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State Revenue From
Tags and Gasoline Is
A Bit Over 8 Million
Figures Exceed the Expectations Of
State Department?Officials
Are Well PUa~ed
Raleigh, July 10.?Winding up the,
distributing of 1924 air mobile li
censes Secretary W. N. Everett of'
the department ot statv rn.is that
the revenues from tags and gasoline
last year were within $">00 : ach j
other and the urand * *al reached
$8,077,000 in r tind rumV-.rs.
The figure- c\ d the gu t
anybody conn, .'id with V d* ; artmeet.
When it started v, k it -<_*
the state rcvenu- - fr ?tfc - "?un.
at $6,000,000. A ".! v rk
was seen that th - a re t o
low and then :1k <.]-.] n: v ised
its sights a half m higher. Later
It had ti _ : >" a ; :
then to $7,50. T .
guess any nsr*e. buttle machine. auld
the fuel ustd <i :h> ' t
million 5.
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NAMING OF DAVIS
I AND BRYAN AS A
BIG SPECTACLE
Way Democratic Ticket Was Chosen
After Ten Days of Bal:
loting Makes Narrative
Without Precedent.
STIRRING SCENES STAGED IN
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
Famous Political Observer Pithily
Outlines the Story of the Long Deadlock
Between McAdoo and Smith
and the Stampede When the Contenders
Released Their Delegate*.
Convention Serialized by Many
Events Unique in Annals of PolltUa.
THE TICKET
For P-esident
JOHN W. DAVIS
of West Virginia
For V;re President
, CHARLES W. BRYAN
o? Nerraika
By WRIGHT V PATTERSON
Cor.v : H i New York.? "Alaba::.
: ur vo*ce for
0- r \Y l'r -o-d." One banci
he ereat hall bad
runs : nt. Seventi-aevon
ti: 1:71 Sa : "day n.Kht. and it
p Monday miming. |
f r 'he e that hai been
: ri r.I r. S " y for ' purpose
c . sDrt ; 1 com pro'mise
between the contending candid..-3
had been unsui\i -f::?. and
ri Mi'ii to ho ti : pp for a
f 1 :it ' ;rtic uh.t - in which 1
the I'- . y of lie n.loa found
Itself.
at last, and
on riir one hundred and third ballot
John W. D&vIb West Virginia was
'named as th? standard bearer of the
r- "Ti no.;. ; .? . made
natnimons by acclamation His se
l? ? 1 'hi r r. .-ion of the
p lost linht in A" r:. n political
bial it 1 wed t?y the
1- W. Bryan of
K on the ticket.
. :.<! . hlstoi :1cin - gathering
tv ;.t n ? : n r bein^ in session
for 1?? (iavs.
T:.o con1 t in the r 'tj crallc I
c t-n-i I r k. alt roc> r-ls and all
\ ! '?!*- . Thy . r* ;-.; st number ( j
i'..;i<>l8 tl .it had v i been cast in a '
political convention before that I
the !) rnt.c r rty In 1S6<? at
Cli.i>.lest mi whin f?7 ballot < were
cast at that ?ity and the convention
w.is then ad... .irixd to Baltimore
w re :w?. nMhi ::al ballots were
taL -n resuhitts in the ::omin%?'oii of
Stephen A 1'otnaBte The recent ran
vent:i>1: s-\. a rec? rd that >s not
likely to be equaled at least not in
the present generation.
It broke all pt?-v i.t.ts in that the
campaigns cf the Lading candidates
were con?iti 'sd :?> principals r.nd not
by man a a rs Mr. McAdoo and Mr.
Smith ?t""o both ca the groan 1; they
were within one hundred feet of the
entrance to the convention hali find
within fifty feet of each oth*-? and
from these paiats of vantage they
directed tl: :r own campaigns, and
were their own political strategists.
Back of if all lay the ska lew of
the Klan The tignt over the Klan
plank in the platform had engendered
an intense feeling on the part of the
two contending fac'tons. the -tie led
by Go.. Smith and the inner by Mr.
McArfco When <>n Monday, ! 2o
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John W. Davis
ItI.o ur.-t ballot was taken it sr.ov.edj
Mr. McAdoo with the greater number |
of vou5, but with Gov. Smith con j
tr ".;nst directly or Indirectly, a' least
a i of Um delegates. Neither!
) of the two leaders coald be noivinated i
I unless the other gave way, or unb ss
| one conld break the seemingly soli :
phalanx - . the other. It wa-1 under
each nd ns tfca' both toos per
tonal C' -.lmand of their forces in
8t' of l aving the direct:, a of the
campaign in the baadh of their tn..n
ac- r
Contendere tor tfco Mawiimticn
As. i from tho two loaders there
w as st rioue acatonder for thnomination
Senator Ralston, oacited ]
by the soiid Indiana dul-vatinn.
S-natcr Glass, backed b;- Yitgtuin:
John W Davis, backed by W-.st Virginia.
Ex-Governor Cox. hacked b>
Oh' Senator Saulsbury. backed by'
th- six rotes of Delaware. Gove
Ritchie, hacked by Maryland Sen |
ator Cnd'T-vood. backed by Alabama 1
Other i: vcrite tons that ha t been ,
entered. in the big race dropped by 1
the wa; side, but those natnei tbo\.
tack "f'>r or* Hot after ballot, with j
their managers expecting thai sc;:it
rne of them would event u.!:> bi |
puked as* the compromise cn delate
They realised the intense feel:.-a that 1
j had arisen between the opposing
camps of the traders, and d-d norJ
| be!ie\e it good political strategy tc J
| side with either each one hoDinn
| that in tht* end 'heir candidate might;
draw from both side* wb?n th* break
came
Monday. Talj ?. *?as a *ay ot faiat
[ boprs At the close of the eighty
1 second ballot a resolution was adopt
ed releasing tin* delegates from an\
1 Instruct ions, and mat was expected
to l?riu^ about .. break. Tt d.d. bui
M did not result in a nomination. It
brought the McAdno vote tumbling
1 from "?li to 33:*. wa-jti the coDventioi
adjourned at night.
Tuesday afternoon McAdoo puffer
ed a serious decline, ais vote fallin;
to 310. Ralston and thee J W Dan- i
were tried successively. each nearl'
(
reaching the 200 mar!- Just before
balloting began in the evening Franklin
Roos' velt announced that If McAdoo
would withdiaw Smith would do
likewise .'.lately. The only effect
of ibis was to start another put-h
for McAdoo wlvch carried his vote
well over 41 ilulstca ordered Lis
, name dropped.
McAdsa Relr?ses Delepetss
Tiv or,. ...: persistently defeated
all motions to adjourn, and short
Iv before 3 o'clock Wednesday morn
ir..T there came a message from McAdno
saying that, though he was not
willing to abandon his friends by
withdrawing, be would now permit
th=m to vote as they saw ftL The
one hundredth ballot showed greet
decline in the McAdoo vote, but the
oinith legions, a trifle suspicious,
stood firm. At :tis point the dele |
gates consented to Adjourn, because '
t'r.ev saw Mr Bryan was about te address
them and they were -rxhaueted.
On the two succeeding ballots. Wed
nesday afternoon. both McAdoo and
Smith practically disappeared from
, the list, and Dana began gathering
votes in big blocks. The trend toj
ward him was so strong in the early
stages of th? one hundred and third ;
| ballot that everyone begin climbing
aboard, and before the call of the roll
could be co :plete1 he was declared
the nominee 01 the convention by acclamation.
The above paragraphs tell the news |
| of the great gathering of America's
; Democracy, but they do not tell the
story of the convention or paint u
picture of It. To accomplish either
purpose with a cohesive, chronological
! account is scarcely possible in the
comparatively limited apace that can
he given it. In preference to attempt .
ing such a thing I will attempt to give j
the reader an idea of what happens
when the JefTersoninns assemble, by ,
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1C TICKET
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Charles \V. Bryan _
d? - riptive r.i charact.
islic ftcidt ills.
W!.. t p c;r! fr.y at a convention !
is : :i ;' gotten, but what they do j
- American, and sometimes
w>-> \ !. that was true at;
this coiivtu on. Bat there was one j
;>i lea t. said by Senator Put;
ii..,.- i Mississippi, in his key i
note r ' h at the opening session:
on T-n .-day. that pr.nu i !;im a real
?: He said this Democratic con
vent. was t be a "hot. highly sea ;
sc d and peppery and it w as
al. ? : that, it was :!::?: not only in
the ? '.ivelli:?:. hull but also in the
]?..1:? of i.' my o: the hotels and la
?1; initio rooms, it v ..s that not.
alone ir. the i.ght for votes on the
1 art ..? t .e various candidates, a tonciitio::
dial continued down to the las;
b.lVt. ''.it the contest over the i-'atform
was "hot. highly seasoned and
peppery."
Keynotes Attuned to Party Solrit
It was very evident that the keynote
speaker was not impressed with
the Republicans and what they had
been doing during the past ihree
yeais. and lie did not hesitate to say
sc in plainly understandable terms.
In the main he centered on the vari
ous iuv stillations, and what he said
ware the results achieved. For those
given approval he claimed full credit
for the Don; cratic party and what he
in the Republican party. For the ma
jority element in the Republican party,
fee bad no sincle word of mmm^nda
tion. Hut no one was very much tur
prised at all t.i that, r.s no one had
expected him to commend the
enemy. That was not what he was
there to do. Even Congressman Theodore
Burton, the Reprtblican keynoter
a. Cleveland, who attended the Demo
cratic l.o-v as . truest^ did t seem
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to take any serious offense at what
v.as said about himself and his Re
publican colleagues.
For his keynoting efforts, for tell
tag the delegates and the world ol
the iniquities of the Republican
enemy. Senator Harrison received a
full meed of approval from the dele
gates and the audience, expressed
in a typical Democratic demonstra
tion.
It did not seem that Senator Har
rison had ovi rlookec! anything that
could be said in opposition to the
Republicans, but along came perma
ncnt chairman. Senator Walsh, on
Wednesday with a new list of charges,
or at least a new vocabulary. While
be spoke the sun streamed down upon
the glass rcof 01 the convention hal!
r?rs<1 turned it into a bake oven. "?ot
his denunciation of the political
enemy caused the delegates to forget,
for the time, their differences over
platform planks and fnvored candidates
They shed coats and. in many
ra^t % collars as well: they displayed
black and green and blue "galust s.'
and despite the h. :it enjoyed to the
full everything the leader of the oil
investigations gave them as first nana
iiifuriiuaiOu. Fin it ail liiey paid
him to the full in convention coin a
long, a loud, a terrific demonstration.
Troublesome Plat'orm Questions
Klan or anti-Klan. that was the big
and troublesome platform question.
The Tammany braves said anti Klan.
Mr. I'.renran nnd his. followers from
Chlcigu said antl-Klan, as did many
other, of the recognized state leaders
nnd individual delegates. These peopie
wanted a definite denunciation of
the Klan In the platform, and they
fcught for It. The subject was fought,
out in the Resolutions Committee during
long, hot hours of the (I.ys and
nights before it was presented to th
convention. Hut the quest in came
before the convention in an informal
way long before the Resolutions Commit!
was leady t?. rep rt. Fordn?:*
.'ohnso-n. of Alabama, expl 1 a real
bomb when, in making the first of
the nominating speeches, that for
Senator Underwood. he re:oi into the
sr-' d* the ar.ti Klan plank the sena
tor v.ishea written into the platform.
In tins the Ku KI ix Klan was openly
and emphatically denounced. it
st< i jo d the proceedings right there
for a full half hour. There came
a wild roar of approval, mi:; d with
n howl of derision. A Massachusetts
deb c.'tc grabbed the state standard
and started t >r the platform. Other
delegates with stale -tandards quickly
followed. A parade resulted in
which all cr a part of the deb gates,
carrying the state standards of ike
following siat participated: Massachusetts.
Maine. Pennsylvania, 111 iuois.
Alabama. New York. Mont a.a,
ind ana. Mir.nese'a. Wisconsin, New
.! . t-v. Ariz--:.a. Ohio. Michigan. New
M? \ico. Maryland. Ne. h Dakota, bis
trie: (if Columbia. N? vada. Rhode
Island, > . tlcut. Iowa. Vermont.
IForto Rico, Jiwsiscippi,/*Canal V. :se
and Hawaii. Ti. ... :d. nt prod u .-d
the lirst fistic < in >unt* r of the ecu
vent ion. When .in- ut' the Missonn
delegates : i:.'-' ! the : at standard
to iein tie parade other doi'-.itas
from the s'aft utu-::.;>?--d to si--:i him.
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Iraents It seemed there was to be a
bit of a riot. At the same time thing*
were happening over in the Colorado
I section where there was a radical
division of sentiment on the subject
of the Klan. In the melee that oc- _s
curred. and before the police could
stop it, the state standard was broken.
It was one of those interesting lncidents
that are characteristic of ailitant
Democracy.
Long Balloting Begins
With the long fight over ar.d the
platform finally adopted, the convention
was down to the place In the
program for which all had so patiently
waited. The chairman announced
the clerk would call the roll of states'
for the first ballot for a nomination' x
o. the parly's candidate for the presidency.
All realized that the first ballot
did not mean a great deal. Them
were compliment?.ry votes for favorite
sons, and who would s>oon drop
out of the race, though some ->f th- m
might get back into the race when
the leaders had exhausted their
strength and demonstrated that they
coulf not win.
It is impossible to cover the history
of the ballots as one foil wed
| puoiher. r^nij;i2tc; dropped by the
wayside, and new favorites arose, and
t hi v -in?turn -??*
on came ;he l03r.l ,n.: ;.w caj\ Tj
j * "? ,or ?'*' Protdcstlal
I tir.n :>:. :? remit. ia t)l :;i!m
i J'>! i \V. Davis as Ills standard hearer
of the party
There was no dearih ?f candidates
( >. r. .cmii place on the ticket oil tte
arst : dot Cam lea W. u-van : r
. f V.'iih.im Jennl::;s Br. r. ,
a tw...third's i.laj rity. and ei .
gathering of the 1) nvvcrals. ..ft, r t,e.
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