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Show West Virginian Named As Democratic Leader John W. Davis, of West Virginia, will be the standard bearer for the Democratic party during the 1S24 camgaign. Davis received the nomination nomi-nation on the' 103rd ballot Wednesday Wednes-day and his nomination was only made possible by the withdrawel of McAdoo and Smith. Never in the history of American politics has a fight been so bitterly waged. It took two weeks to name a leader for the party and during that time the factions stood pat, held their followers in line and battled battl-ed to the limit. At the start it was a noticeable fact that McAdoo and Smith had "locked horns"' and all through the long hours of balloting the two candidates were up and down, w"tih the Californian in the lead. Realizing that a fight was on, night sessions were started at Madison Square Gardens, New York, where the notable convention was held. Through long vigils of tiresome balloting bal-loting and "string pulling" the thousand thou-sand and more delegates fought to a finish and a sigh of relief went up when the final decision was made. When the balloting began, Davis, of West Virginia, started out with votes averaging close to 55, and it was not until the ninety-fifth ballot that he began to make a showing when he received 139 . He steadily gained, however and on the 103d ballot bal-lot he was declared the nominee, having hav-ing received two-thirds of the majority major-ity of votes cast. |