The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-06
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NEW YORK, July 5.-Surrounded by a detail of police and sergeants-at- arms, more than score of men and g single woman gathered around confer ence table tonight in the Waldorf Astoria hotel in an effort to find a way out of the deadlock in the democratic national convention. ,'s Each of the 16 candidates, whose names are. now or have been before this convention, was represented by one or more spokesmen. Chairman Hull of the national committee presided, and sit ting with him as advisers or directors of the conference were Senator Thomas J. Walsh, chairman of the convention, and Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, vice chairman of tIye national committee. t
 Strict Guard =
 As the representatives approached the ante-room to the conference chamber they were required to identify them selves to the sergeant-at-arms of the convention and to state for whom they were to speak. Then they were ushered into the council room-the office of the national committee chairman.
 Several hours before the conference began city police took charge of the railways leading to the conference chamber and double guard of ser geants-at-arms was placed on the doors. Delegates and others not designated to participate were kept at distance from the entrance, the police establishing a dead line" '..4
 Chairman Walsh was among the last of the arrivals. Two attendants made way for him through the congested cor riders. Representatives of candidates arrived singly or in groups; McAdoo and some others sent to the meeting place from two to half a dozen lieu tents, and these occupied rooms nearby so as to be available for incidental con ferences. s
 Remain At Headquarters
 The various candidates remained at their respective headquarters. but were kept in constant touch with the pro ceeding by telephone, and thus weer able actively to direct their representa- tives in the discussion of the various ideas advanced in the early stages, Soon after the conference got under way the atmosphere in the crowded room became so oppressive that larger quarters were sought. The conferees, each packing his own chair, filed down the corridor to a bigger chamber nearby. Up to the time of this move, the formal Sdiscussion ot the problem had not begun.
 Although women delegates to the convention had sought representation in the meeting, none of the candidates se- lected a woman to speak for him. 1t was for this, among other reasons, that Mrs. Blair was invited to participate. /
 Representatives of the candidates were announced officially as follows: ,,
 The COnferees
 For Alfred E. Smith-Franklin D. Roosevelt, Norman B. Mack and J. J. Hoey of New York, and J. H. McCooey of Brooklyn and George D. Brennan and Thomas Lynch, Illinois.
 For William G. McAdoO--David Ladd Rockwell, Ohio; ]. Bruce Kremer, Mon- tana: Daniel c. Roper, North Carolina ; Homer S. Cummings, Connecticut; Will liam l.. OConnell, Illinois Arthur Mul. len. Nebraska, and Thomas L.. Chad bourne, New York. 4
 For Oscar w. UnderwO0d--C. c. Car lin. Virginia w. R. Pattengal, Maine ; Walter Moore and Forney Johnston Alabama. ..
 For Joseph T. Robinson Senator Thaddeus H, Caraway, Arkansas.
 For WiIIrad Saulsburg-Senator Thomas F. Bayard, Delaware. =,
 For David F. HOuston-Lewis G. Stevenson, Illinois; Francis G. Cattey and Earl Harding.
 For Samuel M. RaIstOn-Thomas Taggart, Indiana.
 For Jonathan M. Dsvis-Frederick Robertson, Kansas.
 For Albert c. Ritchie-Howard Bruce and E. Brooke Lee, Maryland.
 For Woodbridge N. Ferris-William A. Comstock, Michigan.
 For James M. 'COx-J. Henry Cooke and Charles E. Morris, Ohio.
 For Charles w. Bryan-Wllham Jennings Bryan, Florida, and T. 5. AL len, Nebraska.
 For Fred H. BrOWn-Robert Jack son, New Hampshire.
 For George SiIzer-James Kerney and Mayor Frank Hague, Jersey City, New Jersey.
 For Carter GIass-Senator Claude A: Swanson and H. F. Byrd, Virginia, and Henry c. Stuart.
 For John w. Davis-C. l.. Shateri West Virginia.
 cock resolution. but mustered only 496 votes for. while the opposition polled