The Washington times., 1924-06-26
RALSTON IS
MAKING
J. GAINS
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enthusiasm promoted by a bevy
Of McAdoo lieutenants and they as
serted with great positiveness today
that McAdoo has ''shot his bolt
and Is slipping"
At the same time they claimed
That Smith is making progress,
slowly, it is true, but still progress.
They asserted that yesterday q
overwhelming demonstration against
the Ku Klux Khan, which was
spontaneous and which threw the
convention into unparalleled tur-
MOL for more than a quarter of
an hour, was, in effect, an anti.
McAdoo demonstration as well.
Missionaries" in Struggle.
And emboldened by this and the
reports turned in by missionaries
plugging away quietly in all the
doubtful delegations here, they as.
serted this morning that the New
York governor will start out with
$50 votes on the first ballot, pass
500 by the tenth, and be nominated
by the twentieth.
But the comfort with which the
Smith supporters extracted these
developments was shared in equal
degree by the supporters Of every
serious contender in the race.
The Davis, Ralston, Cox, Under
wood, Glass, Baker, Walsh and Rob
inson people were gleefu1ly assert
ing that McAdoo and Smith were
killing each other off has now be-.
come an actuality, because Of the
very ferocity Of their struggle and
the bitterness of feeling developed,
and this leaves the gate wide open
Tor, some one Of their number to
walk in.
To-Day, however, was AL Smiths
DAY, and shrewd observers were in
clined to reserve Judgment on the
governors alleged demise until he
made his bid for popular support
following Franklin D. Roosevelt's
nominating speech.
s Won Tactical Victory.
Tammany men considered today
that they had won a handy tactical
8. victory by keeping Smiths nomi-
nation and demonstration for to-
day.
McAdoo's name was put in late
yesterday, when the delegates were
sticky and tired from the terrific
humidity and five hours Of oratory.
McAdoo's managers wanted to go
on and have the Smith show put
on too, but George e. Brennan, the
shrewd, rotund Illinois ''boss,'' de.
mnnded an adjournment, and the
weary delegates Jumped at It. Thew
went back to the Garden this MORN
ing, in cooler weather and fresher
In spirit to see 'tAl's show
Second Choices Considered. !
Underneath the exterior show Of
confidence, the matter of second
choices is beginning to receive quiet
consideration by both McAdoo and
Smith managers. Publicly they have
nothing to say about second choices.
Tor to do so would be tantamou 1t
to an admission Of defeat, but there
Is great deal Of scurrying about
and comforting among them over
this highly important question,
NO decisions, however, have been
reached, nor will there be before
both McAdoo and Smith have run
their races, and it has become abso.
lutely and irrefutably certain that
neither can get the 1872 votes neces-
cary to nominate.
Smith has certain bed.rocN
strength. consisting of New York,
New Jersey. Massachusetts, Rhode
Island and part Of Illinois and
pennsylvania, that he can count on
to stick by him until the proverbial
cows come home.
McAdoo has a somewhat greater
initial strength, but his bed.rocIr
strength Of Georgia, California.
oregon, Washington, Texas, Utah.
Idaho. Kentucky, Nevada and scat.
ter1ng other units, is not much IL
any larger than Smiths.
Assaults On McAdoo.
The Smith managers have for
three days conducted an unceasing
assault ION the McAdoo strength
IN Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Okla
honla, Tennessee, and North Car.
DINA. And they have made some
progress. That much is certain
by informal polls of these delera.
lions conducted by neutral OBJ
servers.
How much progress they have
mace cannot be guaged with any
degree OF accuracy, for while some
OF the delegates in these States
are wavering in their support for
McAdoo, 1t is by no means Ger.
tain they will be captured by the
Governor.
Davis and Ralston, the latter's
candidacy under that postmaster
OF political conventions, Tom Tag.
CART, have also been doing a great
deal Of missionary work In these
States, and 1t is a fact no longer