U.S. POLITICS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 4 July 1924, Page 5

U.S. POLITICS

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. A FEARFUL TUMULT. BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT NEW YORK, July 2. Ostensibly the Convention’s eighth day opened with the alignment of forces unvaried, but it. appears Mr MeAdoo’s whips had canvassed delegations after yesterday’s adjournment, and, upon the thirty-third ballot, Mississippi and Oklahoma, whose forty votes yesterday had left Mr MeAdoo, returned to him to-day, the ballot standing: MeAdoo 445," Smith 311, Davis 107. Some little flurry occurred at the thirty-seventh ballot, when New York, which hitherto had been casting its ninety votes solidly for Governor Smith, announced that turn delegates ■desired to vote for Mr McAdoo. The thirty-eighth ballot was interrupted by William J. Bryan making a half-hour perfervid speech, which ended with an appeal on behalf of Mr McAdoo. The galleries shouted “oil,” and Mr Bryan blindly attempted to explain Mr McAdoo’s connection with Mr Doherty. It was a monumental blunder,; leaving the McAdoo party mortified, and occasioning the Smith cohorts undisguised joy; for strenuously had the MeAdoo leaders continued to keep the oil business undiscussed. The assemblage thereupon indulged in fearful tumult, but Mr Bryan stubbornly continued to talk, and when he finished the thirty-eighth ballot was resumed, showing McAdoo 444, Smith 321, Davis 105. The Convention then went into recess. It is recalled that the Democrats in 1912 ballotted forty-six times before the choice named "Wilson.