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11 DEMOCRATS VOTE CEASELESSLY IN EFFORT TO NOMINATE PARTY STANDARD-BEARER THE STJXDAT OHEGOXIAX. rORTXAXD. JUIT 4, 1920 , All-night Conferences- Between Forces of McAdoo, Palmer and Cox and Floor Caucuses of Delegates Fruitless in Effecting Compromise, and Voting Begins With McAdoo in Lead. AUDITORIUM, SAN FRANCISCO. July 3. At 9:45 o'clock thts morning the democratic national convention was called to order again and Chairman Robinson ordered the call of the states to be returned for nominations for president. The chiefs of the McAdoo. Palmer and Cox forces conferred constantly throughout the night and during: the early morning- almost vyj to the hour of the meeting: of the convention. At 9:40 o'clock, the hour of reconvening;, the emptiness of the convention hall reflected the sleeplessness of the night for leaders and delegates, for all were tlow in arriving:. Despite that it was the last day of the con vention, if plans did not miscarry and everyone was trying to speed up. It was a slow start. The band and organ filled in during, the wait. . Conferences Apparently Kraltlese. There was conference after confer ence on the floor as leaders and del egates came in, but they apparently were fruitless. There was not a man on the floor who could show any evidence to support his prediction of what was going to happen today. The total of the last ballot of yes terday was: McAdoo, 289; Palmer, 264, and Cox, 159, with no others figuring prominently. The favorite air for the band seemed to be "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles." Kvery one of the enthusiasts seemed to feel that the air was particularly, appro priate for the other fellow. There certainly was a crop of bubbles being blown in the convention for some body, but pobody was wise enough to forecast whose bubbles were going to be burst today. AYllnom Telesrram Read. Before the roll ot- the states' was resumed Chairman Cummlngs read to the convention a telegram from Presi dent Wilson declaring the course the party had taken with respect to the league of nations filled him with con fidence of victory. McAdoo led the gains on the first ballot of the day, but the predicted elide to him failed to materialize. Most of the original votes stood fast. The unofficial total for the three leaders was: McAdoo 323V4. Cox 177. Palmer 252. Unofficial McAdoo (rain was S4 l Cox gained 18 and Palmer showed loss of 1 1 Vi- North Carolina furnished the first break to McAdoo, the delegates swinging from Senator Simmons. The change was expected. On the fourth ballot the lines were holding fast and the opposition to McAdoo was smiling. Gerard Block Breaks. The Gerard block In South Dakota broke, most of them going to Palmer. On the fourth ballot the solid Ne braska vote for Hitchock broke, some going to McAdoo and Meredith xand Owen. Nevada switched her six from Cox to McAdoo. The leaders stood unofficially In the fourth ballot: McAdoo 339, Cox 178. Palmer 254. All three of the leaders gained throughout the ballot. Unofficial McAdoo gain was 15, Palmer 2V4, Cox 12. The unofficial standing of the three leaders on the fifth ballot was Mc Adoo, 337: Palmer, 244; Cox, 181. Un official Palmer loss, 10; McAdoo gained IS and Cox gained 3. I.lttle Progress Made. There was little progress toward a nomination on the sixth ballot. The leaders, unofficially, stood: McAdoo, 368 V4; Cox, 195; Palmer. 265H. Mc Adoo gained, unofficially, 11V4; Pal mer gained 21, and Cox 14. After -the sixth ballot the delegates got a welcome chance to stretch their legs and rest while the organ played and, a tenor sang "Dear Old Pal of Mine." The real reason for the pleasant recess was to give several delegations an opportunity to caucus and decide what they would do on the seventh ballot. All three of the leaders at the be ginning of the seventh were stronger in votes tnan tney had been at anv time since the balloting began. Palmer having more than picked up his loss or tne iiitn ballot. During the calling of the seventh ballot New York caucused and a big break to Cox from the delegation was lorecast Two big breaks to Cox marked the seventh ballot in the democratic na tional convention. New York and TCew Jersey both gave the Ohio governor a big contribution from their delega tions, sending the Cox boom upward to the great delight and demonstra tion of the forces opposed to McAdoo. Cox Gains in Seventh, The changes in the seventh ballot showed Cox gained 101 voes, Mc Adoo gained 15Vi and Palmer gained 2. This put Cox in second place for the first time. All the gains were made from the field. Between the seventh and eighth ballots the Virginia delegates went out of the hall to caucus and de cide if they should leave Glass and to whom they should throw their 14 votes. The McAdoo forces were waiting and hoping for the block. The Invisible combination against McAdoo jfot a great deal of satisfaction over the gain of Cox, but was forced to concede that McAdoo still was lead ing., Iowa was expected also to break up on the next ballot, throwing a majority from Palmer to Cox and some votes probably for McAdoo. The delegation started out for Meredith. Iowa delegates at the conclusion of the caucus said they would stand solidly for one more ballot for Palmer. The close of the eighth ballot showed the three leaders standing: McAdoo 380. Cox 315, and Palmer 262. The shifting during the balloting showed Palmer losing 5, Cox gain ing 19 Vi and McAdoo losing 4. New York Breaks First. The first big break in the solid delegation came when the New York delegation of aO swung away from Governor Smith and gave 68 to Cox. 16 to' McAdoo and scattered its other votes. The delegates working for the ! -combination against McAdoo kicked up a great demonstration in which the standards of New Jersey, Indiana, Mississippi, Kentucky, Ohio and Maryland joined. It was the first demonstration of a slide to any body. New Jersey also broke to Cox. throwing htm 25 from the block that had been cast solidly for Edwards. It threw the convention hall into a tumult again. "He'll beat Harding in Ohio," was the cry that . rang through the convention hall. Three of New Jersey's went to McAdoo. Cox took the lead in the race dur ing the eighth ballot, for the first time today, and passed McAdoo. McAdoo Regains Lead. Cox held the lead only a short time, however, until Texas flopped in her 40 for McAdoo and put him ahead again. The Virginia delegation which had abotit decided to break to somebody decided not to "because conditions , did -not justify it." Nine unsuccessful ballots aroused taiH or a darn norse. Neither the Cox, Palmer nor McAdoo forces snowea any signs of giving way to one inoiner, out maae steady V. . . 1 I flnntll.ttn- i . . . l - field. Many state delegations continued casting their ballots fur men they they have no Idea of nominating sim ply because their leaders were uncon vinced at that stage that either of the big three could win and were holding back to get on to a compromise move ment should one appear. On the ninth ballot Cox gained 6, McAdoo gained six and Palmer lost 6. The changes were inconsequential for purposes of progress toward a nomi nation and it Was noticeable that an undercurrent of conferences were go ing on among state delegation lead ers in the rather nebulous search for somebody on whom to coalesce. Rare Continues Clone. On the tenth ballot, McAdoo and Cox were engaged in a tug of war, each making slight gains at the ex pense of Palmer or the field, but neither making any accessions point ins to "the break" which would nom inate him. The results of the tenth showed not a change of a vote for Palmer, while Cox lost a half vote and McAdoo won a full vote. McAdoo had retrieved his slight loss and Cox continued to sustain his record of having made a steady gain on every ballot since the voting began. The figures for the leaders on the tenth were as follows: McAdoo 385. Cox 321, Palmer 257. The two-thirds vote necessary to nominate was the greatest factor blocking an agreement and many of the delegate leaders declared that while "it would always prevent the nomination of a candidate in a hotel room at 2 o'clock in - the morning," it certainly made it difficult to get a deadlocked convention together on a candidate. While- the convention rested between the 11th and 12th votes, a big bunch of toy balloons, which had been brought into the hall to celebrate somebody's victory, were bursting all over the hall as the crowd batted them about. Cox Passes McAdoo. On the 12th ballot today. Cox passed the 400 mark and McAdoo for the first time and touched 404 votes. McAdoo on that ballot had 376 H votes and therefore a veto power un der the . two-thirds rule of the con vention. The ruling of the chair was that the unit rule stood and Cox got the 26 votes. On the 12th ballot the leaders stood: Cox 404, McAdoo 375 Ms. and Palmer 201. These figures gave Cox a gain of 72. McAdoo lost 4 V4 and Palmer lost 64. In the midst of the 12th ballot, the convention went into a great dem onstration for Cox occasioned by the breaking of the solid Illinois block of delegates which threw 30 votes to the Ohio governor. Following the acces sions made to the Cox standards from Indiana and New York, the change in the voting was the signal for an up roar, in which state standards were brought into a parade around the hall with the usual number of scrimmages in which the Arkansas standard was demolished. Further Breaks Reported. The break in Illinois on the 12th ballot gave Cox 30 more votes to his string. The Cox people in the con vention made a great demonstration. All the votes were taken from Pal mer and 14 were retained for McAdoo. Further breaks in the solid delega tions were reported imminent. The state delegations' standards which previously have carried votes to Cox were raised in the demonstration which the '-casting of the block of votes from Illinois occasioned and the parade for Cox started around the hall led by Ohio and followed by New Jer sey, Illinois, Mississippi, Maryland, In diana, Florida, Kentucky and other states, whieh had been casting Cox votes. Rhode Island also fell in. Iowa flopped to Cox with her whole 26 on announcement and members of the delegation made a protest de manding a poll. It was known there were McAdoo votes in the delegation, The poll of the Iowa delegation showed 16 for Cox and ten for Mc Adoo. Unit Rule Invoked. Chairman Marsh of the Iowa dele gation, then under the unit rule cast 26 votes for Cox. An Iowa delegate challenged the vote on the ground that the unit rule had been abrogated despite the fact that the state conven tion placed them under it. Thirteen ballots still found the democratic convention with'out a nom inee. Cox continued to climb and had taken the lead from McAdoo and also the veto power of one-third which his opponent had held throughout the twelfth ballot. Steadily increasing on every ballot, the Ohio governor took accessions from many of the large state delegations and scattering votes from the smaller ones. On the Victor Records Splendid July Numbers POPULAR SONfiS AND DANCES 1S871 Who'll Take the Place of Mary? Crescent Trio Price 83c Marlon, You'll Be Marryin' Me. Rachel Grant-Billy Murray. lSBTSThe Moon Shines on the Moonshine Sidney Phillips So Long! Oo-Long 10-in. 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MvrrUon and Alder. 181 thirteenth ballot Cox, McAdoo and Palmer stood as follows: Cox, 428 ; McAdoo. 363 V4; Palmer, 193 Vi Despite the gain . of Cox, there seemed no prospect, of enough of a break to nominate anybody when the convention went into the fourtetnth ballot. South Carolina, which has been for McAdoo by a half vote under the unit rule, was getting ready to break as the convention went into the four teenth. All the way up to and through the fourteenth ballot Virginia stuck to Glass and West Vircini t,.,.L- Davis. It was said the Virginia votes were being held to Glass because they could not be -wholly turned to Mc Adoo and West Virginia was sticking for Davis on the hope that probably he might be the dark horse. Standings nn ihn rAn,t..ntk lot: were McAdoo. 355U.: Km. 44.-.U: Palmer, 1S2. McAdoo Loan Continues. The convention took 14 halinta in little less than six actual hours' time and failed up to , that time to find a nominee or give any one of the three principal contenders a majority. Cox, making steady gains from a small beginning, made steady acces sions until he first displaced McAdoo as the leader and then next ha re duced McAdoo's yote so that the presi dent's son-in-law finally had less than tne one-third veto iSower he had held at his high-water mark during the first 12 ballots. Knthuaiastio over their prospects tor nominating the governor of Ohio, the Cox people held a prolonged demonstration. The Cox accessions had been made steadily from some of the large states w?.,180 from sca"red delegations. While the demonstrations were go ing on the leaders conferred. It was reported from the New York delega tion that Franklin Roosevelt was be ing brought out as a vice-presidential possibility. Palmer Group Approached. On the 15th ballot Palmer lost 15. McAdoo lost 11 and Cox gained 25. Just before the 16th ballot etarted, Thomas B. Love of Texas, one of the McAdoo managers, approached the Palmer people asking a conferenc. tn talk over some means of stemming mo lm siae ana preventing his nomi nation. Love asked Vance McCormick of the Pennsylvania delegation and Representative Carlin, one of the Palmer managers, to go Into the con ference. The Palmer peoDle meamrhn. talklnST over plans to attempt to ob tain an adjournment until.8:30 o'clock toni-ht. There was no indication of whether others would agree to it. The probabilities .were that it would not go through. Dark- Horse Talk Revives. South Carolina continued to. stick for McAdoo through the 16th despite persistent reports of a Breakaway The platform officials joined in the .conferences to get an adjournment. The convention was getting tired and hungry. Senator Glass, one of the administration leaders, talking to friends, said: "It can't go to Cox." Glass was asked what would be the case if Cox got a majority. "Champ Clark got a majority," re sponded Glass, "and, every vo'te that he gets now comes harder." It was known there were many votes in the Palmer forces opposed to McAdoo which also did not want Cox The prospects of a dark horse were revived again. The increasing vote for Davis on the 16th ballot brought him forward again in the discussion as a possible compromise. All three of the leaders lost on the 16th ballot. . Thomas J. Spellacy of Connecticut moved a recess until 8 o'clock tonight. There were cries of "no" and de mands for an aye-and-no vote by states. The failure to nominate on the 16th i mm W - vJU v. -" IN His BRAND NEWEST CYCLONE "HUMAN STUFF" A fitting successor to "Overland Red" and other , Carey triumphs. If we wrecked all the Websters in town trying to extol its many angles of keenly enjoyable ofil i n. r n establishment or this kind, lo merit must te ihorouJily modern Every element necessary lo make our service superior lias teen embodied in this insiiiuiion. . Wq have retained the put- l; r i ic confidence 1 1 ! i iwenty-eiant years. 1BFINIIY&S Funeral Directors Montgomery at Fifth PHONE MAIN 9 ' y--i-"-1 ballot ,threw all the leaders off their feet. Plainly they were at a loss to know what move tj make next. After the 16th ballot the conven tion adjourned for lunch and con vened again at 8:17 P. M. . On the 17th ballot Colorado threw one to Cummings and two to Glass, bringing them back into the ballot ing. Palmer and McAdoo stood the losses. It looked as if the Palmer people were calling back "borrowed" delegates. Cox lost one In Illinois; Palmer lost one there, which went to Davis. Mc Adoo strength there stood. Indiana stayed with Cox. So did Iowa. Kansas stuck with McAdoo and Kentucky remained unchanged, with 23 to Cox and 3 to McAdoo. Louisiana flopped to Cox with her whole 20 votes, giving him a gain of five. The Cox people set up a new uproar. Cox lost one to Palmer In Massa chusetts and Owen got one which had been scattered. Cox took one from Palmer In Michigan. Minnesota stood un changed. Cox lost four and a half, In Missouri, which went to Palmer. .Montana Solid for McAdoo. Montana's whole vote of eight went to McAdoo, taking four from Cox. McAdoo lost two in Nebraska to Cox. McAdoo lost one in New Hampshire to Palmer. McAdoo lost one in New York And Cox took it. Cox lost one to Owen in North Dr.kota. The convention went to the ballot fnumuiiiufuu iiiHimmmnu nnuuiHiuiMiu miNMiitttiiiin NOW and Peerless Fearless Keerless p. IN r situations and top-notch entertainment value we'd have folks all hopped up to the point where it'd be dangerous to fit 'em into these wide streets of our'n. So with great forbearance, we whisper GO! If you can get in. p ii confidence. i now or for the eighteenth time. As It did so the word soread about that ad ministration spokesmen at the con vention had vetoed Davis and that the McAdoo and Palmer people were continuing their efforts to find some candidate on whom they could agree to beat Cox. The eighteenth ballot turned out to be a see-saw contest without prospect of big changes. Davis lost one . to Palmer In Illinois'. Iowa stood solid for Cox. Kansas stood solid for McAdoo. That was a fair example of the way things were going. , Louisiana, which had jumped Into the Cox column on the 17th ballot, called for a pass, evidently talking it over. Palmer got two new ones In Massa chusetts and Cox lost one. Oklahoma, In the face of Owen making gains, stuck to the senator with her 20. The senator was work ing among the delegates on the floor at the time. Pennsylvania made Palmer's 75 74; Cox lost the one. McAdoo took three from Cox In South Dakota and Palmer took one from the Ohio governor. Tennessee's 24 remained with Davis and the Texas 40 and the Utah eight re mained with McAdoo. Virginia's 24 remained with Glass. West Virginia's 16 stood firm with Davis. Tennessee divided her 24 votes, previously given solidly for Davis. giving Cox 11, Davis 10, McAdoo. Pal mer and Owen each 1. The changes on the 18th ballot were: Cox gained 16, McAdoo lost 1. Palmer 1V4, Davis lost 15. The next chanre came in Colorado tiimnimmiiM iHiiiiiHiniiHm imniiimiiiiiu wmnuuHtMim RIGHT NOW Until Friday Midnight ON Genuine Bonafide Clearance -of- M Corbett where Palmer gained two, taking them from McAdoo. McAdoo Vained two in Delaware, taking one of them from Cox. In Massachusetts Cox lost three to Palmer. Palmer lost one In Missouri and 4344 Satisfied Customers This is the number of customers waited upon by us on Saturday, June 26. We will venture to say this is more than was handled by any other drug firm in the city. THERE IS A REASON! . 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