The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-09

bring their candidate out of second place. They had semet success at first when some of the stateA delegations and smaller groups who had left the Me Adoo camp to vote for Senator Rals- ton of Indiana returned to cast their ballots again for the Californian.
 Senator Ralston, who had wound up the day session in third place, with nearly two hundred votes, had submit ted an unconditional withdrawal through Thomas Taggart, and when the telegram of withdrawal was read from the speakers platform most of the Ralston strength quickly faded out of the picture. His own state divided its vote between McAdoo and Smith, but Missouri 'as a compliment to his pa triotism and unselfishness" cast an- other solid vote for the Hoosier.
 During the evening session it became known that Governor Smith and Mir. McAdoo had had a personal interview during the afternoon. All of their ad- visers were extremely reticent regard ing what took place but it was indi- cated that the meeting had been ar ranged in a hope that there might be an agreement for a simultaneous retirement from the field of candidates.
 Chairman Hull of the national com nIittee and Chairman Walsh of the convention were present at the con- ference, and are said to have urged that some step be made to extricate the convention from its plight.
 Called to order at II o'clock, today session began with an invocation by the Rev. Francis Potter, of the West Side Unitarian church, New York city, fol- lowed by the singing of the Star Spangled Banner" by the celebrated opera star, Madam Tamaki Miura. A resolution expressing the grief of the convention at the death of Calvin Cool idge, Jr., was offered by Rabbi Stephen A. Wise, on behalf of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and was adopted by rising vote.
 Begin With SSth
 As the convention started it's work with the eighty-eighth ballot it be. came apparent that the overnight dis cussions of the party chiefs had no i'm. mediate material effect on the situation As state after state returned the same vote it had cast on the last ballot last night, some of the most experienced of the war horses on the floor admitted they didn't know where they stood, or in what direction events might be nov ing.
 One feature of the opening roll call was gradual slipping away of McAdoo votes here and there, mostly in lots of one or two votes. RalstOn was pick ing up his share of them.
 Just before the convening of the con- vention, about twenty McAdoo leaders, ranracay, finO most of fba fof ba have been contributing to the McAdoo column, had a conference of an hour and a half with their candidate. The word was sent out afterward that the fight would be continued and that Mir. McAdoo was not considering a with drawal. He was said to have been told that some of the delegations that had swung away from him would come back.
 After this conference there was a re- vival of reports that further attempts would be made to put through a reso- lution abrogating simultaneously the unit rule and the two-thirds rule. Such a proposal was voted down yesterday.
 McAdOO Loses \ Dozen
 In North Carolina on today's first roll call, McAdoo suffered loss of a dozen votes when the state went al- most solidly for Josephus Daniels, who heretofore had received only scat tering vote or two during the long grind of the balloting.
 The leaders stood this way on the eighty-eighth balios:
 Smith 362; McAdoo 315.5; Ralston 9S; Glass 66.5; Davis 59.5.
 This was a gain of half a vote for Smith, loss of eighteen for McAdoo, a gain of two and a new high record for Ralston. Glass lost four and a half and Davis seven.
 The next roll Call ran along about its predecessors except that McAdoo got back one by one some of the votes he had just lost. There seemed to be con. siderable doing in several delegations, however, with growing disagreements over the way the vote should be distri- buted. Ohio, caucusing on the floor, asked for a delay when its name was called in regular order, and when the Oklahoma vote was cast for Senator Owen, as usual, a member of the dele gation challenged it and called for a poll of the delegf+i~". F~"m his place
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