New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-06

around the hall as the band played
Dixie"
The first ballot to-day was a terrible
disappointment to the Cox supporters.
hey had confidently expected to start
a stampede the moment the ballotinp
began. On the contrary. they lost five
votes as compared with the last ballot
on Saturday night. Palmer showed n
fair gain, whils McAdoo lost ~ votes.
When Ohio was reached on the sec
ond roll call, Judge Z. H. Moore. Cox's
ITO save time on the rolls Just put
Ohio down every time forty eight for
Cox without calling her"
Delegates Begin to Show Strain
The worn out condition OF the dele
gates and their impatience to get
home was demonstrated when the Vir-
giNia delegation on tho second ballet
voted for Glass. Mu.tcrad resentment
at this policy. which. OF course. holds
back the break whic,. will end the
deadlock. was heard all over the hall.
The little Alaska de,egation gave the
Palmer managers, and for that matter
the Cox and McAdoo managers. a shock
early to-day by proposing on early
ballots to throw their six votes to ex-
Senator j. Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois,
The delegation had been voting three
for Palmer. two for McAdoo and one
for Cox. The three delegates for Pal
mer are anxious for the Attorney Gen
eral to GUST the United States Marshal
at Nome.
TINS Is no time to be monkeying
around with complimentary votes or
springing dark horses snapped one of
the Palmer managers. probably with
- !
swinging TO Lewis to make real COM
plimentary vote.
President Wilson lost two votes OF,
the first ballot to-day when the two
Mlssourans who had voted for him on
the last ballot Saturday night switched
back. Roars OF laughter followed the
announcement. however. of half
vote for Ring W Lardner from the
Missouri delegation Not to be out
done Irwin Cobb was given full vote
by the Washington delegation.
Pershing Given Vote
On the third ballot of the day Mis-
souri, gave General Pershing one vote.
at which point it began to percolate
that some good natured Missouri dele
gates were not only Kidding the con-
ventlon. but providing the reporters
from Missouri papers with some
local copy.
In an effort to break he deadlock a
motion was made usl a.ocr the COM
pletion of the thirtieth ballot by Sena-
tor Pat Harrison, Of Mississippi, one
OF the Cox managers. that after each
ballot the candidate receiving the
lowest number of votes should be
eliminated. This would have the. effect.
If carried out literally, of forcing a
nomination at the end Of a given num-
Der OF ballots, since on the last ballot
delegates would Dc entitled to vote
only for the man receiving the larger
vote on the next to the last ballot
Thomas J. Spel!acy. Of Connecticut,
made a point Of order against the
motion, which Chairman Robinson
overruled. Senator Smith. Of South
Carolina. said the convention could
not deprive a delegate of the right to
vote for whomever he pleased, on which
point Mr.. Robinson refused to rule
The convention then rejected this
speeding up process by vote Of 82O12
to 256.
Chairman Robinson then ruled that
the motion would not have been effec-
tive anyhow, sustaining Senator
Smith, contention.
Walter Burns. of New York City,
varied the monotony on the next ballot
by voting for Josephus Daniels. a vote
on which Daniels's first assistant,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, did not join
him.
Walker Hines. late Federal Railroad
Administrator, got one vote from Ken
lucky, his state. the ballot being cast
by ?. Fl. Callahan.