Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-10
CONVENTION THEN
DECLARES RECESS
UNTIL $3.50 D CLOCK
Tired Delegates Show Their
Relief by Great Dem
Onstration

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN,
New York, July 9.-John w. Davis,
of West Virginia, was nominated
for president today by the Demo-
cratic national convention after the
103rd ballot
The opposition of William Jen-
nings Bryan and the attempt of
William Gibbs McAdoo to deliver
his strength to Meredith failed to
stop him. ~vv
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN,
July 9.-There was a continuing
drift to John W. Davis, of West Vfr-
ginia, as the balloting progressed in
the Democratic national convention
today. 1t carried him on to a new
high mark with Oscar w. Under
wood, of Alabama, still close behind.
Attempts of the McAdoo forces to
bequeath their strength to E. I.
Meredith, of Iowa, were not success
full and some of the more steadfast
McAdoo battali0ns in the long fight
swung over into the Davis column
on the 102nd ballot.
The Smith strength during this
ballot was being split up and going
largely to Underwood.
On the 102nd ballot the leaders
stood: John w. Davis, AIS As; I'm.
derwood. 307; Meredith, &C 1-3;
Walsh, Montana, 1913.
This was a gain of 80 % for Da.
Wis; a gain Of LIS for Underwood;
gain Of Is for Walsh and loss
Of 81 % for Meredith.
On this ballot McAdoo had Fl votes
sticking to him and Smith had A.
They came from the last ditchers In
both camps.
Georgia Goes to Davis
On the 103rd ballot, Georgia, state
of McAdoo's birth, which stood by
him steadfastly and then went to
Meredith when he released his del.
egates, went to John w. Davis. Ida
no, another McAdoo sticker, also
shifted to the Davis column. Illinois
ran IL pher proportion of Davis vote
and Kentucky, another McAdoo bat
talon, gave Davis % IL.
Beginning with this mornings
gathered momentum and gradually
the votes swung over into the Davis
column.
Bryap's opposition to Davis was
swept away in the rain of Davis
votes which swept over the conven-
ton. The attempt Of the McAdoo
forces to make e. T.. Meredith, of
Iowa, the heir to the McAdoo
strength, command O. following which
made only 81 bad third, and when the
Davis flood was rising so fast that
all other candidates were being swept
before it, Iowa. Meredith's home state
withdrew him from the contest and
voted for Davis.
Hall Swept by Disorder
Then scenes of disorder swept the
convention as everybody clamored for
a chance to join the winning forces.
When the uproar was at it's height,
Thomas Taggart, of Indiana, mount
ed a chair and moved the nomination
of Mr.. Davis by reclamation. The
motion was carried with a road and
Chairman Walsh hsouted into the din
before him:
"The chair declares the Hon. John
w. Davis the nominee of this conyen-
ton"
IlniIISuidLety inc LHeus WOTn anu
weary convention which had been
struggling in the throes Of a seem
ingly intermniable deadlock for two
weeks-with the threat o fgoing into
a third-broke loose in a demonstra-
ton of joy and relief.
The Davis people, jubilant after
fight through two conventions to
nominate their man, sent the leaders
Of their delegation, headed by Mrs.
Izetta Jewel Brown, to the platform
to review the procession. They had
worked hard to nominate him in San
Francisco four years ago and had
failed; they had worked hard here in
New York and had suffered the dis.
enlargement of seeing his chances
drop TO almost nothing before they
turned and rose on the debris of the
deadlock between Smith and Nc
Adoo
The convention then adjourned un.
til $3.50 o'clock this evening.
The crowd was happy at the pros
pect Of having mountaineering GO
ing home and the delegates and al
ternates pranced happily along with
as much vigor as if they hadn't beea
at it for countless days and nights
and as if they actually we're not shy
several aggregate nights of sleep.
William Jennings Bryan way
asked for some comment on the
nomination of Mr.. Davis. He re-
piled he had none.
will you make one later?"' he
was asked.
II don't know" said the veteran
war horse who had taken the plat
form in futile effort to stop Davis
and had precipitated thereby the
most spectacular row ever seen in
recent years in an American politi-
cal convention.
Immediately all the state stand
ards which previously had been pa
rading for other candidates, some
of them in the midst of hard-fought
battles of partisan disrute-were
carried into aisles of the convention
hall while swirling. perspiring, but
happy crowd of delegates followed
in a procession of joy and jubila-
ton.
The Montana standard was the
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