The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-07-06

cation chairman leaped to his chair ant
shouted that his state formerly in Nc.
Aooo ranks would Join hands with Ohio
70 name the next president" He cast
the solid Georgia vote for Cox and the
snont that followed seemed to rock tho
McAdoo followers were still holdins
| grimly. Again the Texas block of ~
votes went in for him. The W Az
states which led the way In hif ri
had swept beyond the first ma ), Bite
recorded for any candidate did lake
them loose.
Rio. Of Noise.
The forty-th third roll call y$ in a
riot OF noise that made II n audible
only as the surges of 81 Aused to
let let the 5lt,,d figures ,Ss are, reach III Little
continued gaining moH$ as 1t ran.
Get into the wagon. "a n man in
the galleries and the CO.. Yrooters took
It up. Votes for other Candidates than
out OF it," and wake up
In the New York delegation n cha,-
lenge for a poll sent dozen men
seurrying to argue with the challenger.
He was the center of a fire of argument
and .adjurgation he could not resist
Finally. after a. new move by McAdoo
ate effort to stave off defeat had been
roared down, the last ballot. the forty
The result was forecast with the first
state BY state. delegations who had
stuck out for McAdoo with divided
delegation, followed suit. The slide had
set In and there was no stopping II.
The convention had its mind set 70
mounted the ohioan's total Of votes.
AS 1t passed the 700 mark with the
necessary two-thirds Just ahead. the
tumult increased minute by minute until
on the platform. Pennsylvania went
over and the Colorado chairman leaped
to his chair to change the vote OF his
state to Cox. Half dozen other chair
men were. waving for recognition TO
make similar announcements.
Chairman Robinson hurried TO his
desk with Sam b. Amidon. of Kansas.
a McAdoo chief. who he presented only
after a furious assault with the gavel
forced a partial lull in the cheering
Through continuance racket Amiuon
moved that the rules be suspended and
the nomination be made unanimouk
All over the great hall men climbed
upon chairs TO wave their arms TOY
silence and then stand poised like college
yell leaders to signal the answer to tFe
Banging his gavel In the final thur%p,4
Chairman Robinson put the question
and the answer roared back at MN WIN
all the volume of thousand voices in
shouting the tremendous AYE" that
made Gov. Cox the democratic nominee,
The forty fourth ballot never wgs
completed. In the great chorus OF al
firnation. 1t was. swept away as up
necessary.
Many Of the changes which would
have been made had the vote been
carried through were never recorded.
and on the face of that ballot Gov. Cox
received officially 702a votes, but they
were never totaled for he was nomi-
mated by the unanimous voice OF the
convention.
The nomination Of Gov. Cox means
that the two great parties not only
have gone into the same state for their
candidates, but have picked men who
for years have been associated more
or less closely In the same profession.
Like Senator Harding. Gov. Cox is
newspaper man, and their home towns
in Ohio are not far apart. :.
At midnight McAdoo forces attempted
to compel an adjournment until 10 am.
but a poll OF the states de-
MED the motion, the Cox delegates
standing rigidly on their advantage
The vote was; For adjournment, 4o6;
against. 637.
wen stay at 1t until daylight" was
the cry Of the Coxites.