The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-01
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or two votes, and the anti-McAdon
people IN them are beginning to
agitate the question Of How long
do we haye to ride this way2"
There were reports last night Of
disaffectioFl In the Oklahoma dele
cation Of twenty, but they stuck TO
McAdOo anyway; there were re-
ports this morning Of Tennessee get.
ting restless under the McAdoo yoke
and beginning to east amorous eyes
at John w. Davis, the Tennessean's
love Of San Francisco through forty
four tense ballots.
In the Canal Zone Of six dele
gates, three are for Smith, and but
Tor q ruling OF Chairman Walsh
tho unit rule Of that delegation
already would be broken. Mis-
FsOuri's factions on the McAdoo
question have already come to
blows.
on the other hand. Smiths con.
troll seems more secure, also his
total strength is not 80 great.
Starting with New Yorlsa form.
liable bloc OF 90, the New York
governor has the entire vote Of but
two other States-New Jersey and
Rhode Island and these are bound
to him not by the unit rule, but
by personal loyalty and esteem.
Many Of the predictions Of the
McAdoO managers have already
fallen by the wayside.
Before the balloting started they
predicted q majority by the fifth
and q nomination by the tenth.
How much they failed in this is
now history.
At one point, the tenth ballot.
they had to plead with Kansas to
drop Governor Jonathan NJ. Davis
an order to show any real progress
at all. That was after the eighth
and ninth ballots had shown Nc
Adoo stationary at 444.6.
Glass Making Gains.
Carter Glass forged to the front
IL the overnight dope" even
though he did not do much in the
way Of votes on the first fifteen
ballots.
His managers asserted today that
q number OF Southern States were
growing FESTIVE under the McAdoo
deadlock and would, in the end
turn to the Virglnian, as South
Arner, born and bred, who has the
prestige behind him of having
served a. one Of the Democratic
leaders Of the House, as an officer
in the Wilson Cabinet, and as one
Of the Democratic leaders Of the
Senate.
His opponents, however, were see
w - AAk lat
informed that Senator Glass fav.
ored the Mellon tax plan, which the
Democratic platform, adopted here,
specifically condemns, and they are
also seeing to 1t that the knowledge
becomes general that Senator Glass
voted against the soldiers bonus
last session Of Congress.
His opponents stamp him a. any
thing but a progressive Demo
Crat," and point to these two acts
as proof of his being out Of sym
pathy with the general trend Of his
party during recent months.
Ralston Boom Suffers.
The Ralston boom, 80 formidable
fOrty-eight hours ago, seemed today
to have suffered frost. Whether
it is deadly or not remains to be
seen.
Tom Taggart, who has been pilot
ing the Hoosier Senator here, has
to some extent alienated the anti
khan faction. He refused to 'tplay''
with his old friends In New York,
Illinois and Massachusetts, by Civ.
ing them the two or three votes
necessary to insert an anti.k1an
plank In the platform when they
begged for them, and the telegram
from Ralston, explaining his stand
ON the khan, which Taggart so in.
dustriOusly circulated yesterday,
wac characterized by the bitter anti.
klanners today as "pussy-footing.
The sourness with which the old
friends OF Taggart look upon the
Ralston candidacy was exemplified
by the fact that for eight ballots
Senator Ralston got absolutely
nothing except the thirty votes fol
Indiana. and that at no time was
he ever able to run HIS total above
thirty-twO and one-half.
John w. Davis Looms.
At the same time. Brennan, in
the illinois delegation, was contin
uing to give ten votes to ex-Gov
ernor James M. Cox, Of Ohio, and
ten to Governor y. M. Davis, Of
Kansas, with q scattering to others
In Pennsylvania It was the same
story.
John w. Davis, in the opinion Of
most Observers, continued to loom
today az the most formidable CON
tender. He started with thirty-one
on the first balloot, picked up one
on the second, two on the third
e half on the fifth. and then