Evening star., 1924-07-08

lots OF one or two votes Ralston
| was pick ing up his share OF them.
McAdoo Refusen to withdraw.
Just before the converting OF the
convention, about twenty McAdoo
leaders. representing most OF the
states that have been contributing to
the McAdoo column. had a conference
Of an hour and a half with their
candidate. The word was sent out
afterward that tho fight would be
continued and that Mr.. McAdoo was
not considering withdrawal He
| was said TO have been told that some
| of the delegations that had swung
| away from him would come back
After this conference there was a
revival of reports that further at
tempts would be made to put through
a resolution abrogating simultaneous
ly the unit rule and the two-thirds
rule. Such a proposal was voted
down yesterday.
In North Carolina on today's first
roll call McAdoo suffered loss of
a dozen votes when the state went
| almost solidly to Josephus Daniels,
who heretofore had received only a
scattering vote or two during the
| long grind of the ba!ioting.
The leaders stood this way on the
| enghty-e eighth ballot:
Smith. 362; McAdoo. 315.5; Ralston.
| SO: Glass, 66.5; Davis, 59.5.
This was a gain of half a vote for
Smith, a loss of is for McAdoo. a gain
of and new high record for Ralston.
Glass lost Az and Davis Z.
McAdoo Gains Few.
The next roll call ran along about
like its predecessor, except that Nc
Adoo got back one by one some of
the votes he had just lost. There
seemed to be considerable doing in
| several delegations, however, with
growing disagreements over the way
| the vote should be distributed. Ohio,
| caucusing on the floor, asked for a
| delay when it's name was called in
regular order. and when the Okla
| homa vote was cast for Senator Owen.
as usual. a member Of the delegation
| challenged it and called for d poll of
| the delegation.
| From his place in the New York
delegation Franklin Roosevelt, field
! marshal of the Smith forces, issued
a statement declaring the delegates
| now realized that McAdoo never could
| be nominated. and were becoming con-
vinced also that Smith lis the logical
| man."
Issuance of the Roosevelt state
ment followed various futile attempts
of the compromise candidate pro-
| moters to get some of the Smith dele
| cations to break to Ralston. Senator
Pat Harrison of Mississippi. circu-
! lated. under the direction of Taggart,
on the band wagon" Everywhere,
however, Smith men said they were
| going to stay with the governor.
Compromise Halted.
This announced attitude Of the
Smith forces, coupled with the ap-
parent determination of the McAdoo
forces to stick by their man, rather
| nonpused the compromise camp. On
the eighty-ninth ballot the leaders
Smith, 357; McAdoo. 1888; Ralston.
1905: Glass. 66-5: Davis, 64.5.
This was a loss of five for Smith, a
gain of three for McAdoo, a gain of
unchanged and Davis gaining five
The poll of the Oklahoma delega-
tion resulted in ten votes for Owen
and seven and a half for Ralston. with
the remainder of the delegation alb
sent. Under the unit rule the states
twenty votes were cast for Owen
AS the ninetieth ballot started mem
bers of the Missouri delegation said
that states thirty-six, which had been
going to Glass, would be turned over to
Ralston.
RnIston Makes Big Gain.
On the ninetieth ballot Oklahoma
Nevada and Missouri all went solidly
to Ralston.
The standing of the leaders on the
ninetieth ballot was as follows:
Smith, 357; McAdoo. 314; Ralston,
1875; Davis, 64.5; Glass. 30.5.
This was a gain of SO and another
high record for Ralston. Smith and
Davis were unchanged. McAdoo lost
4 Il and Glass 36.
Idaho Deserts McAdoo.
Idaho quit the McAdoo column on
the ninety-first ballot. giving her
votes to Homer Cummings Of Con-
necticut.
The vote of Kansas, 20 strong, was
cast for Ralston on the ninety first
ballot, but the action was CHALLENGED
and the chairman ordered that the
state be passed pending poll of the
delegation
The leaders stood this way on the
ninety first ballot: Smith, 1885,
McAdoo, 31s; Ralston, 1875; Davis,
66.5.
Smith lost one and a half, McAdoo
gained four, Ralston gained twenty
eight and Davis gained two.
Houston Gets Two.
After his name had been formally
before the convention for twenty
one ballots, David F. Houston got his
first votes on the ninety second roll
call. Two were cast for him in Illi-
nois.
Despite their instructions by the
state convention to vote for McAdoo
las long as his name is before the
convention" some of the Tennessee
delegates wanted to go to Ralston and
forced poll of the delegation.
McAdoo Holds Tennessee.
The poll of the Tennessee delega-
tion resulted in 10 for McAdoo and
5 Y for Ralston. 1t was recorded un-
der the unit rule as solidly for Nc
Adoo.
The result of the ninety-second
ballot: Smith, 355 Y: McAdoo, 80;
Rood Of 4sE Vest xTsnA 1ss4 Gass
2sh; Robinson, 20; Ritchie, 1s1s;
Walsh, Az Salisbury, 6; Cummings,
Sh: Houston, 2; Meredith, 26; Bryan,
s; Callahan. 1. Total, 1906. Absent. 2.
moton was as made fro@ the eaGs Texas
delegation for adjournment of the
convention to reconvene at a time
and place to be fixed by the national
committee. The proposal was booed
amid shouts of "sit down. and
throw him OUT the motion was
ruled out on point of order.
McAdoo Loses Veto Power.
At the end Of the eighty-seventh
ballot, after which the convention
adjourned last night as an expression
of sympathy to President and Mrs.
Coolidge in the death Of their son,
McAdoo's strength hal been cut to
333k votes. leaving him shorn, tenn
porarily at least, Of his one-third
veto power over the nomination of
any other candidate and twenty-eight
votes behind Gov. Alfred E. Smith.
The Smith total fluctuated between
$50 and 368 throughout the day, and
stood at 3615 Il at the finish, while
that of Senator Ralston of Indiana.
nut back into the dark horse ranks