Show DAVIS AND BRYAN LEAD DEMOCRATS ticket selected by national convention at new york RESULT OF BALLOTS mot most remarkable political gathering in history of the nation contest continued through sixteen days and nights THE TICKET FOR PRESIDENT john west virginia FOR VICE PRESIDENT chas W bryan of nebraska by WRIGHT A PATTERSON convention hall new kew york alabama casts vw t w e n t y four t f o u votes for oscar IV underwood U n d e r w o o all d for foe one hundred and three times the great hall had rung with that shout sev enty seven times up to saturday night and it started again on monday morning for the committee that had bad been named on saturday for the purpose of effecting some sort of a compromise between the contending candidates had been unsuccessful and there teemed seemed to be no hope for a solution of 0 the difficulties in which the democracy of the nation found itself but the break came at last and on the one hundred and third ballot john W davis of west virginia was named as the standard bearer of the party ills his selection marked the conclusion of the greatest fight in american political history it was followed by the selection of gov charles W bryan of nebraska tor for second place on tile the ticket and the history making anakin g gathering was at an end after being in session tor for 10 days monday july 7 wits was a day of false hopes at the close of the eighty second ballot a resolution was adopted releasing the delegates from any instructions and that was expected to bring about a break it did but it did not result in a no nomination n it brought the mcadoo vote tumbling from to when the convention adjourned at night tuesday brought no ray of hope in th the afternoon governor smith and sir mr mcadoo got together but sir mr mcadoo refused tit at that time to release his delegates and governor smith would not withdraw so long as sir mr mcadoo remained in the race the fruitless balloting continued through ugh the day session and up lip to the nt ninety nety ninth nurith completed at wednesday morning at that time sir mr mcadoo released his delegates and on theone hundredth ballot his vote dropped to ISO after that ballot the convent convention on adjourned until noon on wednes wednesday ay in an effort to get together on so some e dark horse tile the one hundred and first and the one hundred and second ballots did not indicate anything more than the elimination of both smith and mcadoo from the race alabama leading the roll mil call of states continued to cast its 24 votes for underwood but there was a drift in both ballots to davis on the one hundred and third ballot alabama again started oft off with 24 votes for underwood but it was soon remonstrated that davis was going artong before the ballot was completed lie he had more than a majority and then the delegations began changing their votes lu in order to get into the jond jand wagon before the result of rhe abe ballot was announced it was moved to juane the nomination by acclamation clamp cla mation tion and it went through with a anop to be followed by a demonstration lasting several minutes tile the night session of wednesday following the nomination of a canal chite fo for the tl c presidency was in the nature of a democratic lovet love east feast it was addressed by governor smith oreanor nor cox cos the democratic noal ap nci clr davis and several others at tile the convention recessed for one tour at the end of the recess one ballot wits was taken for the vice tice dentist nomination and the convention adjourned shortly before three thursday morning tile the contest in tile the democratic convention arole all records and all precedents ced ce dents crits the greatest number of ballots ever been cast in a po Il convention before was that ot of the democratic party in 18 ga at on when allen 57 ballots were cost cast jr P unit diat city and the convention was thin tin n adjourned to baltimore where t 0 additional ballots were taken re syl ng ii in the nomination of stephen A 11 louglas duglas the recent convention sots sets a record decord that Is not likely to be equlia at atlease least not in ili the present gei em I 1 aaion it broke pit fth precedents in fix that the can of the leading candidates ver conducted by principals nod not 1 managers sir mr mcadoo and sir mr sy lith were both on the aroun ground d they were within feet of the entrance to the convention hall and within CO 60 feet of each other and from these points of vantage they directed their own camp campaigns kigns and were the their ir own political strategists back of it all lay the shadow ot of the klan kian vie fight over the klan kian plank in the platform had engendered an intense feeling on the part of the two contending factions the one led by governor smith and the other by mr mcadoo when on monday SIon day june 88 9 the first ballot was take n it j N til showed sir mr mcadoo with the greater number of 0 votes but with governor smith controlling directly or indirectly at least a good third of 0 the delegates neither ot of the two leaders could be nominated unless the other save gave way or unless one could break the seemingly solid phalanxes of the other it was under such conditions that both took personal command of their forces instead of leaving the direction of the campaign in the hands of their managers others in limelight aside from the two leaders there were as serious contenders for the nomination senator ralston backed by the solid indiana delegation senator glass backed by virginia john IV davis backed by west virginia ex governor cox cor backed by ohio senator saulsbury backed by the six votes of delaware governor ritchie backed by maryland senator underwood backed by alabama other favorite sons that had bad been entered in the big race dropped by the wayside but those named above stuck for ballot after ballot with their managers expecting that some one of them would eventually be picked as the compromise 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 mhd end their candidate might draw from both sides the break crime came on the part of the two lea leaders ders every v y plan known in political campaigning was used to influence delegates there was an abundance of the usual demonstrations long and noisy there were dire threats and earnest pleadings to attract support those delegations that were not dot directly instructed ted or not definitely committed to some one candidate would occasionally switch to or dr from one or the other of the leaders this was especially true as it applied to mr mcadoo and because of this ills his vote fluctuated from a little over to as high as 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 M mr r bryan asking for consent to explain his vote as a member of the florida delegation attempted to stampede the convention tor for mcadoo but it did not succeed and the alie monotonous round of ballots continued without material change on friday afternoon after GO CO ballots had bad been taken an effort was made to suspend the rules and permit the alie lending leading candidates to appear in person before the convention it was opposed largely by the mcadoo delegates and tailed failed of the needed two thirds vote then franklin D roosevelt asked that the convention extend an invitation to the democratic governor of new york to address the delegates again it meant a suspension I 1 of the rules and icille we the move was cleverly made and refusal would put the convention in the position of being discourteous to its democratic lost host it too was voted down without such an invitation no candidate could get a personal hearing F friday evening mr mcadoo sent aletter a letter to the convention asking that the delegates give unanimous consent for governor smith to address them several objections were made and tile the consent t was not given again a clever political move had failed outside of the convention hall the leaders of the party those not immediately connected with the candidacy of the two leading candidates were making strenuous efforts to break the deadlock and patch up the differences the fight had aroused they pleaded they commanded they tried d to got get the other candidates to withdraw that the leaders might soon determine just where they stood in a final analysis but without su success cress and then lien on friday afternoon senator ralston wired a withdrawal of his name and ills his delc delegation gatlon split 20 for mcadoo and 10 for cox A title little later ex governor cox did the some same tiling thing andi and tile ohio delegation switched over to ex secretary halter baker A solution hod not been found on saturday the ohio de legation delegation dropped baker and split between various rl ous candidates giving governor govern or smith 21 01 votes the others going to those in the also albo ran class gave credit to democrats it was very evident that the keynote speaker senator pat harrison of mississippi sis sippi was not favorably impressed with the republicans and what they had been doing during the past three years and he be did not hesitate to say so in plainly understandable terms rn in the main he be centered on the various investigations and what he bo said eald were the results achieved F for those nets acts of 0 congress to which he could give approval lie claimed full credit for the democratic party and what lie referred to as the progressive el element in the republican party for the majority element clement in the republican party lie he had no single word of commendation men dation but no one was very much surprised at all of that as no one had expected him to commend the enemy that was not what he be was there to do even congressman theodore burton the republican keynoter at cleveland who attended the democratic show as a guest did not seem to take any serious offense tit at what was said about himself slid and ills his republican colleagues it did not seem that senator harrlson harrison had overlooked anything that could be said gold in opposition to the republicans public ans but along came the permanent chairman senator walsh on wednesday june 25 with nith a new list hit of charges or at least a new vocabulary while he be spoke tho the sun streamed down upon the glass root roof of the convention hall and turned it into a bake oven but his denunciation of the political enemy caused the delegates to forget for the time their differences over platform planks and favored candidates they shed coats and in many cases collars as well they displayed black and green and blue and despite the heat enjoyed to the full everything the leader of the oil investigations gave them as firsthand first hand information for it fill all they paid him to the full in convention coln coin a long a loud a terrific demonstration when the delegates assembled on saturday morning june 28 it was with the he expectation that they would would receive the report of the resolutions committee cut but that was not to be for SO 80 long and almost continuous hours the committee headed byl byhower lomer S cummings had labored over its task and the stumbling blocks it had struck were klan kian and league of nations on the latter subject ex secre tary ol of war baker was leading the tight fight to a straight away declaration in favor of the league and would be satisfied with nothing less but he was in the minority that did not represent a serious situation for the party but tile the other subject that of the klan did there seemed to be no grounds upon which to compromise and at the end of 80 hours of labor the venerable leader william J bryan dropped to his big knees in the committee room and asked the members of the committee to join with him in asking divine guidance in their hour of difficulty the resolution mr bryan favored and for which he be had bad worked through the ion long hours contained a plank on the subject of religious liberty and condemning secret orders that were nere opposed to the provisions of the constitution ution but it did not name the klan that was the plank that was written into the majority report of the committee but it wits was not satisfactory to a large element in the party governor smith announced that hint lie he would withdraw from the contest for the nomination it if abe baity attempted to straddle the subject william R democratic candidate for governor of maine bainbridge colby of new jersey former secretary of joseph A kellogg of new york were among other oilier leaders that were backing carnor smith and ills his following fight over platform the committee did not report until after three saturday afternoon and then they gave to the convention both a majority and minority report on these two planks the threatened dissension in the party had bad been carried from the alie committee into the con to lie be fought out on tile floor the league plank was the first point disposed of ex secretary baker made an impassioned appeal tor for the ml minority v report and for two hours the subject u was debated but in the end the con coni i voted to in favor of tho the majority I 1 the same people who nho had fought for a definite denunciation of the klan in the resolutions committee led the fight for that when it was taken to the floor of 0 the convention william jennings bryan and senator owen of oklahoma made the appeal for the tha adoption of the majority report mr bryan in pleading for such a plank as would in fit his bis belief insure party unity said tile the catholic church does not need the defense of any political party and the ku klux klan does not deserve the advertising at the close of two hours of intense dea bate tho the roll of the states was ballel called and the voto vote resulted in for tha th minority report and against it ita by the close margin of four votes democracy failed to mention tho the klari klan by name la in its platform |