Word: ralstons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most interesting possibility in many ways remained Samuel Ralston of Indiana. He went out to Indiana during the closing days of Congress to attend the State Convention choosing delegates to the National Convention. He made a speech saying...
...There are ex-candidate Cox of Ohio, Senator Ralston of Indiana, Governor Davis of Kansas, Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Governor Bryan of Nebraska, Senator Ferris of Michigan, Governor Silzer of New Jersey, Senator Kendrick of Wyoming, Governor Ritchie of Maryland, former Senator Saulsbury of Delaware?all of them have pledged delegates; they are favorite sons. But are they possible dark horses...
Several of them certainly are not. Some of them are: Ralston, for example, or Robinson. But the dark horse need not be one of the favorite sons, such a one for example, as John W. Davis, Senator Carter Glass or even Senator Copeland. Since McAdoo will have the largest block of votes, a most significant thing to know?if it can be known?is: "Who will be McAdoo's second choice, if McAdoo himself cannot...
...McAdoo 218 207 236 265 124 30 294 Davis 176 248 382 268 120 -- 36 Und'wood 266 220 60 156 344 74 24 Smith 158 269 202 265 194 216 -- Walsh 10 8 22 44 28 8 -- Cox 48 48 48 -- -- -- -- Eliot 118 -- -- -- -- -- -- Ralston -- -- 12-- -- -- -- Bryan...
...entirely possible, if not probable, that the Democratic nomination will go neither to McAdoo nor Smith nor even to Underwood, but to some favorite son or dark horse. Such quiet candidates as Senator Carter Glass, David F. Houston, ex-Secretary of Agriculture, or possibly the oft-suggested compromise, Ralston, may make away with the prize in a warring Convention...