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...soon found out what it meant to be a candidate. First, the deluge of the press. Then the deluge of supporters-the delegate from Porto Rico who had voted for Davis 33 times in San Francisco, and 103 times in Manhattan, etc. Soon the magnates of the party descended -Josephus Daniels, Pat Harrison, Governor Ritchie. Then the telegrams-from A. Mitchell Palmer, from 'Senator McKellar, from General Bliss, from Mr. Associate Justice Butler...
...ballot: McAdoo 488½ Smith 336½ Davis of West Virginia 72½ Underwood 46½ Baker 57; Glass 26; Governor Bryan 3; Robinson 21; Ritchie 16½ Saulsbury 6; Owen 2; Walsh of Montana 1; Will Rogers 1; M. A. Coolidge ½ (or perhaps the trailers at the end might be Senator Copeland, Josephus Daniels, the Mayor of New Orleans, of Chicago or of Montpelier). No one having received the required number of votes, the Secretary will call the roll for the nth ballot...
...mentioned seven: Dr. A. A. Murphree, President of the University of Florida; Josephus Daniels; Senator Joseph T. Robinson; Senator Samuel Ralston; ex-Secretary of Agriculture Edwin T. Meredith; his own brother, Charles W. Bryan, Governor of Nebraska; William G. McAdoo. His speech lacked the old-time wonder-working power. The crowd was largely hostile; several times delegates interrupted. After every two or three sentences there was applause or hisses, cheers or heckling ?mostly the latter. Shortly after his time expired, Mr. Bryan gave up. As a political speech, his effort was inglorious...
That "great Secretary," Josephus Daniels...
...great spirit, attacking Republicans for: a) Fordney-McCumber Tariff; b) Mellon tax plan; c) lack of foreign trade; d) corruption. "With covetous eyes," said he, "certain great oil interests of the country had long looked upon the naval reserves. During the Wilson administration, that great Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels, stood guard over these precious properties...