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COX NOMINATED
AFTER LONGF|CHT
Landslide For Ohio Governor
on 44th Ballot.
ROOSEVELT RUNNING MATE
Assistant Secretary of Navy Named
For Vice President-PaImer's With
drawaI Led to Victory For Cox.

San Francisco, July flames NJ.
Cox, three times governor Of Ohio,
was nominated for the presidency by
the Democratic national convention
in the break up of one of the most
prolonged deadlocks in the history of
national political parties.
1t took A ballots to make a choice,
and it was not until the thirty-eighth.
when Attorney General Palmer with
drew from the race, that the long sue
cessiou of roll-calls showed any def
mite trend
In the turnover Of the Palmer dele
gates, Cox gained the advantage over
place since early in the balloting, and
the advantage never was lost
Franklin D. Roosevelt, of New
York, assistant secretary of the navy,
and relative of the president who bore
that name, was chosen as its candi-
date for vice president and running
mate for Governor Cox.
Supporters of Governor Cox won
the way to nomination by persistent
battering at the McAdoo and Palmer
forces in many states throughout Il
long series of shiftings and rallies
which left now one and then another
of the candidates in the lead.
On the opening ballot Friday the
Ohio governor was in third place. He
soon passed Palmer. however, and on
the twelfth ballot went ahead of Nc
AdoO Then began a see-saWfng be-
tween the Cox and McAdoo totals
which ut the end of the thirty ninth
rolI-call found the two virtually the
same.
On the forty-second ballot the ac-
cession of most of the Palmer strength
to Cox put him well ahead, and after
that great and little state dele cations
went into the Cox column in pro-
cession. On the forty-third he got for
the first time a majority of all the
votes cast, and on the forty-foufth
he was plunging toward the required
two thirds when Colorado changed its
vote to him and made the nomination
obvious 1t was made unanimous on
motion of Sam B. Amidon, of Kansas,
a leader of the McAdoo forces. :
OF the A ballots, two We're taken
last Friday night, ii at the first ses-
sion Saturday, and six at the Satur-
day night session Twenty tao were
recorded Monday. Il at the all-Iay
session and eight Monday night
Cox began the fight with 134 on the
| first ballot and climbed steadily until
the fifteenth, when he had 46S5a. His
lowest vote after that was on the
thirty-fifth, the first taken at Mon
day nights session, when it fell to
3761s.
4 curious thing in the voting for
McAdoo was that he received 266 on
| the first ballot, the lowest cast for
| him, and 2661a on the last ballot His
high water mark was 467, on the
fortieth ballot. At that time Cox had
400.
Palmer opened with 256 votes. His
| highest vote was 26715 on the seventh
| ballot
AS the Cox total passed that OF
McAdoo and surged upward, the Nc
|
| to stop it in time. Their candidate
| twice had held the lead and lost it
| however, and many delegates support
| ing him had given up hope that he
| ever could be nominated. On the last
| four ballots McAdoo lost steadily, sew
eral solid state delegations deserting
| his banner for that of the leader
Besides, the scattering Palmer dele
| gates, who at first had swung to Nc
| Adoo, drifted over into the Cox camT
| in increasing numbers, and he begar
| to take a commanding place in the
| balloting Once he had more than &
majority the fight was easy. At the
end of another day of furious strug
gle the convention stampeded to Cox
| flung aside its rules and made his
| nomination unanimous with a roaring
! shout
| A terrific uproar followed. The
| whole mass of delegates threw them
selves into final wild demonstration
greater than any of the orgies of noise
that had preceded.
In the midst of the din Chairman
| Robinson succeeded in restoring q
| sembiance of order to get the adjourn
| ment until noon, so that Governor
| Cox's wishes as to his teammate cOul(
| be learned.
! f. H. Moore of Youngstown, O., ma
| tionaI committeeman from the state
| and leader of the tireless and uphill
| fight that won the nomination for thu
Ohio governor, said it had been made
without promises.
The struggle was exceeded in votin:
duration in Democratic annals onl.
by the fight in Baltimores in 191.
which gave President Wilson his frs
nomination on the fortysiXth ballot
The bandwagon movement fO
| Roosevelt got under way very quick
ly. and although other candidates
among them Governor Stewart, o.
Montana, and Major General l.. L
TYSON, of TennesSee-were presented
there was no doubt of Roosevelt
selection from the first
The gossip about convention hal
was that the Tammany organization
with which Roosevelt has not AWAY
been on good terms, was disincline
to accept him at first, but, in the lal
guage of the politicians who wei
working for Roosevelt, ''Tammany d,
cided to swallow him."
Governor Smith, of New York, fiji
ally took the platform and told til
| Z lvention he had been instructed b
II delegation to second Roosevelt
5 H.. nination.
: Some of the political managers r.
called that this was the second tim
| that political leaders of the state {
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