Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, July 9, 1920, Page 4

DEMOGRATS DEADLOCK ADJOURN TO MONDAY After 22 Fruitless Ballots Convention Takes Recess Over Sunday. San Francisco.—After 22 fruitless | ballots, the democratic national con vention gave up hopes of selecting a presidential nominee within the first week of its session and adjourned until 10 o'clock Monday morning. Repeated attempts to adjourn were defeated throughout the Sat urday night, but as midnight approach ed and it was about to become Sunday the tradition that a democratic na tional convention never Sunday, coupled with the fact that the convention was tired, worn and frazzl ed, had its effect and the final motion to adjouru was unopposed. Cox in Lead. convention stepped Cox McAdoo came early works On @ When the was leading with 430. 872% was down the next with Palmer to 166% The final ballots of night were full of McAdoo movement but it failed to make much headway SENATOR JOSEPH T. ROBINSON Who Was Permanent Chairman of the | Democratic National Convention. No dark horse appeared in the bal loting to carry off the the convention adjourned just as much honors, and in need of somebody to rally about as it was when it began the balloting The first votes to be cast for Wood: | two of them. expectations they did particular demonstration in the convention. | All through the first 15 ballots Gov ernor Cox made steady gains until he captured the lead from McAdoo, Davis Shows Strength. On the 16th ballot Cox lost slightly On this ballot John W. Davis, Ameri can ambassador to Great Britain whose votes from West Virginia had been standing steady al! day Saturday suddenly loomed up with new strength, which he drew from all the others. He | figured in the center of the dark horse talk. After 16 futile bullots at the after. | noon session Saturday, found itself in a practical deadlock and after having been in session eight con tinuous hours, during which it dis-| posed of ballots at the rate of 30 min- | utes each, recessed for rest and con ference. Cox People Protest Recess. row Wilson came from Missouri, Contrary to” not cause any Recess was taken under protest of the Cox people, who were trying to] avoid it. The Palmer people and the McAdoo people welcomed it, for it gave them opportunity to confer and strengthen their lines. After the 18th ballot, when no result had been attained, the convention evi dently decided it wanted a little relaxa tion, for a demonstration started by the Cox people soon became body's demonstration in which a lat every of state standards mixed indiscrimin ately and the usual number of scrim mages took place, without many of the scrimmagers knowing what they were scrimmaging about. The convention perfected its organ ization by accepting Senator Joseph T Robinson of Arkansas as its perma- nent chairmap,* ~\. 408 o.«+* Fourteen Candidates Nominated. The fourteen candidates placed in nomination were Senator Owen of Ok lahoma, Attorney-General! Palmer, Sen ator Hitchcock of Nebraska, Homer Cummings, chairman of the democratic national committee; William G. Mc Adoo, Governor Smith of New York Governor Edwards of New Jersey, Secretary Meredith, Governor Cox of Ohio, James W. Gerard, ex-ambassa dor to Germany; Senator Simmons of North Carolina, John W. Davis, am- | bassador to Great Britain; Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, and Francis Burton Harrison, governor general of the Philippines. et he | Uhat a corpse be put out of sight.” | | which got the convention to its feet, | that she the couvention | 3 ae The big demonstrations ca the presentation cf Palmer, McAdco, although there a@ spon tancous outbur: vith the presentation of Governor Smith No Speecn for McAdco. Dr. Burris Jenkins of Kaneas City who placed the of the was Kodaks at all prices from $8.00 up. If it isn’t an Eatsman it isn’t a kodak. —Also— ex secretary treasury in nomination, made one of FILMS the shortest speeches on record when >DAPE he merely announced that he placed PAPER Mr. McAdoo in nomination, fully as-| POST CARDS sured that if “drafted for the service TANKS of the nation” he would not refuse the and all accessories. Kodak as you go along COTTONWOOD PHARMACY T. F. Schaecher, Prop. nomination Perhaps the most exciting scenes of | the convention occurred when Senator chairman of the resolutions presented the platform and Glass, committee, the battle of the wets and drys got un- der way. After the platform had been read without making mention of a prohibition plank, W. J. Bryan was} recognized to offer a bone-dry plank, as a minority report W. Bourke Cochran of New York | offered a plank permitting for consumption the manufacture of cider, ION OF SENSE AND CENTS Buy Your Wood Supply NOW Slab Wood, Body Wood, Limb Wood, any length THE WOOD EXCHANGE, REUBENS, IDAHO light wines and beer E. L. Doheny of California presented a minority report on the Trish question, a plank providing for the Irish republic. proposing recognition of the Bryan Lambasts Liquor. Bryan, showing the oldtime fire of | Peder moe detetedeetoetete te teateeteatentententeatentententontentonte sfonde stendecdecfececfecfectectoateetoetoedectentoatontoete his oratory, lambasted the liquor in-) — terests in his regular fashion. Beginning with an argument in sup nendment, Mr convention to port of the eighteenth a Bryan got the soon heering Every democratic state, he said, had ratified recognized that the dead, never t “The question is whether we shall recognize the amendment and every one “liquor traffic is be resurrected.” only he contin the Decency requires it as dead,” ued, “or allow it to lie out on ground uncovered As he worked into his speech the Nebraskan mixed many Biblical refer ences with lis rounded rhetorical per jods, His full voice filled the hall, and he got the galleries and some of the delegates going into longer and longer bursts of applause as he went on, Minnesota Woman Speaks. Mrs. Peter Olesen of Minnesota was called by Mr She hame of the Bryan in support of his | spoke in the | motherhood of America | in supporting the dry declaration. program said she In a dramatic emotional appeal | Mrs. Olesen asked that God should help her in the fight she was making | for it was for the sake of her child was fighting. | if Select your tires ac- cording to the roads they have to travel: ¢ In sandy or hilly coun- try, wherever the going WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN Whose Platform Amendments Were together, given | Rejected at San Francisco. ! is apt to be heavy—The 3. 4 U.S. Nobby. interests, “Let it never be said,” she cried, | pela ie we Che, prejudices. “that the Democratic party thinks or Usco, more of its appetites than of the chil- | For front wheele— dren of the land. God speed the right.” | The U. S. Plain, For best resulte— arising to reply, said | a U. S everywhere—U. S, a peculiar thing in history that | has been people who were good, by ill-digested efforts to coerce people in their daily live Mr. Cockran it is most of what is bad con- | ceived by talk things over. v// 4 “IT am opposed to the word prohibl | tion, | abhor it. It is the word you will find chalked up in all the peniten tiaries If it is necessary to have pro- | hibition and to force the people to do what they do not want to do, then I Say they are tire business, not fit for self govern- ment and are ready for submission to a monarchy All Amendments Fall. Secretary Colby and Senator Glass \ defended the platform as framed by the resolutions committee. " In quick and successive votes the | convention voted down by heavy ma | jorities all attempts to amend the re- port of the platform committee and threw out all substitute proposals, in cluding the bone dry plank by Willlam J. Bryan and the wet plank offered by W. 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