The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-04
M'ADOO STARTS NEW WtOFFENSIVE
 ON 5STH BALLOT
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 sAs the clock moved to 10 80 Chair man Walsh of Montana. began rapping for order and introduced the Rev. John E:i Heindel of the English Evangelical Eutheran church of Jersey City, who of- fered the morning prayer.
 szStart On Forty third
 The clerk went back to the call of the states for the forty third time.
 'Twenty-four votes for Oscar Under wood" rolled in from Alabama as usual. The first, change came in Florida, where the single vote, which had been east to Underwood, went to Ralston. Ralston people said they were ready to start their drive today after the sec ofid ballot If things looks right" The first breaks for the Indiana senator were expected to come from the middle west. Missouri, Iowa, and Oklahoma, where Thomas Taggart had 'been rnak- ing friends" were being counted on by the Ralston people to contribute some thing. " .
 The Ralston people were claiming they had a hundred votes ready at once Nebraska took one from Smith and en- tered itiup for Davis. The McAdoo people said they were ready to give Ralston run, Taggart, more taciturn thaneever, was hurrying noiselessly over the floor, saying word here and there Members of the old Indiana Illinois New York coalition seemed to be work ing in; harmony again.
 Oklahoma Quits McAdoO .sOn the forty third ballot Oklahoma, with her twenty votes, left McAdoo and went for Senator Robinson of Arkansas. Arkansas. ,fEt
 In New Hampshire McAdoo lost half vote, which Smith picked up.
 North Carolina took a vote from Glass and gave it to McAdoo.
 :McAdoo lieutenants were noticably late coming in today. They had been at a late conference. They predicted that the convention would end tomor- row. At any rate they had long rec ord in their favor-most democratic conventions of recent decades have been in session on the Fourth of July.
 The drop in the McAdoo total caused by the switch of Oklahoma to Robin son, threatened to have an effect which might cost him some more, as Missis- sippi was. threatening to turn back to John W Davis if McAdoo did not at once make some substantial gains. There was no nomination, and the
 
 fourth ballot. That was the one on which Cox was nominated in San Fran cisco four years ago.
 Illinois Scatters Vote
 Illinois still scattering her vote among: the field, took from Davis of Kansas aAnd gave it to Senator Ed wards, the former governor of New Jersey.
 In the forty-fifth ballot the Illinois delegation took the vote cast previous ly for Edwards of New Jersey and gave it back to Governor Davis of Kansas. There was no other change in the scat tering of the remainder of the states votes. In Maine there was a change. Two votes were taken from Underwood and given to John W. Davis.
 Taggart, still working about the floor shaping up the Ralston forces, said
 ''I want them all to have their run" Others said they were laying back to see what the others were doing. The most common expression among the delegates was -.
 We don't know where to go'
 Senator Owen of Oklahoma was asked by friend for "the low down."
 Dissolution is rapidly approaching" said the Senator.
 Having passed the Baltimore record the convention went on the forty seventh ballot. It developed that Sen ator Glass releasing his delegates, ad- viised his friends in the delegation to vote for McAdoo The anti -AIcAdoo men on the. delegation in the majority contend that the delegation is instructed for Glass and he cannot release it. They declined to permit a break up at this time
 In North Carolina, Davis of West Virginia, picked up a half vote from McAdoo.
 As the convention went into the forty-eighth ballot McAdoo delegates received a personal letter from their candidate, urging them to stick for a while. ,.-,s
 One Minnesota vote was switched from Cox to Ralston. '
 Underwood picked up two votes in North Carolina, taking 11a from Me Adoo and # from Davis of West Nir ginia. .~
 Pennsylvania gave Robinson one, talk en from Davis of Kansas.
 As the poll of the Oklahoma delega- tion proceeded it developed that the row was over proposal to switch from Rob inson to Ralston. Senator Owen, among the delegates at large, still voted for Robinson, but a number of others, including most of the women delegates, were for Ralston.
 The final vote was Robinson 10; Ral- ston; g.; one absent. Under the unit rule the 20 votes were cast for Rob- inson.
 In North Carolina. McAdoo lost one to Glass and one to Davis of West Vir- ginia. Ralston picked up one in Arizona from Davis.
 Taggart Launches Drive
 Thomas Taggart launched his long heralded offensive for the nomination of Ralston of Indiana. As the long sue cession of ballots approached the half century mark, the Indiana leader be- gan to bring from under cover the votes he has been holding out until he was convinced the leaders had been elim- mated. .4 .aE
 The first result was that on the foFty-ninth ballot Ralston further crip- pied the McAdoo strength by taking the solid twenty votes of Mississippi.
 The Indiana senator also picked up five in Illinois and one in Minnesota, making his total g in place of the 31 given him on long string of preceding ballots.
 The Iowa delegation, whose 26 votes have been cast for McAdoo since the } start of the balloting, agreed informal ly during the fifty first ballot to dis card the unit rule and scatter it's votes as, follows :pi
 AIcAdoo g.; Smith 71a Ralston 4 i; Davis of West Virginia 315; Under wood. F, and Walsh IF.
 After Missouri
 An effort was being made meantime to swing Missouri to Ralston. When the state was called on the fifty-second