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FORTY-SECOND YEAR—NO. 159
COX IS NAMED ON 44TH
DEADLOCK ENDS
IN EARLY HOURS
OFTHISMORNING
SAN FRANCISCO, July 6—(By Associated
Press) (By Long Distance*Phone) —Governor
James M. Cox, of Ohio, was nominated for presi
dent of the United States by the Democratic Na
tional convention here at about 2 o’clock this morn
ing (4 o’clock Americus time) on the 44th ballot,
after a deadlock unequalled before in the history
of party government, except at Baltimore eight
years ago when Woodrow Wilson was named on
the 46th ballot. \
Attorney General Palmer, at the close of the
38th ballot, seeing that victory was impossible for
himself, released his own delegates. The dead
lock, however, remained unbroken. On the 44th
ballot a great swing to Cox was started and in the
midst of the roll call of the states, when it became
apparent that Cox would have a majority and
would probably reach the necessary two-thirds
vote, a McAdoo manager arose and moved that
Vox be declared the unanimous choice of the con
tion. With a mighty shout the motion carried and
James Cox was declared the unanimous nominee, j
A motion then to proceed with the nomina
tion for vice president met with shouts of disappro
val and a motion to adjourn until Tuesday at noon
(2 o’clock Americus time) for completion of the
convention business, was carried and the wearied
delegates hurriedly left the hall to seek rest.
The convention went into its 37th ballot last
night at a session which began at 8:30 o’clock and
contained good prospects for daylight.
With McAdoo, Cox and Palmer running
nearer even than* they had almost at any time be
fore, and each in practical possession of a veto
power, strong efforts were being made to break the
line at one of its three corners.
* ‘Tammany holds the key’’ was the word
passed after conferences in which both Cox and
McAdoo forces had participated with Charles F.
Murphy and other leaders of the New York dele
gation. Each side was pulling for Tammany sup
port and so many arguments entered into the com
plex situation that it was practically impossible to
assess them accurately.
Attorney General Palmer, at 9:45 o’clock at
the close of the 38th ballot released his delegates
and left the convention free to nominate.
At the end of the second ballot after the re
cess, when the Palmer vote had touched 2 I I and it
was apparent that it could be driven no higher, for
mer Representative C. C. Carlin, of Virginia, Mr/
Palmer’s manager, took the platform and an
nounced the withdrawal of the attorney general
from the race.
Chairman Robinson in presenting him told the
convention significantly that he was presenting a
man who had an announcement to make which he
was confident the convention would want to hear.
Expectation was in the air and the convention,
which only a moment before had been in the height
of disorder and rackety demonstration, quieted
like magic until a pin might almost have been
heard to drop in the great auditorium and Carlin
took the speaker’s place and said in substance:
“I am about to make an announcement of the
greatest importance to this convention at the con
clusion of which I shall move a recess of 20 min
utes to give the convention opportunity to decide
what course it shall take. A. Mitchell Palmer asks
me to express his sincere thanks and appreciation
to every delegate who had voted for his nomination
THE TiMEsWfiicbRDER
PUBLISHED IN HEART OF
but he is unwilling to delay the proceedings further
and authorized me to finally, positively and abso
lutely release every delegate pledged to him that
the convention may proceed to nominate the next
President of the United States.”
There was a roar of “Hurrah for Palmer,” as
the lines broke and the convention went into a
recess. The denouement, coming at the end of the
38 hard fought and fruitless ballots, gave the
same effect as does an over-inflated automobile tire
when it bursts with a bang and then sizzles down.
The entire Palmer vote, it was discovered, if
added to McAdoo’s total on the 38th ballot, would
give McAdoo 616 12. The Palmer votes added
to the Cox total on the same ballot would give the
Ohio Governor 594 1-2. Both leading candidates
would fall short of the two-thirds, which is 729.
During the recess, there was circulated about
the floor copies of a telegram from Judge Moore,
Cox’s manager, to DanieWS. Roper, of New York,
accredited with being one of the McAdoo mana
gers, charging that “a crowd of government em
ployees and treasury officials are for their own per
sonal ends and in defiance of Mr. McAdoo’s ex
pressed wishes, improperly using his name to create
a deadlock in this convention.”
Charging that several delegations were packed
with government employees, holding out for the
nomination of McAdoo, Moore’s telegram charged
that “the action of the pay-roll brigade is creating
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AMERICUS, GA., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 6, 1920.
Governor Cox, the Party Nominee
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Who’s Cox?
James Middleton Cox was three
| times governor of Ohio—an honor
: enjoyed by only one other Ohioan
i Rutherford B. Hays.
Born on a farm, educated in the'
i public schools, a printer’s devil a
i school teacher, a newspaper reporter
I a private secretary to a congress
man, owner, manager and proprietor
of two newspapers, member of con
gress for thre years and three times
I governor of his state is his record to
i date.
Bus iness success parallelled his po
; litical achievements and through his
I own eforts Cox has amassed a for
tune. Mr. Cox became the leader of
i the Democratic party in Ohio in 1912
I when he was nominated for govern-!
i or. As one who had brought radical I
changes in the state constitution, he
took the field himself in its behalf
His first term as governor was de
voted chiefly to forwarding the enact
ment of laws to put the new state'
constitution into effect.
But Ohio evidently was not prepar-!
ed to assimilate all the new laws for’
Cox was defeated for re-election. But \
his party renominated him in 1916
I and he was re-elected for a third
term In 1918, being the only Demo
crat in Ohio to win.
! Legislation for which Governor
I Cox is best known includes a model;
i workmen’s compensation law and a
■ child labor law which have been ex-I
I tensively copied by other states. Ed
ucators of the country say the Ohio!
school Code enacted under Governor!
; Cox’s direction will live as a monu-.
I ment to his achievements.
Mr. Cox was born in Butler coun
ty, Ofiio, in 1870. He attended dis
j trict school and held his first position
as a teacher of the school in which
h eteok his first lessons. He spent
I evenings and holidays-in a printing
office. In a few years he received
J his first assignment on the reportor
ial staff of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
RUNNING MATE
TO BE PICKED AT
NOON SESSION
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a national scandal to the ruin of the Democratic
party.”
They know there is no chance to nominate
him,” the telegrams continued, “but hope to bring
about a situation where they can deal off the dele
gates to some candidate where their jobs will be
prdtected.” ,
Judge Moore expressed the opinon that Mr.
McAdoo would not be a party to such a deal and
urged that in his own and his party’s interest he
wire to the convention forbidding the use of his
name.
The result of the Georgia caucus, after Pal
mer’s release of his delegates, it was reported, was
to give 28 to McAdoo. Massachusetts, it was re
ported, would throw most of her 36 to Cox. While
the caucusing was going on, the floor of the con
vention hall took on the aspect of a country fair
ground with a lot of electioneering going on. Here
and there was a speaker on a chair making a stump
speech for his favorite candidate with an admiring
crowd about him. One speaker would try to draw
the other fellow’s crowd forward after the manner
of a ballyhoo man on a midway. Some of the dele
gates called for order and a start of the balloting.
The McAdoo forces reversed the order of the
progression in the balloting and took the lead in
the 30th ballot. McAdoo had lost the lead to Cox
on the I 2th ballot Saturday.
For a moment, when Indiana tumbled in 29
of her 30 and Tom Taggart himself cast the ballot
it looked as if a forecasted slide to McAdoo had be
gun. When, a little later, Washington, which had
been scattering her votes, cast them all for McAdoo
the McAdoo people were sure the movement
was on, but it was too late in the ballot to do any
good.
The Cox people, probably a little nervous but
professing the confidence which the outcome just
ified. sent word to their war horses to stand pat and
refuse to be stampeded. The word was effective
and the blocks which have been the Cox standby,
were unmoved. The lines held fast.
An attempt at a recess during the earlier part of
the session was drowned out in shouts of
disapproval.
When Palmer on the 35th ballot hit a higher
mark than he had at any time since the 1 I th, the
Palmer people wanted one more ballot. The Pal
mer people set up another demonstration. There
was a movement on foot for a recess until 8 o’clock
after the 35 th ballot, but the Palmer people want
ed one more ballot before that and the recess idea
was not pressed. While the Pennsylvanians were
chanting “Palmer, Palmer, Pennsylvania” to the
tune of “Glory, Glory, Halleujah,” the Cox people
took a hand at making a parody and when the Me
Adoo people set up a counter demonstration, the
Ohio and Pennsylvania crowd chanted out a versa
which went:
‘‘All the boys are on the payroll.” They
directed their megaphones toward the McAdoo
crowd.
When the convention got back to order and
Alabama was called on the 36th ballot, Palmer
made another gain, taking seven from Alabama.
He took them from McAdoo, Davis and Cox. It
was the vote which the Palmer people had been
promised and was the reason they did not want to
recess.
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