The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-10

e-Jugh from widely scattered sources to bring him up to I'll. Ohio was con- tributing 15 at this stage and New Hampshire six. West Virginia, Louis- jana and Missouri were standing firm, On the ninety-seventh they. were joined by Oklahoma and the total was 1S3. It went to 195 on the next roll call as both McAdoo and Smith continued their decline and small groups of their followers went to Davis.
 Kansas Contributes
 On the ninety-ninth Kansas con- tribufed her 20 to the Davis column and it totalled 210. A scattered few pulled away on the one hundredth roll call, the last before adjournment this morning, however, and when the ses- sion that was to nominate him assem- bled at noon Mir. Davis total stood at 203. N
 McAdoo and Smith both were out def initely but the tired delegates were not certain where they should turn. The states standing at, the head of the column temporized either standing by t.eir favorites or scattering their strength widely. But when Maryland was called Governor Ritchie who him. self had been given the solid vote of his state through an even hundred roll calls mounted a chair at the rear of the hall and shouted up 16 votes for Davis.
 Takes Lead
 Before the cheering was ended Mis- sissippi had followed the lead of Mary land, little later North Carolina gave Davis 20 out of her 24. Ohio gave him 23; Pennsylvania, 19; South Carolina, IS. Virginia, breaking the solid 24 she had been hoarding for her fav0rite son, Senator Glass, gave half of them to | the son of her neighbor on the west. New York took notice of his candidacy for the first time, giving him q solitary one from her ninety. In a field of IS candidates he had received on this roll call 316 votes and was in the lead for the first. time.
 Tie one hundred and second ballot saw the total swelled to 415s mainly by increases from the states that al ready had been voting small groups for him. At the same time he broke into sev. eral more of the disintegrating McAdoo states. Texas gave him all of her 40, and George 13 of her .28.
 As the clerks began to call the roll for the one hundred and third and last time, larger and larger blocks of delegates came sweeping in to camp. Georgia this time gave Davis 27. Ida ho went to him solidly, leaving Sena- tor Walsh. He got 19 in Illinois, 25 in Indiana, 9 in Kentucky, 29 in Michigan, all of Nevada's 6, 4 in New York, Al in Ohio, 37 in Pennsylvania. Washington, a McAdoo state and Rhode Island, a Smith state. went over to him bodily and before the roll call was completed he had more than a ma jOrity.
 Scramble Follows
 In the scramble to change votes to him that followed no one knew exactly when the total had reached the 730 necessary to nominate. A dozen dele. | gations were seeking in the universal tumult to get recognition and to record unanimous votes for Davis. George E. Brennan, speaking for Illinois swung the state's entire 58 into the column of the winner. Iowa withdrew Mere dikh and changed solidly to Davis. Cali forniA revised her vote to give him q of her %.
 F EOlA HIS AHFalAQ CudAE 1M t0C mluSt of the hall, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the manager of the. Smith forces, asked that the vote of New York be, changed to two for Glass, 28 for Walsh and 60 for Davis. Governor Fields of Ken lucky changed the vote of his state to give at all to Davis. Ohio changed to give him 46 ont of AS, Senator Swanson threw in the entire A of Virginia, Josephus Daniels followed withs the entire North Carolina vote, a woman delegate announced a similar change for PennsyIyania and Governor Brandon. of Alabama whose twenty four for Underwood" had awakened all the echoes of the old garden at the start of more than hundred roll calls, shouted up, 'Twenty-fOur for Davis"
 End Comes
 The count had gone past two-thirda and the convention floor was in a tus mutt as the delegates realized that their long task was done at last. But over the noise; of the beginning of Davis for president parade around the hall. Thomas Taggaft of Indiana, who had played q leading role of compromise through the most trying hours of the fight, made himself heard with mo tion to declare the nomination unani' nous. It was adopted with roar and the longest deadlock of political his. tory came to it's official close as Chair. man Walsh pronounced these words
 "By virtue of the vote just taken the chair declares the honorable John w, Davis of West Virginia the nOmi nee of this convention"