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wood. 37k; Glass, 25; Robinson, 81;
Richie. 1919: Salisbury, g.; Owen, 2;
Baker, 56: Bryan, 2; Walsh, 1. Total.
1907. Absent, one.
Smith Loses One Vote.
On the seventy-first ballot the lead
ers stood as follows:
dMcAdoo. 5ss.5: Smith, 3ss.5; Davis,
McAdoo's vote was unchanged from
the last ballot, Smith lost one and
Davis gained one.
After a conference the Colorado
almost impartially among the leading
contenders
The leaders stood this way on the
seventy second ballot:
McAdoo, 527.5; Smith, 334: Davis, SIS
McAdoo lost l. Smith gained Il and
Davis lost ).
Both Leaders Gain.
The result of the seventy third oal-
lot showed the leaders standing thus:
McAdoo. 52s; Smith. 335; Davis, IS.
1t was gain of one-half for Nc
gain CT 1 for Davis.
Won't Leave New York.
After proposal to adjourn the
convention and reconvene on July. q
at Kansas City had been voted down.
1907 to S2.5, Thomas II. Ball. a dele
| gate at large from Texas, presented
the plan for elimination of fayorite
sons in slightly different form. His
| resolution provided that the low man
should be dropped on each ballot un-
| til only two remained: that five bal.
lots then be taken; and that if ne
nomination resulted. the unit rule
binding state delegations be dissolved
1 -
| convictions. The candidate having the
majority then would be declared the
| nominee
A point of order against the Ball
resolution was overruled by Chairmar r
| Walsh.
The effect of the resolution would
| be to abolish at the same time the
unit rule and the rule requiring two
| thirds to nominate. From man.
| parts of the floor there were objec.
tons and questions. and William
Jennings Bryan and others sought te
| have the proposition put into form
where separate parts of it could be
voted on separately.
Another objection was that the ma.
| tional convention had no authorit,
to dissolve a unit rule imposed on
| any state delegation by it's state con
yention. but Senator Walsh with a
| loud bang of the gavel overruled tha,
| contention.
|
confusion the chairman also held
| that the proposal to vote on separate
| parts of the resolution individually
was out of order.
"Nses" swamp Proposal.
when the question on adoption of
the resolution finally was put its
| supporters were drowned out by an
avalanche of noes and the conven-
tion went on to its seventy-fourth h
| ballot for nominee for the presl
| dency.
Scattering it's vote for the first
time, Ohio, which had voted solidly
Tor Cox and then for Newton D
and distributed the others over a wide
| field of favorite sons. In the break-ur
McAdoo did not get single Ohio vote
The solid bloc Of 4S votes locked ur
| IN Ohio for Cox and then for Baker had
| been regarded by the McAdoo and
Smith managers as one of the principal
| stumbling blocks to a development oi
| the real standing of the convention as tr
| McAdoo and Smith. The absence of am
| McAdoo votes in the lineup once tht
bioc was broken, however, appeared tt
have had the effect of leaving the situa
tion very much where it was The gair
| of 20 seemed certain to lift Smith to &
new high-wat mark. but as he still
| remained far behind McAdoo the dead
lock only was frightened.
Smith Mt High Mark.
| Gov. Smith reached a new high
| water mark in the balloting wher
| Ohio gave him 2oLa Another hand
| full of votes was taken from McAdot
! in Michigan and given to Smith
The standing Of the leaders on the
( Seventh-fourth ballot was as follows
McAdoo, $40: Smith, 364. This wa:
a loss Of Is for McAdoo and a gair
| of 20 for Smith.
| Davis received 1872, a gain of 121s
The total given to Smith was oni,
| would be necessary to veto the nomi
nation of another under the two
! third rule unit.
Party leaders scurried about to con
ferences as soon as the convention
adjourned at 1920 this morning. bu
iobjectives appeared SO fundamental,
iopposed that few of the delegates
ttrudging of to bed, saw much likeli
hood OF solution. They were hope
full. but they had grown wary of ex
!pecting.
| After nine Fourth of July ballots
the leaders remained in PRACTICAL,
the same positions they have occu
pied throughout the week. Each has
demonstrated a veto power of tn,
}other. and neither camp was Willing
to concede that its maximum strength
had been called out. or that its line
had shown signs of crumbling On
the contrary. both claimed to b,
more solidly intrench'ed than ever.
McAdoo reached his highest poin
of the, week with $50 votes on tn,
/ sfxty-ninth ballot, and held 52S1s oil
the SEVENTEEN. 2oE less than ma
jority. and 202h less than two third
of those present and voting necessar!
4 for a nomination.
Smiths vote fiuctuAtsd throughou
the day within narrow range. jus
m IL has flnnA fhrou rhnut SfArffns