The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1920-07-08
JAMES NJ. COX RECEIVES DEMOCRATIC
NOMINATION FOR THE PRESIDENCY
AFTER STEADILY DOWN HIS CHIEF OPPONENT Will
LIAM G. McADoo, oHIoAN WALKS OFF WITH The
PRIZE ON THE FoRTY-FoURTH BALLOT
ATTORNEY GENERAL PALMER IN GRATEFUL SPEECH RET|RES
Secretary Roosevelt is Prominently
Second Place on the Ilekeei
Exhaustion and Compelled Recess

Mitchell Palmer asks me to express
his sincere thanks and appreciation to
every delegate who had voted for his
nomination, but he is unwilling to de-
lay the proceedings further, and au-
thorized me to finally, positively and
absolutely release every delegate
pledged to him, that the convention
may proceed to nominate the next
President Of the United States"
There. was a roar or ''Hurrah for
Palmer" as the lines broke and the
convention went into recess. The
denouement, coming at the end of the
80 hard-fought and fruitless ballots,
gave the same affect as does an over
inflated automobile tire when it bursts
with a bang and then s1zzles down.
The entire Palmer vote, added to
McAdoo's total on the thirty-eighth
ballot, would give him GIG IL. The
Palmer votes added to the Cox total
on the same ballot would give the
Ohio governor 594 IL. Both leading
candidates would fall short of the two
thirds, which is 1919.
Delegates voting solidly under the
unit rule but at heart divided between
McAdoo and other candidates have de-
veloped i'll feeling so much so that the
caucuses which took place on the floor
during the recess gave evidences OF
the feeling. There were shouting,
waving of arms and some shaking OF
fists and a great deal of scurrying
about. Platform and convention hall
floor were damned with an arguing
gesticulating mass of men and women
mostly men-but the argument was
not greater in volume with them de-
spite their prepOnderance in number.
During the recess there was circlt-
lated about the floor copies of tele-
gram from Judge Moore, Cox's man
ager, to Daniel C. Roper of New York,
Judge Moore, of Youngstown. Ohio
accredited with being one Of the Mo
Adoo managers, charging that "a
crowd of government employees and
| treasury officials are for their own
personal ends and in defiance of Mr.
McAdoo's expressed wishes, improper
! ly using his name to create deadlock
/ in this convention"
Charging that several delegations
were packed with government en-
pIoyes,s holding out for the nomina.
! ton of Mr. McAdoo, Moore's telegram
charged that "the action of the pay
roll brigade is creating a national
scandal to the ruin of the democratic
party"
Auditorium, San Francisco. July 8
Heading strong for the As ballot
! ho Pa1fiOn0ro onnunn.
| ton which nominated Woodrow Will
son eight years ago, the democratic
national convention went into its 37th
ballot tonight at session which be
gan at $3.50 O'Clock and contained
good prospects for daylight.
With McAdoo, Cox and Palmer run
ming nearer even than they have al
most at any time before, and each in
practical possession of a veto power
strong efforts we're being made to
break the line at one of it's three cor
; ners.
! "Tammany holds the key" was the
word passed after conferences in
which both Cox and McAdoo forces
had participated with Charles F
Murphy and other leaders of the New
York delegation. Each side was pull
ing for Tammany SUPPORT and sc
many arguments entered into the
complex situation that it was pract1
cally impossible to assess them accu
rately.
On the 9th ballot the leaders stood
McAdoo, 4O5; Cox, 1856; Palmer
| 2O2 IL.
When the chairman announced nc
choice on the 9th, the Cox, McAdoc
and Palmer factions rose UP and
called to one another to join and end
the deadlock.
The organ and band, which always
seemed to be ready for the McAdoc
rooters, lit into cover There" 1t was
all the McAdoo people needed tc
start up a parade. They took thei1
tip from the music balcony and with
Texas leading, started a procession OF
the McAdoo states.
The changes on the 9th were
Palmer lost 38 IL; Coz gained nine
McAdoo gained six; Davis gained
% H."
At the close of the thirty-eighth
Chairman Robinson seemed to have
hit on an impartial manner Of PARCEL
ing out the music. He allowed tht