Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-07-06

= McAdoo and Cox. Kentucky having
previously cast one vote for Miss
Laura Clay, cast one for Miss Cora
Wilson Stuart. The Kentucky dele-
cation was giving complime ntary
presidential votes to Kentucky wo-
men. Palmer made gain of enc in
Massachusetts Montana, which had
been giving McAdoo eight straight,
gave three to Palmer. Then the At
/ torney General picked up four more
/ in South Dakota and one in Virginia.
He lost, however, one and half in
/ Washington. In return he picked
up three in Wisconsin. Then, after
o. the 36th ballot on motion of Fred
B. Lynch, of Minnesota, the conven-
ton recessed.
When the afternoon Jaliotlng was
in the closing stage, the Palmer boom
was taking an upward eXcurslon-ln
fact the first it had enjoyed since it
took the slip in the twelfth ballot Sat
urday. The McAdoo votes had TAX
en- the leading place from the Cox
votes and the Cox column had finally
regained some of it's strength. When
the session. ended at recess for sup
per, the principal coptenders were
probably closer together than they
had been for a long time and If 1T
meant anything it meant that the
deadlock was a little tighter.
The McAdoo people tried to ex-
plain the Palmer rise by saying it
really was an excursion to carry the
Attorney General as far as he could
go. They declared the Cox people
had done the same thing and had
failed to put their man over. When
the Palmer and Cox booms had both
been given a 'joy ride" to use the
language of the McAdoo managers.
it was the plan of the McAdoo people
to begin new drive for the Presi
dents son-in-law.
eek Holds Steadily
Hopes and prospects that the con-
vention might nominate during the
day went glimmering soon after it
got down to business. 1t was appar-
ent that the lines were going to
hold. The Cox lines did hold stoutly
in the face of two breaks to McAdoo
one from Indiana and another from
Washington. They came back in
some other delegations soo1. Palmer
sentiment was rather tagging when
! the sudden rush of votes to the At
! torney Generals column gave it
sudden rise late in the day and his
supporters were taking now on new
| heart.
| There was no evidence during the
day of any plans which would assur
that the convention could finish its
work during the night. The three
candidates had run a wide range in
/ the balloting. Palmer, starting out
at 256, fell as low as l. D.. in the sec
ond and by the thirty-sixth had got
t back to 241.
Cox was at his lowest With ~ in
the first ballot. His high mark was
468 in the nineteenth.
By the thirty-sixth, he had sagged
down to 377.
McAdoo, startin govt with lead
was 266 on the first ballot. Cox soon
took the first place. However by the
thirty-second ballot, McAdoo was no.
only back in first place, but had
struck high water mark of AL IL,
In the 36th he was at 389.
Proposal in Air.
During the recess the Cox people
went into conference. There was
a proposal in the air to see if t.,
New York delegation could not be
swung to the Palmer column
The report which went with the
story of the conference was that If
the search for a dark horse were I'M
availing the Cox strength might be
thrown to the Palmer column. This
of course, was dependent on convinc-
ing the Cox managers that they had
struck their limit in the ball, ting.
The forces went in session yester-
day morning with predictions on ev
cry hand that a nominee would soon
be found. Large bets were laid that
the convention would nominate with
in an hour and half. But such poor
progress was made that vote was
forced on proposals to suspend the
rules and drop off the low man on
each succeeding ballot until "a NOM
ination was mace. The plan failed
for lack of necessary two-thirds vote
but it showed the growing temper of
| the convention.
At 10 o'clock Monday morning the
convention was waiting to begin the
taking of the 23d ballot, but was
slow in getting to order.
! Leaders on both sides as they
came into the hall were agreed tha'
| the first ballot of the day, the 23d of
| the convention, would be much the