Show HOW DAVIS WAS NOMINATED special correspondence washington september 11 alth th 1924 in au an effort to quiet the dissatisfaction Gatis satisfaction faction that exists throughout the rank and file of lie he ic party with the nomination of 0 john W davis democratic editors have bayo been making the assertion that thai the new york convention was they assort assert that there were ballots taken and they argue ehat U it the the convent convention fon had been bossed it would not have taken that many votes to determine the result As a matter of fact the number of ballots taken is one evidence showing what extreme methods were necessary for the bosses to overcome tho the delegations instructed in favor of mcadoo smith ralston halston underwood glass and others so tar far as the rank aud and tile file of the democrats had au an opportunity to express themselves in the primaries mr mcadoo was the choice of 0 most of the members of the democratic party with smith ralston underwood and glass as lesser preference s s mr davis had no popular following except in hla his own state specific evidence of tho the manner in which the bosses controlled the new york convention is given in the new york times of july LO 10 the day following the nomination of IN mr I 1 r davis according to the leading account of the days proceedings as v written ritten by a staff correspondent for the times a democratic paper george E brennan of illinois leader of the smith forces had shown a tendency during tuesdays recess period to get up a boom tor for mr davis we are informed that lie he did not undertake to make any considerable headway with the boom for davis for fear of driving bac bach k to mr mcadoo some of the strength that had bad been drifting away from him then we have the further information mr brennan and a number of his advisors did not go to bed when nhen the convention adjourned yesterday morning most of the delegates worp worn out with tho the long sessions went to sleep the bosses did not although mr brennan and others othen ot of the ald 14 birog party chiefs thought mr davis would be tho host candidate the party could pick they were chary of 0 showing the convention that they were of that state of mind thus it is acknowledged that the bosses had the situation in hand but they were afraid to lot the delegates know hat they were pulling the wires vires that would eventually result in tho the nomination of davis the report to the times proceeds in that state of 0 affairs mr brennan made no attempt to bring the illinois delegation in line for davis or anybody but let those illinois delegates who followed his advice determine for themselves whom they wanted for the nominee and vote accordingly at least tor for a ballot or two that is to say in order to avoid showing the hand band of the boss mr brennan let the illinois delegation tool fool the rest of the convention by scattering their votes when hen the proper time came brennan and taggart and the tammany crowd switched their votes in such a way as to make it appear that the landslide for davis came from the outside delegations whereas the whole thing was manipulated by brennan and taggart As the times says in describing the con elusion of the movement it was thomas taggart of indiana who offered the motion that the nomination of mr davis be made by acclamation chairman kalsh walsh gave him the honor of making it but for the shrewd manipulation ot the th e patient but persevering bosses boshes from illinois indiana and new york mr davis would never have been the democratic nominee |