The Washington times., 1924-07-07

can be offered to them at this mo-
ment IL release from their present
suffefingss
McAdoo determined to offer It.
He stood up and fired q shot which
for all the ordinary human weak
lwOrldling delegates here is the first
welcome word they have had from
any candidate, to the effect that he
not only is willing but is deter
mined to help them get through
and go home.
Proposal by McAdOO.
McAdoo's proposal, as transmitted
to Thomas J. Walsh. chairman of
the convention, and to Cordell Hull.
chairman Of the Democratic ma,
tional committee, can be summar-
lied and footnoted as follow:
l, Let all delegates be released
from their instructions. This hurts
McAdoo immensely more than 1t
hurts any other candidate.
Q. Let the unit rule, which COM
pels the delegates from certain
States to vote in bloc be abol-
ished. This again hurts McAdoo
immensely more than 1t hurts any
other candidate. Because 1t would
enable the anti-McAdoo minority in
numerous untrue delegations to
get out from under the pro.McAdoo
majority and to vote against Nc.
Adoo.
8. Let the rule requiring a two.
thirds vote in the convention for q
nomination be likewise abolished
and let the nomination be made by
a mere majority flat. This might
help McAdoo. because majority in
this convention is $50, and McAdoo
already on ballot No. SO has shown
himself able to climb US as far as
$40.
4. Let the low man on each sue.
cessive ballot be chopped off until
only two candidates are left, where.
upon on the next ballot there ID
certain to be a nomination.
This fourth barrel of McAdoo's
shotgun shot IL the one with which
he hopes to please and attract the
large contingent Of weary world.
lings.
Partlsans Indifferent.
The Christian soldiers and the
Kan-the.Klanners are Indifferent to
1t. They have got so used to fight.
ing now that even IL they ever con.
sent to go away home from 1t they
will spend all the rest of their lives
belonging to "Sixty.ninth Ballot Post
Of McAdoo Veterans" and to "Pande.
moniun Lodge Of Smith Paraders, -
and telling their grandchildren all
about It.
The weary worldlings, however,
were many Of them highly agreeablv
impressed by the idea of killing of
low man after low man on ballot
after ballot. Candidates cannot die
too soon or too fast for the weary
worldlings. The next immediate
struggle in the convention there.
upon seemed likely to be the follow.
ing:
Can the weary worldlings plus
McAdoo's Christian soldiers get con.
troll Of the convention and compel
all candidates to accept McAdoo's
suggestion Of one suicide by one
candidate per ballot?
The candidates as a class do not
care for 1t. Their personal repre-.
sentatives in the early morning
hours OF this day received McAdoo's
shot and let It go straight through
them without evoking any reply
except a moan Of pain.
Seek Counter Proposition
McAdoo had come at them with
a proposition which certainly would
end the convention. They tried to
think Of a counter-proposition which
would end the convention. They
tried to think.
After trying TO think for several
hours they began to emerge from
the grand central council chamber
OF thinkers on the third floor OF the
Waldorf.Astoria Hotel and emerged
thoughtless. Norman u. Mack, OF
New York. profound professional oe