The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-18
.MADOO TO STAGE DRAMATIC ENTRY; MILAN NOTIFIED Mayor Promises To Have Reception Committee
 In Waiting NO SECOND CHOICE
 BEING EXPRESSED Plans Under Way To Have Keynote Deliv-
 cred At Night
By RAYMOND CHAPTER lRy I,Ansed Wire to Age. Heraldl


 NEW YORK, June i7.-These days before the democratic conven- tion are being utilized by the man. agers of the various presidential candidates to lay down propaganda barragas in advance of the real fighting next week.
 Managers of Al Smith, William G. McAdoo, Oscar Underwood, and the stable of dark horses are extremely active, vocally. National commit teemen are busy arranging last minute physical details regarding the convention seating and the rou- tine program. Delegates, however, will not arrive in great force until the end of the week, and pending that time, only predictions and guesses of the various managers are available in figuring the out look as to the nomination.
 Tom Taggart of Indiana and George Brennan of Illinois are due Wednesday. They are the two most powerful individuals in the party, perhaps, and after they arrive, the real business of getting down to horse trading will begin. But un- til they effect some powerful alli- anceS, the nomination is a matter of pure conjecture.
 Headlines Vary
 One glance at the headlines of the New York newspapers is sufficient to indicate the variety of guesses. In the editions Tuesday one found this array of conflicting headlines:
 "Ralston Falling Back; Cox and Davis Gaining"
 Boomers of Dark Horses Believe Smith and McAdoo Will Block Each Other.v
 -AfcAdoo Forces Hope to Draw. Smith Into Dry and Klan Fight"
 Cox Boom Arrives"
 Davis Strength Crows
 Smith Followers Confident"
 The only honest headline writer was the one who headed a picture of John w. Davis, Another Guess"
 A Dramatic Entry
 These headlines reflect the confused situation here. Anticipating that Al Smith would have the advantage of the friendly atmosphere of the convention city, the McAdoo managers are setting about to offset this by clever means McAdoo himself will stage a dramatic entry into the convention city Wednes- day, and will be met by large recep- tion committee upon his arrival. His manager thoughtfully teiephoned the Mayors office as to the time of ar rival and Mayor Hylan promised to have his own reception committee on hand.
 MeAdoo's genial and able manager, David l.. Rockwell, put in a hard after noon's work, explaining to the newspa- per correspondents how McAdoo men control the national committee, how they will cntrol 30 out of 54 units on the rules committee-and how this con the old two-thirds rule tradition and enable thel convention to nominate its presidential candidate by majority vote.
 The Tw0-Thirds Question This two-thirds rule question is the biggest issue facing the convention outside of. the presidential nomination itself, on which it has a most important bearing. McAdoo forces are divided on the issue. Rockwell wants to fight for 6 rule enabling nomination by ma jority vote. Isidore Dockweiler, Cali fornia national committeeman and one of McAdoo's leaders, believes an at- tempt of this sort woud be tactical error:
 McAdoo's managers estimate that he will poll more than majority by the
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