Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-06-30

hands. He was still declining to dis
close his strategy.
Wyoming knocked out another
favorite son, taking her votes from
Senator Kendrick. Mcsdoo got 0
them and John w. Davis got I.
The fourth ballot figures follow:
| Underwood. II Y: McAdoo, 443 6-10
Robinson. 10: Smith, $50; John "
Davis. "a; Senator Salisbury, 6
Cox, SO: Bryan, 10: Walsh, /; Richie
21R: Jonathan Davis. 20; Ralston
30: Glass. As: Brown. $40: Harrison
2oh; Ferris, 80; Silzer, IS; Thomp-
son, /.
| Total. 1908.
Signs of Break Seen.
! The fifth ballot gave promise OF
some switches or attempts at them
| if the reports about the floor were
! true. Some of the delegates voting
under the unit rule We're pressing
! to have more caucus.s and ma ou'
| if the majoritieS still were tor fheif
| oriSiual choices.
| In Colorado, on the nth, McAdot
| lost one vote.
Connecticut again passed. apparently
| trying to make up "A new decision.
Illinois again divided her vote, and
did it this way: smith lS; COX; !"
Bryan, 4; John w. Davis. 3: Walsh, /
GOV. Richie, 3; Gov. Davis e; Nc
| Adoo. IL.
! Louisiana took another flyer on this
ballot and gave her 20 to Gov. itltchle
! of Maryland. The LOuisianians al
| ready had visited the camps of Sen
| ator Harrison and Senator Robinson
on their excursion about the floor.
! Massachusetts stands.
| Massachusetts did not change hci
apportionm-nt of votes among sew
| rraI candidates on this ballot
| Ia Minnesota Smith picked up
| roto.
| The call IF the states ran along
| Win l'ttle or no altera ion. the re
ma ming favorite sons so far holding
| their lines fast and the Smith and
McAdoo forces holding grimly on.
II was obvious that the situation
had not been shaken down yet.
! PENNSYLVANIA again divided her IA
yors among the field without materia
| hang Everywhere. all over the
hall. delsgatioy leaders and bosses
were waiting for the situation &c
crystaIlize a little more clearly.
| In Colorado each of the leaders
LOST something on the sixth ballot
| McAdoo lost ! Y and Smith lost Z.
When Indiana was called on tn
sixth II fair Hoosier maid mounted
a chair and declared: Thirty vote!
| for Senator Ralston and | would cas-
| 800 votes If l had them.
Louisiana on this ballot slid he
| 90 to John w Davis Of West Fir
| ginia after having visited Harrison
| Robinson. Ritchie and Glass. IT wa
| the first substantial accretion to tn
| Davis strength.
| In Massachusetts as the ballot Wen1
| McAdoo + 'Ckeh up half vote, ther
| he PICKED up a full vote in Mime
sofa. There Were some difficulties II
announcing the vote coming from tn
concession to woman delegates, wht
| wanted the honor or the novelty O
| standing on chair and calling on
| the vote. Many times they could no
| he heard by the clerk and finally ha6
| to fall back on mere man after al
and have him announce the result.
smith Picks Up One.
| Some of the men. If the truth be
/ told would have made better an
nouncements had the" chosen womeT
to make them. In Nebraska Smiti
! took a vote from Gov. Bryan ant
added 1t to his string.
! The favorite sons stuck as fast IL
the sixth ballot as they did in tht
fifth: there seemed to be little pros
pect of shaking them off, and it was
| obvious that the sixth. like the pre-
| ceding ballots, would be devoid of {
result.
| Pennsylvania gave Gov. Davis L
Gov. Bryan /: Houston Thompson 1
Glass /; Richie 1 y; Underwood BIZ
John w. Davis 4; McAdoo %, ant
Smith 3712. There was no chang
| there.
! Few ii any of the delegations wer'
doing any re-polling on the floor dur
ing the progress of The ballot and /
was evident that the result was goin,
to be very little different from it
predecessors.
Kate Waller Barrett from her sea
in the Virginia delegation announced
the delegations determination to keel
| their "a votes with Senator Glass
! West Virginia replied with its de
termination to keep its 16 intact 10
John w. Davis.