The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-02
WALL ST PUTS.
GLASS AHEAD
Of DAVIS
Va. Senator Said 10 Be More
Satisfactory 70 Finance
Than West virginian
~ WILLIAM HARD.

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MADISON SQUARE GARDEN,
NEW YORK, July 81. BaIloting In
this convention began here again
today In the dismal and Desperate
and now almost despairing, search
for some Democrat almost any
DemCcrat-who can accumulate 132
votes from everywhere and any
where IN the convention. and get
himself the nomination
This convention Is illustrating
how much trouble can be made
for q party by choosing honest.
straightforward, conscientious, pa.
triotic men and women to be its
convention delegates.
IL these delegated here IN this
convention were cheap. low-branded
cattle who could be herded into
stoclades by bosses, they might
have given the Democratic party a
quite reasonably satisfactory Presi.
Dental candidate long ago.
Delegates Of Convention.
The basic human fact about this
convention, however, - that the
mass Of its delegates are people OF
very high order Of moral purpose
and OF mental individual conviction
and Of public desire for really true
national service. They want to do
their best. They want to nominate
man who represents their princi-
pies.
Unfortunately among the ,O9s
delegates who compose this conyen-
ton, there are at least S71 princi-
pies. This becomes Immediately
apparent to any reporter who Will
drift through the State delegations
on the floor Of the convention and
who will listen casually to the con.
versations OF positively hundreds Of
manifestly clear thoughted and
clean intentioned men and women
who desire only to find q candidate
who WIN express the principles
which they believe the Democratic
party ought to express.
The point Is that the number 81
such principles here il excessive:
and the delegates seem likely to 20
on balloting In furtherance Of their
contrasting s:Iid conflicting individ.
ual ideas until by some Divine
chance at the end Of five more
ballots. or at the end Of fifty more
ballots they happen to find some
candidate who turns out to be 4
sort Of composite overtone Of all the
principles here assembled.
McAdoO Managers Hope.
Meanwhile McAdoo managers as.
sure this writer that their candidate
today will win back al the votes
that he lost yesterday and IN adfli.
ton viii gain a considerable number
Of new votes which he never had
I fNnfNvaM n rnN TsAS kafYnvnt 49,.
IuteIy verified that the McAdoo
managers have not lost hope.
Meanwhile Al Smith managers tell
this writer with every show Of sin.
cerity and confidence that they
know where they can get-and viii
get-some two hundred or 90 OF ad.
ditional votes today and tomorrow
for Al Smith.
They believe-to put It specifically
that the McAdoo lines WIN crack
in Iowa, in Tennessee, IN Kentucky,
In Kansas and in the District OF
Columbia. They believe further
that the John w. Davis lines win
crack In Missouri and even In West
| Virginia. They believe that Owen
viii crack In Oklahoma, Underwood
in Alabama, Salisbury in Delaware
and Cox in Ohio. They profess to
be able to add thirty more votes
out Of Illinois for Smith and twelve
more votes out of Pennsylvania.
They maintain that the Al Smith
strength has been displayed mod
Ierately and patiently and cautiously
and Is still far from its climax,
TwO.thlrds Not Claimed.
The greatest climax. however,
which they now dare to mention for
Smith IL extremely Tar short Of
bringing him to the two-thirds ma
jority vote necessary for e choice.
Both the McAdOo management
and the Smith management can see
some 500, or $50 votes. ultimately
for their heroes, but in order to
see and find the remaining neces-
sary votes for q nomination they
have to trust to some sort Of mys.
tical stampede"
Thereupon the minds OF numerous
delegates turn for consolation TO
the dark horses and even to
horses which never vet really have
been brought out Of their stables
onto the track.
John w. Davis, Of West Vir-
ginia, today was generally, al.
though perhaps erroneously, thought
to have done his bit as a dark
horse and to be through.
It was felt that he had failed
really to break the lines either Of
the McAdoo forces or Of the Smith
forces.
The managers Of other dark
horses" began to see that II they
waited for the McAdoo forces and
for the Smith forces to- disintegrate
they might wait forever.
Compelling Candidate Needed.
They began to think that the
McAdoo forces and the Smith
forces would never disintegrate
through natural causes or through