The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-07-09
SUFFERED TEN YEARS
WITH STOMACH TROUBLE

Democracy and righteousness and
for the defeat Of the reacticnary
and wet elements in the party
which threaten to dominate it. For
these principles and ideals l shall
continue to fight. i hope that this
convention will never yield to re-
action and privilege and that the
Democratic party will always hold
aloft the torch which was carried
to such noble heights by Woodrow
Wilson. Cordially yours, w. G.
McAdoo."
Immediately after the reading of
the McAdoo letter an attempt was
made to adjourn and it first was
defeated on viva voce vote with
out roll call.
When McAdoo's letter was read
to the convention he stood almost
exactly even with Governor Smith
after two weeks of balloting. Nc
Adoo had $685. votes and Smith
had 1853.
McAdoo's friends and associates
in the convention disclaimed that in
releasing his delegates he was max
ing any attempt to say where they
should go, but some of the pronri-
nent McAdoo people were busy at
tempting to transfer the McAd doc
strength to Meredith of Iowa,
former secretary of agriculture, in
President Wilson's cabinet.
There was report about that
Mr.. McAdoo had declared himself
to his lieutenants in favor of Mr..
Meredith but that his campaign
manager, David L. Rockwell, want
ed the McAdoo strength to fall to
Thomas j. Walsh, of Montana, per-
manent chairman of the convention.
Davis FORCES Ahead
But while the balloting had been
going on, the tide of convention
fortune had been sweeping the
votes upward for John w. Davis,
of West Virginia, as they went
down for Ralston, of Indiana, and
when the McAdoo release of dele
gates was announced Mr.. Davis
strength stood at 210 votes, its
highest.
The question to be determined
was whether the McAdco strength
now set free could be delivered any
where and if it could, whether it
could be made effective against the
growing column of votes for Davis.
The collapse of the McAdoo fight
came at the end of another drama
tic day and night which were the
climax to the record breaking con-
vention of American political his
tory.
After an overnight raid on the
McAdoo forces which carried them
to a new low level the convention
met yesterday morning (Tuesday)
and accomplished little in it's first
session. In the interval before the
night session Governor Smith and
McAdoc met for a personal confer
ence and discussed the situation but
came to no conclusion. The one re-
suit of their meeting was that Coy
ernor Smith sent his floor leader,
Franklin d. Roosevelt to the night
session OF the convention to make a
statement declaring that when Mr..
McAdoo signified his withdrawal
from the contest, he would do like
wise. Mr.. Roosevelt's statement in
behalf of the governor, was made at
the opening of the goth session of
the convention as it was going into
its third week with what delegates,
who remained, weary and worn and
many of them broke.
Smith Offers to Withdraw
Senator Walsh, the chairman,
read without comment the telegram
from Senator Ralston to Thomas
Taggart, asking that his name be
withdrawn. When the reading was
concluded there was a wave of
handclapping.
Almost the whole convention
came to its feet and cheered when
Mr.. Roosevelt was recognized and
began his speech withdrawing con-