The Washington times., 1924-07-10
To QUIT
LAW FIRM
At ONCE
Democratic Presidential Nom.
inee Plans to Embark on
Active Campaign
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and quarreling, bitterness and
hatred, the exhausted hosts Of Dem
ocracy dug their way out Of the
trenches of Madison Square Garden
this morning, erimy, tired and fair
ly we'll united behind this ticket.
Their dissensions, they said, were
left buried in those Garden run
ways where they toiled and sougnt
so long, longer than any other dele
gates to any other major political
convention lii the history of Ameri.
can politics.
sixteen days. The Bryan part took
but little more than sixteen minutes.
Satisfied, All Aver.
But, irrespective Of the differ.
ences in time of accomplishment,
Democratic chieftains professed
themselves equally satisfied today
with both jobs. They were scatter.
ing to their long-sought homes to.
day to tell %the rank and file all
about it.
John w. Davis, Of West Virginia
and New York, took charge Of the
Democratic party today. He as
sumed the helm theoretically at 3:26
Wednesday afternoon.
About ten hours later, at / a. m.
this morning, he grabbed it phys.
ically with both hands, and his first
act was to name the man who is
his running mate-Governor Charles
Wayland Bryan. of Nebraska.
For sixteen days Davis had been
reading the uncomplimentary
things said about him by that other
Bryan Of Nebraska-Wnliam J.
He had seen himself referred to
as ~. Pierpont Morgan's lawyer"
and wall Streets candidare;" he
had heard of the dire predictions
being made by w. j. as to what
would happen to him IL the wide
open spaces Of the great West If
he was nominated.
And SO, being nominated, his first
act Of leadership was to name on
the ticket with him the brother of
William J.
Bryan Supports Ticket. =
The latter promptly dug up the
heart" which he buried at San
Francisco four years ago when
James NJ. Cox was nominated, and
which he had reconsigned to The
grave in New York before the gar
den rafters had ceased vibrating
from the cheers that greeted Davis
nomination.
; Today, William Jennings Bryan
was supporting the ticket
The nomination of Brother
Charlie" was accomplished with lit
tie fuss or feathers.
Along about / o'clock this morn.
ing, with the delegates webbing in
their seats and punch-drunk from
nearly three weeks of fisticuffs ana
oratory, the convention seemed to
be headed for another fight. No
one wanted it, but no one seemed
to be able to stop it-that is, no one
but John w. Davis.
A recess OF one hour was pro.
posed to give the leaders an oppor.
tunity to get together on a Vice
President. 1t had a familiar ring
that phrase ITO give the leaders a
chance to confer" The home
hungry delegates howled 1t down.
1.-THE ayes have it" calmly an
nounced Congressman A. w. Barley
Of Kentucky, who was in the chair.
And before the delegates could ra.
cover from their establishment at
IHlo pIcGc VA puSlASSS1 Tic recess was
actually on.
Walsh Wouldn't Run.
Davis, accompanied by Governor
, AL Smith, George Brennan, Senator
Thomas j. Walsh, Z. T. Meredith,
Frank L. Polk, Frank Hague, Tom
Taggart, and Joe Guffey, with a
few others, slipped out the back
way and crossed the street to the
Manhattan Club. Governor Smith
led the way to the conference room
on the top floor of the Manhattan
Club, where he had directed his
own fight for the nomination for
two weary weeks.
Davis asked Walsh to take the
job. The convention plainly wanted
him. Had he not been fast of foot
and faster of head it would have
been wished on him right after
} Davis nomination. Walsh refused.
He said he wanted to stay in the
Senate. Davis turned to Meredith.
4 The Iowan shook his head.
It's gotta be someone from the
West" volunteered somebody.
How about Bryan-C. W., net
; W. J.?" asked the nominee.
There was pause. Then the hap.
piness of the thought struck home.
At that very moment William
Jennings Bryan was sitting under
the platform in the Garden figura-
lively burying his heart again.
The convention had been deaf to
his appeals, as 1t had been in 1920,
and 1t was recalled that in 1920
little aid and comfort had been
given the Cox.Roosevelt ticket by
the great Commoner.
Results of Showdown.
"FIne,' came from somone, good"
from another.
1t would have been sooner il the
reading clerk had not been tired
from 103 roll calls and could have
stepped along little faster.
On the showdown, Governor
Bryan got 739 votes, barely over
two.thirds; Major George L. Berry
of Tennessee, the Labor candidate, +"
2l2R, with hundred other votes
scattered between Bennett Clark of
Missouri; Mrs. Leroy Springs of
south Carolina; Alvin Owsley of
Texas; Governor Silzer of New
Jersey; Mayor John F. Hylan of
New York, and Governor j. M.
Davis of Kansas.
There were boos and Kisses from
the galleries at Bryan's victory.
AL Smiths friends from the side.
walks OF New York do not love the
name OF Bryan.
McAdOO's Chair Vacant.
But there was applause from the
delegates on the floor who were
thinking of the appeal the name