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GEORGIA DELEGATION
(I FRISCO WATCHES
FOR “BANDWAGON"
Agree After Caucus to Quit
Palmer at Psychological
Moment Some Favor
Cox, Others for McAdoo
ROGERS WINTER
(Staff Correspondent of The Journal)
SAN FRANCISCO. July s—Geor
gia’s delegation held a caucus Sun
day night in the Hotel Chancellor,
where they have headquarters, for
the purpose of deciding on a course
of action for Monday in the expect
ed event that Attorney General Pal
mer should continue his decline. Al
though the caucus lasted for two
hours, and practically every member
of it had something to say, no de
cision was reached. Hollins N. Ran
dolph and Clement E. Dunbar held
out for Palmer, while Clark Howell
and W. T. Anderson were strongly
inclined to switch to Cox. Other
members of the delegation believed
the best plan was not to make a
switch on any given ballot, but to
hold themselves in readiness to
swing with the tide should a tide
develop, or, what would be better, to
start the tide swinging by a switch
at the psychological moment.
The latter plan was finally agreed
to, and it was further agreed that
the delegation should vote as a unit
straight through to the finish, not
withstanding the fact that they are
not bound by the unit rule except in
eo far as they have voluntarily
placed it upon themselves. As
one member of the delegation re
marked to the correspondent, they
are self-appointed, self-instructed
and self-directed by the unit rule.
Instead, therefore, of deciding to
leave Palmer on the first or the sec
ond or any given ballot to be taken
Monday, the delegation decided to
switch whenever a majority should
wish to switch, and to do it without
debate, but merely on a roll call to
be taken in their seats.
McAdoo Men Meet
While the Georgia delegates were
holding their caucus at the Hotel
Chancellor, there was in progress in
the grill Iroom of the Palace hotel a
rousing rally by the McAdoo forces
presided over by Cone Johnson, of
Texas, a native of Lumpkin county,
Georgia, who has become quite a fa
mous orator and influential politi
cian in the Lone Star state.
It was an unusual and Interesting
sight see a big grill in a fashion
able hotel packed with cheering dele
gates and hand-clapping women on a
Sunday evening. As one old grizzled
politician congently remarked: “The
tifiies are certainly changing in poli
tics.” Among the speakers at the
McAdoo rally, in addition to Cone
Johnson, were Secretary of Agricul
ture Meredith, of the lowa delega
tion; ex-Governor Brewer, of the
Mississippi delegation; Francis J.
Heney, the famous San Francisco
prosecutor; Governor Cooper, of
South Carolina; Senator Nugent, of
Idaho; Dr. Burriss Jenkins, the Kan
sas City publisher, who placed the
name of McAdoo in nomination last
Tuesday.
Secretary Meredith with very se
vere in his criticism of certain “hand
picked delegates” in the lowa delega
tion who were holding out against
McAdoo. He denounced the unit rule
and said he would never again be a
member of a delegation that was
bound by it. He served notice on his
fellow delegates from lowa that un
less they fell in line for McAdoo in
one or two ballots Monday morning,
he was going to get even with them
within the party when he returned
home. The latter statement created
quite a great deal of comment in the
hotel lobbies. It was construed, with
other straws which have been blow
ing in the wind here, thatt McAdoo
is the choice of a majority of the
cabinet.
Expect Swing to McAdoo
The McAdoo meeting was in all re
spects a rousing success. The key
note sounded by all speakers was
that McAdoo’s delegates are going to
stand together like p. rock wally Ex-
Governor Brewer, of Mississippi, an
nounced that a change or two in
votes in his delegation, which is
bound by the unit rule, would switch
them from Cox to McAdoo. He ex
pected the switch to come early Mon
day. Secretary Meredith -was like
wise confident that he would swing
the entire lowa delegation into line
for McAdoo.
The same criticism of ’’hand-picked
delegates” in the California delega
tion was made by Francis J. Heney,
that was made by Secretary Mere
dith concerning some of his obstrep
erous brethren from lowa.
Hope was expressed by more than
one speaker that Georgia’s 28 votes
would soon swing into line for Mc-
Adoo, a native Georgian. All of Sat
urday afternoon and evening, and
throughout Sunday, the Georgia del
egation was under tremendous press
ure from the managers for Cox and
the managers for McAdoo. Both can
didates have a considerable following
in the Georgia delegation, with Mc-
Adoo probably in the majority, al
though Clark Howell and W. T. An
derson are favorable to Cox, and
have exerted themselves in his be
half. The chairman of the Georgia
delegation, Pleasant A. Stovall, of
Savannah, is favorable to McAdoo.
Senator William J. Harris is hard at
work for McAdoo. He sits imme
diately back of the Georgia delega
tion and has kept them under a con
stant fire of McAdoo pressure, some
what to the irritation of Palmer
leaders in the delegation. Senator
Harris was scheduled to leave Mon
day for the Hawaiian islands and
the Orient, accompanied by his wife
and little daughter.
Watching for “Band Wagon”
Most of the Georgia- delegation feel
that they have discharged their obli
gation to Attorney General Palmer.
They have stuck to him as faith
fully as if he were a native son can
didate for whom they were bound
by ironclad instructions. They real
ize that he has no chance, and are
ready to leave him whenever they
see an opportunity to make their
votes count for the best effect on
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DEMOCRATS'FAILURE
TO SELECT M'IDOO
Washington’s Wise Ones
Cannot Understand Why
Their Supposedly Infallible
"Dope” Didn't Pan Out
(The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
623 Riggs Building,)
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, D. C., July s.—The
McAdoo shouters of the national cap
ital spent the Sabbath lamenting the
near-sightedness of their fellow Dem
ocrats at San Francisco and specu
lating upon the error committed by
man when he attempts to prognosti
cate.
Here in Washington, where every
one is supposed to be more or less
politically wis§, there had been gen
eral confidence that by Sunday the
voteless residents of this capitol
would be quietly celebrating the nom
ination of William Gibbs McAdoo.
Instead, Sunday came and went with
out a nomination and left Washing
ton a mystified and rather disgrunt
led community. Mr. McAdoo is popu
lar here and, without detracting from
the other candidates, it may con
servatively be estimated that seven
out of ten folks encountered expect
him to “walk in” at San Francisco.
That twenty-two ballots were .cast
without the nomination of Mr. Mc-
Adoo nonplussed the wiseacres who
had it all “doped out” days ago and
were willing to back their judgment
with a little money. The capitol
just assumed that Mr. McAdoo had
the rail position in the presidential
race, that no dark horse could crowd
him out and that after a few com
plimentary ballots for such candi
dates as Cox, Palmer and Governor
Smith, the others would be elimi
nated and they could begin the prep
aration of their congratulatory mes
sages to the nominee.
Washington Surprised
At midnight Saturday the average
Washingtonian analyzed the seven
teenth ballot, went on to bed and
awoke early Sunday morning in the
expectation of reading “McAdoo nom
inated.” Surprise land a feeling that
perhaps this town isn’t so wise as
it claims to be were the emotions
really present when the favorite
morning paper was scanned and the
familiar word “deadlock” -once more
held the front page.
There is no particular reason why
Washington picked McAdoo—but it
simply did. Despite the silence of
the White House, the impression here
was that high government officials,
including a cabinet member or so,
reflected White House expectations,
and that in these high places Mc-
Adoo was the best bet. This en
couraged the man on the street to
“go along,” and consequently this
became a McAdoo city.
At that, however, there has never
been anything official justifying the
belief that the White House was for
McAdoo. Instead, it may besaid,
some of the McAdoo adherents
thought the administration and cer
tain members of the Democratic com
mittee leaned a little too much to
ward Palmer as the favorite son.
There is reported to have been some
complaint about this, and also the
president certainly hasn’t turned a
hand to do anything for his son-in
law. He may not have done any
thing for Attorney General Palmer,
except to tell him to go ahead when
he wanted to enter the Georgia pri
maries in April, but those on the in
side know there has been consider
able rivalry between the supporters
of Palmer and McAdoo and each side
has been watching the White House
and the Democratic committee for
manifestations of anything approach
ing indorsement.
Now all the Vdope" is upset, so far
as Washington 'is concerned. There
were expressions of amazement and
almost incredulity heard about chibs
and other gathering places late bat
urday night as succeeding ballots
but accentuated the deadlock at ban
Francisco, and McAdoo failed to land
on the fifth, sixth or even the tenth,
as predicted. -Some Democrats
“cussed” the delegates assembled at
San Francisco, calling them “bone
heads” and other names, and allud
ing to the belief that the party was
in for a good licking because it
didn’t have sense enough to nomi
nate McAdco, who will get the labor
vote, is a littlfe bit moist, and so on..
More Discontent
The Sabbath brought more mut
terings of discontent, due in part to
the apparent hope and belief of most
of the folks in Washington that Mc-
Adoo is the man, and again to dis
appointment over the fact that as
prognosticators of political events
Washingtonians are not as full or
wisdom as claimed. The average pol
itician here does not regard the over-
Sabbath adjournment as P a j;t lc ularlj
advantageous to McAdoo. He thinks
now that it looks more like Cox or
a dark horse, although not relin
quishing the psychological time tor
a stampede to McAdoo as figured
here, was between the fifth and tenth
ballots. With Burleson, Meredith,
Glass and other McAdooites on the
ground, friends of the former secre
tary of the treasury and railroad
administrator are utterly unable to
understand why the slate dim t g
thpolfticians, officials, minor office
holders and plain disfranchised vot
ers of the national capital discussed
little else but the situation at ban
Francisco all Sunday, and the spec
ulation extended on into Monday.
Senator Harding, the Republican
nominee, did manage to stay on the
front page by leaving in an automo
bile for his home in Marion, posing
for the moving picture men, and per
sonally turning the key in his Wash
ington residence for the summer.
But, beyond that, Democratic politics
and Washington’s fluke as a prog
nosticator were the principal topics
of heated discussion on the streets, in
the clubs and in the homes of this
mystified city.
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AMERICAN TROOPS
AND GERMANS ON
FRIENDLY TERMS
BY MILTON BRONNBR
COBLENZ, Germany. —Do the
Yanks who fought like bear-cats in
the Argonne, display any hatred to
wards their late foes?
If they do, you can’t notice it in
this capital of the American zone of
occupation.
Ta all outward appearances, the
American troops and the German
civilians get along as comfortably as
a big foot and a soft old shoe.
Many American Kiddies
Most of the officers have brought
their families here and American
kiddies are all over the city.
Go about at night it looks
almost a« if every American "non
com” and private had a fraulein on
his arm. Some have been to church,
others to picture shows and still oth- (
ers to restaurants where they can
dance and sing.
I was in a restaurant one night
when an old, sweet-faced motherly
woman came in to sell bouquets of
lilies-of-the-valley. Nearly every
man with a woman, bought flow
ers which sold for two marks. The
flower vender, I learrted,' lost her
three sons in the war and is now sup
porting grandchildren.
The Yankee keeping watch on the
Rhine is certainly not a good hater.
It must be added, however, that there
is absolutely no fraternization be
tween our officers and the natives.
The Americans in charge of our army
naturally must keep aloof from peo
ple with whom we are still officially
at war.
Don’t Like Trench
How about the Germans?
I suppose they love us more than
they do their other late foes. But I
also imagine they hope to make more
out of us by being openly friendly.
They certainly prefer us to »the
French.
I asked Germans- of all classes
whether they would rejoice the day
the Yanks finally pulled up staked
and left for home. The answer
a vigorous negative. They feel fnatg
the day we leave the rench will enter?;
Unlike our men, the French poilus'
do not fraternize v.’th the populace.
In the terrace gardens where
drinks and food are served outdoors,-
they may be frequently seen, because
it reminds them of their beloved
Paris boulevard drinking places, but
always keeping to themselves or in
company with their Allies.
Few Tilings “Verboten”
American occupation rests lightly
upon the people even though Ameri
can officers are billeted/ in the best
homes and some hotels and restau
rants have practically been taken
over for our needs.
In the former land of “verboten”
few things are verboten now to the
natives so long as they behave them
selves.
Among the American verbotens to
the Germans are:
They may not burn gas in their
homes after a certain hour. This is
to help them save precious coal.
They may not drink liquor In the
cases and bars after a certain hour.
This is to help preserve order in the
town.
They may not hold parades in
which the red flag or Bolshevik ban
ners are displayed.
American occupation was followed
by American white flour and other
food which the natives had not seen
for years. It was also 1 by
a flood of American money spent by
doughboys.
This was good for shop-keepers,
but bad for other classes of people.
It caused prices to shoot up.
The people who fare best are the
frauleins who are fortunate enough
to have a Yankee private for a beau
on monthly pay-day. He thinks noth
ing of blowing the girl off to a big
“feed” at a good restaurant and top
ping it off by buying her a 700-mark
skirt or blouse that she has long
coveted.
Ten Cars Derailed
On L. & N. Sidetrack
SMYRNA, Ga., July 5. —Ten freight
cars of a northbound freight on the
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
railroad, jumped the rails at Bel
mont station here Sunday afternoon,
when the train took the siding to
allow a northbound freight to pass.
It is believed that the rails on/
the side track gave way, causing the
cars to leave the track and turn over
the bank. No one was injured, al
though considerable delay was caus
ed the southbound train. The over
turned cars were not damaged to any
great extent. A wrecking crew suc
ceeded in getting the cars back on
flip rails.
Three Reported Injured
In Mining T own Clash
CHARLESTON, W. Va„ July s<--
State officials today were endeavor
ing to learn details of a clash be
tween officers and miners at Roder
field. W. Va., late yesterday, in which
three McDowell county deputy sheriffs
are said to have been wounded.
Prospects of clearing up facts con
cerning the battle were slight, how
ever, as communication with Roder
field and Williamson has been im
possible almost for the past few
days. Storms have impaired wir«
communication.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1920.
THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION IN SESSION AT FRISCO
INDIA REGIMENT
OF IRISH DECLINES
TO CONTINUE DUTY
LONDON, July s.—There is no
likelihood of spreading of the mutiny
o$ the part of a Connaught regiment
at Jullundur, India, which surrender
ed arms and ammunition to the col
onel upon receipt of news of events
in Ireland, in the opinion of officials
at the Indian office today. , It was
pointed out that the incident had not
taken the form of a violent upris
ing, but was merely a protest
against conditions in Ireland.
The report of the incident, con
i' in a dispatch from Simla, said
three-fourths of one battalion of Con
naught rangers had handed up their
arms and ammunition to their com
mander, “respectfully regretting
their inability to continue on duty.”
There was no activity on the part
of Protestants. They were removed
to another camp, there they remain
ed under guard of a British regi
ment.
Reports from Solan said that when
news of events in Ireland reached
an Isolated detachment of Irish
rangers there, some of the men at
tempted to seize arms and ammuni
tion. Guards fired, killing two ahd
wounding several others; Order was
quickly restored.
At the India office, it was said
the disaffections were the result of
ginn Fein agitation and steps which
was' taken to prevent Irish national
ist propaganda being spread in
Irish united stationed in the East.
>The situation at Jqtogh, a ! few
miles from 'Simla, ' where " several
Irish battalions are on duty, was
quiet.
Jndgpendence Day
Message Delivered to
Legion by Pershing
‘¥j®|KGTON, July s.—General
’Pershing, former commander
in-chief of the American expedition
ary forces, in an Independence day
ffitssage to members of the American
Legion and other former service
men, said:
"The anniversary of our national
independence brings to our minds
and hearts the obligations that rest
upon us s<.s a people. The sublime
conception of our forefathers created
upon this continent a new nation
founded upon human liberty, which
they left for us to perpetuate and
strengthen. The spirit of consecra
tion that enabled them to overcome
in this great cause should be invok
ed that we in turn may transmit to
posterity the sacred principles for
which they fought.
“To the men of the legion whose
blood and sacri s have proved
their devotion, we owe the deepest
debt of gratitude and it is to them
that we look for constant inspira
tion that our efforts to maintain for
ever a country where all men shall
be free an dequal may be supported
by the same patriotism that gave
thei. -e victory in the great war.”
Four Boys Injured
In Shell Explosion
NEW YORK, July s.—Four boys
were injured severely Sunday
by the explosion of a one-pound tank
shell, a war relic that had been used
for months as a penny savings bank,
by removing the detonating cap and
using the partially empty shell
chamber.
Last night the young owner of the
shell screwed the capital back on,
after satisfying his mother that it
was apparently a “dud.” Today,
while celebrating the fourth with
his playmates he dropped it. The
shell burst and scattered fragments
of shrapnel among the group. Law
rence Reinhardt, four years old, Is
not expected to live.
Mutes Discuss
Convention Here
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn., July 5.
The' national convention of mutes,
which will meet in Atlanta in 1921
was discused here today by mutes
from all sections of the south. They
will remain in session here until
Tuesday.
Morrison Has Slight
Lead Over Gardner
CHARLOTTE, N. C.. July s.—ln
complete returns in the Democratic
run-off primary from thirty-five
counties. iiheluding Mecklenberg,
Compiled by the Charlotte Observer,
give for governor; Morrison, 24,634:
■Gardner, 22,500.
Train Goes Through
Bridge; Four Killed
ALBERT LEA, Minn., July 3.
Four passengers were instantly kill
ed and six others fatally injured to
day when Minneapolis and St. Louis
passenger train No. 1 went through
teL bridge over a creek near Arnold,
Race Lies Between Cox
and McAdoo, Dark Horse
Having Been Eliminated
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Copyright. 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.)
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. — (Suiday.)
Anybody who attempts to say what
will happen tomorrow in the Demo
cratic national convention may be
basing his prediction on the sound
est judgment’ at the moment he ex
presses that opinion, but he ruhs the
risk of having all calculations upset
by any of the dozen or more turns
of fortune which convention strategy
and tacticians may evolve before the
balloting is resumed on Monday.
Governor Cox unquestionably has
the lead. The band wagon idea has
been spread by his supporters all
day with a consequent effect upon
wobbling delegations which may put
the Ohio executive over the top in
four or five ballots. But the chances
of Governor Cox rest upon the de
cision of Attorney General Mitchell
Palmer and Representative Carlin, of
Virginia, his campaign manager. If
the Cox and Palmer forces reach anr
understanding the race is over and
the Ohio governor wins. There is
no chance of an agreement between
Cox ahd McAdoo men, for the latter
are determined to die in the trenches.
Furthermore, they. believe a repeti
tion-of the Baltimore convention of
1912 is coming, and that mere stick
to-it-iveness will triumph in the end.
No Votes for McAdoo
But while there is abundant confi
dence in the McAdoo camp, there
isn't any demonstration of votes. And
to forge ahead, McAdoo must gain
from delegations that are not now
thinking of supporting him, but going
to Cox. For instance, Kansas has
been held under the unit rule for Mc-
Adoo by a margin of one vote. North
Carolina has been twice reported as
shaking in its loyalty to McAdoo.
There’s a fight inside the Georgia
delegation. Clark Howell is said to
be eager to go to Cox. New York
wants to go to McAdoo, but the
Palmer instructions will probably
hold Georgia for a few ballots any
way. The same split occurs in Vir
ginia, which will stick for Senator
Glass as the easiest solution for
the time being, at least until it is
evident what the outcome will be of
the fight between the main contend
ers, especially since there is a vague
hope that Glass may prove a dark
horse.
West Virginia, operating under the
same illusion, is holding its sixteen
votes for John W. Davis. But the
adjourfftient over Sunday did a good
deal toward squelching dark horse
ideas. For while a candidate may be
sprung in the first fifteen or sixteen
ballots, the endurance of the main
contenders is such that in the end
one of them must win. Furthermore,
the leaders liave had a chance over
Sunday to figure out who the dark
horse might be and all conclusions
usually revert to the fact that as
vote-getters the Democrats must pick
either McAdoo or Cox.
Strategy Planned
It lies in Mitchell Palmer’s hands
to destroy Cox if he wants to, for
instance, there was talk all day of a
drive being made for Palmer. Shrewd
McAdoo managers are said to have
been encouraging Palmer to believe
he can win. What they want un
questionably is a drive for Palmer
so as to compel Palmer votes which
have gone to Cox to go back to Pal
mer again and thus cut down Cox’s
long lead.
In that case, Palmer would go up
to second place and Cox would go to
third and McAdoo’s supporters
would try a drive for victory.
But as this is written there is
nothing to show that Mitchell Pal
mer will do anything of the kind. If
he -releases his delegates, the impres
sion is that he will not endeavor to
guide them. In that event many of
them will go to Cox. Then the big
question is whether the, psychologi
cal effect of a break in Pennsylvania
will be sufficient or insufficient to
budge the McAdoo phalanx. Os
course, the McAdoo minority can
deadlock this convention indefinitely.
It’s a fight between the eastern
and western Democracy. The west
ern states know McAdoo better than
Cox and believe that the former sec
retary of the treasury inherits the
idealism and vision of his distin
guished father-in-law. They like
the relationship between the two
and consider it an earnest of Mc-
Adoo’s inclinations.
Os course Governor Cox is popular
east of the Mississippi and so far as
progr- siveness is concerned has a
splendid record, but his managers
didn’t . :t busy soon enough in the
western states to get that impression
imbedded. As it is the support of
Murphy, of New York; Brennan, of
Hlionis; Nugent, of New Jersey, and
Taggart, of Indiana, has given the
western; Democrats the idea that
Cox must be an anti-Wilson man.
Cox a Wilson Man
The truth that Governor Cox
has always been in good favor in the
White House and that President
Wilson has on more than one occa
sion expressed his admiration for
t Ohio Yet it is
doubtful whether the president
will say a single word pro
or con lest he offend McAdoo or
Palmer or the other candidates who
have supported his administration.
On the other hand Mr. Wilson has
taken a hand in the. platform fight
and sent Senator Glass and Bain
bridge Colby, secretary of state, to
fight for the adoption of certain
planks in the platform. That has
been done. Now these same Wilson
men are vetoing Cox, to that extent
they involve the WilsOn administra
tion. This is something which the
western Democrats don’t understand,
if some big Wilson men would come
out‘for ’ Cox, it would help him im
mediately. ’ , ;
In the. Cox camp there are bets ga
lore being made of certain victory on
Monday, the McAdoo forces appear
determined but hardly exhibit the
same buoyancy that they did when
the balloting began. The Palmer
forces talk of exercising the veto
power against both Cox and McAdoo
in favor of a compromise. All night
long the parleying will have contin
ued with chance that on Monday the
whole business will start anew with
each of the three candidates imagin
ing he can win if he merely holds his
lines. Cox is ahead but it’s a long,
long va. to two-thirds in a Demo
cratic convention.
German War Guilty
Will Be Considered
BRUSSELS, July 3.—The allied
conference agreed today upon a plan
to consider anew at the Spa meeting
the question of German war guilt.
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HARDING ON WAY
TO MARION, OHIO,
TO MAKE SPEECH
ZANESVILLE, 0., July s.—With
the greatest welcome of his career
awaiting, Senator Warren G. Har
ding, Republican presidential candi
date, started for his triumphal re
turn to Marion, his home town, to
day. There his campaign will be
touched off by the first demonstration
for the candidate since his nomina
tion at Chicago. His friends and
neighbors and probably 25,000 vis
itors from Ohio and the middle west
will crowd around the Harding home
in Marion to welcome the candidate.
At great effort Senator Harding
has insisted that his maiden speech
as a presidential candidate be made
to his home folks as a tribute of
gratitude to them and it was with
deep emotion that he rode through
the scenes of his boyhood along the
road to Marion today.
With Mrs. Harding riding beside
him, the nominee motored out t>f here
immediately after breakfast planning
to arrive in Marion during the after
noon while the Fourth of July cele
bration is in progress. At a o’clock
the welcome ceremony will begin at
his home on Mount Vernon avenue.
Wrapped in the events of the oc
casion, Senator Harding displayed lit
tel Interest in the proceedings at San
Francisco, atlhough he scanned the
unorning newspapers carefully to note
the trend, of developments.
The distance of nearly 100 miles
from Zanesville to Marlon is the last
leg of the delightful motor trip fronZ
Washington, which both Senator and
Mrs. Harding have enjoyed to the
utmost. Motoring through the pic
turesque Cumberlands and in the his
toric Spots, including battlefields of
the Civil war, afforded complete re
laxation from the intense excitement
and strain of the past three weeks/ x
Eight Killed, Twelve
Seriously Injured in
Oklahoma Rail Wreck
McAlester, okia., July 5.
Eight persons were killed, twelve
seriously Injured and ten others suf
fered minor injuries when a Missou
ri, Kansas and Texas freight train
smashed into the rear end of a car
nival company’s special in the Atoka
yards, about thirty miles south of
here last night.
Scents a copt.
$1.50 A YEAB.
NO NDMINUTION IN
SIGHTASVOTINGIS
HMEDITFIIISCO
President Keeping “Hands
Off” in Convention Dead
lock Rival Managers
Claim Early Victory
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Today’s Program
10 A. M. —Ninth session of con
vention called to order.
Prayer.
Roll call of states for twenty
third ballot for presidential nomi
lee.
Presentation of candidates for
vice presidential nomination.
Nomination speeches.
Roll call of states, balloting for
vice presidential nominee.
Routine resolutions and mo
tions.
Adjournment.
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SAN FRANCISCO, July s.—The
Democratic national convention went
into its ninth session and its twenty
third ballot today for a presidential
nominee. There was nothing to in
dicate that any marked change was
in prospect from the last roll call
of Saturday night.
The twenty-second ballot had left
the four leaders: Cox, 430; McAdoo;
372 1-2; Palmer, 166 1-2; Davis, 52.
A remaining seventy votes were scaf
tered among the favorite son con«
tenders, Owens, Glass, Cummings,
with two recorded for President Wll<
son and a couple for Champ Clark.
Both McAdoo and Cox supporters
were emphatic in claims for victory
today, but they had no definite basis
for their confidence to make pub
lic.
It has been a rule of Democratic
conventions under a two-thirds nom
ination rule that the first man to
secure a majority, which would be
548 votes on the full roll of this
convention, got the nomination. Pres
ident Wilson’s first nomination at
Baltimore in 1912 was an exception
into which unusual circumstances eti
tered.
On the face of the twenty-second
ballot Palmer forces were holding a
key to open the door to a major
ity. The favorite son votes presum
ably were being withheld from th*
Cox-McAdoo deadlock for some defi
nite purposes. In some cases they
were looked upon as lightning rods
kept up in hope of a storm and a
saurry for a dark-horse nominee.
They may also have to do with vice
presidential ambitions. The Palmer
forces were the main reservoir from
which Cox and McAdoo hoped to draw
reinforcements to capture a major
ity.
Dark-Horse Talk Rife
Palmer’s main guard is composed of
73 of the 76 votes of his native
state, Pennsylvania, allied with Geor
gia's solid 28. The Georgians made
a complimentary excursion to the
McAdoo ranks on the twenty-first
ballot, but the twenty-second found
them back in Palmer entrenchments.
It was a tribute from McAdoo’s na
tive state.
Dark-horse speculation still was
running riot today. Almost every \
living Democrat who ever got head
line prominence in a hewspaper was
trotted out at one time or another.
It was an unusual delegate who did
not have a "what about Jimmy this
or Bill that” to fire at any friend
he met. Leaders combed the list
for availables, but of all the talk
there came nothing even to suggest
a name on which a new mobilization
might be made.
The convention assembled with
prospects of more uproarious demon
strating, such as has characterized
it from the start. Unless some whol
ly unexpected shift occurred in the
twenty-third ballot, rival
planned to try again, at the first
opportunity, to jar the great body
out of its poise and into a landslide.
There was spirited guessing, de
duction and attempted conclusion
at what President Wilson might
wish, hope or acquiesce in, but ap
parently nothing more.
Senator Glass confirmed reparta
that President Wilson was not tak
ing any hand In the 'Situation.
“The president has not communi
cated with me regarding candi
dates,” said- Mt. Glass. “A report
that, in recent conversations he had
indicated men whom he opposed, is
not true. As the situation looks to
me each crowd thinks their candidate
can win, and until someone is con
vinced otherwise the deadlock will
continue.”
The Cox people outwardly expect
to win. The McAdoo people, having
checked their downward slide, gird
ed up for a new drive to break the
Cox column. The Palmer people de
claring that neither Cor nor McAdoo
can have their votes, expressed hope
for themselves, but not indifferent
>y.
Delegates Impatient
Each of the three appears to have
a stranglehold on the other two. Mc-
Adoo forces in the, late Saturday
night balloting recovered the one
third veto power they had lost. Cox
forces retained theirs steadily from
the time they acquired it in the
first ballot, although their margin
fluctuated. Palmer forces possessed
it, in fact, through state delegations,
which, although held in a block for
McAdoo or Cox by the unit rule,
contained discordant elements,
which, when released, would become
effective in adding to the deadlock.
The growing Impatience of the
delegates, with repeated casting
solid blocks for candidates w?tr<
show itself tomorrow. Late Satur
day night there was increasing evi
dence of temper aginst the ada
mant attitude of those who would
not release their votes. The poH
cies of their apparent stubbornne*.«i
were that they lost control uy
abandoning the unit rule. Their posi
tion was greeted Saturday night
with shouts of “come out of it” and
“hire a hall,” and the like.
McAdoo forces / tonight were
banking on the proposition that the
Cox forces, if they hope to win,
must trot out every reserve vote
they possess when the balloting is
resumed Monday morning at 10
(Contlnn*d On Pago 7, Column 4)