The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-06

jealousies and animosities and suspiei. ons of six long days of fighting were not easy put out of mind, and no one was willing to risk a surprise attack. !. The convention gave it's authority for the conference for adopting formal inotion drafted by the principal gam. paign managers while the tally clerks were recording dearily the result of the seventy-seventh ballot. Presented by Thomas Taggart of Indiana, vet. eran of many campaigns and one of the conspicuous leaders who has stood halfway between McAdoo and Smith in the present convention, the pro- posal was adopted unanimously.
 Chairman Hull of the national com nnittee, and Chairman Walsh of the convention, were empowered by the motion to call the conference, and to invite to it the managers for all the candidates. Within the category of those who later assembled in response to the invitation were party wheel horses and newcomers who have risen into places of prominence in the newer phrases of democratic politics, men from the Solid South and the east and west; and those who could speak with authority for every element of the party.
 ..s-t. The COnferees ,-. .t
 Included in their number, besides Chairman Hull and Senator Walsh. were G. E. Brennan of Illinois, Nor man B. Mack and Franklin D. Roose- welt, representing Governor Smith; MT. Rockwell and staff of assistants, in cluding Homer S. Cummings, speaking for MT. McAdoo; Ed Moore of Ohio for James NJ. Cox; W. J. Bryan, who was sent to represent the candidacy of his. brother, Governor Bryan; Taggart appearing for Senator Ralston and a dozen others.
 While the peace discussions had as their foundation the conclusions reach ed at the consultation of leaders dur ing today's balloting, there lay even back of that a chapter of convention history that gave the delegations a wei come diversion from the humdrum of the balloting and contributed much to the ultimate outcome of the days pro- ceedings. Ie revolved about the con solidation for the first time of the anti McAdoo strength, and its use to break up several parliamentary proposals that came formally before the convention from the ranks of the McAdoo followers.
 The alignment was presented by MT Roosevelt, who brought together sev- eral of those actively in charge of ia vorite son booms, and laid before them plan of cooperation which he believed would hasten the end of the deadlock. They agreed to it, and it had its frui. tition soon afterward on the conVen- tion floor when the vote for Smith was brought beyond the number necessary for a veto and a string of resolutions brought forward by McAdoo delegates including proposals to abolish the two thirds and unit rules and to adjourn the convention to meet. elsewhere, were promptly voted down.
 Takes Veto Power
 Smith was helped up the ladder main. ly by the breaking up of the solid bloc of AS Ohio votes that had been cast for Cox on tn opening ballots and later switched to Newton D. Baer Twenty of them went to Smith and none to McAdoo. On the seYenty-sixth bal lot-the sixth of today's7 session-thC New York governor had 36S, and he fin ished the day with S67, the precise nun, Der necessary to prevent any other can didate from receiving the two,thirds necessary to nominate. At adjournment last night his total has been 334.
 The total for McAdoo, which touched its high water mark of 530 yesterday and stood at last nights adjournment al 529, fluctuated within narrow limits during today's voting, and wound up or the seventy-seventh ballot at 51S. John w. Davis had 76.
 First Attempt
 The first attempt to change the con vention procedure came after the seventy-seconds ballot when p. NJ Semans of Oklahoma City presented 6 resolution providing that on each ballot the low man be dropped until only two candidates remained. That was thrown out on point of order but little later foremr Senator Hitchcock of Ne braska precipitated a roll call on the elimination plan by presenting it in q form that would leave five candidates instead of two in the, final ballots. The McAdoo delegates supported the Hitct