Show 5 is az 6 4 ab g na jegi jq gi now 4 dav OW adal allo showed W ed mr mcadoo with tile greater number 11 ber of 0 votes but with governor smith controlling directly or indirectly at least it good third of tho the delegates neither of tile the two lenders leaders could bo be nominated unless the other anve wa any Y or unless ono one could break the seemingly solid of the other it was under such conditions that both took personal comm command aind of their forces instead of leaving tile the direction of tile in the hands of their managers others in aside from the two lenders there were as an serious contenders contend cra for the nomination senator It alston backed by the solid indiana delegation senator glass backed by virginin virginia jotin john W davis backed by west virginia ex governor cox backed by ohio senator sa Saul ul abury backed by tile the six alx votes of delaware governor ritchie backed by Af maryland aryland senator under wood backed by alabama other favorite sons bona that had baen entered in III the big race dropped by the wayside but those named above stuck for ballot after ballot with their irla managers expecting that some one of them would eventually bo be picked oa as the miso candidate candid te they realized the intense feeling that had arisen between the opposing camps of the leaders and did not believe it good political strategy to side with either each one hoping that in the end their candidate might inight draw from bah bc t h sides when the break clime came on tile the part of the two leaders every plan known in political campaigning was used to influence delegates there waa ivas nn an abundance of the ur usual jual demonstrations long and noisy there were dire threats and earnest pleadings ings to attract support those delegations i that were noti not directly instructed strutted ted or not definitely committed to some soma one candidate would occasionally switch to or from one or the ahe oth er of the leaders this was especially true as it applied to mr air mcadoo and because of this hla his vote fluctuated from a little over to ds as high as aa governor smiths vote remained more nearly stationary at between and but that and others that would go to him on a break was enough to prevent a nomination of any other candidate on wednesday afternoon mr bryan asking for consent to explain his vote veto na as a member of 0 the F florida delegation attempted to stampede the convention for mcadoo but it did not succeed and tho the monotonous round of ballots continued without material magerl al change on friday afternoon after 00 60 ballots had been taken an effort was made to suspend the rules and permit the lending leading candidates to appear in person before the convention it was opposed largely by the mcadoo delegates lind and failed of tho the needed 1 two thirds vote then franklin D roosevelt asked that the convention extend an invitation to the democrat le lc governor of new york to address the delegates again it meant a suspension of the rules anti and while tho the move was cleverly made cande and refusal would put tile the convention in the position of being discourteous to its democratic host it too was voted down without such an invitation no candidate could get a personal hearing friday evening mr mcadoo sent a letter to the convention asking that the delegates give unanimous consent for Goven govenar jr smith to address them I 1 several objections were made and the consent was not given again a clever political move had frilled failed outside of the convention hall the leaders of the party those choso not immediately med lately connected with the candidacy of the two lending candidates were ir making inking strenuous efforts to break tile the deadlock and patch up the differences the fight had aroused they pleaded they commanded t they hey tried to get tile the other candidates to with withdraw draty that the lenders leaders might soon determine just where they stood in it a inal final analysts analysis but wit without libut surless sur cess and nd then on friday afternoon senator Ilal wired a withdrawal of his name nd and his delegation split 20 for mcadoo and 30 10 for cox boxi A little later ex governor cox co ac did the he same thing and tile tho ohio swit switched chol over to ex linker baker A solution had not been found on saturday the ohio delegation dropped baker anker and spilt nellt between v various it candidates giving cove governor r nor smith 21 votes the others goiz goans a to those these in the also ran class gave credit to democrats it was very evident that the keynote speaker sentor senator pat harrlson of mississippi sis sippi was not favorably impressed with the republicans and what they had been doing during the past three years yeara ond and lie he did not hesitate to gay eay so 10 in 11 plainly understandable terms i in tile tho main he centered on tho the va vert 1 ou and what ha be bald were tile tho results achieved for those nets acts of congress to which he ha could give iipp approval roval lie claimed full credit for tho the democratic party and what it ho referred to as tho the progressive element in tile the republican party for fo r the majority oleal clement nt in the c an party lie ho had no single word of commendation men dation but no ono one ans very much surprised at all of that as an no one had expected him to commend the enemy that was not what he waa wa 18 there thera to do even congles congressman aman theodore durton burton tho the republican keynoter cratic show as a guest did not seem to take any serious offense at what was said about himself and hla his ile be collen colleagues gues it did not that senator ilar har alson had overlooked anything that could bo said bald in opposition to the lie ile publIc publicans ans but along came tho the permanent chairman senator walsh on wednesday june 25 with a new list of charges or at least a new vocabulary while he spoke tile the sun streamed down upon the glass class roof of the convention hall and turned it into a bake oven but hla his denunciation of the political en emy emt caused the delegates to forget for the time their differences difference i over platform planks and favored candidates they shed coata coat and in many cases collars as well j they displayed black and green and blue kalluses calluses cal luses tl and despite the heat enjoyed to the full fill everything the lender leader of the oil investigations gave them as firsthand first hand information for it all they paid him to the full in convention coln coin a long a loud a terrific terr demonstration when the delegates assembled on saturday morning june 28 it was wa with the expectation that they would recelle the report of 0 the resolution C committee 0 e e but bit that was not to be for 80 long and almost continuous hours the committee headed by homer S cummings had labored over its ita task and tho the stumbling blocks it had struck were klan and league of nations on the latter subject ex secre tary of war baker was aoa leading the fight to a away declaration in favor of the longue league and would be satisfied with nothing less but he was in tho the minority that didlot did not represent it a serious situation for the party but the other subject that of the klan did there seemed to be no grounds groenda gro inda upon which to compromise ald tit at tho the end of 80 hours of labor tho the venerable leader william J bryan dropped to his knees in the committee room end and asked the members of tile the committee to join with him in asking divine guidance in their hour of dipti culty tho the resolution mr bryan favored and for which he had bad worked through the long hours contained a plank on the subject of religious liberty and condemning secret orders that were opposed to the provisions of the constitution ution but it did riot not name them the I 1 klan that was tho the plank that was written into the majority report of tho the comp committee littee but it wits waa not tory to a large element in the party governor smith announced that h ha e would withdraw from the contest for the nomination it the tae I 1 party attempted to stir straddle tiddle the subject william it democratic candidate for governor of maine bainbridge colby of df new jersey former secretary of stane joseph A kellogg of new york were among other leaders that were backing governor smith and ills his following fight over platform the committee did not report until after three saturday afternoon and then they pave gave to the convention both a majority and minority report on these two planks the threatened dissension in the party had been car ried front from the committee into tho the con bention to be fought outon out on the I 1 loor floor the league plank wits was the first point disio ed of H ex secretary baker made nn an impassioned appeal for the minority report and for two hours the subject wits was debilt debated ed but in the end the convention voted to in fauvor of the majority same saine people relight fought for it definite denunciation of the klan ician in the resolutions committee led the fight for that when it was taken to the hoor floor of the convention william jennings brynn and senator owen of oklahoma made the appeal for the adoption of tile the majority report mr bryan in pleading for such a plank ns as would in his belief insure party unity said the catholic church does docs not need the defense of any political party and the ku ilax klan does doea not deserve tho the at tho the close clase of two hours of intense debate the roll of tilt tho states way wah called and the vote resulted in MID for fo the minority report und against IH by the close clos a margin MR r if n of four votes democracy failed to mention thie th mall klan by name la ju its tt pla borm |