The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-07-07
THE DrMocn,rc NOMINEE.

The san Francisco convention shattered a
good many preccdcnts. II was organized and
run by ooteric of federal office holders who
brusky set aside All notable characters of tho
party In naming committees and writing the
platform. Tho domination OF the white house
more complete than In any other national
convention OF which there s record
SO far from harmonizing the factions this
ruthless action but drew the ilnc sharper be
tween them. and resulted In the forming Of a
coalition pledged solcmnly to defeat any whito
house candidate offered The thing that en-
abled this coalition to win In the final hours
OF what was an endurance contest. was the
rule which provided that democratic cand-
date must have two-thrds OF the convention.
The federal machine under the direction Of
President Wilson controlled majority vote.
1t never had chance to command two.thrds
,
The World Immediately following the chi
cago convention said that the logic OF tho
situation called for the nomination OF Gov.
Cox by the democrats Pryor to that time
William c. McAdoo had the nomination sowcd
MP. II was the voice OF reason coupled with
political logic that enabled the Tamany Tag
CART sullivan Nugent old guard of democratic
of Cox
Yet Cox was form and precedent de-
reated half dozen times during the long
drawn-out baotng. SO WIS McAdoo and
Palmer When the candidates out In front fail
t. show Increase and actually begin TO slip
they are figured out OF the running Rarely
indeed do they develop a second strength aud
take the lead Yet all or these did do that not
once but several times.
Dark horses could get nowhore. A number
were quietly tested but they failed to show
form. There remains a mystery about Mar
shall. lie had much strength ms "A dark horse.
He was managed by the astute raggart. And
there were many hours when the upwards OF
two hundred votes he was known to command
promised II stampede towards his candidacy
had they been thrown in. Yet he was never
entered after the first heats. lie had said
that he would not accept tho nomination on n
silver platter unless the platform tit Tho plat
form had been made and did not fit Marshall
So the presumption is that ne refused to per
init the of his namo,
owen was never in the running Tits candi-
dacy Ia another mystery. There were those who
took It seriously The senator himself did
And yet had ne boon tho only avowcd candi-
date when the convention convened another
would have been found and nominated, BE
cause. in the first place, geography was even
moro against htm than II was against senator
Johnson-or sproul; and IN the second place
because his attack on the supreme court and
various other Incorporate uttcranccs put Him
completely out Of the running. The okla
homa senator hod precisely ass much chance
on the last ballot as hc had on the first
The net result OF the san Francisco couyou-
ton appears grotosque. 1t is contradiction In
fact The candidate and the platform on which
ne stands is a case OF two horses going In op-
posite directions. Gov. Cox no more fits the
platform than would woodrow Wilson rit the
Chicago platform. The question therefore &c.
which fits the party that must control the
offioial-the platform or the man?
1t is stating only the popular impression &c
assert that while the platform was devised 10y
Wilson the candidate was named by his en-
emes Col. bryau has written that the dead
lock was caused by three factions and influ
onces seeking to dominate the party and nam,
the candidate. the white house, Wall street an,
the vets Mr. Bryan is an accepted democra
reckoning Wall Street and the vets succeeded