GOX NOMINATED ON 44TH BALLOT Ohio Governor Wins Fight for ~~ the Presidency FIGHT NARROWS TO TWO Delegates Voted Down Motion To Ad- Journ And Forced Continuance Of Balloting Until Well into The Morning. Auditorium, San Francisco.—Gov, James M. Cox, of Ohio, was inated for President by the cratic National Convention forty-fourth ballot. The victory for Governor Cox came nom- Demo on "the at 1.40 o'clock A. M., after con- vention had been in session since 5.30 o'clock Monday morning, the exception of three hours, and had taken altogether. Withdrawal race by At} torney-General Palmer after the thir ty-eighth ex-Secretary McAdoo was holding the lead, opened | the way for the Cox The | organization behind the Gov- | ernor got busy at once jumped into the lead, 500 mark the forty-second ballot and getting a clear majority of delegates on the forty-third ballot. "| The McAdoo people evidently saw | what was coming, for they tried to force an adjournment just before the forty-second ballot, but the Cox ple fought this propositi hard voted it down. They r motion after the forty-third but it was drowned out by a ch of “Noes.” Cox Gains From The Start urth roll call the with and a half 59 $ 22 ballots from the v t ballot, when victory Ohio } he soon and crossing the | on the pep on and enewed the | ballot, ITUs On gained pleked Arkansas him. Then he picked up anothe California and cticy rew (Cox the forty-fo aii Alabama and up ir more two when went solid two more in De ¥ fell laware Palmer Stepped Aside After 38th Ballot, Francisco .~ 45 o'clo San torney-General Palmer at 5: PM ballot the Democ free to nominate a Presi The cl ballot, break came, Cox gained KS, 341%, Davis in retained 74 of his The Cox, 468 1% Carlin The M. after recess Two b and ond had that rele were: totals were Davis, Announces Withdrawal. at Yt ita RIOR reassembled i ¢ Pal- were taken mers vote pparent Mr. took the upon od noun Attorney-General race. Chairman Robinson, Mr, Carlin, told the nificantly that he man had make which je was confident the con to hear. of “Hurrah broke and a recess, convention sig enting a | nouncement to It Was pre an an want roar lines on went into The denouncement, coming at of | thirty-eight hardfought and fruitless | would was a as the vention There Palmer” convents for | 3 t fie : the end ballots, down Word From M'Adoo Asked. During the recess there was ciren- lated about the floor copies of a tele- gram from Judge Moore, Cox's man- ager, to Daniel C. Roper, of New York, accredited with being one of the McAdoo managers, charging that “a crowd of Government employes and ‘Treasury officials are for their own personal ends and in defiance of Mr. McAdoo's expressed wishes, im- properly using his name to create a deddlock in this convention.” Charging that several delegations were packed with Government em- ployes, holding out for the nomina- tion of Mr. McAdoo, Moore's tele. gram charged that “the action of the payroll brigade is creating a national reanmidal to the ruin of the Democratic Farty.” “They know there ig no chance to nominate him.” the telegram con- tinued, “but hope to bring about a situation where they can deal off the delegates to some candidate where their jobs will be protected.” Judge Moore expressed the opin- fon that Mr. McAdoo would not be a party to such a deal gnd urged that in his own and his party's interest he wire the convention forbidding the use of his name. Like Country Fair. While the caucusing was zoing on the floor of the convention hail took on the aspect of a country fair ground with a lot of electioneering going on, Here and there was a speaker on a chalr making a stump speech for his favorite candidate with an admiring crowd about him. One speaker would try to draw the other fellows forward the manner of a on a midway, Some of the delegates called for order and a start of the bal loting. , Some after ballyhoo man of the McAdoo leaders ad mitted that Cox might get a majority, but argued that would not help him ag they would not weaken and would on his getting the two-thirds by his own efforts without their help. At 10.12 o'clock Chairman Robin son decided the convention ought to go back to work. It went into the thirty-ninth ballot with a new en- thusiasm. fresh start : and vexa insist necessary and It was like a home after a long at the roadside. The 39th Ballot, The shifts and changes of the important, Alabama, firs box, to Palmer's rizona MeAdoo. her two for Pal and Me toward tious delay were 16 out of the broke Davis, taking all if MeAdoo's of it. and divided hetween Arkansas equally Cox Georgia's 28 went solid for Mc Adoo, demonstrators got a f i. tha and great as forecast, Illinois gave her Pal McAdoo. Indiana took 18 fr threw them to Cox mer A vote for Colby appeared ‘ox sachusetts rade. in motion and it a deafenin The droning air <oated Cox band file a band and organ opened up in concerning '‘Ohio.” spreading 1 of the hot tha 13m hares the unhappy FOURTH BALLOT, {24 13 ALABAMA Cox ARIZONA (6 vw Adoo, ARKANSAS ( CALIFORNIA 13 COLORAI Totes) Mo Adoo, 8 LOX CONNECTICU” tes) —MecAdoo, 1 1 McAdoo, 3; {ox LOX, McAdoo, Davis, 1; IDAHO (8 » ILLINOIS (58 Adoo, 13; Cox INDIANA IOWA KANSAS (20 KENTUCKY LOUISIANA (20 MAINE (12 votes) »» absent, 2 MARYLAND (186 Passed MASSACHUSETTS (38 votes) } 1 by, 1; 5 £8) voles) Cox, 30, ox, 26 McAdoo {'ox, 26 (98 votes) voles) 20 {28 votes) %0 { 0x. McAdoo votes) Lox, 6; v voles) {'ol- Cox, 35 MARYLAND (16 Davis, 2% MICHIGAN (30 MINNESOTA (24 LOX, XB: voleg) Cox, 131%; voles) Passed, vols) absent, 1. MISSISSIPPI (20 MISSOURI (36 votes) Adoo, 17; absent, 1 MONTANA (8 ‘ox, 8 NEVADA NEW HAMPSHIRE 2: McAdoo, 6 NEW JERSEY NEW MEXICO Cox, 20, 18; Me voles) LOX, voles) McAdoo, 2; {ox. & (8 {6 votes) votes) (28 (8 votes) Cox: 28 voles) NEW YORK 20: Cox, 30 NORTH 24 NORTH DAKOTA (10 votes) McAdoo, 4; Owen, 4. OHIO (48 votes)—Cox, 48, OKLAHOMA votes) Owen, OREGON (10 votes)-—-McAdoo, 10. PENNSYLVANIA (76 votes)—Pal mer, 1; Davis, 2; McAdoo, 4; Cox, 68; absent, 1 RHODE ISLAND (10 votes)—Cox, 9; MecAdoo, 1. SOUTH CAROLINA (18 votes)-—Me- Adoo, 18 SOUTH DAKOTA (10 votes} Owen, McAdoo, 3; Cox, 5; absent, 1. TENNESSEE (24 votes)—Davlis, 24. TEXAS (40 votes)-—~MeAdoo, 40, UTAH (8 votes) Cox, 1; McAdoo, 7 VERMONT (8 votes)--Cox, 8 VIRGINIA (24 votes) --MeAdoo, 2%; Davis, %: Glass, 14; Cox, 18%; ab sent, 1. WASHINGTON (14 votes) — Davis, 1: Cox, 13. WEST Davis, 16. WASHINGTON (26 votes)--McAdoo, 3; Cox. 23 WYOMING (68 votes)-—McAdoo, 3; Cox, 3. ALASKA (8 votes)-—CoX, 6, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (8 voles) ~=Cox, 6. HAWAII (6 votes)--Cox, 8, PHILIPPINES (6 votes)-~MeAdoo, 2; Cox, 4. PORTO RICO (8 votes)--MeAdoo, 1; Cox, b. CANAL ZONE (2 yoten)~-McAdoo, 2. (90 votes)--McAdoo, CAROLINA (24 voles (20 20 VIRGINIA (18 votes) — , -. THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL, PA. NOMINATED BY DEMOCRATS FOR PRESIDENT. 3 FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, COV. JAMES M, COX, OF OHIO. OF NEW YORK. TOTALS OF ALL BALLOTS CAST. 3 00 we 2 ) * 3 = PRE gd = *a D OF wh pe WF Sk hk Bk Ee GE in de Bs de - * od ed - or o & OR EI BD ed Wh ek BD ee BD ue NW 8 W od ol a tk =) o> BB Bt ode de dB Ba po - - &6 BS 4 % i% % a by 5 CR 3 8 > tr @ ® FARM, 1912 his first tion as a Democrat having been ha by Republicans as an “accident.” 1915 was defeated for reelection by Frank B. Willis, Republican 1817, however, Cox came back and won the election over Wil y the latter year he as Governor. his el« bogar COX WAS BORN ON ——— term Middleton of Cox hi was three honor joan, an he siron reporter, to a Congress and proprietor | of Con. three times his year term owner, manager y . Cox had barely assumed the duties of Governor in 1913 w! the great floods of that spring inundated Day and Scioto. newspapers, member three en yoars and of his State is record to date Business success paralleled his po and through his | efforts Cox hag amassed a for | Mr. Cox became the leader of the Democratic party in Ohio in 1012 when he was nominated for Governor, | CiDlinarian, hardest worker, most Ags one who had brought radical | hopeful prophet, sanest counselor, changes in the State Constitution, | kindest philanthropist and most ac he took the field (n its behalf. His|Curate reporter,” according to a con- first term as Governor was devoted temporary editorial writer, chiefly to forwarding the enactment | of laws to put the new State Const! | affairs in Ohio was his action in re tution into effect. | moving the Mayor of Canton, a Dem. But Ohio was evidently not pre. | ocrat, and his substitution for him pared to assimilate all the new laws! of a Republican Mayor. for Cox was defeated for re-election But his party renominated him in 1916 and he was reelected for a third | term in 1911, being the only Demo | | wag ‘“‘chief magistrate, commander in-chief, head of the lifesaving serv. ice, provider of food and clothing, principal ,health officer, severest dis litical achievements fune Indicative of Cox's management of There was a strike of mill workers at Canton. Operators attempted to resume work in the face.of the strike and considerable disorder followed. ~ The Governor issued a proclamation Mr. Cox was born in | calling on local officials in all i the county, Chilo, in 1870. He attended | ? . i iti n district school and held his frat pot See and counties to do their full | duty to preserve order and prevent sion a & Xeacher % Jue geno) hi | outbreaks. He told them violations : gon. o spent evenings and holidays in al the law on the part of either the gtrikers or mill owners would not he printing office. In a few years he re. tolerated, and announced he would ceived Lis first assignment on the reporttorial staff of the Clnginnatt | 10M the local officials to strict ac. Enquirer. countability. Jn 1868 Cox hought the "Dayton Disorder continued at Canton, City News. In 1903 he bought the Spring | officials, citizens and mill owners field Press-Republican, forming lator | faked the Governbr to send in State the Springfield News. These two pa. | troops. Cox replied by removing the pers now constitute the News League | Mayor and ordering the mobilization of Ohio, of which Cox is owner and | of the National Guard to support the editorial director, (new Mayor, but refusing to send the Peace was ro crat to win in Ohio. Butler | © Cox represented the Third Ohio |iroopers to Cgaton, district in Congress from 1900 to stored, ~ t 4 3 { F. 0. RGOSEVELT over for Vice President HE WAS McAGOO BACKER diziriet Dutchess effort ser, of Beacon, wh election. Rod i ng ID A ma Demecrat ny nto the Governaos Hyd« K%2. the son of Jan § Was born in v Delano Roosevell He ve of Col. Theodore Hox tither's pide & and of ne (: rotor from Harvard in 1904 and Nomination By Cox Leader And Seconds Came From All Parts Of Hall : re Rando] knov Homer | Na appointed | tify | rman *mocratic Was Mr. Roosevelt ; After ite t 3 tuon selon of 44 reassembled | at There was at first a delay utilized by ‘the Cox ernor Presid ballo monagers Gov- who let It willing to managed the Governor's known that Cox wa leave the selection o running onvention With and Roosevelt's nom mate to the ¢ that orees easily quickly applauded an appreciation chief, Secretary Jdse ination his phus Daniels, Cummings Is Satisfied. Chairman Homer 8 Cummings, of | the Democratic National Committee, said: “The convention reached its result in a truly democratic manner. The | forces, purposes and opinions repre. sented by the delegations had full play and reached an uncontrolled re sult. It was a Jong, hard contest, | but it Jeaves no scars and the candi dates will have the united support of the party. “San Francisco redeemed every promise that was made in her behalf and, in many respects, far exceeded our expectations. There were some who doubted the wisdom of holding a national convention on the Pacific Coast. Actual experience, however, has removed all doubt.” FRANKLIN D, ROOSEVELT. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.~~The littie vil. tage of Hyde Park, birthplace and sum. | mer residence of Franklin D. Roose | velt. Assistant Secretary of the Navy | and Democratic candidate for the Vice. Presidency, received quietly but with elution the news that its favorite polit. | jeal son had been named as running male to-Gov. James M. Cox. Mr. Rocszovelt first sprang inte po tien) prominence in 1510 when he was | drafted by the Democrats of the Twen. yeelghth New York State reastoriall : Davis Cables Congratulations. London John W. he nomi Ohio, t Ambassador Davis, when informed of ¢ Cox, National tion of James M of he Democratic Convent at San mMesgage wt ar hearty congratulations upon jon You can will 0 a welldesarved and Wilson Sends Congratulations. Col Yrs ates od Longratuiat imbus, Ohio ne? President "Wi Cox upon his n message from the W ceived at the Governor's this morning home at Di from were Governor tion The House rec fice in C by of. and Dayton lumbus transmitted to his “Please accept my hearty congrat ions and co best wishes “WOODROW WILSON." ulat rd AN ODD MISFORTUNE. Lightning Hits Miner Half-Mile Under Ground. Clearfield, Pa-—A miner half a mile under ground was badly injured by a bnit of lightning recently. Ah par Whitsell, the miner, was leaning on his shovel, which was resting on an iron rail. A bolt of lightning fol lowed the rail into the mine, shat tered the shovel, and threw the mines to the. ground. Rendered uncop scious, Whitsell was badly cut, KING CONDOLES MRS. GORGAS, George V. Lauds Public Services Of Former U. 8. Surgeon-General, London.——Mre, Gorgas, widow of Maj. Gen." William ©. Gorgas. for mer Surgeon-General of the United States Army, received condolencus from King George. The King laudes General Forgas’ public services Newton D, Baker, United States Seo retary of War, on behalf of the American Government, the Cuban, Peruvian and Eouadorian Govern. ments and many persons prominent in the oficial and professionsd world, sent expressions of sympathy ta Mra Gnreas.
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