New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-04
Recess Occupied by Quest
For Compromise Candidate

making gains, stuck to the Senator
with her twenty. The Senator was
working among the delegates on the
floor at the time
Pennsylvania made Palmer's seventy
three seventy-four Cox lost the one
McAdoo took three from Cox in
Mouth Dakota. Palmer took one from
the Ohio Governor. Tennessoe's twenty
four remanded with Davis, and the
Texas forty and the Utah eight re
NAMED with McAdoo.
The convention then went to the
ballot for the eighteenth time
Fhe leaders on the eighteenth bal
lot were: McAdoo, 33Ola; Cox, ass;
Palmer, 174l2; Davis, A..
Davis lost one to Palmer in Illinois.
stood solid for McAdoo. That was a
fair example of the way things were
going
Louisiana, which had jumped into
the Cox column on the seventeenth
ballot, called for pass, evidently talk
ing it over.
Palmer got two new ones in Massa-
chusetts and Cox lost one. Palmer
and McAdoo lost in Missouri and Cox
made small gain.
Tennessee divided her twenty-fo
votes, previously given solidly for Da-
Wis, giving Cox eleven. Davis ten and
McAdoo. Palmer and Owen one each.
The changes on the eighteenth bal
lot were: Cox gained sixteen, McAdoo
lost one and half, Palmer lost one
and half, Davis lost fifteen
The Cox people made the conclusion
Of the eighteenth ballot the occasion
for another noisy demonstration
Changes on the Nineteenth Ballot
On the nineteenth ballot Cox gained
two IN Alabama, one from McAdoo and
one from Davis. The next change
came IN Colorado. whore Palmer gained
two, taking them from McAdoo.
McAdoo gained two in Delaware, tax
ing one of them from Cox. Kansas
stuck on the ballot, evidently having
decided not TO break up yet anyway
IN massachusetts Cox lost three to
Palmer
Palmer lost one in Missouri, and Cox
lost one in New York, where a Cox
vote went back to Gerard
During the nineteenth Tenncssee's
entire twenty-four Popped back to Cox
from q split.
Palmer gained five and Cox ten on
the nineteenth ballot. while McAdoo
lost three. Davis lost eleven.
On the twentieth ballot ConNecti-
cuts vote, which had been sole Cum
mlngs, gave him only four while SIX
went to Cox and fear to Palmer.
Indiana, which had been holding for
Cox, passed. Cox lost two in Kentucky
to Davis. McAdoo got one of Louisi-
ana's twenty. which had been solid for
Cox.
Indiana cut Cox to nineteen and gave
the remaining eleven to McAdoo. In
Dol
which four went TO Cox.
Owen gained three in Missouri. tax
ing two from McAdoo and one-half
each from Cox and Palmer
McAdoo gained one from Cox in
Rhode Island. Cox gained one in turn
from Palmer in South Dakota. Ten
nessee split. Cox losing sixteen, Of
which two went to Palmer, ten to Nc
Adoo, two to Davis and two to Cum
mings. McAdoo lost three to Cox in
Wisconsin.
The changes shown on the twentieth
ballot were: Cox lost IL. Palmer lost
"a, McAdoo gained 10, Davis and
Owen l.
McAdoo had been going down since
the sixteenth ballot and his recovery
started noise among the McAdoo
boosters.
At the opening of the twenty first
ballot all eyes were turned toward
Pennsylvania. What Pennsylvania does
Georgia is expected to do also. The
Cox people contended that when the
break came they would have the best
of it in both states.
Chairman Glass of the Resolutions
committee, who spoke for President
" llson IN the framing of the party
platform, declared IN talking with
y 1c O,,,.i
not be Cox" and when asked what
would happen if Cox got the majority
OF the convention and. according to
custom. the two-thirds vote, Glass re-
piled that Champ Clark had a majority
at Baltimore" How Ny. Clark had a
majority but failed Of nomination is
recent political history.
Several things seemed to stand out
above the noise and clamor and dis.
comfort of the days bnlloting. Prin-
clpal among them was the fact that
the McAdoo movement had not taken
oil the glacial movement" which its
boomers had predicted for it, and that
the Cox people, who were openly very
discouraged day or two ago, picked
up and made constant and cons stent
gains which amazed their opponents
and the convention.
When the balloting began to-day
McAdoo led the gains on the third bal
lot. the first Of the day, but the pre-
dicted slide to him failed to materalize
Most OF the original votes stood fast
The total for three leaders on that
ballot was: McAdoo, 32312 Cox, III:
Palmer 252}a The McAdoo gain was
"a r. Cox, Is. ard Palmer showed Q
loss of II IL.
North Carolina furnshod the hrst
pNeah 10 NcAuno tho lelnra,es Nu.inc.