The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-12
PLEDGED DAVIS CAMP AICN BY ROCK WELL McAdoo After Visiting Candidate WithhOlds
 Statement NOMINEE LOOKING
 FOR A MANAGER Many Prospects Discuss ed But Choice Is
 Postponed

| NEW YORK, July 11.-Before leav- ing tonight for what he hoped would be a quiet week and at his country house at Locust Valley, Long Island, John W. Davis, democratic nominee for president, put in busy day receiving continuous procession of callers, among them William c. MeAdoo, Gov ernor Smith and Cordell Hull, chair man of the democratic national com mittee.
 After an hours conference alone with Mir. Davis, MT. McAdoo said he had called simply to pay his respects to the nominee whom he had known for many years. When asked whether he would support Davis and Bryan, the Californian replied:
 If He Has Time
 "I'll deal with that question in a statement that I shall issue before 1 sail for Europe tomorrow if l can find time to prepare it.
 Simultaneously with Mir. McAdoo's call at the house of Frank l.. Polk, where Mir. Davis spent the day, David l.. Rockwell, who had charge of Mir. McAdoo's campaign for the nomination, made public at a hotel letter to MR. Davis in which Mir. Rockwell pledged his support and asserted that no can didate ever had had clearer title to q nomination than Mir, Davis.
 Mir. Rockwell told correspondents it was inconceivable to him that Mir. Me AdoO should decline to give his support to his successful rival.
 m. Nr..s rSA ,lsss.,.s,,. .sJ. ,1c ,sk . organiza ton, espKaiallY the selection 0G a nAtional chairman and camp aign ruai1T agef, with Mr. Hull and George White of Ohio who had charge of the Cox campaign in 1920 he reached no de- cision for the democratic field marshal.
 Mir. Hull said that he would not con- tinue as national chairman after the formal opening of the campaign and Mir. White said he thought 1t very un- likely that he would again take charge. Glenn Shaver of Fairmount, W. Va, a resident of the nominees home town and an old friend of the family who by reason of his being a member of the Davis club of Clarksburg that launched the Davis boom had been considered a possible chairman, spent a large part of the day with Mir, Davis.
 The nominee has Been receiving sug, gestions from these and other leaders, but probably will not make a choice until next week.
 Josephus Daniels, former Secretary of the Navy; George Brennan, Chicago leader; David Hunter Miller, a member of the legal advisory staff of the Peace Commission Herbert c. Pen, New York state chairman; Rollins Ram dolph, chairman of the Georgia eonyen- tion delegation 7 John s. Cohen, Geor- gia national committeeman and pub fisher of the Atlanta Journal, and J. B. Cotton, son of MT. McAdoos law partner were others who paid more than perfunctory visits to Mir. Davis.
 Wants Vacation
 After selecting a national chairman and arranging for the notification cere. mony Mir. Davis hopes to be able to turn the machinery of party affairs over to his managers long enough to take a vacation of perhaps two weeks.
 Mir. and Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson today invited Mir. and Mrs. Davis to vis- it them at their summer home at Isle bore, Me, for this interim and the nOmi- nee will accept if he can clear up or. ganization problems by the end of next week.
 When the Davis motor car drew up amid the hedges, trees and flower gar dens of his Long Island home tonight, the nominee stepped out hoping to as- soclate chiefly with golf sticks and books for a couple of days.
 Among the hundreds of congratula- tory messages received by Mir. Davis
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