Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-08
BY ROGERS wINTER
(Staff CORRESPONDENT Of The Journa

lot at the Democratic convention
helped to push down McAdoo to 427
and to push up Cox to 54O7s. On the
forty-third ballot, Cox jumped again
to SOS, while McAdoo slipped again
to Alp.
This was the ballot that told the
tale 1t gave Governor Cox ma
jority of the convention. One after
another the wavering delegations and
split delegations fell off the limb
Florida went solidly over to Cox
after having voted three Tor Nc
Adoo and nine for Cox through a
/ long series of ballots. McAdoo's
eleven votes in the Indiana delega-
ton topped over to Cox and made
it a solid vote of thirty. Louisiana
went to him solid with twenty votes.
So did Maryland.
The McAdoo supporters everywhere
in the hall realized that the game was
up. Before the ballot was more than
two thirds, finished, it was plain that
it would put Cox in reaching dis
ance of the two-thirds majority. The
motion by Amidon, of Kansas. to de.
clare Cox the nominee BY reclamation
was made before the result of the
forty-fourth ballot had been an
nounced. The talley clerks were still
working on It. They had experienced
great difficulty in getting the re-
Of the whirlwind of applause, and
cheers turned loose by Cox enthusi-
asts every time a response showed
a gain in his column.
| Pandemou1u1n Breaks Loose
/ When the motion was made, wild
pandemonium swept the convention
| hall. Chairman Robinson waited sew
eral minutes for it to subside.. 1t
began to look as if shoals of dele
| gates were going to leave the build
| ing with the mistaken impression
| that the motion had carried. He
pounded until he got semblance of
order and announced that the CON
vention had not adjourned, that the
| that the result Of the forty fourth
| ballot had not been announced. Dele
gates refused to resume their seats,
and so did the spectators in the gal
| lerieS, but they suspended momen-
| tarily the vociferouS uprOar.
| Chairman Robinson then put The
motion, and 1T was carried in
whirlwind of ayes. The McAdoo floor
| opposition. They did not demand
| call of the roll. The jig was up
with them and they knew it, and they
| took their medicine. Chairman Rob-
| inson pounded once more and shout
ed the announcement that Governor
James M. Cox, of Ohio, was the nom
| inee by exclamation of the Demo-
cratic convention.
Along toward the shank of Monday
| afternoon, when S5 ballots had
| when it was decided to give Attorney
| General Palmer what Irwin S. Cobb
| facetiously described as 1.-THE buns
rush. those loyal Georgia delegates,
who have stuck to Palmer like
honor by the Palmer managers of
| Opening the demonstration and
| launching the landslide.
Being loyal Georgian who en-
| tertains fellow. feeling for his fell
low statesmen when they find them
! selves embarrassed so far, far from
home, the writer was constrained to
clap his hands and emit continuous
shouts to help them out. Any novice
could have seen that they. needed
| help. They performed magnificently
| SO far as they were concerned. If
they had been given as much sup
| port from the Pennsylvania con-
tingent, as they got from The Jour
nails correspondent, who did not
| support Palmer in the Georgia prim-
! airy, they would have got farther and
made more noise.
Pennsylvania Fails Down
But the Pennsylvania delegates
4 of the thirty-fourth. ballot when Nc
Add was leading and Cox was rum
Adoo was leading and Cox was run
The loyal Georgia delegates rose in
of the. well-known and rlhald song
entitled They. say Mitchell Palmer.
he amt got no style, he's style all
the while. he's style all the while,
ETC." Blanton Fortson led the bari
tones and Levi Reeves directed the
tenors. Sam Mum reared back and
i opened his lungs like the star per-
/ former at q Sunday school celebra-
Aldine Chambers GRABBED the Geor-
gia banner and started down the
i aisle. The loyal Georgia delegates
dropped into lock and manfully fol
lowed, still chanting their refrain
with regard. to the style Of the at
Neyle CoIquitt got hold of his
ready rider and put her on his shout
ders and pranced like. a saddle horse
in the show ring. She was the same
girl who rode him to a finish when
Palmer was nominated last Tues.
/ day. Mr.. Colquitt does not know
her name and neither do we. She
turns UP regularly when the genial
give his saddle horse stunt in con-
vention demonstrations. She carries
Palmer pennant and wears good
great eclat, dipping and swaying as
he prances the aisles.
The loyal Georgia delegates made
one complete circuit before anybody
Joined the procession: Getting a
the viewpoint of the other delegates
and the spectators. Colonel H. H
Dean laid hold of the Virginia ban
ner and asked permission to tote
ciously granted. Some other Geor.
gian obtained the same permission
from the Michigan delegation.
herd of male students from the Uni
/ versity of California poured into the
hall from a side entrance reserved
for that purpose and Joined the pro-
cessi n. They could make. a show
/ of numbers and create noise, even
if they could not vote for Palmer
| Their long and cadaverous land red.
mis- money in the demonstration
! when Palmer was placed in nomi'
| IInation. a second time rendered a full
days service for a full days @ay
GLORY, Glory, Hallelujah," while the
( Georgia delegates gave a vocal YER
| sion of GLORY, Glory to Old Geor'
( gia." Everybody waited for the
demonstration; but for some reason
I they renamed aloof. The Georgia
/ delegates did not ask permission t.
! carry their banner. Evidently. they
{ figured that it was Pennsylvania
business to render at least that much
of contribution to a demonstration
| given for the benefit of a Pennsyl
! vania candidate.
The Georgia delegates did thei
= and shouted until they were ex
hausted The college students like
wise performed nobly. So did thu
pipe organ and the band. In all re
a spects it was a monster demonstra
ton except that no delegates partici
D pated except the Georgia delegates
and except that, nobody seemed t
give them assistance from thu
e bleachers except your correspondent
who was moved by feelings allow
indicated.
Bulge for Palmer
On the thirty-fifth ballot, which
5 was taken when the 'Georgians, re
p sumed their seats, and the borrowet
y banners were returned and the col
- | legians took their noisy departur
q | through the side entrance. Palmer