ALL RECORDS BROKEN

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11873, 5 July 1924, Page 5

ALL RECORDS BROKEN

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION SIXTY-ONE BALLOTS, AND STILu NO DECISION.. McADOO LEADING. Bv Telegraph Press Assn.—Coevrinht Australian and N.Z. Cable Issociation. (Received July 4, 9.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 3. The Democratic, Convention moved into its ninth day without a stirring event, unless McAdoo’s. loss of the 18 votes pf Arkansas upon the forty-third ballot can be considered as such. The forty-fifth ballot gave Mtptdoo 483 votes, Smith 319. and Davis 71Historians now recall that the Democrat is in 1860 took 57 ballots before choosing Mr Stephen Douglas as their Presidential nominee" - and pessimists ire now fully predicting that this convention may exceed the record of 1860, COMPROMISE CANDIDATE. , Telegram. (Received July 4, 9.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 3. Twenty more ballots to-day brought the Democrats little nearer agreement regarding the Presidential nominee. About the only change when they adjourned until to-night was a idea Of 1 voteis 'to Mc3360, and a movement to’awfds Ralston, of Indiana, who wm brought forward, as a compromise cam. didate _ - - The fifty-fourth ballot resulted! MrAdoo 427, Smith 320 J, Ralston 92Davis 62, Cox 54, RobinsoC ”487" OnV " derwood 40, Glass 24, Ritchie 17J. “TWO WALLS OF NOISE” RIVAL PARTISANS’ .CHEERS.. Australian and N.Z. Gable Association. (Received July 4, 10.5 p.m.) NEW'YORK, July 3. The convention resumed htdlotiiig amidst a feeling of expectation, but - notiling seemed destined to happen. The fifty-sixth baHot gave McAdoo 430 dotes, Smith 320, Ralston 97, and Davis 58J. * The premised compromise appeared not to Lave' materialised. ' ' Attempts ‘‘ to induce both McAdoo and’Smith to iele’tse (their pledged defcgties and permit them to' vote for a compromiea aspirant appeared still without result, “It was a,'little thing, however, tint shocked the assemblage. Approxi- . mately 15,000 persona broke into vast ebeeriflg,"ootartered- by imping, when Michigan at the fifty-seventh ballot threw 10 extra votes to Smith. Thu Smith partisans, chiefly New -orketw, tittered ift'’A vatt staccato: “We want Smith!” * "The "Tff&Xdob foJkrwers tried to raise an opposition cheer when Mississippi switched again from Ralstoft bo McAdoo. The gaHeriea then booed, and it sounded like two w&Bb Ot noise crashing together. " " ' TO END THE MONOTONY. The convention had now been •sitting’ - for 12 home. Tho • moty-fimt - hallos* ’ resulted: McAdoo 469,..5mith,»,.346,»• Cox 54, Underwood 42, Ralston 3’, Glass 25, Robinson 23, Owen 23, Ritchie 13, Saulsbury 6, Walsh 3, and Bryan 2. A gentleman from Ohio then rose, saying: “Let us discontinue the monotony of this endless balloting. ' We need not Vndy* sleep hut tinfe'tW conferences.” The convention thereupon adjourned. ... .. . - - ■ . - iy.rt • a* PRINCIPAL CANDIDATES, Mr William G. McAdoO. jg.t 800-hre ~ law Pf the late President Wilson, and , Was Secretary of the TrenßUry in tbs"’ Wikmfi Administration, Mr Albert Smith is Governor of the State of New York. Mr J. W. Davis was Solicitor-Gen - eral of the United States in 1913 d B, -and -Ambassador in London in 191821. - • ••' Senator Samuel M. Ralston was Go* vernor of Indiana in 1913-1?. . Mr .James B. Oox was Governor of Ohio for two terms, and unsuccessfully contested the Presidency against Mr Warren Harding four yearn ago. Senajoi Qscar_Underwood has been W member of Ooggreas since 1895, and H ' one of the feadew Of the Democratio Party. THE THIRD PARTY MAY NOMINATE LA FOLLEITE -Reuter’s Telanrasn.--- •' (Received July 4. 9.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 8. A message from Cleveland says that Senator R, M. Follertto has been formally asked to permit the use of has name as Presidential candidate by tho Committee of regressive Political Action, which has opened a convention. A favourable reply is expected by the leaaero.