their efforts fail the nominee l is actually being made tonight. Whether 1 it would be decided to put over one of l the two leaders stage a deadlock must await the decision If the latter, l the general opinion seems to favor the selection of a conservative dark horse. | In grueling ten-hour session, con ducted in intense summer heat and without recess or refreshment. the con vention buckled down to the job of at tempting to put itself on schedule, and heard, in succession, nominating and seconding speeches for eleven candidates ana then turned to the balloting, votes ! being cast for the eleven and numerous others.
 WOOD STARTED WITH LEAD | Wood led on the first ballot with i I,owden next and Johnson low of the three. All the other votes were scat tered among favorite sons ana as compliments.
 Tn the midst of the roll call Judge McCamant of Oregon, who ran as a | Wood man, challenged the correct 1 ness of the report from his delegation and called for poll. On the poll he | voted for Wood.
 It resulted nine for Johnson and one l for Wood.
 Totals officially announced for the ! first ballot were as follows: 1 Not voting 1. Warren of Michigan 1 Borah ?, Hoover T. Dupont T. Suther- ! land IT. Poindexter 20h. Pritchard "A 1 Coolidge 29. LaFollette "A. Butler, G9 | Harding 64H Johnson 133h, Lowder
 211h, Wood a2s7h. sproull S3k. Official result of second ballot was Wood. 2s9k. Lowden 259h. Johnson l46, Hoover, 5M. Harding 57. Sprou 7sk. Cooledge 32. Butler 40, Knox l
 Poindexter 15. Sutherland 15. Pritch-
 ard 10. Borah l. Dupont ', LaFol. lette A.
 LOWDEN LOST ONE | Connecticut. on the second ballot i switched one to Johnson. Lowden los | ing one. Wood gained one in Florida
 also having gained four and a half from l Arkansas.
 ! Georgia asked for a poll. It resulted l in Lowden g. Wood 8--no change. In Idaho Lowden gained one.
 The Illinois IA cast for Wood weni ! to Johnson.
 Kentucky gave all to Lowden. in
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