Evening star., 1932-07-01
OUTCOME REMAINS
GUESS AT RECESS.
Slight Roosevelt Gains May
Mean Victory or That New
Yorker Is at Peak.
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by all factions, and it was apparent
that no special advantage was foreseen
for any candidate by taking the needed
rest. The delegates will have a chance
to appraise with refreshed minds and
bodies those three ballots in which
Gov. Roosevelt had a higher total on
the first three ballots than any candi-
date who has been faced with a real
contest.
1t does look as If the New York
Governor can somewhere find the
needed 88 votes by burrowing In here
and there. His lieutenants win take
but a few hours sleep and 60 at 1t
again in the early hours Of the eve
ming. They scent victory within their
grasp, and they will work harder to
break down the stubborn opposition
which has arisen.
There is no doubt hut that the New
York Governors managers were sur
prised that they did not get the neces-
sary two-thirds somewhere in those
first three ballots. They did manage 10
gain few on the second and third bal
lots. but the gain from the end of the
first ballot to the end OF the third bal
lot was only about II votes. This was
accomplished by ones and twos and
threes. II any of the big delegations
should break to the Roosevelt camp, 1t
would be all over.
against Roosevelt are: Massachusetts,
New Jersey, q substantial part of nil
nois, Pennsylvania and New York. re-
spectively. with firm support from Con-
necticut, Rhode Island, Maryland Vir-
ginia and an entrenched group of dele
gates in Ohio. There has always been
some doubt about California and Texas
which together control 80 votes now
pledged to Speaker Garner.
New Alignments.
The talk has been that Mr.. Garner
might be given the nomination for the
vice presidency and that Mr.. McAdoo
might become Secretary of State IL he
failed to win the senatorial contest this
year in California, Mr.. McAdoo is
floor manager for the California and
Texas delegations. Some of the men
on the convention floor who are man
aging the Roosevelt campaign are the
very men who fought bitterly on be-
half Of Mr.. McAdoo at Madison Square
Garden in 1924 only to be robbed OF
their prize by the very delegations
which are lined up so strongly against
Roosevelt.
Every word that comes from Cali
fornia and Texas Is that both delega-
tions will stick to the bitter end, but
by nightfall there may be a different
story to tell and Mr.. Roosevelt may be
the nominee.
Should the unexpected occur and the
Roosevelt forces begin to disintegrate,
Newton D. Baker is the most likely
winner. He is favored by former Gov.
Smith and the big Eastern delegations
now opposed to Roosevelt, and he would
be satisfactory to most all Of the Roose-
Velt groups. because the managers in
the various States who were responsible
for the Roosevelt strength In the pres
ent convention are for the most part
former members of the Wilson Ad-
ministration in which Mr.. Baker played
such q conspicuous part. He Is far
more liberal than Ritchie. In the view
point of the Westerners who favor
Roosevelt. and is, of course, acceptable
to the Southern delegations, now so
strong for Roosevelt.
The result is truly uncertain, but it
does look as If the choice will be made
without a prolonged series Of ballots
such as was witnessed in 1924.
(Copyrisht, 1922