Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-03
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montana, and gave the remaining
nine, as usual, to McAdoo.
Virginia's twenty-four still stood
on today's first ballot with Senator
Glass. The lines generally on all
sides were unbroken. Davis held
tight to his sixteen from his home
state-West Virginia-and the re-
mainder of the roll went through
about the same. The announcer in
Wisconsin who, heretofore, had new
err missed the Mister" McAdoo,
this morning made it plain INC
Adoo.''
The total number of votes cast
on the first ballot today was the
full strength of the convention
1908. That effectively disposed Of
stories that delegates and alternates
were going away. Delegates might
have gone in small numbers, but
the first vote showed that every
delegate who had departed had left
an alternate.
Fresh Ballot Caller
With a fresh ballot caller the con-
vention went into the thirty-seconl
ballot. The McAdoo enthusiasts
were not overlooking any show of
yigor. They announced their votes
with roars and shouts and in col
lege yell fashion.
Massachusetts divided hers: Nc
Adoo 2 IL, Smith SO IL, as usual.
Mississippi held fast FOR Davis
again, as did Missouri
In North Carolina McAdoo lost a
half vote, which went to Davis.
Ohio was not to be moved away
from Governor Cox, and Oklahoma
was sticking to Senator Owen.
In Pennsylvania there were some
switches, but they did notaffect the
leaders.
Mr.. McAdoo again set up head
quarters across the street from the
garden when the convention con-
vened. He occupied a room reserved
In the name of one of his advisers.
McAdoO- Bryan Conference
McAdoo planned to remain at
the hotel throughout the sessions
and receive leaders. Shortly after
he arrived at the hotel McAdoo aides
bearing messages from their chief
began to circulate around the con-
FeHLlOn fIOOr.
Mr.. McAdoo also held an extend
ed conference with William j.
Bryan.
No choice on the thirty second
ballot. The clerk went at the thir-
ty-third. Slowly the ballots were
climbing upward toward the Balti-
more and San Francisco records.
While the call was going on Will
liam Jennings Bryan had a whisper
ed conference on the platform with
Chairman Walsh. Mrs. McAdoo was
back in her box again today busy
with paper and pencil, counting the
ballots.
In Massachusetts on the 33rd Will
liam A. Castor, of Massachusetts,
got half vote from the Smith col
lection. McAdoo's was unchanged.
Michigan went back to Senator
Ferris, her favorite son, taking all
the 30 votes which had be enscat-
tered, McAdoo IL; Smith, II; Davis,
of West Virginia, Z, and Ralston 1.
The delegation took them all back
to hold them while and decide lat
er where they would go.
McAdoo picked up one and a half
in Michigan, which were taken half
a vote from Smith and d full vote
from Ralston.
Other than the break in the New
Yor kdelegation, by which McAdoo
got two votes out of the 80, there
were few changes on the thirty-sev-
enth ballot. South Dakota went SOL
idly for McAdoo, giving him a gain
of one vote there.
While the balloting was in prog
ress, personal letters signed by Mr.
McAdoo were delivered to McAdoo
delegates on the floor They ex-
pressed his appreciation Of their sup
port, declared an intense drive must
be expected to disintegrate the Nc
Adoo forces, and expressed conf
dence that the McAdoo delegates
would stand firm against any at
tempted combintion by "the BOSSES"
On the thirty-fourth ballot in Colo
RADIO, McAdoo' lost one, Smith gain
ed one-half vote. While the ballot
ing was going on there were things
doing in the Mississippi delegation.
The Davis people were holding it
for the West Virginian by a seventh
OF a vote, and the McAdoo people
were making heroic efforts to win
1t over.\ They did not discount the
moral effect Of having Mississippi's
twenty votes go in the McAdoo col
umn, and they hoped it would pave
the way for Missouri to do the same
thing later.
In Illinois there were some
changes; Davis, of West, Virginia,
gained six; Cox lost three; Davis,
OF Kansas, lost two. The list went
nj Oh
Massachusetts,, when the one-half
vote that had been with CASTOR went
back to Smith.
Mississippi Won for McAdoo
There was little change otherwise
until Mississippi, as predicted, swung
into the McAdoo column with her
twenty. The combined efforts of
William Jennings Bryan, Senator
Pat Harrison and the McAdoo floor
managers had succeeded in winning
over the one-seventh of a vote. 1t
was the first tangible encouragement
for the McAdoo people today, and
they took advantage, of the oppor-
tunity to capitalize it, hoping for
the effect on Missouri.
A McAdoo procession was quickly
formed and the McAdco adherents
went are.Su sne hall bearing state
standards, the air resounding with
the familiar "wah-hoo" and hoop
1ah" of the McAdoo warriors.
While the procession was passing.
Missouri was trying to poll and make
up a decision. The McAdoo adher-
ents, marching, called as they pass
ed "come on Missouri" The Nc
Adoo adherents in the Missouri dele
cation who have been looking glum
since yesterdays slide to Davis, re-
sponded well be there" Most of
them were women, all of whom wore
the same kind of fresh bouquets of
roses.
An outsider parading grabbed the
Missouri standard and raised it high
with the NcAdoo paraders. 1t came
down IN a flash with some Davis
men on the other end and the vol