The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-07-03

cision in the Democratic national con-
ventiori. McAdoo forces using all the
powers at their command won the
Mississippi delegation with IT'S twenty
votes away from John w. Davis of
West Virginia and brought it back in
agreed it would stay for five ballots
to give McAdoo a chance to show what
he could do before the delegation look
ed for another place to light.
Missouri, hanging in the balance,
with McAeloo forces working tooth and
nail was caucusing when Mississippi
went over. and the next moment Ok
Iahoma, which had been giving Sena-
tor Owen a Asbreeze" as favorite son,
announced a return to McAdoo. The
challenge from Davis people on the
delegation was drowned in the demon
stration which started and the decision
was left to be made later. While all
the McAdoo demonstrations was at it's
height the McAdoo people working in
the Missouri delegation found the most
they could get was 16 votes, and it
looked as if a McAdoo victory there
was deferred at any rate.
Michigan Goes Back.
Michigan added new element to the
days balloting by returning to Senator
Ferris. Her votes had been divided
among Smith, McAdoo and Davis. Sud
denly this morning Michigan changed
them back again for Ferris. It was
Of course maneuver by which the
delegation was taken to the logical
place while developments progressed
and the opportunity to ride with win
ner was awaited.
In the McAdoo demo nstrations which
swept the convention floor the leaders
or those proponderantly in the lead
were women. William jennings Bryan
expressed his appreciation of Mississ-
ippi's return to the McAdoo fold by
dividing ameng the women of the
delegation an artificial sunf1ower, a
red rosebud and faded red caEnation.
AS the contending forces wheeled
into position TO renew the struggle at
today's session there were strong indi-
cations that the Smith and McAdoo
people were preparing for the utmost
exertions, over night McAdco scouts
had been making heroic efforts to
bring back Mississippi and Missouri,
planning on the psychological effect to
win new accretions. The Smith peo-
pie frankly were prepared to give their
candidate "ride" and make an ut
most showing at the days session and
capitalize it's value as the developments
might indicate. The object of the
McAdoo people was to make a supreme
effort to get back from the slump
which struck their fortunes yesterday
and carried them to a low ebb.
Davis Men Busy.
The John w. Davis people were plan
ming to acquire all they could while
this was going on, and the other dark
horse camps seemed to be disposed to
let Smith and McAdoo breeze it out
between them," as one leader put it,
confident that neither could get the
required two-thicds.
The dark horse strategy was to sit
back and let the two leaders convince
the convention that they had no hope
of breaking the deadlock.
Reports of an impending break from
McAdoo in the Texas delegation were
denied even by the little handful which
would welcome, it. The forty from
the Lone Star state, one delegate who
was praying for a break, said, we're
sure to stand for McAdoo until he gave
the word releasing them.
Taggart Booms RaIston.
Thomas Taggart, Senator Ralston's
boomer said he expected to see McAdoo
and Smith make gains all through the
day sessions with transfers of votes
back and forth, but he expected no
result from it.
"There will be upper cutting and
sparring, but no decision" the Indiana
leader said.
Just as the clock moved up to
eleven, Chairman Walsh began gavel-
ling for order. It was quickly secur-
ed and prayer was offered by Rabbi
Newman of Temple Israel
Rabbi Newman prayed earnestly and
at length. When he concluded, Nc
Adoo delegate in the Missouri space
shouted:
"Great prayer"
With that the clerk plunged into the
e%er-present job of calling the roll of
states. The days business was open
ed as usual with twentyfour votes for
Oscar Underwood from Alabama. 1t
recalled, among the old timers, the
famous call for Underwood on the for
ty-six ballots at Baltimore, given on
the rising infection by former Gov.
Brewer.
First Break from Smith.
The first break in the "big block"
Iof ninety votes which constitutes the
cornerstone of Gov. Alfred E. Smiths
strength in the convention came to-
dav on the thirty seventh ballot.
Two members of the New York dele
CATION cast their votes for William
G. McAdoo and started the supporters
of the former secretary Of the treasury
on another big demonstration.
Smith supporters said the two men
casting the votes for McAdoo, were
personal friends of that candidate, but
the McAdoo forces got as much en-
enlargement out of it, apparently. as
If they had won ever a state delegation.
Franklin d. Roosevelt, campaign
manager for Gov Smith, and chairman
of the New York delegation, broke the
unit rule himself at San Francisco,
and consequently in this convention he
gave instructions that Delegates were