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for Governor Richie of Maryland,
and eight for Newton D.. Baker.

for Governor Richie of Maryland,
and eight for Newton D. Baker.
It would have required, on this bal
lot 768 to nominate.
The Roosevelt managers, working
like beavers among the weary dele
gates, had made inroads here and
there, picking up votes by driblets.
At the same time, some of the Roose-
welt states were showing signs of wav-
ering under the pounding counter
attack of the bloc of favorite sons.
Missouri Group Collapses
The Missouri delegation, pledged to
Reed. collapsed and toppled most of
its votes into the Roosevelt column.
The candidacy of Gov. Murray of Ok
lahoma lasted but one ballot. but when
the governor himself released his dele
gates, they divided among other fav-
orite sons and none of them went to
the New Yorker.
There were definite signs of agita-
ton in the Texas and California dele
cations, pledged to Speaker Garner,
with Roosevelt figuring as the most
likely beneficiary should real break
come. The inside circle of conven-
ton leaders heard much talk of a
combination involving the vice -presi-
Dental nomination. Both Garner and
William G. McAdoo, chairman of the
California delegation. were mention
ed in convention floor gossip as pos
sible vice presidential nominees with
Roosevelt.
The adjournment was until $3.50 p.
NJ. but even as they filed out of the
stadium the leaders were carrying on
into private conferences their efforts
to arrive at some breakdown which
would avert anything like the long
deadlock eight years ago in Madison
Square Garden.
Roosevelt's gains had been steady,
small as they were. On the first bal
lot he had 666, on the second SIT, and
on the third 682. The additions on
the second roll call had come from
Indiana, Missouri, New York. North
Dakota, Ohio and Alaska. On the
third ballot he took 2h. from Reed in
Missouri, IL from Smith in New
York, from White in Ohio, and
from Smith In Pennsylvania.
Losses Are Small
His loss was a fraction Of vote
in North Carolina and vote In North
Dakota.
At least some of the Roosevelt early
ballot hopes failed entirely to mater
ialize. Tammany, polling in the center
Of the convention floor just as the
li.ht Of dawn was coming In through
the high windows Of the big stadium,
went solidly to Smith. In Pennsyl-
vania, the Roosevelt total was below
the e-balloting claims
The session. which adjourned just
after nine O'Clock Friday morning, had
begun at nine Thursday night. It
was the Roosevelt generals who in
sisted the delegates 60, ON to the test
of the roll call itself before adjourn,
ing, but after two ballots had failed
to develop the push-over they had
predicted, they tried in vain to adj
journ, Chairman Walsh ruling that
the loud chorus Of mo" sent up by the
Non Roosevelt blocs was decisive.
They went out Of the stadium a
weary lot. all of them. They had sat
through hours Of oratory, even before
the balloting put its added tension on
them. They had marched and shout
ed in series Of midnight demonstra.
tons which, en- masse, probably set
mark for endurance.
They gathered In hotel conference
rooms to 60 on with their negotiation
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