UNITED STATES
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. * BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT NEW YORK, July 7. Amid loud cheers Governor A. E. Smith (New York) headed Mr W. G. McAdoo in the Democratic Convention’s eighty-sixth, ballot for the selection of the party’s Presidential nominee, the voting being: Smith 360, McAdoo 353. The eighty-seventh ballot resulted: Governor A. E. Smith 361 Mr W. G. McAdoo 336 Senator S. M. Ralston .• 93 After this ballot the chairman (Senator Walsh) asked the convention to adjourn, as a- mark of sympathy at the death of President Coolidge’s son, until to-morrow morning, and this was done. The New Mexico delegation has offered the following resolution to be Voted upon to-morrow morning: “That in view of the fact that the representatives of the candidates yesterday failed to solve the difficulties, a miniature convention composed of one representative from each State delegation meet in conference and attempt to determine the Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates.”
A report was circulated that there would be a movement toward Senator Ralston as a compromise candidate, and a further ■weakening of support for Mr McAdoo and strengthening of support for Governor Smith.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 9 July 1924, Page 5
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