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FORTY-SECOND YEAR—NO. 158
DEADLOCK UNBROKEN FOR 22 BALLOTS,
CONVENTION RECESSES TO MONDAY
Complete Summary of Democratic Conventiori’s 22 Ballots
— I —LJLjL 3_J 4 5 6i 7 ~|~B~ 9I IN 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 |lB 19 20 21 22
Cox ° H 4 1386I 386 385 1380 375%
P l 34 188I 88 I? 7 J 7 ? 198 295 V2 315 321% 321 332 404 4281/2 4431/2 468 454% 442 458 468 456% 426% 430
Palmer ... 256 264 251% 254 244 265 267% 262 257 257 255 201 193% 182 167 164% 176 174 179% 178 144 166%
Uerard .... 21 12 11 2 11 2 11
S" nmingß !! 2 Z 26 24 21 20 I 9 18 18 19 19 8 7 5 19 20 19 19 19 10 7 6
JrTk L io 32 36 35 36 37 37 35 34 32 34 31 34 36 38 37 41 36 i 35
Hitchcock 18 16 16 5 5 1 | , »
Meredith.. 27 26 26 28 27 I I
Smith 109 101 92 96 95 96 4 2 1 7 I W / I
Edwards 42 34 32% 31 31 30 2 ( i i / !
Davis 32 | 31% 28% 31 29 29 33 §2 |32 34 33 |3l 29% 33 32 52 57 42 31 j 36 154 152
2 aSS i_ .. !S /2 25 /8 27 27 27 27 27 27 125 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 26 26 26 25
Marshall . 37 26 26 26 29 13 14 12 77 77 77
9 6 I 7 8 9 7 8 6 5 4 4|4 4 4 4 4 2 2 2 212 2
Scattering (I )58 (2)341 (3)8 | (4)1 (5)2 (6)1 I 1 Wilson! 2
(1) Simmons 24, Williams 20, Harrison 6, Wood 4, Underwood 1-2, Hears 1 1, Bryan 1, Colby 1, Daniels 1 (2) Simmons 25, Harrison 7, Bfvan 1, Daniels 1. (3) Harrison 6, Bryan 1.
Daniels 1, (4) Bryan 1,. (a) Colby 2.. (6) Colby 1.
SOUTHER READY
FOR BIG CROWD
AT CELEBRATION
—X"'
Program Announced for
4th of July Events
Monday
Everything is in readiness at South
er Field today for the big Fourth of
July celebration which will be staged
there Monday. Preparations have
been made for entertaining a great
crowd, and auto parties are expect
ed from all the surrounding coun
tn Americus will take a holiday Mon
day, all the business houses closing
either all dav or not later than 1
o’clock, and there will be a large rep
resentation from the city to>enjoy
the occasion at the camp. Although
tarees are an unknown quantity at tne
•llost arrangements have been made
Which will assure comfort for all who
attend. A number of the large han
ears have been vacated and will be
thrown open to the public. These huge
buildings are equipped with doors
so large that when they are open
ed the buildings are little more than I
a roof and two walls. The roofs are j
high and the buildings airy, even cool-,
er than the shade of the tree because
the sun is entirely shut ou., while the
ventilation is complete. Free trans
portation will be provided by army
tructe from the Windsor hotel.
The program will begin at ID
o’clock, with a flying exhibition, fol
lowed by the I’-ening of nnngars at
11 o’clock for the showing of the
exhibits handiwork of various kinds
1 livestock, for which prizes have
ueen offered. From 12 to 1:30 will
be lunch time. All visitors are encour
aged to bring basket luncheons and
eat them on the grounds. However,
for the accommodation of those who
do not bring their own lunches, sand
wiches, ice cream and drinks will be :
sold on the grounds.
Flying in Afternoon
Flying will take place again in the
afternoon at 2 o’clock with a program
of aviation stunts, and at 2.45 Amer
icus Boy Scouts, who will take a
prominent part in the celebration,
will put on a demonstration. At 3
o clock a thrilling parachute leap
from a plane will be the event, fol
lowed by a motorcycle race and base
ba 1 ! game at 4 o’clock between South
er Field and Mcßae. The Mcßae team
will brin se a crowd of Mcßae fans tc
root so) them and participate in the
festivities. , , ...
The big thriller of the day will
take place at 5 o’clock when Roger Q.
Williams stages his death-defying act
of changing planes while flying at
high speed high in the air. A number
of little Americus girls will dance at
5:30, the day will come to a close
at B:3v in the evening with a big
dance at the officers club.
The program in detail was an
nounced yesterday by Adjutant Wy
att, who has had it in charge, as fol
lows:
The Program
10:00 a. m.—Flying exhibition. All
ships will take the air and do all
maneouvers and acrobatics known to
man. ,
11:00 a. m. —Opening of hangars
for exhibits.
12 to 1:30 p. m.—Recess for lunch.
2:00 p. m. —Grand review of air
planes. All ships will pass in single
file at a low altitude in order that all
spectators a “close-up” of
the ships in the air.
2:15 p. m.—Formation of De Hav
iland planes.
2:30 p. m —Combat of Scout
planes, showing method of fighting |
over the lines.
2:45 p. m.—Boy Scout demonstra-1
tion.
3:00 p. m.—Parachute leap from
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By J. W. RAPER,
Creator of “Joah Wise.”
(Copyright 1920.)
SAN FRANCISCO, July 3.
Never has there been a nat’anal
/x. convention heiri in
') f an auditorium with
t/ such fine acoustic
properties. When
VWilson speaks in
Washingt o n h i s
5S - Ywwk v °i ce is heard in
\ every corner of
the big hall.
• • •
Occasionally you see some of
the boys arm in arm, but most
of their meetings are hand to
hand. «
• • •
“Champ Clark!” exclaimed a
Utah delegate. “Why Champ?
When did he ever meet Demp-
I sey?”
• * a
One of these days a national
convention will be run properly.
Instead of being opsned w,th
prayer it will be closed that way.
• • •
At the next Democratic con
vention an effort will probably
be made to induce Tex Rickard
to bid for the meeting of the
resolutions committee.
• * *
The idea of adopting a plat
form before selecting a candi
date is a splendid one. It gives
the man who is nominated an
opportunity to forget the plat
form early.
« * »
All the women here take to
politics as naturally as Pryan to
water. And they declare that
when it comes to election day
they will have no more difficulty
in voting their ticket straight
than putting on a hat on
straight.
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If the women \keep on learn
ing in the next four years as
rapidly as they have in the past
four, they will pack the next Dem
ocratic convention as easily as
they pack a trunk.
• • •
In years to come San Fran
cisco will remember the encoun
ter between Bryan and Bourke
Cochran as the Day of the Two
Big Winds.
* * *
Tammany gives as an argu
ment in favor of Al Smith that
he will capture the Smith vote,
which will make his election a
sure thing.
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They said it to Senator Reed
without flowers.
height of 3,000 feet.
3:15 p. m.-—Motorcycle race;
Promises to be fast and ful of thrills.
4:00 p. m. —Baseball game. Souther
Field vs. Mcßae.
4:00 p. m.—Track meet, 100-yard
dash, 50-yard dash, 3-legged race, po
tato race, sack race.
5:00 p. m.—Changing planes in •
mid-air, featuring Mr. Roger Q. Wil
i liams. This is a big feature of the
aerial performance.
I 5:30 p. m.—Fancy dancing by
I young girls of Americus, featuring
Miss Chapman’s Dancing class.
i 8:30 p. m.—Big dance. Officers’
> club, “Dixie Five” orchestra. Vaude-
> ville sketches during intermission,
I featuring Messrs. Phillip Vitsky, Neill
Ray and others.
THE TlkOßßfcdkDEß
PUBLISHED in THE Jv/IHwT mlir florfl
BRYAN CHEERED,
THEN ROLLED IN
PLATFORM FIGHT
Beaten 6 to 1, Although
Given Great
Ovation
BY H. N. RICKEY
FRANCISCO, July 3—The
_,ieat battle over the Democratic plat
form raged all day Friday and result
ed in a complete victory for Presi
dent Wilson and the complete rout
of Bryan.
Shortly after 10 a. m. Chairman
Glass, of the resolutions committee,
began the report. It took, him two
hours for every thin" on the earth
and under the earth and above the
earth was discussed in the plat
form. There may be a great differ
ence of opinion as to the futility ofj
the platform. As to the quanity there,
is no doubt that it would take the!
first prize in any platform contest/
Finally Glass, who frequently dur-!
ing the reading of had been on the:
pont of breaking, finished- A great I
shout went up from delegates and
gallery for Bryan, who it was known
would make a minority report on the
subject of prohibition and the
League of Nations.
Bryan Gets Ovation
The Commoner got a great ova
tion when he made his way to the
speaker’s rostrum. He oot a great
er one when he had completed the
reading of his minority report; a
still greater one when a few hours
he concluded perhaps the greatest
oraltorical effort pf his life. The
way the Nebraskan abused the rum
demon was shameful— or glori
ous according to one’s point
of view. It was a wonderful
emojtional appeal into which
Bryan put everything he had in the
days of his prime when he was at
the zenith of his powers. He was
never more eloquent since the open
ing day of the convention. Dele
gates and visitors alike had been
looking forward to this hour, for
after all, orator-- makes a more - u
iversal appeal than almost anything
else and Bryan is admittedly one
of the few living masters of the art.
And then a short while after the
Coliseum had fairly rocked with
shouts of the multitude acclaiming
The Commoner, the vote was taken
on his proposition to insert a dry
plank in the platform. The way those
delegates rolled Bryan was amazing,
considering the way they 1 d -
ceived him. He was beaten six to
one.
Cochran Well
In the meantime Bourke Cochran
of New York had made an impas
sioned appeal for the inserting of a
light wine and beer plank in the
platform. The crowd had a friendly
feeliner for Cochran, remembering
his clever speech nominating Gover
nor Smith of New York. He was
given an enthusiastic reception and
I responded with a splendid oratorical
i effort. Cochran had them upon their
1 feet yelling like Indians, but a short
time later he, too, was being roiled
i —not quite as flat as Bryan but
flat enough to satisfy.
Between the oratory of Bryan and
Cochran and their rolling something
happen, d, more properly speaking,
two somethings happened. They were
speeches by Secretary of State Col
by and Senator Glass.
Neither Colby nor Glass is an ora
tor. They made no attempt to arouse
the sentiments of the delegates by
appealing to their passion. If they
had tried to do this they would have
failed, because their’s would have
been poor efforts in comparison with
what had gone before. But both Col
by and Glass, as representatives and
friends of the President, told the
delegates what most of them wanted
AMERICUS, GA., SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 4J1920.
Bryan Sweeps Galleries But
Not Delegates Off Their Feet
Great Tribute Paid Commoner in His Supreme
Effort, but Silent Block Sits Unmoved by
Sea of Sound
SAN FRANCISCO, July 3.—(By
Associated Press). —White with
fatigue, wet-eyed with emotion and
deafened by the roaring tribute of
thousands, William Jennings Bryan
last night stood before the Demo
cratic national convention at a new
1 crossing in his quarter of a century
of public life.
Silently he heard the chorus of
“noes,” one by one, strike down the
issues he had raised.
But there was no gainsaying the
genuineness of the tribute he re
ceived even in defeat. It was given
to the man with utter abandon, with
out-the aid of the band, organ or
other convention trappings. It
sprang from the galleries, but there
were others who sat unmoved. They
(formed a solid block in the center of
; the floor, unheeding the sea of sound
i and feeling which raged about.
From the moment when the read
! ing of the platform was finished and
I he took his stand amid cries of “Bry
an, Bryan,” to present the planks for
which he proposed to fight, the old
leader was keyed for the effort of his
life. Against him; he knew, were
giants of For that reason
he divided the time, swiftly present
ing the outlines of his case, then
yielding to others who paved the way
for the climax he planned for him
self. • I
It was plain that it was the bone
dry issue on which Bryan would cen
ter his efforts to/sweep the conven
tion off its feet. : He had something
to say for the League of Nations and
other matters, nut it was plain it
to hear and the) told it in such a
straightforward, /common sense way
that it was a pleasant relief and re
action from the [flights of Bryan and
Cochran.
Glass and Colby supported the
platform as reported to the conven
tion against tie attacks of Bryan,
Cochran and ethers who were at
tempting to anjend it. Colby especial
ly struck precisely the right note
in his defense! of the League of Na
tions plank wjich was written in the
platform as the President
wanted it.
There was pot a chance to change
th > platform, even to the crossing
a “t” or me dotting of an “i” af
ter Colbv aid Glass had done their
perfect worl. Finally when all the
amendment‘had been overwhelm
ingly d ‘feafcd the steam roller went
into high tear and by unanimous
vote the platform was adopted.
It had bien a wonderful day, as
convention Hays go, when the chair
man at.abdut 7 o’clock declared the
platform adopted with Mr. Wilson’s
League off Nations endorsed to the
limited ani utter silence as to booze
These wire the two issues about
which thei all-day battle raged.
When it 7 o’clock the first bal
lot for president was declare ’ to be
in order, r.he convention had been in
continuoos session for nine hours.
Somebodj suggested an adjourn
ment for dinner, but he was howled
down in jjpite of the fact tha- every
body was tired and hungry. The air
was fatly vibrant with suppressed"
excitement as the clerk began call
i ing thd roll for the first ballot. As
the baj oting proceeded and it be
came evident that there would be
no noifinatioh there was*relief from
the tetseness.
Tha second ballot showed little
chanrt in the vote and as it was
ballof: to nominate the convention
adjoined until 9.30 Saturday mom
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» THE WEATHER.
Ferecast for Georgia—Fair Sun-1
dayi
r was the dry plank on which he staked
• every vestige of the magnetic power
! over men’s hearts he possessed. In
twenty minutes of dramatic appeal
1 with which he closed his crusade, he
reached new heights of fervor. When
' he hurled a last defiance at the liquor
'traffic, with the prediction that when
. the women of the nation are given
full political liberty, they and their
children will be found battling for
lie cause he espoused, a great shout
1 went surging through the vaulted
dome of the roof.
The Texas delegates pulled their
’ state standard from the floor and
’ drove through the aisle to the plat
' form; there was a battle around the
1 California standard, which was
smashed to fragments, but a woman
delegate finally reached the platform
with a remnant of the banner which
she frantically waved. Another wo
man dressed in white, with a drum,
cjHng to her side, was lifted to the
(Speaker's stand and this was the only
prearranged effort at a demonstra
tion in the hall.
/Bryan came again and again to th<
' edge of the stand and waived to the
1 crowd below. His eyes always went
■ to the silent body of delegates that
yielded not a jot to the tide of feel
ing sweeping down from the galler
ies. After desperate pounding order
was restored and Secretary of State
Colby to answer Bryan on the
League of Nations issue. He dis
missed the effort of the Nebraskan
almost without notice. The vote
against the dry plank was over-
- whelming.
NEWPAVEDROAD
OPEN TO PUBLIC
Public Invited to Use
This Route Going and
Returning from Field
Superintendent of Roads John B
; Ansley annouced Saturday afUr
noon that the newly paved section
• of the Dixie Highway near Ameri
s cus would be open to traffic all day
today and Monday, and the public
: is invited to use it as they like dur
i ing these two days.
The county convict forces ’"ill
I take a holiday Monday and this op-
■ portunity to inspect the finished
• roadway is offered to the public.
; The opening of the paved section
i of road will offer another route to
: Souther field from Americus, of
; which many motorists are expected
to avail themselves.
Ayash Estate To
Be Sold Tuesday
' The entire stock of goods and fix
' tures in the establishment of the late
’ W. A. Ayash will be sold Tuesday
"morning, July 6, at 11 o’clock, by
T. 0. Marshall, administrator of the
1 estate, to the highest bidder for cash.
' The sale will be held in the place of
1 business at the corner of Forsyth and
1 Lee streets, and everything belonging
to the Ayash estate will be offered
and sold. A Cadillac automobile is
1 included among the personal belong
-1 ings df the deceased, and this, to
gether with the meat market fixtures
, and grocery equipment, will be dis
posed of. There is much valuable
’•opertv included in the lot to be of
fered, and the sale should attract a
large number of bidders.
COX TAKES LEAD
AT 12TH, HOLDS
POSITION TO END
Georgia Palmer Delegation Sticks to Its Man for
20 Ballots, Then Swings to McAdoo,
Reviving His Hopes v
CONVENTION HALL, SAN FRANCISCO. July 3 (By Asso
ciated Press). —After 22 futile ballots, in which the th;ee leaders
on the first ballot—McAdoo , Cox and Palmer—remained dead
locked to the end, without any indication of a decision, the Demo
cratic national convention gave up the job shortly before midnight
tonight and adjourned until 10 o'clock Monday, when another
effort will be made to nominate a candidate for the presidency.
The delegations voted with the greatest persistency, as a rule.
The Georgia delegation, representing Palmer, stuck to him for 20
ballots, despite the fact that McAdoo is a native Georgian, but
flopped to McAdoo on the 2I st ballot, bringing that candidate to
his highest vote of the balloting, but still 31 votes behind Cox, who
took the lead on the I 2th ballot and held it until adjournment.
President Wilson received two votes on the last ballot, the
first cast for him.
Two motions to adjourn were voted down, one following the
20th and another following the 2 st ballot. •
McAdoo led in the gains of the
first ballot today, the third of 'he con
vention, but the predicted landslide
in his favor failed to materialize and
there was no nomination, the bal
lot for the big three resulting: Mc-
Adoo 323, Cox 177, Palmer 252.
The fourth, fifth and sixth ballots
brought no nomination, but saw a
steady gain for McAdoo and Cox
and treneral gains for Palmer. On
the seventh ballot New York drop
ped Smith for Cox, adding 100 1-2
votes to the Ohio candidate, but the
effect was only to tighten the race.
On the eighth ballot the delegates
and reporters, who were keeping
their own tabulation received a
momentary thrill when they dicover-;
ed that Cox was in the lead, but the
final total for the ballot showed him
still in the rear of McAdoo, although
he had stepped! into second %>lace
with 315 to McAdoo’s 380 and Pal
mer’s 262.
On this ballot McAdoo was ob
served to have lost strength for the
first time,, dropping back four votes,
but on the ninth he reached a new
high mark with 386, gaining back
the lost four and two more. Cox
also gained sjightl” while Palmer
lost slightly. At this stage talk of
a dark horse began to be spread
with the convention evidently tight
ly deadlocked.
The results continued deadlocked'
between McAdoo, Cox and Palmer,
with few changes in the standing un-1
til the twelfth ballot when low<
switched from Palmer to Cox underj
the unit rule and sent the Ohio gov-;
ernor into first. place for the first j
time with 404, the highest received
by any candidate up to that time, I
while Palmer dropped to his lowest,
total, 201. McAdoo remained about,
stationary with 375 1-2.
Cox continued to gain slowly at
the expense of McAdoo and Palmer on
the 13th, 14th and 15th ballots,
reaching 468 1-2 on that ba’lot. On
the 16th ballot Cox dropped back
wards for the first time, losing 14
votes to Davis who showed a mater
ial change for the first time since the,
first ballot, going from 32 to 5?. At
the conclusion of this ballot the con
vention recessed for supper until 8
o’clock, after having been in contin
uous session from 9:45 a. m. to near
ly 6:30 p. m.
Word came after the failure of the!
17th ballot to change results mater
ially that Ambassador John W. Divis i
for whom the West Virginia dele
gation had stuck to the limit end who'
had gained on the last two ballots/
had been selected by leaders during
the recess as a dark horse, but th:t'
his record on woman’s suffrage had
defeated his chances in this
The word was passed about the con-i
vention hall when the 18th ballot
failed that efforts would be made in
the 19th ballot to drive both Cox
and McAdoo across the majority line
as a test.
The nineteenth ballot, however,
showed a loss of 3 votes for McAdoo i
and a gain of only ten foi Cox, with I
the latter still nearly 100 short of a
majority, to say nothing of the re
quited two-thirds, or 728, necessary
to nominate.
When the twentieth ballot revealed
the deadlock without signs of being
broken, a motion to adjourn was put,
but it was voted down, although the
hour was 11 o’clock, and the 21st
ballot was ordered. *■
Ground cleared of preliminary bal
lots and a rolling administration vic
tory scored in the platform fight, the
convention reassembled this morning
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I
to conclude the selection nF •
ed' buVtl 3 McAdo °
stiffenin b g Ut oA 8 e e StaS
his nomination. <*l»ainst
The night was given over tn ni nn
n.ng and conferences among the fiebi
t S " pp ® sin e forces. During the
early hours there were many as to
reports what various state delom,
tions would do. One of these was that
Georgia might leave Palmer after a
bahot or two and go to McAdoo" ‘
San ff FV n n° f ' nd a Hard,n * for the
Francisco convention have
tho f unavailing, but despite
the fact that the movement
i fal P d° PP ? Ston had
1 faled to produce a
‘rToL'd " * it’ eneK
! reported, the opposition still was
I there, seemingly of formidable pro
?° rt,O j S ’. Of 10 consideration that
I a a make U dif -'cult for the
anti-McAdoo men to make progress
‘ S A^ hat th ? re , wa ? ™ way ?o H
McAdoo out of his position by di
rect methods, as none of the men in
charge of his campaign here had any
authority. J
McAdoo’s appeal today was being
directed to the larger states, such as
New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois,
and much missionary work was be
ing done.
I Two ballots were taken before ad
journment last night without any can
didate receiving more than one-third
of the requisite two-thirds to nomi
nate. Just as Harding s name filled
the air on the final day of the Chi-
I cage convention, so McAdoo’s name
appeared to be in the ascendancy to
day. Friends of Palmer and Cox ex
pressed no fear that McAdoo could
j win the nomination in the face of
: the strong oppos-tion of some of the
party leaders. Reports that New
j York would throw most, if not all
its strength to McAloo were heard
early in the day.
McAdoo, Palmer and Cox were the
leaders on the two ballots last night.
On the first ballot McAdoo had 266,
Palmer 256 and Cox 134. On the
second McAdoo had 289, Palmer 264,
and Cox 159.
The crowds gathered slowly as th*
hour for opening the convention ap
! proached. It was 9:45 when Chair
man Robinson called the body to or
der for the business of the day.
Before the balloting, National
Chairman Cummings read a message
from President Wilson, saying the
convention’s action on the League of
Nations “filled him with perfect con
fidence that it would go from victory
to victory, until the traditions of the
Republic are vindicated.”
The roll call started with Alabama
and Palmer lost two there to Mc-
Adoo. North Carolina furnished the
first Aal break to McAdoo, swinging
from Simmons.