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DEMOCRATS NAME GOVERNOR COX AND ROOSEVELT
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VICE PRESIDENT BY
UNfiNIMDUSftCTION
Roosevelt Is Accepted by
Tammany and Other Can
didates Are Withdrawn.
Delegates Are Leaving
SAN FRANCISCO, July 7.—Dele
gates to the Democratic national
convention, their work done and the
big gathering adjourned in a last
roar of enthusiasm for the party
standard bearers, Governor James
M, Cox, of Ohio, and Franklin D.
Roosevelt, of New York, were
scrambling today for train accom
modations homeward. Every string
of departing sleepers heading east,
north or south was loaded to ca
pacity and men who will play impor
tant roles in the fight for election of
the ticket were hurrying away to
delayed vacation*, and on sight-see
ing tours in the west preparatory to
the struggle ahead.
Mr. Roosevelt was due to leave
during the day for Dayton, 0., to
consult with Governor Cox, where
preliminary plans for the campaign
will be mapped out, subject to
amendment later, when the party
machinery is organized and the nec
essary advisers selected. The assist
ant secretary intends to resign from
the navy department as soon as he
can clear up his desk and will spend
ten days or so in Washington for
that purpose before shaping his
plans for the campaign.
Democratic leaders were elated
over the spirit of harmony which
marked the last hours of the con
vention. There has been good feel
ing and tolerance shown throughout
the long struggle to reach a presi
dential nomination, it was said, but
In the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt
by acclamation following withdrawal
of all other candidates, these lead
ers saw evidence of differences bur
ied and a determination to work hard
for victory in the election.
Final Demonstration
It was generally agred that the
convention had been a great success.
If noise and unflagging display of
enthusiasm were a gauge of that
success, there was ample ground for
their view. Up to the last the dele
gates were ready to cheer or to
demonstrate at every opportunity.
In away the scene yesterday
when Mr. Roosevelt was nominated
rivaled that of the break-up early
in the morning of the McAdoo-Cox
deadlock and the nomination of Gov
ernor Cox. What it lacked in the
tense expectancy of the last ballots,
after the action of Attorney General
Palmer in releasing his delegates
broke down the barrier that had held
the convention helpless through
thirty-eight balolts, the Roosevelt
nomination made up in the swiftness
with which the decision was reached.
Nominating speeches were again
the order of the day when the con
vention assembled at noon. Half a
dozen candidates were put forward,
land there was evidence that a strong
[movement was on to name a man
Ifrom the west. The speakers ap
pealed for recognition of the west’s
[share in Mr. Wilson’s second elec-
Ition.
I Just before that, however, a final
(demonstration had followed the read
ling of a telegram from Governor Cox
E>y Chairman Robinson thanking the
[convention for its expression of faith
Bn him. For the last time the dele
gates ripped up the state standards,
Jnany of them showing scars of .scrim-
Inages that were fought around them
[during the nomination fight. A few
[of the standards were slow about
Ltarting out. Nebraska held out quite
L time, but finally it was grabbed
fcy a delegate, and the parade
[through the aisles went ahead to the
tattling accompaniment of the Cox
tattle song of “Ohio, Ohio,” thundered
[out by the band. Around and around
■he hall the whole string of stand
ards were carried in quick-step time,
■n sharp contrast to preveious demon
strations, when crowded aisles block
ed the march.
I Roosevelt Named by Acclamation
I With order restored, nomination
Hos vice presidential candidates went
■ahead while on the floor a flurry of
■activity among delegation leaders
■showed that something was in the
■wind. It centered about the New
■York delegation where Roosevelt’s
■big figure had loomed up early but
■was now noticeably missing. The
■word got about that Governor Cox
liad thrown his influence to the as
sistant secretary and that Tammany
■objections to his nomination had
■been sunk in the desire for party
Biarmony.
| A moment later Chairman Robin-
Ison recognized • Governor Smith, of
Is’ew York, who made his way to the
■platform amid cheers.
S A sweeping , indorsement of Mr.
■Roosevelt’s candidacy by Governor
■Smith set the ball rolling. As speak
er after speaker reappeared to with
draw opposing candidates and sec-
Knd the Roosevelt nomination, a
■wave of cheering swept through the
Biatt. The end of the convention was
■it hand and when former Senator
drancis, of Missouri, signalized with
drawal of his name by moving sus
pension of the rules and nomination
d>f the New Yorker by acclamation.
■The shout of "aye” that ratified his
jetion shook the roof of the massive
jivic auditorium for the last time
jnd the exodus of delegates was in
j/rogress even before formal ad
journment was taken.
9 After Governor Smith had second
jd Mr. Roosevelt’s nomination, the
jand wagon movement got into full
jorce and one after another the other
j (Continued on Page 7, Column 4)
MDRECOMFORTFOR
LEAGUE FOES SEEN
M.OJ’J’UMN
Senator Reed Expresses
Confidence in American
ism of Governor Cox and
His Victory in the Fall
SAN FRANCISCO, July 7.—Support
of the Republican party “with "a can
didate standing four-square upon the
platform” is the only choice left
“those who believe in safeguarding,
protecting and preserving our Amer
icanism,” Senator Hiram Johnson, of
California, declared in a statement at
his home here today.
“For more than a year the contest
over the president’s League of Na
tions has been waged in congress,”
Senator Johnson’s statement said. “It
has been the all-engrossing and para
mount issue. Os necessity, this is
sue came to the conventions of the
great political parties. Both Repub
licans and Democrats, in their plat
forms, have indulged in the usual
political verbosity, but nevertheless
these platforms, in direct opposition
to each other, sharply define and
clearly present the question for de
cision in the November election.
"The Republican party declared
that the president’s covenant ‘failed
signally to accomplish /its purposes’
and contained stipulations ‘not only
Intolerable for an independent people,
but certain to produce the injustice,
hostility and controversy among na
tions which it proposed to prevent,
and repudiated to a degree wholly
unnecessary and unjustifiable the
time-honored policies in favor of
peace declared by Washington, Jeffer
son and Monroe.’ ”
“The Republican party stands,
therefore, firmly against the presi
dent’s covenant, as presented, de
nounces it as breeding war rather
than promoting peace, and reaffirms
the time-honored, nation-old policies
of Washington, Jefferson and Mon
roe.
"The Democratic party, on the
other hand, rejected every effort to
modify or qualify the president’s
proposed League of Nations, indorsed
the president’s attitude and took its
position in favor of the league as
presented. It is true that the Dem
ocrats, in effort to placate, say some
thing about reservations which make
clearer or more specifio/the obliga
tions of the United States, but the
language is meaningless and does
not at all alter the essential position
of the Democratic party for the
league as presented.
“The two parties acted in similar
fashion in one respect, but from dif
ferent motives and for different rea
sons. Both rejected the pleas for
adoption of the league with reserva
tions, the Democrats because they
were for the league as presented, and
the Republicans because no reserva
tions devised by the human
could anticipate the contingencies
which might arise in the future from
an instrument of such potential pos
sibilities for harm.
“Thus the issue finally comes from
the forum of congress to the final
arbitrament of the American people.
The overshadowing question in the
campaign, therefore, is whether we
enter the maelstrom of European and
Asiatic politics and diplomacy and
become a part of the cynical imperial
ism of the old world, or whether
America shall live her life in her
own way, Independent, unfettered,
mindful always of her obligations to
humanity and civilization, but free
to act as each crisis shall arise, and
maintaining always the policy- of
Washington and Jefferson and Mon
roe, of friendship with all nations,
entangling alliances with none.
“With a candidate standing four
square upon the platform, the is
sues leave those who believe in safe
guarding, protecting our American
ism but one choice and that is to
support the Republican party.”
Two Men Burned to
Death for Murder
PARIS, Tex., July 7.—Authorities
today were convinced Herman and
Irving Arthur, brothers, burned at
a stake here last night, were the
murderers of J. H. Hodges, farmer,
and his son Williim, whose bodies
were found in a negro hut last Fri
day.
The two negroes were burned to
death after a mob stormed the jail
here. The victims were taken to a
spot where the woodpile had been
prepared at the foot of a flagpole.
Bank Messengers
Robbed of SIO,OOO
CHICAGO, July 7. —Two bank mes
sengers were held up and robbed of
SIO,OOO while on their way to a bank
here today. The robbers drove along
side the messengers, jumped on the
running board of the messengers’ au
tomobile, snatched the bag contain
ing the money and escaped.
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CHOICE OE RUM
MATE FOB COX IS
Bl MOR EVENT
“Roosevelt” Would Be Mag
ic Name With Some Vot
ers —Selection Made to
Suit Eastern Campaign
BY DAVID lAWSENCE
(Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.),
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 7.
Picking a vice-president ordinarily is
about as interesting as inaugurating
one. He is/indistinct in the picture.
But the select! or? of Franklin D.
Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the
navy, to go along with Governor Cox
on the Democratic ticket, was an
episode in national politics of no
minor importance.
Under the rostrum where nominat
ing speeches were being made for a
half dozen vice presidential aspirants,
Charles Murphy, of Tammany hall;
George Brennen, of Illinois, who is
the successor of the late Roger Sul
livan; Jim Nugent, of New Jersey;
Fred Lynch, of Minnesota: Wilbur
Marsh, of Iowa; Norman Mack, of
New York and Ed Moore, the cam
paign manager of Governor Cox,
gathered for a conference and in full
sight of onlooking correspondents
held an informal debate on the
merits of Edward Meredith, of lowa,
secretary of agriculture; Victor Mur
dock, of Kansas, member of the fed
eral trade commission and bull moos
er of 1912, and Bainbridge Colby, sec
retary of state and also a Roosevelt
progressive.
Governor Cox wisely left the choice
to the managers here. Mr. Hearst
would have liked to see Colby named
and there was some thought that the
support of the Hearst newspapers
would be easily assured if Colby were
chosen. But while Tammany favored
Colby and gave indication of burying
the hatchet with Hearst in the com
ing effort to re-elect Al Smith gov
ernor of New York, the leaders ar
gued with Murphy that Roosevelt’s
name would be worth more votes
to the ticket and that his selection
would please the McAdoo forces
which had been led by Roosevelt.
Met Issue Figures
The western men—Meredith and
Murdock—were eliminated when- it
was decided that on account of Cox’s
wet leanings the campaign had bet
ter be waged in the east. Roosevelt,
it was contended, would give assur
ance to westerners that the ticket
was progressive. Furthermore, it was
suggested that he was popular with
navy men. Os course Roosevelt’s
anti-Tammany record in New York
state will help get independent Dem
ocratic votes for the ticket.
It is an interesting sidelight that
many here venture the opinion that
the name of Roosevelt would appeal
to those voters who may not exactly
confuse Franklin D. Roosevelt with
Theodore Roosevelt, but who would
consider that all Roosevelts must
be worth-while folks. As a matter
of fact, the vice presidential candi
date whom the Democrats have
named is a second cousin to the late
Colonel Roogevelt. It is a coinci
dence that the colonel started in as
an assistant secretary of the navy,
too. and resigned that job to go into
the war after which he entered pol
itics on a large scale as governor
of New York. The name of Frank
lin D. Roosevelt has often been sug
gested for governor of New York and
the independent Democrats were this
year thinking of naming him for the
United States senate to oppose Wads
worth.
Franklin Roosevelt is popular with
the newspaper men in Washington,
who knew him throughout the war
as the man who was continuously
urging a'naval offensive. There has
been some talk that Roosevelt didn’t
agree with Josephus Daniels in the
management of the navy department,
but all thoughts of discord were
swept out of consideration by the
fulsome speech made by Secretary
Daniels for Franklin Roosevelt after
the latter had been named by ac
clamation as the vice presidential
candidate of the party.
Roosevelt Kelps Ticket
One after another the vice presi
dential aspirants withdrew from the
race as soon as the conference under
the stage of the auditorium was over.
All the leaders and bosses agreed
that the ticket would be helped im
mediately by the addition of Roose
velt and though some observers note
a confession of weakness in the dis
cussion about a western candidate,
the decision to fight it out in the
east Is a bold one. The leaders ask
ed what vice presidential candidate
could carry western states that Cox
himself couldn’t carry and few seem
ed to think the addition of Murdock
or Meredith would contribute as
much as would be gained by the po
litical advertising already given the
1 name Roosevelt and the known exec
utive ability and independence in pol
itics of Franklin Roosevelt.
The vice presidential choice help
ed to lighten the disappointment of
the McAdoo group from the east,
though the westerners shook their
heads and shrugged their shoulders
as they faced the prospect of cam
paigning for a man who had won
his nomination through the support
of wet states. But the eastern de
mocracy confidently smiled and said
that the election would be won or
lost in the east anyway.
It is too soon to say which view
point is more logical, but the lead
ers will probably find on consulting
Governor Cox that he will wisely
decide to make as vigorous »a fight
in the west and far west as he must
make in the east.
Dry Measure Opposed
BOENUS AIRES, July 6. —Govern-
ment opposition to the prohibition
bill recently introduced in congress
was announced today by Finance
Minister Salaberry. He assured rep
resentatives of wine interests from
Mendoza and San Juan that the ex
ecutive department would use legal
resources against the measure.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, JULY.B, 1920.
POWDERED MILK
BILL IS DEFEATED
IN STATE SENATE
Amendment Offered by Sen
ator Glenn! Who Charged
Dairy Interests With Effort
to Increase Price
The house bill of Representative
Sibley, of Greene county, providing
for the regulation of distribution and
manufacture of powdered milk was
defeated in the state senate Wednes
day by vote of 32 to 11.
A sharp division of opinion as to
the merits of the bill developed and
a heated debate consumed the major
portion of the morning session. Sen
ators Veazey and Nix led the fight
for the advocates of the bill. Sena
tors Ellis and Elders made strong
speeches in opposition.
Senator Glenn offered an amend
ment, stating that in its present
shape, the effect of the bill would be
to raise the price of milk to the con
sumer. He charged that the dairy
interests had introduced the meas
ures solely for the purpose of ad
vancing the price'.
"They are seeking,” he said, " to
restrict the sale of this powdered
product. Opponents of this bill are
not opposed to labelling their prod
uct but they are opposed to paying
the license fee provided."
Senator Glenn’s amendment pro
vided that the bill apply only to pow
dered milk when mixed with other
ingredients.
Passage of the Sibley bill would
have required manufacturers of pow
dered milk to label their products,
obtain from the state veterinarian a
license, and hotels and restaurants,
using powdered milk, to post con
.spicuous notices to this effebt.
9 Measure Warmly Debated
Senator Allen, of the Thirty-fifth,
spoke at length against the passage
of the bill. “I ( am tired and so are
the people of Georgia,” he said, "of
this pestiferous interference with
private business. A federal food law
fully covers powdered milk in
Georgia and its manufacture and dis
tribution is also controlled by ade
quate state food laws.
. milk is necessary in
many emergencies,” continued Sena
tor Allen, who cited figures showing
that during the war Camp Gordon
alone used more than 10,000 pounds
of the product.
“It is also very necessary in large
cities,” he declared. “No legislation
is needed.”
Senator Smith, of the seventh, de
clared that poiydored milk had been
tested by the government and found
to be pure. He urged the senate to
kill the bill.
Speaking for th© measure, Sena
tor Reed, of the Thirty-seventh,
maintained there was nothing vicious
in it, and that the interests of the
people demanded its passage.
CAPITAL MOVING
BILL INTRODUCED
AGAIN IN SENATE
The ancient and annual battle for
the removal of Georgia’s seat of
government to Macon was precipi
tated for the first time at this ses
sion of the genera! assembly in the
senate Wednesday, when Senator
Dixon, of the Seventeenth, intro
duced a new phase into the fight by
seeking to have the whole matter
referred to the voters of the state
in the Democratic primary in Septem
ber.
His novel plan got before the sen
ate in the form of an amendment
to the capital removal resolution in
troduced at the last session and im
mediately precipitated a debate that
promised to grow real fiery by the
time the senators had unlimbered
their vocal artillery.
As soon as the amendment was
read, Senator Barrett, of the Thirty
sixth district, arose to a point of or
der to the general effect that the
resolution didn’t mean anything. It
offered, he declared, no direct method
of effecting capital removal and
would have absolutely no legal effect
should the majority of Democrats
vote for the proposal in the pri
mary.
President Olive overruled the point
of order on the general ground that
the senate could talk and vote on
anything whether it had any possible
effect or not.
Favors Referendums
This caused Senator Flynt to make
the charge that the opponents of cap
ital removal were afraid to present
the question to a primary or any
other kind of election in which the
people could express their feelings
on the matter.
As far as he personally was con
cerned, he declared that he was in
favor of all sorts of referendums.
He declared that he was even willing
to have Senator Barertt’s suffrag<*
bills presented to the voters.
This drew a pertinent inquiry from
Senator Ivan Allen, of the Thirty
fifth, who wanted to know what
would be the use of a house or a
senate or any other deliberative law
making body if everything was sub
mitted to a referendum.
Senator Flynt, evidently puzzled
for an answer, said that the best
reason for referendum votes was
that Georgia hadn’t produced a man
in ten years who had nerve enough
to announce what he stood for when
he declared for public office and the
people had to elect blindly.
Senator Fowler then asked unani
mous consent for a suspension of. the
rules in order that the senate might
keep deliberating until the removal
question was decided, but the hour
of adjournment having arrived and
the senators being hungry, decided
to abide by the rules and promptly
called it a day. The question will be
up for further discussion Thursday.
THEY’RE OFF!
Latest Portraits of the Republican and Democratic Presidential Candidates
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COX.
Cox Is Regular Democrat
When He Rides Grey Mule
Bird Hunting in Alabama
BY FUZZY WOODRUFF
If any Atlanta Democrat wants to
get the real up and down on Governor
James M. Cox, the party standard
bearer, he should go to the Terminal
station, grab an Atlanta and West
Point tram and get off at Cheehaw,
Ala. There he can hire a mule or
an automobile or other means of lo
comotion, and proceed over the Ma
con county fillls to the old D. E. Las
lie place, where for three winters,
the Democratic nominee has hunted
birds and generally relieved him
self from the tedium of a public of
fice by leading the life of a typical
southern country gentleman.
At the old Laslie place he can find
Mose Harris, who is long and lean
and chews tobacco and ,knows all
about game birds and bird dogs, and
during a part of the winter season
he can find James M. Cox, w’ho is
likely to be president of the United.
States. On his every hunting trip,
Mose is the close companion and
sportsmanly advisor of the governor
and the governor rejoices in Mose’s
homely humor and his knowledge of
the ways of the partridge.
Mose will tell you that there is no,
more simon pure in tht»
whole world than Governor Cox and
that he is a Democrat in everything
the word implies. Mose will tell yon
that the DemoOratic nominee can and
will cast aside his statesmanlj’
habiliments and don an old canvass
shooting coat and corduroy breeches
and ride a mule all day.
He will tell you that he doesn’t
care how sticky the red clay mud is
if a covey of patridges can be
flushed ev’ry now and then and he’l)
tell you that when the birds do
get up, some of them invariably
come down when Cox’s gun goes to
his shoulder.
He’ll also inform you that he’ll
trudge all night long behind a bay
ing pack of hounds in pursuit of the
wily possum, the combative coon, or
the’ fiery wildcat or ride as hard as
the most enthusiastic hunter in all
the south in pursuit of the elusive
fox.
Governor Cox first became identi
fied with the south in 1917, when he
came to Montgomery at Christmas
time to be with the Ohio national
guard ‘division, encamped at Camp
Sheridan. During that visit he w r as
enthusiastically received by Demo
cratic leaders of Alabama, who rec
ognized him as the power who had
not only carried Ohio personally, but
who had brought it three times into
the Democratic column in 1916, the
only one of the great middle western
states to go for Wilson. It w r as Wil
son’s Ohio vote that contributed
very largely to his reelection, and
Cox was the leader who had turned
the trick.
Among other features of enter
tainment provided for the Ohio exec
utive, he was taken to the Macon
county shooting preserve of Mr. D.
E Laslie, of Tuskegee, a prominent
planter and banker of East Alabama.
Governor Cox enjoyed the shooting
so thoroughly that he bought a tract
of land from Mr. Laslie and main
tains it simply as a shooting field.
He is always host to a large group
of southern sportsmen, who declare
that he is a sportsman in the truest
sense of the vrord.
He is a member of all the lead
ing social clubs of Montgomery, and
is considered just one of them by the
people of Alabama’s capital. Just a
few weeks ago he made a trip south
to attend the w r edding of Miss Anne
Kilby, the daughter of Governor
Thomas E. Kilby, of Alabama, and on
this trip he spent a day or two in At
lanta.
Mr. Laslie loves to tell a story on
the governor that happened during
his shooting expedition of last year.
His mount was a grey mule of un
certain years and steadiness. Along
with Mose Harris, the governor was
riding through an open field behind
a brace of steers and keeping his
eye on the dogs rather than on his
mount. The mule stumbled into a
gulley, partially concealed by black
berry bushes. In most unceremoni
our fasion, the Democratic stand
ard-bearer went head over heels over
the hard head of his quadruped.
Scratched and jolted, -he rose to
mount when he was stayed by a re
mark from Mose “Guvner,” said
Mose solemnly, “if you can’t stay on
the Democratic donkey any better
than you can on that 'air Macon
county mule, I'll be danged if you’re
PALMER CHARGED
WITH USING HIS
OFFICE IN RACE
CHICAGO, July 7—William Arm
strong, Chicago lawyer, presented to
the senate committee investigating
campaign expenditures today a mass
of documentary evidence which, he
said, would “prove that Attorney
General A. Mitchell Palmer has
abused the power of, his office in
order to influence delegates to the
Democratic national convention.”
Mr. Armstrong told the commit
fee the documents would show Mr.
Palmer had advocated pardons for
criminals and prevented the gather
ings of evidence in cases where there
were charges of defrauding the gov
ernment.
Senator Kenyon said the commit
tee would decide later whether Arm
strong should be called -as a wit
ness.
not going to have a hard time being
elected president.”
In addition to being fen enthusias
tic nimrod, Governor Cox.is a no
less enthusiastic golfer. During his
last southern trip, he spent some
time at Augusta, stopping at the
Bon *Air hotel and indulging in
Scotizrs pastime daily with no less
personages than former President
William Howard Taft and Dr. Nich
olas Murray Butler, who was an
Unsuccessful candidate for the Re
publican presidential nomination.
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WORMS CONTINUE
DEPREDATIONS IN
FIELDS OF CORN
COLUMBUS, Ga., July 7.—The
army worm is responsible for the de
struction of vast areas of corn and
hay in this sectibn, according to Farm
Agent Jenkins, following an investi
gation in several of the big fields
made barren by millions of these
Ijests in Muscogee county during the
past week.
Mr. Jenkins says the Wt>rms have
covered many sections of Alabama,
and that they have just crossed the
Chattahoochee river at this point.
They have worked great havoc where
they attacked the corn, all ages and
sizes being cut and literally eaten up
by the pests. All grass is also be
ing devoured by the worms.
Arsenate of lead is suggested as a
remedy by Mr. Jenkins, who declares
that this will destroy the pests. A
number, of the larger farmers of
the county are already using this
preparation. Fifty gallons can be
made from one and a half pounds of
arsenate, by adding two pounds of
lime.
The werms are multiplying rapid
ly and spreading in many sections.
While there, is much concern among
the farmers/ it is believed by many
that they will be able to combat the
pests. Already heavy damages, have
resulted in several sections, the city
farm having lost some $3,000 worth
of food.
CORN WEEVIL WORKS
HAVOC IN ALABAMA
MONTGOMERY, Ala., July 7.
Great destruction is being wrought
to the corn crop of Alabama by a
corn weevil which is operating in
several sections of the state, accord
ing to reports reaching the city. The
weevil has attacked the state’s corn
crop at prison farm No. 4 and it is
believed it wil be necessary to re
plant about three hundred and fifty
acres. The weevil attacks the bud of
the small corn which causes it to
wither and die. Dispatches from
other sections say the weevil is
causing great damage.
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OHIO GOVERNOR IS
CHOSEN TUESDAY ON
THE 44TH BALLOT
Nomination Comes After
Spectacular and Gruelling
Session Lasting Nearly All
Night
WINNING BALLOT
( Forty-Fourth )
(Made unanimous for Cox before
concluded.)
COX 732 K
M’ADOO 267
DAVIS \ 52
OWEN 34
PALMER 1
CODBY 1
GLASS
< ABSENT 5
SAN FRANCISCO, July 6.-—James
M. Cox, three times governor of Ohio,
was nominated for the presidency
early this morning by the Democratic
national convention in the break-up
of one of the most prolonged dead
locks in the history of national po
litical parties.
Governor Cox later sent a tele
gram to the convention announcing
he would accept the nomination and
thanking the delegates for their nom
ination.
Following is the text of the tele
gram:
“Hon. Joseph T. Robinson, Chairman,
Democratic Convention, San Fran
cisco, Cal;
I “Let me tiank for your
felicitous message. I shall ac
cept the standard from the De
mocracy of America, conscious
not only of the honor, but the
great responsibility conferred.
As Providence gives to me a
strength and vision my firm re
solve will be to justify the con
fidence which has beeri officially
expressed. The shrine of gov
ernment is in the communities of
the land near to the homes that /
have given service and sacrifice.
To them we will carry our cause *
with the assurance that the faith
shall be kept and that the insti
tutions of a free people are al
ways sufficient to the needs of
time, if they are held to the
causes to which we are pledged.
“Please convey to the dele
gates of the convention my grate
ful acknowledgment.
(Signed) “James M COX.”
ft followed a message from Senator
Robinson, permanent chairman of the
convention, unofficially informing the
governor of his nomination and con
gratulating him.
It took forty-four ballots to make
a choice and it was not until the
thirty-eighth, when Attorney General
Palmer withdrew from the race, that
the long succession of roll calls
showed any definite trend.
In the turn-over of the Palmer
delegates Cox gained the advantage
over William G. McAdoo, his rival
for first place since early in the bal
loting, and that advantage never was
lost.
With its choice made, the conven
tion adjourned to noon today to
name a candidate for the vice pres
idency.
Should it be decided to give second
place on the ticket to the east,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, of New oYrk,
assistant secretary of the navy,
seemed to be a favorite, but if the
nomination goes to the west there
are several possibilities talked about
by the leaders.
Supporters of Cox won away to
the nomination by persistent batter
ing at the McAdoo and Palmer forces
in many states throughout a long
series of shiftings and rallies Which
left now one and then another of
the candidates in the lead.
History of Ballot Battle
On the opening ballot Friday tho
Ohio governor was in third place.
He soon passed Palmer, however, and
on the twelfth ballot went ahead of
McAdoo. Then began a see-sawing
between the Cox and McAdoo totals
which at the end of the thirty-ninth
roll call at midnight found the two
virtually the same.
The forty-second ballot with the
accession of most of the Palmer
strength to Cox, put him well ahead
and after that great and little state
delegations went into the Cox col
umn in a procession. On the forty
third he got a majority for the first
time of all the votes cast and on the
forty-fourth he was plunging toward
the required two-thirds when Colo
rado changed its vote to him and
made, the nomination obvious. X?
was made unanimous on motion
Sam B. Amidon, of Kansas, a leader
of the McAdoo forces.
Os the forty-four ballots, two
taken last Friday night; fourteen at
the first session Saturday and six
at the Saturday night session, rhere
were twenty-two recorded Monday,
fourteen at the all-day session and
eight Monday night .
Cox began the fight with 134 on
the first ballot, and climbed steadily
until the fifteenth, when he had
468 1-2. His lowest vote after that
was on the thirty-fifth, the first
taken atJast night’s session, whan it
fell to 376 1-2.
A curious thing in the voting for
McAdoo was tnat he received 256 on
the first ballot, the lowest cast for
him, and 266 1-2 on the last ballot.
His high-water mark was 467 on the
fortieth ballot. At that time Cox
had 490.
Palmer opened with 256 votes. His
highest vote was 267 1-2 on the Elev
enth ballot.
Nomination Made Unanimous
A summary of the three leaders in
the voting yesterday and last night
is as folows:
Ballot. Cox McAdoo Palmer
23d 429 364 1-2 181 1-2
24th 429 364 1-2 178
25th 424 364 1-2 169
26th 424 1-2 371 167
27th 423 1-2 371 1-2 166 1-2
28th 423 368 1-2 165 1-2
29th 404 1-2 394 1-2 166
30th 400 1-2 403 1-2 165
31st 391 1-2 415 1-2 176
32d 391 421 176
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