Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-07-06
RUNNING STORY OF ROLL
CALLS TAKEN MONDAY AT
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION


Auditorium, san Franc SEQ, July
5.-Heading strong for the forty
sixth ballot record set by the Bal
timore convention which nominat-
ed Woodrow Wilson eight years
ago, the democratic national con-
ventiOn went into it's thirty seventh
ballot tonight. at session which
began at S:42 o'clock and contain d
good prospects for daylight.
With McAdoo, Cox and Palmer
running nearer than they have a =
most at any time before, and e1Ch
in practical posses son of Il veto
power, strong efforts were beng
made to break the line at one of IS
three corners.
"Tammany holds the key was
the word passed after cunferen neS
in which both Cox and McAd'o
forces had participated wi h
Charles F. Murphy and other lead
ers of the New York delegation.
Each side was pulling for Tam
many support and so many argu-
ments entered into the complex SIT
uation that 1t was practically I'M
possible to assess them accurate v.
Palmer forces, refrC shed by the
opportunity for conference and
gathering of strength during the
dinner recess. We're re ady to push
their candidate with utmost Vlgor.
hoping to continue the rise OF
votes which was steadily strlklrg
at the COX and MCAdoo holdings
when the convention quit Tor am
ner after fourteen truitless ballots
on the thirty ballot An
nette Adams of california recently
appointed an assistant attorney
general of the United States, got
one vote from California.
Some belated Fourth of Juy
fireworks went off outside the n
vention hall during the ballot W tn
loud and prolonged reports. Oh
course it was noisy about among
the iokesmiths that somebody
boom was being busted
There was obviously more truth
than fiction in that jest.
Accompanying one Of the loud
reports Tennessee's twenty-four
jumped out of the Palmer column
and back to John w. Davis OF west
Virginia. 1t was jar to the rising
Palmer vote, ....
.ins.,a !, H., w.io lo~y -. ~.sIs
Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, after
being divided for many ballots be
tween McAdoo, Cox and Palmer.
The thirty-seventh ballot as OIL
ficially announced follows;
McAdoo, 405; Cox, 1856; Palmer
2O21a; Cummings, g. owen, 3S;
Davis, 5Oh; Glass, l; Clark z;
Adams, /; Bonniwell. /. Lewis, b.
The changes were: Palmer lost
3Sh; Cox gained 8; McAdoo gam
ed 6; Davis gained 22,
When the chairman announced
no choice on the thirty seventh. the
Cox. McAdOo and Palmer factions
rose up and called , one another
TO ioin and end The deadlock.
The organ ard band. which AL
ways seemed to be ready tor the
McAdoo roo;ers, 1T mto Owe"
There" Il WIS al the MCAd"o poo
pie needed - start up ldi1"e'
They tool their Tip from me music
lilcony anl with T"Nas lcalhE'
started Il pr '-s>' N e NE MtNd' .
states.
The McAdoo demonstration turn
ed out to be like may OF ih"se or
ganized for some of tn other can.
didates. It was not composer OF
delegates and altern@tes, bul rain
er mainly of "boostera," spectators
and enthusiastic visitors VINO IN.
vaded the floor from oth'f parts OF
the hall and set up a great racEet'
One of them carried d ltttle AK
en- haired girl to the platform ana
hoisted her up on his shoulders
where the child waved d, tiny Am
erican flag to the music. The band
End organ were persuaded to let up
and the demonstration died down.
At the close of the thirty-eighth,
Chairman Robinson seemed to nave
hit on an impartial manner OF par,
ceiling out the music. He allowed
the McAdoo boomers, the Palmer
people and the Cox shouters one
verse each of their favorite air.
C. C. Carlin of Virginia, one OF