U.S. POLITICS

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

U.S. POLITICS

THE, DEMOCRATS. ENDLESS BALLOTING. 81 CABLE—PEESS. ASSOCIATION —COPYEIGHT NEW YORK, July 3. “Let us discontinue the monotony of this endless balloting. We need not only sleep, but time for conferences,’ said a gentleman from Ohio when the Democratic Convention, after 61 ballots, had failed to make a selection of a Presidential candidate. ' The sixty-first ballot resulted: Mr. W. G. McAdoo 469 Governor A. E. Smith 345 Mr. James M. Cox, .• 54 .Senator O. W. Underwood 42 Senator S. MV Ralston ■ 37 Sehator Carter Glass - 25 Senator J. T.’ Robinson 23 Senator Owen 23 Senator Ritchie 16 Senator Saulsbury 6 Senator Walsh 3 Governor C. W. Bryan 2 Historians recall that the Democratic Convention of 1860 took 57 ballots before choosing Stephen Douglas as the Presidential nominee. That record has now been broken. At one stage Mj\ McAdoo commenced (o lose to Senator Ralston', and a cheer arose from the opposition when Mississippi switched back to McAdoo. The galleries then “booed,” and it sounded like two walls of noise crashing together. The convention has adjourned. NEW YORK, July 3. A Cleveland message isays that Senator Robert M. La Follette has been formally asked to permit the use of his name as the Presidential candidate by a committee standing for progressive political action, which has opened a convention. A favourable reply is exj pected by the leaders.

HOPELESS DEADLOCK. Received July 5, 9.55 a.m. NEW YORK, July 3. The Democratic Convention adjourned till Friday afternoon after the sixtyfirst ballot, when Mr. McAdoo stood at 469 J, Mr. Smith at 335 J, Mr. Dawes at 60, and Mr. Ralston 375. NEW YORK, July 4. After a seething session, which swung a handful of the State back and forth among the leaders, the situation appeared to have reached a hopeless deadlock. Party chiefs were consulting as to the methods of amending the rules in order to permit of a choice of a plan. It was proposed that both Mr. McAdoo and Mr. Smith he called upon to withdraw and permit their to go to compromise candidates. This was pronounced absurd and impossible by the managers of the respective \parties. It- was suggested that a. rule be adopted to eliminate the lowest man in each ballot automatically until three remained, and a formal resolution to this effect is expected to be moved to-day, Mr. Smith’s leaders asserted that they would hold their forces in position until Mr. McAdoo’s vote was reduced to less than one-third of the delegates present, which constitutes the power of veto.—Reuter.