New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-04

DIRK TRIBUNE. 81
horses were sure TO be trotted out if
the twelfth ballot showed no change in
the voting.
In the midst of the twelfth ballot
the convection went into a great dem
by the breaking of the solid Illinois
block Of delegates, which threw thirty
votes to the Ohosn. Following the
accesslons made to the Cox standards
from Indiana and New York, the
change in the voting WAS the signal
for an uproar In which state standards
were brought into parade around the
hall with the usual number of scrim-
images, in which the Arkansas standard
was demolished
The break in Illinois gave Cox thirty
votes more to his string. The Cox
people in the convention made n great
demonstration. All the votes : we're
taken from Palmer and fourteen were
retained for McAdoo.
Nevada's flop from McAdoo to Cox,
with her SIX votes. was noted
On the twelfth ballot Cox passed
the 400 mark and McAdoo touched
404 votes.
'-cAdoo on that ballot had 3751h
votes and, therefore, a veto power
under the two-thirds rule of the con-
vcntion.
Despite the gain of Cox, there
seemed no prospect of enough for a
break to nominate anybody when the
convention went into the fourteenth
ballot
South Carolina Ready to Break
South Carolina, which has been held
for McAdoo by half vote under the
unite rule, was getting ready to break
as the convention went into the four
teenth.
cations were reported imminent. The
state delegations standards. which
previously had carried votes to Cox.
were raised in the demonstration which
the casting Of the block of votes from
Illinois occasioned and the parade for
Cox started around the hall, led by
Ohio and followed by New Jersey,
Illinois, Mississippi, Maryland and
Indiana, Florida, Kentucky, New Jersey
and other states IhicE had been cast
ing Cox votes. Rhode Island also fell
in.
Iowa passed and members Of the
poll. 1t was known there were Nc
Adoo votes in the delegation. A poll
was ordered later and the roll call
went The poll of Iowa showed sixteen
for Cox and ten for McAdoo.
Chairman Marsh, of the Iowa dele
cation, then under the unit rule cast
twenty six votes for Cox
An Iowa delegate challenged the vote
on the ground that the unit rule had
been abrogated, despite the fact that
the state convention placed them un
der it,
The ruling Of the chair was that the
unit rule stood. and Cox got the twcn-
ty-six votes.
Palmer lost liz on that ballot, Cox
gained fifteen and McAdoo lost eight
votes.
All the way up to and through the
fourteenth ballot, Virginia stuck to
Glass and West Virginia stuck to Davis.
II was said tho Virginia votes were
being held to Glass, because they could
not be wholly turned to McAdoo. and
West Virginia was sticking for Davis
on the "tip" that he probably might be
the dark horse
South Carolina continued to stick
for McAdoo through the sixteenth bal
lot, despite persistent reports of a
break away.
Confer Over Adjournment
The platform officials joined in the
conferences to get an adjournment.
The convention was getting tired and
hungry. Senator Glass, one of the
friends said: at can't 60 to Cox"
Glass was asked what would be the
case if Cox got majority. Champ
Clark got maj ority,' responded Glass,
land every vote that he gets now comes
harder'
1t WAS known there were many votes
IN the Palmer forces opposed to Nc
Adoo, which also did not want Cox.
The prospects Of a dark horse we re-
vlved again.
The increasing vote for Davis on the
sixteenth ballot brought him forward
again IN the discussion as a possible
compromise
The Palmer people meanwhile were
TALKING over plans to attempt to get
an adjournment until $50 tonight.
When the District Of Columbia voted
SIX for Palmer Judge T. 7. Ansberry
demanded poll, and it was ordered
after the roll Of states had been fin
lshed.
In the poll cambridge Colby Score
tary of State, was absent and his alter
nate did not vote Judge Ansberry
voted for Cox
he District OF Columbia poll was:
Palmer three and half votes; Nc
Adoo, one, and Cox, one, and absent.
one-half Under the unit rule six
votes had to be cast for Palmer.
All three Of the leaders lost on the
sixteenth ballot. Cox fell short Ia,
McAdoo 7, and Palmer, 3 These votes
we're almost all given to John w. Davis
Am passador to Great Britain, whose
total on that ballot was 81 Mr.. Davis
was being much talked of as a dark
horse on which the forces might unite
with Administration support.
1T was the first loss Cox had suffered
since the balloting began.
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