The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-03

SSo far in the fortieth ballot when he boiled 505H votes. Smith. at that time, had dropped little below his high level, 323 12, made on previous ballots.
 At the close of the thirtieth ballot, McAdoo had stood at 4151a votes. Thus he gained nearly hundred in today's balloting and the votes he got were taken principally from John W. Davis, who fell to 67.
 The McAdoo people went into to- nights session attempting to estimate what damage had been done to their cause by the riotous performance of the late afternoon session when Will liam Jennings Bryan preeipitated tumult with his approval of McAdoo from the platform and aroused cries of oil
 At first there were various predic- tions of what the effect might be, but when the leaders got outside and thought it over, it became apparent that the principal effect of the Bryan incident had been to solidify the Smith forces and to spur the McAdoo peo- pie on to q new effort. ATo pass the I 300 mark tonight and adjoern while it was held there was their first goal. They made it.
 To attain majority was their next goal. Whether they can do that will be decided tomorrow.
 Then in the Offing lies a new threat of an attack on the two-thirds rule aft CT the majority has been attained. That issue remains to be clarified. There IS no authentic information concerning the. McAdoo plans available tonight.
 The days proceedings were full of
  the accomplishment of the two sessions. The desertiOn of two votes in the New York delegation from Smith to McAdoo gave the McAdoo people all they wanted for demonstration at the day session. and the sliding of Missouri and Okla homa to the McAdoo standard at the night balloting furnished the occasion for the demonstrations tonight.
 The Real Feature
 But the real feature of-the day was Bryan, as of old, getting the platform to make a speech on pretense of ex- plaining his vote; launching an attack on big business and organizeN, wealth, and presenting list of candidates whom he considered available-headed byN Me Adoo. The rumpus Bryan kicked up has seldom been equalled at any national CohNeIltIoH anu IL pfODuDly never mas been surpassed in anything short of blows and bloodsed
 For half the time allotted to him, Bryan was shouting into bowling mob which was hurling catcalls, threats and epithets at him and heckling him with demands to explain McAdoo's connec- tion with "oil' and his activities as an attorney securing tax refunds for cor porations from the treasury depart ment.
 The Strategy Of It
 The strategy by which the McAdoo managers picked up enough votes to pass the 800 mark was said to be an arrangement by which Oklahoma and Missouri promised to come over and give the McAdoo candidacy q chance to de- velop its strength for the satisfaction of wavering delegates. Mississippi is in the throes of deciding whether it would go back from McAdoo to John W. Davis tomorrow.
 The Smith people decided, contrary to report, that they would not trot out their full strength tonight and from all evidences they did not do so. The Me- Adoo people declared they knew there were more Smith votes on the floor to be brought out when called for and they
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