New Britain herald., 1924-07-03
Convention Activity From Bang of Gavel
 To the Latest Ballot

| lp thS A<otSot LuIlVt As the clock moved to l0:30, Chair. man Walsh Of Montana began rappine for order and introduced the Rev John |. Heindel of the English Evan gelical Lutheran church of Jersey City, who offered the morning prayer The clerk went back to the call oi the states for the forty-third time. Ralston Gets One More. The first change today came in | Florida where he single vote which had been cast to Underwood went to Raston. The Ralston people said they were ready to start their drive today after the second ballot 'ii things look right
 | The first breaks for Ralston are ex- pected to come from the middewest ] Missouri, Iowa and Oklahoma, where Thomas Taggart had been making friends" were being counted on b. the Rslston people to contribute some thing. The Ralston people were claiming they had a hundred votas ready at onCe.
 Nebraska took one from smith and entered it up for Davis. The McAdoo people said they were ready to give Ralston d run. Taggart, more taciturn than ever, was hurrying silently over the floor saying word here and there. Members of the old Indiana lllinois-New York coalition seemed to be working in harmony again. McAdoo Drops on I3rd.
 McAdoo's total went down on the i3rd ballot today because Oklahoma with 20 votes jumped out of his col 'umn and joined the forces of Senator Robinson of Arkansas.
 The vote on that ballot, the first of the day, showed the leaders standing this way:
 McAdoo, 4Ss.4; Smith, St9.1; Davis, Il; Robinson, A; Ralston, Sl.
 This showed a net loss of nineteen for McAdoo carrying him below the five hundred mark,
 It was a gain of a half vote for smith; a gain of four votes for Davis and the gain of the whole state of Oklahoma for Robinson.
 North Carolina took a half vote from Glass and gave it to McAdoo.
 Predict End Tomorrow.
 McAdoo lieutenants were tasly coming in today. They had been at d late conference. They predicted that the convention would end tomorrow. At any rate they had a long record in their favor--most democratic con- ventions of recent decades have been in session on the Fourth of July.
 The drop in the McAdoo total caused by the switch of Oklahoma to Rob inson, threatened to have an effect which might cost him some more, as Mississippi was threatening to turn back to John w. Davis if McAdoo did not at once make some substantial gains.
 As there was again no nomination, the roll call was resumed for the 44th ballot That was the one on which Cox was nominated in San Francisco four years ago.
 Illinois, still scattering her vote among the field took vote from Davis of Kansas and gave it to Sen ator Edwards, former governor of New Jersey.
 The 4Ith Ballot Unchanged
 The forty-fourth ballot in the democratic national convention in New York produced no nominee as il did in San Francisco four years ago. The leaders stood: McAdoo, ASA; Smith, 31a,i; Davis, Il: Robin son. fl; Ralston, S1. McAdoo. Smith, Davis and Ralston were unchanged On both the forty-third and forty fourth votes Connecticut split 9 10 for Smith and 9-10 for McAdoo.
 Few Changes in 18th.
 In the forty-fifth ballot the Illinois delegation took the vote cast prev- ously for Edwards of New Jersey and gave it back to Gov. Davis of Kansas. There was no other change in the of the remainder of the states votes. In Maine there was change. Two votes were taken from and given to John W. Davis
 Taggart, still working about the floor shaping up the Ralston forces, said:
 ''I want them all 10 have their run. Others said they were lying back to See what the others were do- ing. The most common expression the delegates was:
 w. don't know where 10 go.'
 Dissolution Is Near.
 Senator Owen of Oklahoma was asked by friend for the low down"
 ''Dissolution is rapidly approach ing" he said.
 No Change for smith.
 On the 45th ballot the leaders stood his way:
 McAdoo. 4sS.4: Smith, si9.t; Davk. 7s Robinson, 4: Underwood, SS; 31.