Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-08
NJ ADOO SUPPORTS
CONVENTION PLAN
To END DEADLOCK
Session Is Adjourned Until
$50 O'Clock Mon
day Night

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, N.
Y, July by action OF the Demo.
cratic national convention itself to-
day, all delegates were released from
pledges and Instructions on presiden-
tial candidates.
The action of the convention did
not affect the two-thirds rule or the
unit rule. BY it's action the conven-
ton approved the stand of the fit
teen minority candidates including
Governor Smith. Mr.. McAdoo's
counter proposal did not come up for
a vote.
The vote came on motion of for
mer Governor Gilchrist, of Florida,
and over technical objections intea.
posed by Gavin McNab, of San Fraa-
cisco, a McAdoo leader.
Earlier in the day the convention
| had brushed aside consideration OF
| the resolution of the fifteen minority
| candidates and the counter proposal
| by Mr.. McAdoo also. Apparently ev-
erybody was full Of fight and un
yielding.
But five more tedious ballots in
the steaming Madison Square Gar,
den took some Of the belligerency
out of some of the delegates and
when they came to vote on the reso-
luton as it finally came up the vote
xxyo al hot LIB
was unable to determine who had
it and ordered roll call.
Text of Resolution
The resolution upon the adoption
of which the convention voted was
as follows:
Resolved, That the time has ar
rived when, in the opinion of this
Democratic convention, all delegates
should be and are hereby released
from any pledges or Instructions of
any kind whatsoever, touching upon
any candidacy for the nomination
for president
The McAdoo people, passed the
I word that Mr.. McAdoo wanted s!.
his people to vote for the resolution
as he did not wish to appear as an
obstructionist. The result was that
the votes in favor Of the movemens
| tumbled in so fast that its passage
was assured before the roll call was
| half over. The effect of releasing
| delegates from instructions and
! pledges, while retaining the unit
rule and the two thirds rule, will be
developed in the balloting immedi-
ately.
There are delegates in the cos,-
vention instructed by state conven.
tons or primaries who say they are
ready to change their votes.
The eighty-third ballot showed
| practically no change in the voting.
despite the conventions action In re-
leasing pledged delegations. McAdoo
received Ais, and Smith 36S, the for
mer gaining IL and the latter 2.
The convention adjourned untn
$50 o'clock tonight.
Passed Overwhelmingly.
The vote on the motion by Mr..
! Gilchrist was 9S5 in it's favor and
| 105 against it and eight rot vot-
! ing. 1t was 25S more than required
| to pass it.
Chairman Walsh stated his inter
| probation of the resolution It Goes
not abrogate the unit Ju'e which
| prevails wherever it was ordered. it
merely expresses the sense Of the
| convention that instructions and
| pledges are and ought not longer to
be binding; the idea being that when
Instructions and PLEDGE, were given.
| it was anticipated that nor cnation
would be made in a reasonable time
and a reasonable number of ballots.
No delegate, the chairman said.
would be subject to legitimate criti.
cism for now changing his vote il
he wished to do 20.
| The convention then plunged INTO
| the S3rd ballot and the effect Of the
resolution just adopted was watched
with the greatest interes;
There was a strong effort IN the
! Iowa delegation 20 switch the vote
| of that state from McAioo to -.
agriculture. Some members Of tina
| delegation predicted h.. the change
would be made Immediately.
Glass Gets Try-Out
Senator Carter Glass, of Virginia,
was the dark horse" brought out In
the balloting early today, after the
| first three roll calls had shown little
change in the leaders standing.
The principal change on the Sind
ballot was occesioned by Mississippi:
with her 20 votes transferring them
from McAdoo to Ralston. The lead
ers stood McAdoo Abs; Smith 36S;
Glass 70; Davis II; Ralston "a
This showed a. heavy loss for Nc
Adoo, continuing through two bal
lots David J.. Rockwell, the Nc
Adoo campaign manager said lie was
not alarmed.
At the end of the eighty-first bal.
lot McAdoo had dropped to 422 and
Smith to 365, while Virginia's favo-
rite son was third with 73. Davis
got 20 1-2
On the first ballot today the lead
ers stood this way: McAdoo, 511;
Smith, $685.; Davis, 1875.
This was loss of 2 for McAdoo! a
loss Of IL for Smith, and three
for Davis.
The 10Th ballot saw the leaders
standing this way:
McAdoo, 507.5; Smith, 1865; Da-
Wis. H.
This was loss of 3 IL for Nc