Evening star., 1924-07-06

mark, and on Friday night he spurt-
ed to $50. The seventy seventh bal
lot showed him at 513. still a domi-
mating figure in the race.
or course. the fluctuations in the
McAdoo strength as displayed by the
| ballot have not been uninf1uenced BY
what his chief opponent. Gov. Smith,
| was doing. Gov. Smiths first vote
| has not been spectacular. but little by
, little. sometimes slipping back for
| ballot or two, the Smith total has
| been increased until on the final bal
lot today it was 367, one less than its
high mark of 36S on the seventy
sixth ballot.
When 1t appeared that Gov. Smith
was making somewhat unusual
gain. the McAdoo forces. aided by the
"drys" in the west and the south.
column, just for the moral effect on
| the McAdoo followers and those of
Smith.
Tried to Get Majority.
One of the goals which has been
sought strenuously by the McAdoo
management is a majority of the
votes of the convention-550 to be
exact. Once Mr.. McAdoo has attained
a majority of the votes of the con-
vention, the argument is, it will be
a very difficult thing to prevent his
being nominated. At his greatest
strength McAdoo has fallen twenty
short Of this figure, however Every
effort was made to get Virginia and
Arkansas to give these needed votee
to McAdoo. But those delegations
stuck firmly to Glass and Robinson.
respectively.
But if Mr. McAdoo failed to reach
the majority mark, Gov. Smith. in the
closing hour of the session today, did
| reach a point where, if he can hold
the votes, he could veto the nomina-
tion of Mr. McAdoo through the con-
troll of one-third of the voting
strength of the convention plus one
Under the two-thirds rule a candidate
must receive two-thirds of the votes
cast to attain the nomination. On
! the seventy fifth ballot Smith had
366 votes; on the seventy-sixth ballot,
368, and on the seventyseventh, 36f.
The high point reached by Ralston
in the voting was 81 on the fifty-f1fth
ballot and there he stuck for three
ballots. after that he began to go
back, and finally at his own request
wired here to tom" Taggart leading
his name from the race. Senator Rails
ton on the first ballot received so
votes, those of the Indiana delega-
tion. The starting point, the high
point and the last vote for other can
didates were as follows: Underwood.
421z, 4s and 47h; Robinson. 21H, 46
and "a; Glass. 25, ~ and 27; Sauls-
bury, I. II and s; Ritchie, 22h, 42.a,
| and 1Sh.
Harrison's High Mark.
! Pat Harrison's high mark was 45A
| on the first ballot; owen went as high
as 25; Gov. Davis of Kansas 32.4;
Gov. Bryan of Nebraska, 10: Gov. Sill
zer of New Jersey, IS; Baker, 81, and
Cox. 60.
The McAdoo forces have not been
able to use the same kind of tactics
| on Underwood that they have been
able to use on John w. Davis and
Ralston. They could not throw votes
strength lies in the Smith camp. Nor
has the McAdoo management been
willing to try out Glass or Robinson
in the same unceremonious manner.
| For the McAdoo people have been
striving eagerly for their support.
Rarely, if ever before, has a candi-
date been able to come back" after
| his vote has receded in national
convention, in the manner in which
Mr.. McAdoo has repeatedly retrieved
| his seemingly lost ground. Many
| times his opponents have seen him
| on the down grade with satisfaction,
| only to see him again rise higher
| than at any time before. Whatever
| the outcome of the race for the nom
| ination, it must be admitted that Mr..
McAdoo has made a wonderful fight
| for it.