Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-05
WORKERS FAIL AS HOSTS TO DEMOCRATS OF NATION


sippi, Missouri and Oklahoma.
1t was clearly a case Of each cam
paign manager trying to outwit the
other, and the delegates. CROWN g
to decide which way to steer If they
should throw their captains over
board
Suggestions that both of the lead
ing contenders withdraw to open the
way for compromise nominee were
described as absurd" by David
Ladd Rockwell, the McAdoo mana
ger, and as impossible" by Frank.
lin d. Roosevelt, in charge of the
Smith forces. Each claimed reserves
and a determination to wait until
the other camp was exhausted.
Rule Change Discussed
A proposal to amend the rules to
eliminate the low candidate on each
ballot until only three remained
aroused considerable discussion, but
no one seemed to know just how it
could be done.
At one time, former Senator Hitch
cock drafted resolution providing
such a course, and said he would
submit 1T today unless some indlca'
ton of a break in the deadlock de.
veloped. A little later. j. Bruce
Kremer, national committeeman
from Montana, and a McAdoo floor
leader, was on his way to the plat
form to make a similar proposal
but was dissuaded by William Jen-
nings Bryan.
The commoner previously had
counselled delay in presenting a
resolution prepared by Gavin Nc
Nab, of San Francisco, designed, as
Rockwell put it, to bring about an
arrangement whereby the entire
convention strength might be clear
ly divided between the two lead
ers."
The continued deadlock, which
passed all national convention rec
ords when the fifty-eighth ballot
was started, was attributed by Rock.
well to the failure of favorite sons
to withdraw and leave the race to
the leaders. Senator Glass was the
only member of this group to re-
lease his delegates yesterday, but
the Virginians couldn't make UP
their minds to take his advice to &C
to McAdoo, and decided to stick tc
him a while longer under the in
structions.
Delegates Uncertain
The uncertainty OF other dele
gates as well as those from Virginia
was demonstrated throughout the
day, and the most general comment
on the subject was 1--WE don't know
where to 60"
The Indiana delegation was held
to Ralston by Thomas Taggart, who
said 1.-The breeze given his candi
date was not according to plan, but
was forced because the senator's
friends became a. bit anxious
Mississippi and Missouri, which left
McAdoo for his column during the
day and the Ralston votes which
had come from the Smith fold, were
willingly released by Taggart to re
turn to their former lines, but he
said he expected them to come back
to Ralston when needed. He was
still DESTROYS of making friends,
and insisted he did not intend to
press his man until the McAdoo and
Smith leaders had been given all
the chance they wanted.
Smith Leaders waiting
The return of Mississippi and
Missouri units to the McAdoo list
after switching to Ralston was de-
scribed by the Smith leaders as an
effort to get them to bring out re
serves. This, they reiterated, was
what they had no intention of doing
until the McAdoo force was definite
ly spent, and they added that they
would not begin their drive until
the Californian S votes had dWindled
to less than one-third of the dele
, gates present and voting, depriv,
ing him of his voting power over
other candidates. The McAdoo total
dropped below the original AL on
six ballots yesterday, and never
reached the 500 mark passed the
night before, but the net change was
slight. The losses and recaptures
however, kept his workers busy
while they were in progress, and
provided much of the demonstrating
that marked the sessions.
The Smith trend, on the other
hand, was slowly upward with few
Interruptions, and his total of 1855
on the sixty-first ballot was the
highest he had yet received. This
was just thirty-two votes more than
he had received fifty ballots pre-
Viously, and the Smith Strategists
said they hoped to stay in about
the same position until their drive
should begin.l
Cognizance of the fourth Of July
which IN recent decades has come
to be one of the customary meeting
days for Democratic national con-
ventions-was taken before adjourn
meHt by Chairman Walsh, of Mon
tana, who made provisions in to-
days program for the ~inging Of
patriotic airs and the 'ro"ding of
the Declaration of Independence by
Augustus Thomas.
To Aid Broke" Delegates
The monotony of the rapidly
mounting roll calls having served
no apparent purpose other than the
consumption of time. w. j. Bryan
began, between spells Of work for
McAdoo yesterday. 10 think of the
flight of those delegates who are
bein~ sorely pressed financially by
the length of their stay in New
York. AS a result, he devised, and
Rockwell approved, plan to lay
before the national committee a
proposal that a general expense
fund be raised for embarrassed del
egates.
Despite the duration Of the con-
vention, however, few delegates or
alternates have left Now York, APP
orop+1,- ci,,ca tho number of votes