Word: mcadoos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Democratic. To aspirant William G. McAdoo went Kentucky and Oregon and apparently also Wyoming the latter by default of all opposition. Some 410 or 420 delegates were claimed for the ex-Secretary of the Treasury...
Democrats. It was Wm. GE. McAdoo's week. He captured California against a group who proposed to go to the Democratic Convention uninstructed. He got 40 delegates from Texas. He will probably start at the Convention with 450 or 500 votes, as many as Smith and Underwood combined. Bat the opening of the Democratic Convention will be only the beginning of the struggle...
...read, it was learned that Carter Glass had 710 votes or 3 too few for the nomination. A motion to nominate him by acclamation failed and after a ten minute recess the seventh ballot was taken. Amid Harvard cheers and riotous disorder, a strong crowd came out for Mr. McAdoo, but glass received the nomination by the margin of three votes. Senator Walsh of Montana was given the nomination for vice president by acclamation SUMMARY OF BALLOTING 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Glass 30 72 120 164 274 710 716 McAdoo...
Before the discussion of the platform which terminated this evening's session, the first ballott was held. After several votes had been challenged, the results showed that Senator Underwood had received 266 votes, Mr. McAdoo 200, Governor Smith 168, former ambassador Davis 146, and President-emeritus Eliot 106. This balloting will be continued to night 7.30 o'clock when the convention meets again, and further discussion of the platform will be in order...
...telegram of congratulation signed by the mock electorate in too, the nights' rest of these harassed statesmen should be slightly more recuperative than it has in the past. Although the decision of this Convention on Governor Smith's chances of carrying the arid west and the possibility of Mr. McAdoo's removing enough oil stains to be presentable will have no effect on the actions of the real Convention, it will provide a sort of search light with which acute minds way see a little farther into the future, which is at present concealed in a thunderstorms July haze...