Evening star., 1924-07-07
Proposals to Suspend Rules
And Release Delegates Carried
Glass Begins AdUmce at Expense of
McAdOo; Takes Sc Missouri Votes
From Californian.

for the adoption of a resolution which
in turn would adopt the proposals
embodied in the report of the con-
forces on the over-Sunday negotia-
tionS.
Action Is Delayed.
The proceedings were held up for
a moment while McAdoo leaders con-
ferred on the platform. A delegate
wanted the resolution read again but
it developed the official stenographer
had disappeared with it. The read
ing was postponed until the end of
the next ballot.
The call of the roll then went on
for the seventy y-ninth time.
The roll call developed little but a
challenge of the vote of the Canal
Zone six which had been voting for
McAdoo under the unit rule.
On the poll three of the Panama
Canal delegates cast their votes for
McAdoo and three for Smith. The
challenge contended that there was
no unit rule imposed by the home
convention and that the delegates
should be permitted to vote their
convictions. The chair had ruled la st
week that the delegation was voting
as unit.
+. NJ. Robinson of Ancon was given
permission TO address the conven-
tion. Robinson argued that the dele
gates were bounJ to vote for Me-
Adoo. Chairman Walsh reversed his
previous ruling and ordered the
Canal Zone vote recorded 8 for Nc
Adoo and for Smith.
The seventy ninth ballot saw the
leaders standing this way:
McAdoo, 507.5; Smith, $3.50; Davis,
Il.
This was loss of 3la for McAdoo.
gain of for Smith and loss of
. 4 for Davis.
Then between ballots the conven-
tion heard an announcement that for
mer Gov. Campbell of Ohio was cele-
brating his eighty first birthday. To
his place in the Ohio delegation the
Texas standard was carried with a
bouquet attached to it
Vote onsLeaders Beaten.
Ed NJ. Seamens of Oklahoma City
then offered a resolution proposing
that it be expressed as the sense of
| the convention that the delegates
vote on the next ballot only for the
two leading candidates. John j. Fitz-
gerald of Brooklyn, objected and on
viva voce vote the noes had it
overwhelmingly. Once more the ma
Jority of the convention expressed
itself IN favor of A prolonged fight.
In the Massachusetts delegation on
| the eightieth ballot the result was
announcew by Gov. Smiths son. Al
fred +. Smith, jr. He got a round of
applause.
Missouri Goes to Glass.
Missouri. with her IS votes. slid to
| senator Glass. deserting the McAdoo
| column, where it had been voting under
| the unit rule
Aside from the flop of Missouri from
| the McAdno to the Glass column. the
! only feature of the voting was a redis-
| tribution in Nebraska which cost Nc
rot, ~,
delegation to the Glass fold in full
| force. Ten OF Virginid's "a had been
| going to McAdoo.
Wyoming followed the lead of Mis-
souri, and Virginia and gave Of her
votes to Glass. The ballot had raised
Glass to where he was pressing for
third place.
The eightieth ballot in the Demo-
cratic national convention left the
leaders in this position: McAdoo.
4s4.5; Smith, 367.5; Glass. ss; Davis.
735
This ballot carried McAdoo below
the hse-hundred mark again.
1nls was a loss of SO for McAdoo. a
gain of l for Smith, and it brought
Glass close to Davis for third place
On the eighty first ballot Oklahoma.
with its 20 votes, Topped back to SEN
ator Owen.
The results of the eighty-first bal
lot: McAdoo, 45S; Smith, 365; Davis
IS: Glass, 20; Ralston. 4; Robinson,
SsA; Ritehie, ISL: Walsh. S; sauls-
bury, 6: Owen, 81; Barnett. l: Daniels,
!; Bryan, AZ: Ferris. 16; Roosevelt,
l.. Total. 1896: absent, .
On the eighty-second ballot Missis-
slppi, with her 20 votes, changed from
McAdoo to Ralston
McAdoo Drops Again.
The principal changes on the
eighty-second ballot were occasioned
by Mississippi with her 20 votes
transferring them from McAdoo to
Ralston. and Kansas with 30 leav-
ing McAdoo and returning to Gov
Davis. The leaders stood: McAdoo,
41S.5: Smith, 366; Glass, rs; Davis,
II; Ralston, "a
This showed a heavy loss for
McAdoo, continuing through two
ballots David l.. Rockwell, the
McAdoo campaign manager, said he
was not alarmed.
The totals. eighty-sec ballot
We're: McAdoo, 4l3h; Smith. 366
Davis, West Virginia, Il; Underwood