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Show FIRST BALLOTS TELL UGH WAY WIND IS BLOWING Palmer Camp Happy Because McAdoo Is Forced Into Lead WET CANDIDATES ARE FAR FROM CHEERFUL Hopes of Governor Cox for the Nomination Seem to Have Gone Glimmering RV JOHN M.I.W O'LOUGBXIM (Written Exclusively for Universal serv lee. ) SAN FRANCISCO, July 2. Two ballots for the Democratic nomination for the presidency were cast tonight hv the Democratic national convention conven-tion They produced these results: Candidate 1st ballot 2nd ballot I McAdoo 2S9 I Palmer 256 264 Cox 134 159 To a large extent the ballots taken were Indicative Vet they show to the practical politicians of the convention certain facts which enable them to forecast the moves thc must make. For example. SloAdOD, w b,o It was Intended to keep lq lh rf,-,r of tho ! irocession as was done with Harding, I in the Republican convention at t'hl-'c:vgo t'hl-'c:vgo was forced to take the bad Tlu-I Tlu-I has aroused intense satisfaction In the en nip of Palmer. The hitter has a I Comparatively larpc number of votes pledged to him. These will be transferred trans-ferred to his column on the first or second ballot tomorrow. U Governor Cox also Is In an envlaoJ position, according to his managers iinlv 169 voles were east for him on s. end ballot. That there is a much larger number ready to support him Is generally admitted So it la hoped to l get the benefit of a band wagon rush ; in his case. IN POOR vv AY Rut Cox's situation Is not as favorable favor-able as his managers would like. They realize hU candidacy Was dealt a body blow by the convention when It overwhelmingly over-whelmingly defeated the moist plank i offered by Boufke Cockran of Xew York The Cox managers learned some day ago thai the wet proposition was not sympathetically looked upon and ;thev therefore sought to put the governor gov-ernor In a position where he could attract at-tract dry support Unfortunately, Cox is s-o identified in the convention mind I With the anti-prohibltlon mov ement that he cannot hope to appeal to the dry forces The friends of Co regard his i chances as practically negligible They iare refusing to abandon their .andl-date, .andl-date, however, in spite of the blandishments blandish-ments of the McAdoo opposition. The I New York. Indiana, and Illinois leaders lead-ers had intended to concentrate upon Thomas Riley Marshall in order to de-Ifeat de-Ifeat the former secretary of the treasury. treas-ury. With bated breath they awaited 'the effect on the convention of the 'casting of 1 udtana's thirty votes for the vice president. There Was hardly a ripple of interest displayed either by the delegates or the spectators In the gallorlec II McAdoo is to be defeated It is certain some other candidate than the vice president must be agreed upon. Wllo is mi CANDIDATE Who that candidate will be none of the New York Illinois or Indiana i delegations know at this Jneture. Thcv !are frankly discouraged. As has been -it in d there was ro Interest in Mar- shalli nor was there any In Davis. Clark Owen, Smith or half a dozen others who were given complimentary votes. It Is this condition that makes the McAdoo crowd jubilant. They're slogan slo-gan is 'you cannot beat somebody i with nobody," and somebody has not appeared to beat somebody, it is the belief of the managers of the New Yorkers that all the dark horses have been eliminated and that the fight Is dlrectlv between their man and Palmer ami 'ox. So far as the former for-mer Is concerned, Dies declare Palmer Pal-mer has not the inherent strength to be a faetor and that with reference jto the Ohioan the overwhelming rejection re-jection of the wet plank disposes of j him. |