The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-20
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day McAdoo is already stopped"
Sufficient votes have been pledged,
at was said, to absolutely prevent
ID nominating total for McAdoo I'M
less the two-thirdS rule ID abolished
and there is believed little chance
Of that.
-Four hundred votes at least have
heen tagged and put in the safe
against McAdoo, it was said, and
the anti-McAdoo leaders were con-
8ident today of a swelling total
rs convention time approaches.
Only 367 are required.
The anti-McAdpo votes are count
Vania, Massachusetts,, Illinois, Rhode
Island, Ohio, Wisconsin, Maryland,
New Jersey, Indiana, and a scatter.
ing from other States.
"They won't dare" was the atti-
tude Of McAdoo headquarters to.
ward these confident assertions
1T the Waldorf that McAdoo is
stopped"
Some Of the McAdoo strategy he.
came known today. If present
plans are followed, the full McAdoo
strength will not be divulged on
the first ballot. His managers want
20 produce about $50 votes on the
first ballot and then gradually In
crease this total on succeeding bal
lots until about the eighth, ninth
or tenth, when the real effort win
be made to go over the top This
will give the appearances OF q steady
accession to the MCAdoo standard.
The same tactics have been known
in the past to put fear into the
band wagon followers, and even to
start stampede.
Hearty chuckles, almost racuouS
laughter, came from the Waldorf at
this intimation Of McAdoO strategy.
Tho delegates controlled by Bren.
nan, Taggart, Guffey, Hague, Moore,
and others. it was asserted. have
been through many such situations
and are stampede proof.
Meanwhile, with the McAdoo ana
Smith Underwood camps busily en-
gagged In sharpening their respective
lnifeS. the candidacy Of John w,
Davis, Of West Virginia, is admit.
tedly growing stronger as conven.
ton time approaches.
Davis Causes Stir.
The letter which the former am
bassador caused to be published
today stating, in effect, that he IL
q receptive If not an avowed Candi.
date for the nomination, caused q
stir in political circles here and gave
his friends new talking point.
Davis availability is being moro
and more discussed by those who
believe that McAdoo and Smith are
already hopelessly deadlocked--a
week before the balloting begins.
Not being an active candidate and
taking no part In the bitter quarrel
ing that already is going on be-
tween the Vanderbilt and the Wal
dorf, Davis, his friends say, has
only to maintain himself in this po-
sion in order to make himself &C.
ceptable to all factions once a
stalemate is reached.
Plans for RaIstOn.
The name of Senator Samuel L.
Ralston Of Indiana may not be for
nally placed before the convention
when the time comes for nominal.
ing speeches. This does not mean,
however. that his candidacy has lost
any Of it's potentialities or that 1t
has appreciably weakened.
Taggart is reported to have decid'
ed against formal nomination and
even against Indiana's casting her
thirty votes for Ralston on the first
ballots. 1t is better strategy, some
Hoosiers believe. not to let the mo-
notony Of thirty votes for Ralston
become irritable to the delegates
ears, but rather to start 1t later
when it may serve as q spur to
jaded and tired minds.
McAdoo's managers positively re.
fuse to discuss second choices. even
3 though their rivals do.
Has No Second Choice.
Judge David Ladd Rockwell, d.
rector general Of the McAdoo camp.
was asked today the flat question
where McAdoo's delegates were ''go-
ing when the break comes"
Home" he replied. "It will be
time to go home. As for second
ehoices-we have none. It has
never been considered"
Notwithstanding this, reports per.
bisted that II McAdoo is beaten he
will throw what he can Of his
strength to Senator Carter Glass
of Virginia. The two are close
friends, and were In conference
most of Thursday. It was OBJ.
served that while Glass called on