The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-07-08


went unheeded for the most part and
the great block OF votes went down
tor Palmer amid a surprised hush.
Cox outstrips McAdoo.
The announcement of the whole
ballot, however, started another tu-
mutt led by Cox adherefffs. II
showed he had outstipped McAd'oo
in the race for Palmer delegates and
again reached the lead.
The Cox forces scented victory
right there. The Cox band trooped
INTO the gallery and hurled the strains
of the Cox battle song, "Ohio, Ohio.
down into the din below. Again time
was required to get quiet enough to
start new roll call.
When Pennsylvania was reached
the delegation asked for a poll: One
by one big McAdoo majority in the
Pennsylvania ranks was disclosed and
Cox supporters looked little dis
turbed. The drift to the Ohio stand
ard was on, however, and even the
more than two score Palmer men
who joined from the Pennsyivan:a "a
forces could not push McAdoo back
into the lead. u
A fight to adjoun for the night was
started by McAdoo supp0rte rs
against shouts OF NO. no." all over
the floor.
The motion felt down on a vote
that left no doubt of the conven-
tons determination to fight it out
then and there. The forty-first bal
lot was started.
Both McAdoo and Cox gained
gound and McAdoo supporters dug
themselves in, firmly determined On
a last ditch fight. The forty-second
roll call was started. 1t showed new
drifts to Cox as the votes were
the indispensable murmur among
the. delegates now regardless of the
fatigue OF the prolonged fight, al
though the great galleries above
them were by then almost vacant.
Great blocks OF empty seats showed
where worn-out. spectators had given
1t up by midnight and gone home
expecting another day.
When Georgia was reached the
delegation chairman leaped to his
chair and shouted that his state for
merly in McAdoo ranks would join
hands with Ohio Ito name the next
PRESIDENT" He cast the solid
Georgia vote for Cox and the shout
tnat followed seemed to rock the
building.
McAdoo followers were still hold
ing grimly. Again the Texas block
OF forty votes went in for him. Ilk
Western States, which led the way in
his drives, stuck hard, and even the
tact that Cox had swept beyond the
tlrSt majority vote recorded tor any
candidate did not shake them loose.
lhe forty-third rollcall began in a
riot of noise that made the poll audi
bic only as the surges OF sound
paused to let the figures reach the
clerks.
Little by little the drift to the Cox
column continued gaining momentum
as it ran. Get INTO the wagon,
roared man in the galleries, and the
Cox boosters took it up. Votes Tor
other candidates than Cox or MIC
Adoo brought yells to Come out of
it and Wake up"
In the New York delegation a
challenge for poll sent dozen
men scurrying to argue with the thal-
lenger. He was the center OF fire
OF argument I'll and obbjjurgation he could
not resist. Finally, after new move
by McAdoo supporters to adjourn i'll
a last desperate effot to stave off de-
feat had been roared down, the last
ballot, the forty-fourth, began.
Alabama Gets Into Wagon.
The result was forecast with the
first vote. Alabama swung solid to
Cox. State by state, delegations who
had stuck out for McAdoo with divid-
ed delegations followed suit. The
slide had set in and there was no
stopping it. The convention had its
mind set to nominate on that ballot.
Up and up mounted the Ohioan's to-
tai of votes. As it passed the 700
mark, with the necessary two-thirds
just ahead, the tumult increased min
ute by minute until the last votes
we're heard only vaguely on the plat.
form. Pennsylvania went over and ,
LuC SOAOA ouO Suah luou ACdPCu " AS
chair to change the vote of his state
to Cox. Half q dozen other chair.
men were waving for recognition to
make similar announcements.
Chairman Robinson hurried to his
lesk with Sam B. Amidon of Kan
;as. a McAdoo chief, who he present.
ID oply after a furious assault with
The gavel foced partial lull i'll the
cheering.
Through continuous racket,
Amidon moved that the rules be sus-
,ended and the nomination be made
unanimous.
All over the great hall men climi,ed
Up on chairs to wave their arms for
silence, and then stand poised like
college yell leaders, to signal the an
;wer to the question.
thousand Voices Shout AYE
Banging his gavel in a final thump,
chairman Robinson put the question,
md the answer roared back at him
With all the volume of a thousand
.oices in shouting the tremendous