The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-01

rumblings of doing ahead with changes for casts and slides of votes.
 Delaware was not ready yet to quit Salisbury and her 6 remained as firm as did Florida's 12 for McAdoo, with the McAdoo pile. Illinois, however, di- not ready but there were evidences that he was getting ready.
 Two Breaks
 As the convention went into its tenth ballot, two breaks, the first of any inn p0ftance in the balloting, occurred.
 Kansas turned over her 20 to McAdoo and New Jersey promptly turned over her 2S to Governor Smith.
 The maneuver eliminated two more native sons from the race and ran the totals of the two leaders n little higher.
 Both changes were attended with the usual tremendous demonstrations and were said to forecast developments which would trot out the maximum strength of the two leading contenders tonight.
 This time the vote from. Illinois was Smith, IS; Cox, 10; Governor Davis, @; Walsh, 1; Governor Bryan, 8; John W. Davis, 2; Robinson, 1 McAdoo, 13; Governor Brown, 1. Indiana once more announced her 30 for Ralston by fair Hoosier maid. A different one this time. The unit rule still was working in Iowa and that 26 went to McAdoo. The 20 from Kansas so recently &C., quired for McAdoo stayed put and lined up with Kentucky's 26 for McAdoo
 As the convention reassembled fol- lowing the afternoon recess to plunge into the balloting again, the score stood this way:
 Smith PTS.
 McAdoo 444.6.
 J. w. Davis 63.
 Underwood 42h.
 Ralston 3012.
 Cox 60.
 Governor Davis of Kansas 32.4.
 Glass %. '
 Robinson 21.
 Silzer 2S.
 Ritchie 1712. j
 Harrison 2012.
 Brown 6.
 Salisbury 6.
 Governor Bryan 15.
 Houston Thompson 1.
 William Jennings Bryan 1. Four favorite sons had been elimi- mated altogether.
 The unofficial figures gave McAdoo's total on the first ballot as 43115 and Smiths total on the first ballot ran l,.j to PAY, how far those figures reported maximum or minimum strength no one could determine.
 The remainder of the voting was scattered among the other candidates in hn of fxwyr added starters, Houston Thompson of Colorado and Senator Kendrick of Wyoming. There was nothing notable in the voting on the first ballot. It was quiet and orderly and almost with out the feeling of tension that goes with the first test of strength in a na- tional convention. The convention got to balloting without any recurrence of the disorders of Saturday night over the klan issue and reports that there was an attempt to reopen that sub ject melted away.
 The second ballot showed little change from the first All the native sons dark horses stood solid through out. The only change of note was that Louisiana switched her 20 fro-, Sena- tor Harrison of Mississippi to Senator Robinson of Arkansas.
 Positions Unchanged
 The relative positions of Smith and McAdoo were unchanged in the second ballot.
 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Smiths man ager, made this comment on the ballot ing:
 "The result is no surprise. The Smith and McAdoo totals were within five votes of what were estimated. The fsukA The unofficial totals of the two lead CTS on the second ballqt were 431 for McAdoo. a loss of F Vote and 251 F for Smith, gain of II votes for the New York governor.
 Through three ballots the conven- tion worked it's way up to noon today without finding nominee or material ly changing the relative position of the two leaders. McAdoo and Smith.
 Out of the native sons only one was eliminated up to the close of the third ballot. He was Governor Sweet of Colorado. His delegation took the vote it had been casting for him and divided it principally between McAdoo and Smith. Aside from a little rumpus in Missouri the ballOting was devoid of ructions.
 MissOurianS Clash
 After challenges respecting the. unit rule two Missouri delegates had brush but the states 36 stayed solid for Me Adoo. under the unit rule, despite charges from challengers that the ma jority there did not express the will of the people of the state and that money has been brought in for the McAdoo campaign.
 It seemed obvious that the managers of the leading five favorite son candi- dates were sitting tight, waiting for the expected deadlock between Smith and McAdoo to be uRnistakably established.