lAVIS AND BRYAN ' Ticket Selected by National j Convention at New York. IV/' - ? : ? RESULT QF 103 BALLOTS I* , 7 Most Retpar liable Political . Gathering in History of /tho Nation ? Contest Contin: ued Through Sixteen Day* and Nights. ?; ' 0??, . ? ' ' ? , , THE TICKET FOR PRESIDENT ,1 John W.Daris.of We?t Virginia FOR VICE PRE8ID*NT " Cha*. W. Bryan, of Nebraska By WRIGHT A. PATTERSON Convention Hall, New York. ? "Ala bamft pasts t-w-e-n-t-y--f-o-u-r votes 4'. v for Plica r W. U-n-d-e-r-w-o-,o-d 1" For ope hundred and three times the great hall' had rung with that about. ?ev enty-seven times 'lip to Saturday night, and.it started again on Monday morn ing, for the committee that, had been named oQ Saturday for the purpose of ; effecting some , sort of a compromise ? ?-'-?--'eeri. tlje contending candidates b??en unsuccessful, and there seemed: to be no .hope for a solution ' of the difficulties in -which the Dfsmoc-x racy of the ijiltlon found Itself. But tjie^reak came #t ,1a sf, and on \ the one' hundred and third ballot John W. Davis of West VirglWa was named 1 Ija'the standard-bearer of the party. Bis selection marked the conclusion ? V: of thy greatest tight In American polit ical history. It was followed by- the ?flection of Gov. Charles W. Bryan, of ? Nebraska, for" sccond place' on the ticket, and the history-making gather ing was at an end, after belhg In ses sion tor 10 days. Monday, July T, wns a day of false At the close of the eighty* 1 aecond bullot absolution was adopt ed releasing the delegates from any instructions, and . that \vas expected to bring about a'preak. It did, but It did not result in a nomination. ,tt brpught the McAdoo vote tumbling. ' from 1511 to 388 when the convention adjourned nt night. . 1 H?*?,' Tuesday ? brought no ray of hope. In the - uf ternoon Governor. Smith and Mr. McAdoo got together,' but Mr. McAdoo refused at that time to re lease his delegates, and , Governor Smith would not withdraw 4o long as ' Mr. McAdoo remained In the race. The fruitless balloting continued through the day session, and up to the nlnety ' ninth, completed at 2:15 Wednesday morning. At that time Mr. McAdoo reienae^hls delegates, and on the one hundredth ballot his vote dropped to ? lea AftMffiiit ballot the convention adjourned 'until noon, on Wednesday In an effort to get together on some dark horse. <> The one hundred pnd first, and the one hundred and second- ballots -.did ? not indicate anything more than the elimination of both Smith and McAdoo from the race., Alabama, leading the fdll call of states, continued to cast Its 24 votes for Underwood, but there was a drift In both ballots to Davis. ; ? At, the one hundred' and third bnllot Alabama again started '.off with ,"24 . totes for Underwood," but'lt wins soon demonstrated that , Davis, was . going ' strong. Before the ballot wns com ' jfjeted he had* more than a mnj^rjty, end then the delegations began Chain ing their vdtA ia\order tto get Into the band wagon. Before thft result ??- ?#' the' ballot was announced'lt was ' * 'ino'V^d to nvfte the nomination, by ac ^y -'"?iainiition, and It went through; w(th a. whoop, to be followed hy a demonjttrn tion lasting several nrtnutes. The night session of Wednesday, fallowing the nomlnatjori of a condl date for "the Presidency, was In the , nature of a Democratic lovefeast. It | V>f tM,. addressed by Governor Smith,* Governor Cox, ttie- Democratic nomi nee, MK Davis, and several others. At*| .midnight the convention recessed for one .hour, at the end of the recess one , ballot was taken for the vice presi dential nomination, - and the conven tion adjourtied ' shortly before three ?'clock Thursday -morning. The contest In thp Democratic con . ventlon broke all records and all pre * cedents. The greatest numher of hal ?. lots that had ever, been cast In n po- ] i* , llttcal. convention before was that of the Democratic party in 1800 at Charleston, when 57 ballots were cast In ihat city, and the convention was. then .adjourned to Baltimore where f- *" two additional ballots were taken, re > < sultlhR \n the. nomination of Stephen y A. Douglas. The recent convention 1 sets a re<^rd thnt Is not likely to he equaled, at least not In the present generation. " f It broke all precedents In that the campaign of the leading candidates were conducted by principals and hot hy manager^ Mr. McAdoo and Mr. Smith were both on the ground; they were within 100 feet of the entrance to the convention hall, and within fiO i feet of each other, and from these, points of vantage they directed their own campaigns and were their own political Htutegists. Back of It all, lay the sMIdow of , the Klan. The fight over the Klan plank In the platform hnd engendered i an Intense feeling on the port of the two contending factions, the one let' " fcy Governor gmlth and the other hv Mr. McAdoo. When on Monday. Jnnr M, Ike first ballet was taken. It CAar/ps> U/3/yar^ ? dii showed Mr. McAdoo with tlie greater number of votea, but with Governor Smith controlling directly or Indirect ly at least a good third of the dete gatea. Neither of the two leaders could be nominated unless the other gave way, or unless one could break the aeemingly solid phalanxes of the other. 'It was under such conditions that both took personal command of their forces instead of leaving the di rection of tlie-cfmpalgn In the hands of their managers. Other* in Limelight Aside from 'the two leaders, there were, as serious contenders for the nomination. Senator Ratston, backed by .the solid Indiana delegation; Sen ator Glass, backed by Virginia; John Wi Davie, backed by( West Virginia1; Ex-Governor Cox, backed by Ohio; Senator Salisbury, backed by vthe six votesL of 'Delaware ; Governor Ritchie, backed by Maryland; $en*tor Underv wood, backed by Alabama. Other favorite sobs that had been entered In the big race dropped by th\ way side, but those named above stuck for ballot'after ballot, with tbelr managers expecting that some one of them would eventually be picked as the compro mise candldte. They realized the In tense feeling that had arisen between the opposing camps of the , leaders, and did not believe It good political strategy to side 'with either, each one hoping that . In the end fheir candi date might draw from both sides when the break came. On the pbty of. the two leaders ev ery plan known In political campalgrt? lng was used to Influence, delegates.* There was ail abundance of the usual demonstrations, long and noisy. 'There were dire threats and earnest plead-* Ings to kttract support. Those dele gations that Were not directly In structed, or not definitely committed tr the olh ?*' of the leaders. Thl^ was especial ly true as It applied to Mr. McAdoo, and because of this his vote fluctuated from a little over 400 to as high as 530. GoV.ern rft Smith's vote remained more nearly stationary at between 315 and 868, but that and others, that would . go to him on a " break, was enough to prevent a nomlnutlon .of any other candidate. , , On - Wednesday afternoon Mr. Bryan, asking for consent to explain his vote as a member of the Florida delegation, attempted to stampede the convention for McAdoo, but It did not Succeed, and the monotonous round of ballots continued without material change. On Friday afternoon, after H6 ballots had been taken, an effort was made to suspend the rules and ^permit the leading candidates to ap I peaf 'In person before the convention. It^was opposed- largely by the McAdoo delegates and failed of "the needed two-thirds vote. Then Franklin D. Roosevelt astfed that the convention extend an Invitation to the Democrat ic governor of New York to address the delegates. Again It meant a mis pension of the rules, and while the ,move was cleverly made, and re fusal would put the ponventlon In the position of being discourteous to Its Democratic ? host, ? U^_joo, was voted dpwn. Without queh an Invention no candidate could get a personal hear ing. Friday evening Mr. McAdoo sent a letter to the convention asking that the delegates give unanimous consent for Governor^ Smith to address them. Several objections were made, and the consent was not given. Again a clev er political move had fnlled. ? Outside of the convention hall the leaders of the. party, fhose not Im mediately connected with the candi dacy o( the two leading candidates*, were making Istrcnuous efforts to lirenk ^the deadlock and patch up the differences the flglit had aroused, j They pleaded, they commanded, they tried to' get the other candidates to withdraw that the leaders might soon determine Just where they stood In n flnal analysis, hut without success. And then on Friday afternoon Sen ator Ralston' wired ji withdrawal of his nnme. and his delegation spHt 20 for McAdoo anil 10 for Cox. A little later Vx -Governor Cox' did the same thing.* and the Ohio delegation switched over to ex-Secretary Riiker. A solution had not been found. On Saturday the Ohio defecation dropped Raker and split between va rious candidates, giving Governor Sml|h 21 votes, the others going to those 1n the "also ran" class. Gave- Credit to Democrat* It was very evident that the keynote speaker. Senator Put Harrison of Mis sissippi. was not favorably Impressed with the Republicans and what they had been doing during the past three year*. and he did not hesitate to say so In plainly understandable terms. In the main he centered on the varl '?o? Investigations and what, he sold. ? ? C M ATM UK- V ' W were tt\e results nclileved. For those acts of congress to which he could give approval he claimed full credit for the Democratic party and what he referred to as the progressiva ele ment lri the Republican party. For the majority element In the Republican .party he had no single word of com mendation. Rut no one was very much surprised at all of that, as no one had expected htm to commend the enemy. That was not what Ke was there to do. Even Congressman The odore Burton, the Republican keynoter at Cleveland, who attended the Demo cratic show as a guest, did not seem to take any serious offense at what was said about himself and his Re publican colleagues. It did not seem that Senator Har rison had overlooked anything that could- be said In opposition to the Re publicans, but along came the perma nent chairman, Senator Walsh, on Wednesday, June 26, ' with a new list of charges, or at least a hew vocabulary. While "he spoke" the sun streamed down upon the glass roof of the convention hall and turned It Into a bake oven, but his denunciation of the political en emy caused the delegates to fofget, for the time, their differences over platform planks and favored candi dates. They shed .coats and, in 'many cases, collars as well ; the;' displayed black and green "and blue "galluses," and despite the heat enjoyed to the fall everything the leader of the oil Investigations .gave them as first-hand Information. For It all they paid him to the full In convention coin ? a long, a loud, a terrific demonstration. When the delegates assembled on Saturday morning, June 28, it was with the expectation -that they would receive the report of the resolutions committee. But that was not to be. For 80 Rmg and almost continuous hours the committee, headed by Homer S. Cummlngs, had labored over Its task, and the stumbling blocks It had struck were Klan and League of Na tions. OjUlhg latter subject Ex-^ecrg tary of War Baker was leading the fight to a straight-away declaration In -favor of the League, and wourd be satisfied with nothing less, but he was In the minority. Tlvpt did not repre sent a serious situation fpr the purty, but the other subject, ? that of the K^n, did. There seemed to be no grounds upon which to compromise, and at the end of 80 hours of labor the venerable leader, William J. Bryan, dropped to his kfcees In the committee room and asked the members of the committee to Join with him in asking Divide guidance In their hour of dlfift' culty. The resolution Mr. Bryan favored, and for which he had worked through ' the long hours, contained a plank on the subject of religious liberty, and condemning .secret orders that "were opposed jto the provisions of the Con- ? stitution, but it did not nnme the Klan. That was the plank that was written Into, the majority report of the committee. But It was not satisfac tory to a large element In the pnrty. Governor Smith announced that he would withdraw from the contest .for the nomination if the party attempted to straddle the subject. William R. l'attangull. Democratic candidate for governor of Maine; Rttinhridge Colby of New Jersey, former secretary of staae; Joseph A. Kellogg of New York, were among other lenders that were backing Governor Smith and his fol lowing. Fight Over^ Platform The committee dlh not report until after three o'clock Saturduy afternoon, anil then they gave to the convention both a majority and minority report on these two planks. The threatened dissension In the party had been car ried from the committee Into the con- ? ventlon to be fought out on the floor. The League plank was the first point disposed of. Kx-Secretary Baker made an Impassioned appeal for the minority report, and for two hours the subject was debated, but In the end the con vention voted ,133 to 74 2 In favor of the majority. The same people who had foaglit for a definite denunciation of the Klan In the resolutions committee led the tight for that when It was taken to the floor of the convention. William Jennings Bryan, and Senator Owen of Oklahoma mode the appeal for the adoption' of the majority report. Mr. Bryyn. In pleading for such a plank as would. In his belief. Insure pnrty unity, said: "The Catholic ehurrh does not need the defense "f nn.v po litical party, and the Ku Klux Klan 1 does not deserve the advertising." At tile close of two hours of Intense de hate the roll of the states was called : and the vote resulted In .V10 for the I minority report and M.I scalnst It By the close margin of four votes De I mocrsCT failed to mention the Klan I by name In Its platform. . % NEWS BRIEFLYTOLD r I - 4 DISPATCHES OF IMPORTANT HAP PENINQ8 OATHERED FROM OVER THE WORLD. FOR THE BUSY READER Tho Occurrence* Of Seven Diyi Qlva# | ^ In ,An Epltoml*ed Form for Qulok Reading Foreign ? . The city of Mpsslna, Sicily, whlchl still hears the marks of tho devasta tint? earthquake which centered world attention upon It. is being swept by a terrific fire, according to Central News dispatches from Rome. Twenty-three alleged leaders of a secret clique formed among the Philip pine scouts to advance demands 4 for allowances and pay equal to thbse given white' soldiers were arrested at Fort McKlnley. Eight were arrested previously. The situation In Morocco Is improv-i ing but warrant careful surveillance | because of the vigorous offensive ten dencies of the native tribesmen, ac- 1 cording t? an official communique,] which confirms the relief of the Span ish garrison at Kobadarsa wtysre it Is stated 19 of the garrison of 37 were ) injured. _ The decision of the council of min- 1 isters/to put into immediate execution the rules relating to the press which Premier Mussolini drew up In July, .1923; Is commented upon by the Rome newspapers and 'all of them except the fascist .press protest against what they consider a violation of the lib erty of the press. Adolf. Hitfer's resignation qf the leadership of the national socialists marks a definite break between the Hitler and Ludendorff wings of the party. . 7 .Breeker, chairman of the Leningrad state clothing trust, Rlttenberg, a di rector, and Shoulgrln, a salesman of the same organization, were condemn ed to death on charges of having de frauded the state In the purchase and sale of manufactured goods. An attempt was made recently .to blow up the Lemberg arsenal. An in fernal machine, planted by a workman, w^s discovered by an other employee whk put it out of action in the nick of time and seized the men, turning him over ttf the police. Followers of both presidential can didates in the Mexican national elec tion, General .Callus and General Flo res, resorted to trickery in the elec tions, according to the Mexican min istry of the interior. King Alfonso will return to Madrid for" a conference at which It will he decided whether General Primo j Rivera, military dictator, will go to Morrocco to take charge of the opera tions against ttte native tribesmen. The insurrection which sstarted at Sao Paulo. Brazil, recently, and which threatened for a time to swamp the country, has been virtually suppress- 1 ed, according to* advices received at Buenos Aires, Argentina, from the Bra zilian administratiop. The Luz 'bar racks, held by the rebels, are declar ed to have been taken by the govern ment forces after an intense bombard ment. _ An army of 13,000 men. Composed of_ Sao Paulo state forces, together with" some federal troojjs, are marching to ward Rio Janerio, according to re ports gathered by a correspondent of La Naclon who has returned to the Argentine border after a trip in south ern Brazil. Washington ? o Harry F. Sinclair filed a plea In abatement in the District of Columbia supreme court, attacking; the validity of the Indictment charging him with, conspiracy with Albert B. Fall, for mer secretary of the Interior, to de fraud the United States in connec tion with naval oil reserve leases. President and Mrs. Coolldee took their boy. Calvin, hack to Vermont to he burled In the familv plot of the little &metery at Plymouth. A simnle hut impressive funeral was held In the east room of the white house, attend ed by government officials, rank Ins militnrv officers, members of the dlp 'omntlc corps and Intimate friends of the family In the absence of official word on rhe suggestion that an American on the reparations commlss'on might serve as an arbitrator In f'?terminlne ouestions relatlnc to a Herman He fault there was speculation nn whrtb " r anv representative of fx* T'nltod States could take over s="cb a task even If It wore ilo?n\ed desirable bv j tV)c mvcrnmen' '-pder the provisions i nf tbe t-entv with Oermanv nrohlV|f. I tv.o Ptafes frow assoriatinr "-"K the general subject o' allied | TParntlons. Tb? first pavmepts of refiirds -'nd^r ?t>e ?S Per rent reduction provision (n ?*?0 new tax bill were mM1** o-if hv ?tie tro??'irv *tor>artmep* to Jifto per sope w Vn n*M t*?e|?- entire Inrome tav In one Installment Parmrntf sent out -?e~reep ted *4Kono Mssanso Hnnlhara r?*'r,n?- Japa nese ambassador to the T"n t? ^ *1 "state* railed at the state department to ?nv rood hve and present tsa^mrn yoshlds ? Ve will be rharre d'affa^es of fbe r?rv"p?p ern^assv at WasMnctnn pendtnr the selection of a new am-^ So ???> Congressman W. D. Upshaw, return* ing from National I>emo<;ratic eon vention, declared that he is "highly | pleased with the uploridld statement of John W. Davis, and believes that Governor Charles W. Bryan makes his strongest possible running mate j to save the west from Coolldge and La KollettS. Justice Riilley, presiding, declined to change his ruling that John }?.? Phil ips, of Georgia; his brother, Charles ] Philips, Jr., of Atlanta; Frank T. Sul livan, lfimber dealer of Buffalo, N. Y., and Charles S. Shotwell, of Indianap olis, foi'mer chief of the disposal sec tion- of the army air service, must explain to a Jury their version of the alleged lumber fraud conspiracy by | which it is claimed the government lost $1,500,000 in the disposal of lum ber from army cantonments. Domestic ? The First National bank, Cheyenne, Wyo., failed to open recently. It vu stated that the ban was closed and was In the hands of the examiners. According to its statement of June 30, the bank's liabilities and resources* each were $6,986,209.14 and its de posits totaled appproximately IH.750. 000. The Rev. E. R. Overby, southern Methodist pa'stor at Huntington, Tenn., suffered a stroke recently in the midst of his sermon to tnt5 Lexing ton district conference in session at Camden, Tenn., and had not regained consciousness, a l&rge crowd was in attendance on the service* i Senile v dementia Is believed by the authoritles^to have caused Charies N. WUcoxtn, 68, former president of the Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend Railway company, operating between Chicago and SQ\ith Bend, Ind., to kill his wife, 70, with an ax, a razor and potato masher, and then bang himself at their lulz de Maranhao, a, dis tance of more than 500 miles. Improvement in Engines That automobile engines of tbe near future will double the number of mile* obtained from a gallon of gasoline is predicted by those working on new de signs. St .Joseph's LIVER REGULATOR for BLOOD-LIVER-KIDNEYS ^ie BIG 35^ CAN Stops -Eczema Rallavaa tho Inflammation. Itchlnt and Irritatlaat ?oothea and aoftana the akin and laavaa It smooth and spotless. Tha completion's bast frland. 80c at your dnio* olat'aor Irom the SHUPTHINE CO., SAVANNAH. 6A. niTrilTft Bend modal or drawlM forex K A I PM I \ ?mln?tlon. HUbut wiereD**. I M I Lll I U B??t remits. ?ronpiB?i m 1 ?* 1 " sored. Watson E. Coleman, Booklet FRH* r*C*at unrrir.au ? Ot., D. C. W A N T ED ? 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