Evening star., 1944-07-22
Truman Victory
Ends Turbulent
Chicago Session
Named as RooseveIt's
Third Running Mate
In II Years
BY GOULD LINCOLN.
Star Staff CORRESPONDENT,

CHICAGO, July 22.-President
Roosevelt, seeking a fourth term,
has today his third running
mate In a dozen years-Senator
Truman OF Missouri.
Senator Truman was nominated
on the second ballot last night in
the final turbulent eight-hour ses-
sion of the Democratic National
Convention, which discarded Vice
President Wallace.
Party leaders planned it that way.
How far the President himself was
in on the plan is still a matter Of
conjecture.
The belief was strong that the
President wanted Senator Truman.
Justice William o. Douglas of the
Supreme Court, comparative un.
known to national politics, never
had a chance.
Second Ballot Figures.
On the second ballot the vote
was:
|. For Senator Truman. 1,031: Mr..
Wallace, los; Justice Douglas, A.;
Gov. Prentice Cooper of Tennesse,
26; Senator Barkley of Kentucky, 6;
Manpower Commissioner McNutt,
!. Three Of the 1,l76 delegates were
absent.
Richard F. Mitchell, acting chair
man of the Iowa delegation, who
had placed Mr.. Wallace in nomina-
ton, sought before the final vote
was announced to suspend the rNles
and make the nominatio sunal1i-
nous. His proposal was ruled out
Of order by Chairman Jackson.
Mr.. Wallace hit his high-water
mark on the first ballot, which re-
suited as follows: Mr.. Wallace,
1921; Senator Truman, 3191s, Sem
stor Bankhead of Alabama, 98; Sem
ator Barkley, 491a; Senator Lucas
of Illinois, 81; Gov. J. Melville
Broughton of North Carolina, 43;
Gov. Cooper, 26; Gov. Robert S.
Kerr Of Oklahoma, %; Senator
O'Mahoney of Wyoming, 27; Gov.
Herbert r. O'Conor of Maryland, 1S:
Mr.. McNutt. 81: Senator Thomas
of Utah, 10; Senator Pepper of
Florida, g.; Speaker Rayburn. 2:
Justice Frank Murphy, 2; Bascom
Timmons, /.
| CIO Takes Licking.
The National Citizens Political Ac-
tion Committee which, along with
Edward ]. Flynn, New York national
committeeman, turned thumbs down
on War Mobilization Director Byrnes,
took a licking.
1t employed all the tricks in the
political bag to get Mr.. Wallace re-
nominated, including setting up q
claque in the galleries and seeking
to stampede the convention by
shouts of I'VE want Wallace" train
ing members Of the union to stage a
demonstration. and finally, the usa
Of pressure on individual delegates.
Sidney Hillman, chairman of the
CIO Committee, had been here for
days working to renominate MIR.
Wallace. Philip Murray. president
Of the CIO, was here. too.
The only face-saving thing in the
CIO about the conventions action
hes in the fact that Mr.. Hillman
had told Senator Truman that if
Mr.. Wallace could not make the
grade, he would be acceptable to
the CIO.
The Wallace opponents, for their
part, insisted that the Roosevelt
ticket had been strengthened by
the substitution of Senator Truman
for Mr.. Wallace. They urged that
the liberals had no place to go
In the election except to Mr. Roose-
velt and the nomination of Senator
Truman prevented the loss Of thou
sands Of votes which will be cast
by men and women who feared to
take Mr.. Wallace for vice president,
lest he might eventually become
president.
Southerners Lead Stampede.
Predominant in the campaign
strategy which brought about the
nomination of Senator Truman
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