Imperial Valley press., 1924-07-01
10Th BALLOT
BRINGS GREAT
GAIN FOR DAVIS
Starts With Only 81
Votes on The First
Ballot


MADISON SQUARE GARDEN,
New York July l.-(2 p. m.)-John
! w. Davis of West Virginia at this
hour has risen to the point Of be
ing the most likely dark horse in
| the Democratic nomination.
Starting with 81 votes ON the
first ballot yesterday, Davis has
shown small consisten ent gains through
| every ballot until the Goth he reach
ed total of 1872. This represent
ed Il doubling Of his vote during the
morning alone. lie started the day
| with 60 votes on the 10th ballot.
! On the twentieth, Missouri passed,
! caucused and then threw the dele
| CATION 8 entire 36 votes to Davis.
This was not only big boos fos
the Wes' Virginia but il meant that
McAdoo had definitely lost his hold
/ on the states ballot.
While Davis was growing, the
fight between McAdoo and Smith
was continuing through ballot az
| ter ballet with Smith holding his
| lines but McAdoo falling off. The
| Californian started off today WIN
478 votes but had dropped to 1872 on
| the twentieth ballot. This is only
| one half more votes than he mad on
F.! the first ballot yesterday. The MIS-
| souri, caucus revealed that there are
actually 22H Davis votes in that.
/. delegation, but they are sill Vot-
| ing under unit rule and after the
twentieth ballot Judge Rockwell
was making desperate efforts to
swing them back TO McAdoo again.
The caucus of the delegation
showed 221a votes for Davis ami
/; the rest scattered. McAdoo had
only Il half dozen votes left.
The switch came after Mrs. II.
, f. Oldfathcr of st. Louis had serv-
ed notice on the leaders she would
demand an open poll Of the dele
CATION on every roll call.
"We've got to break this unit
from McAdoo', she declared.
Force An Open Poll
When the vote was announced
Mrs. r. L. Hughes challenged its
accuracy, thus automatically forcing
an open poll of the delegation to
! place each vote ON record before
the convention and to ascertain if
! Davis really had his claimed 22R
! votes in it.
This caused more confusion in
the delegation since several of the
delegates had authorized the chair
man to vote them with whichever
candidate had a majority.
McAdoo leaders made n frantic
effort TO save the delegation.
/ William Ladd Rockwell, cam
paign manager, called a meeting of
Il dozen of his floor leaders and
they all concentrated on Missouri
making private polls themselves.
i As the twentieth ballot swung
along, Franklin ID. Roosevelt, who
is leading the Smith campaign pre-
pared for n long siege and ordered
scores of glasses of iced coffee and
sandwiches brought into the New
! York delegates who lunched with
out leaving the hall. Meantime in
the basement hot dogs were selling
at 20 cents each and bad ham be-
! tween slices of nodded bread was
held at 25 cents per sandwich.
Between ballots the Iowa delaga-
tion which had become increasing
| ly restless, caucused on the floor
to determine whether it would fol-
| low the lead of Missouri and swing
away from McAdoo.
| T.. r. Meredith of Des Moines
took the poll and said he thought
probably Iowa would remain un-
der the unit rule for McAdoo at
least fcr time.
The poll of the Missouri delega-
tion showed:
! j. s. Davis % 1-6, McAdoo 81;
Glass 2 90; Walsh 3-G.
A majority of the delegation
having voted for Davis, Chairman
! Walsh instructed. that the full num-
Der of votes be east for DAVIS.