Evening star., 1924-07-06
Failure of Dark, Horses to Show Winning Speed Surprise

Candidates In Touch.
The various candidates remained at
THEN respective headquarters, but
were kept in constant touch with
the pn oceedings by telephone and thus
were, able actively to direct their
the various ideas advanced in the
early stages. Soon after the confer
ence got under way the atmosphere
in the c,.nwded room became SO oppres-
The c,arferees, each packing his
own chair. filed down the corridor to
a bigger chamber nearby. Up to
the time or this move the formal dis
cussion of vhe problem had not be-
gun.
Although women delegates to the
convention lu,d sought representa-
tion in the meeting. none of the
candidates selected woman TO
speak for hilu 1t was for this
Observation-Disclosures, of the candidates
were announced officially as folio ows
For Alfred L. amith.Erankiin MIsn In D.
]. Hoey, New York. and J: n. Cooey
of brooklyn and CIsorge f. Brennan
and Thomas Lynch- Illinois.
McAdoo. Selects Eight.
For William q. McAdoo-David
I,add Rockwell, Ohior J. Bruce kre
mer, Montana; Darhel roper
North Carolina: Homer 5. Cummings
illinois,; Arthur Null an, Nebraska,
and Thomas L. ChaGh ourne, New
York.
For Oscar Underwood--C, {. Car
lin, Virginia; w. X. Pattensan.
For Joseph r. Robinsoi-Senator
Thaddeus H. Caraway. Arkansas.
For Willard Saulsbury--Senator
Thomas F. Bayard, Delawar,eI
For David f. -Houston-LAewis q.
Stevenson, Illinois; Francis G.. Saffey
and Earl Harding.
For Samuel NJ. Ralston-Thomas
Taggart, Indiana
Bryan IHs Included.
For Jonathan, NJ. Davis-Frederick
Robertson, Kansas.
For Albert c. Ritc,hie-Howard
Bruce and L. Brooke Lee, MARYLAND.
For Woodbridge N. Ferris-Willram
| A. Comstock. Michigan.
For James NJ. Cox. Henry Goeke
and Charles l.. Morris. Ohio.
For Charles w. Bryan-"illiam
Jennings Bryan, Florida. and I. 5.
Allen. Nebraska.
| For Fred II. Brown-Robert Jack
| son, New Hampshire.
For George SiAer-James kerney
| and Mayor Frank Hague, Jersey City,
n. j.
For Carter Glass-Senator Claude
A. Swanson, H. F. Byrd, Virginia, and
| Henry c. Stuart.
| For John w. DaviS-C. L. Shaver
| West Virginia.
| The first attempt to change the
convention procedure came after the
seventy second ballot, when h. M. Sc
| mans of Oklahoma City presented a
resolution providing that on each
| ballot the low man be dropped until
| only two candidates remained. That
was thrown out on point of order,
| but a little later former Senator
Hitchcock of Nebraska precipitated a
| roll call on the elimination plan by
presenting it in form that would
leave five candidates instead of two
| in for the, final ballots. The McAdoo
delegates opposed the Hitchcock reso-
| luton, but mustered only 4S6 votes
for it, while the opposition polled
$50. Two-thirdS would have been
required for adoption.
Transfer Move Beaten.
A. H. Ferguson. of Durant, Okla,
! journ and reconvene July 21 in Kan
sas City. Many of the McAdoo work
| ers, who have complained of the
| treatment of their candidate by New
| Workers in the gallery of the conven-
| tion hall here, went out to seek adop-
| tion of the proposal. but the personal
| aversion of the delegates to a plan
| that would involve them in another
| convention after this is over tri-
umphed over all else, and the reso-
luton was beaten 1,007 to s2.
! A third plan for eliminating the
| favorite sons and letting the full
convention strength decide between
| the two high men was laid before the
| convention later by Thomas Fl. Ball
of Houston, Tex. another McAdoo
i IL hot of a
certain number of ballots both the
unit rule and the two-thirds rule be
| abandoned together. His resolution
| was voted down without roll CALL
| Second Place Considered.
Should the conference which began
tonight, facing an all-night session,
result in an agreement on a presi-
| Dental candidate, it is, possible that
| it will carry with it an understanding
as to second place.
| Active consideration has been given
in all compromise proposals hereto
1 fore to the selection of a complete
ticket, properly balanced from the
viewpoint of probable support, and
several of those who went into the
convention tonight took with them
| several tentatively arranged combi-
nations TO President and Vice Presi-
dent that they belived might appeal
| to the convention as a whole.
Although only the candidates placed
| formally in nomination before the
convention were invited to send rep
| resentatives to the conference, 1t was
declared the field of possibilities
| considered would not be confined to
| this or any other group. nor cir
! cumscribed by any Limitation based
| on the respective strength polled by
| the respective aspirants under the
unusual conditions of the present con-
| vention.
| Besides the candidates like Robin
son, Ralston, Glass and Davis, who
have received substantial totals at
one stage of the balloting or another,
| the names of men like Richie OF
Maryland and Salisbury Of Delaware.
whose states have stood solid1y be-
| hind them from the start, were con-
sidered likely to figure in the discus
sion of first and second place on the
| ticket.
| Rockwell stin Loyal.
The mandate of the convention
voted with a sigh OF relief from all
the warning elements, empowered the
| conferees to undertake negotiations
"for the purpose of reaching an un-
derstanding so as to hasten the con-
clusion of this convention" As the
| weary delegates left the convention
hall after seventy-seven fruitless bal
lots they appeared to have no doubt
that their leaders would undertake
to find a c2ndidate on which there
could be a general agreement. hut
three hours later David Ladd Rock
we'll, the McAdoo field marshal, an
nounced that he would enter the con-
ference with NO such object in view
AS he interpreted it, Mr.. Rockwell
said, the purpose Of the meeting was
to seek an amendment of convention