HOPELESS OUTLOOK

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11876, 9 July 1924, Page 7

HOPELESS OUTLOOK

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION DELEGATES FREE TO VOTE, BUT RESULTS NO DIFFERENT. MoADOO RETAINS LEAD. Bv Telegraph.—Press Assn.*— Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received July 8, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 7. The other aspirants to the .Presidential nomination declined to accept Mr W. G. McAdoo’s counter-proposal for the gradual elimination or candidates, and the convention opened its twelfth day without apparently the slightest hope of reconciling the existing differences. Tho proposals of Mr Al. Smith and Mr McAdoo were then submitted to tlie convention, and each was promptly defeated. Balloting, with its futile and unvarying results, was then resumed. The weather again turned hot, with typical New York humidity, and Madison Square Garden was .nearly unbearable. The assemblage .was listless, and clearly showed signs of physical strain. Tho seventy-ninth ballot resulted: — McAdoo, 507; Smith, 366. GROUNDLESS HOPES.

When the eighty-second ballot showed McAdoo to have 413 votes and Smith 366, a Florida delegate reintroduced Mr Smith’s proposal that all delegates be released from all pledges and instructions, and, curiously, this was overwhelmingly adopted, but the hope that it would have an immediate effect upon the balloting was groundless. The eighty-third ballot resulted: McAdoo, 418; Smith, 368. The convention thereupon went into recess. SIX MORE BALLOTS.

Neuter’s Tfilesrram

(Received July 8, 7.25 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 7. The action of the Democratic Convention in releasing all delegatee from further obligation to any candidate for the Presidency failed to bring the immediate relief its sponsors hoped. After taking six ballots without result the convention adjourned till to-night. The eighty-third ballot resulted l : McAdoo 418, Smith 368, Glass 76, Davis 721, Underwood 48£, Robinson 274, Ralston 24, Owen 20, Ritchie 16J, Ferris 7J, Sautebury 6, Bryan of, Walsh 4, Wheeler 1, Roosevelt 11

SMITH JJEADIHC AFTER EIGHTY-SIX BALLOTS.

CONVENTION ADJOURNS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received July 8, 7.25 p.m.) NEIW YORK, July 7. After the recess a report was circulated that there would be a movement toward Senator Ralston as a compromise candidate, and a further weakening of Mr McAdoo’s position, with a possible strengthening of Mr Smith’s. The eighty-fourth ballot resulted: MoAd oo 388, Smith 365, Ralston 86, Glass 72, Davis 66, Underwood 40. The eighty-sixth ballot resulted: McAdbo 353, Smith 360, Ralston 92, Glass 72. . • This was the first tame Smith’s vote had exceeded MaAdoo’s, and the populace cheered loudly. The eighty-seventh ballot resulted: Smith 361. McAdoo 336, Ralston 93. A SOLUTION SUGGESTED. The New; Mexico delegation offered a resolution to be voted upon to-mor-row morning, namely, that in view of the fact that the representative candidates yesterday failed to solve the difficulties, a minatuxe convention, composed of one representative of each State delegation, meet in conference, and attempt to determine th Preside tied and Viloe-Ffosideintial candidates. The chairman, Senator Walsh, then asked the convention to adjonrn, as a mark of sympathy at the death of President CooKdge’a son, until to-mor-ttow morning. The convention did so. SENATOR la follette SUPPORT FROM SOCIALIHrS. Reuter’s Telegram. (Received July 8, 7.25 p.m’.)' NEW YORK, July 7. According to a telegram from CH eweland, the national convention of the Socialist Party of America enlisted under the Presidential banner of Senator La Follette. CALVIN_COOLIDCE PRESIDENT’S SON DEAD. FROM BLISTERED HEEL. Australian ana N.Z. Cable Association (Received July 8, 7:25 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 7. Calvin Coolidge, junior, the Presi. dent’s son, died to-day, aged 17 years. He received, a week ago, a small blister on his heel, while playing ten nis. Septic poisoning developed, and he quickly became dangerously ill. Physicians operated on Saturday, slitting his left leg to the bone and inserting drains to carry off the poisons. The hoy’s vitality sustained him through the day, but his inability to take nourishment for 60 hours induoed a succession of sinking spells, from which he was unable to rally.