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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1924
Page
2
The article recounts the Democratic convention deadlock as Alston and Cox withdraw while McAdoo and Smith factions clash. Despite five ballots, Governor Smith gains 3381/3 votes at peak, McAdoo around 495, and a bid to invite Smith to speak fails. Leaders debate abandoning the unit rule as tensions rise among Smith, McAdoo, and Roosevelt supporters.
Fragmentary OCR text shows unclear political speech notes. Names and places are fragmented, but references to a governor and a chairman hint at a political dispute or speech event with tense atmosphere and public reaction.
At the national convention in Madison Square Garden, leaders debated drastic steps to break the stalemate. Proposals included eliminating low vote-getters on successive ballots and suspending the two-thirds and unit rules. McAdoo and Smith faced dwindling support as ballots counted, with Ralston and Cox withdrawing, while California and Oklahoma shifts influenced the sprawling roll call amid unrest and protests.
By Associated Press Byron Illinois July 4 officers and private detectives search for two men suspected of writing a letter to United States Senator Medill McCormick and his wife demanding fifty thousand dollars under threat three miles north of the Milk farm home near Byron. The letter did not threaten kidnapping of the senator family. After the letter was received last Thursday detectives traced the writers. A decoy package was placed under a culvert named in the letter. two men who passed the culvert picked up the package were detained then released.
British aviator Maclaren flies from Shanghai toward Kagoshima Japan in the morning, on a world flight leg reported by the Associated Press. The plan is to reach Japan after a series of endurance legs, with timing noted as 9:36.
Delegates heard Senator La Follette’s message read by his son as committees worked to finalize credentials. Johnston praised La Follette as a beacon for independent progressive reform while denouncing both major parties and urging unity to challenge corporate power.
A dramatic account describes how improvised use of a necktie helped treat an auto crash victim, with William Daugherty Jr. among the injured and aid from bystanders, doctors at St Ann's Hospital, and a first aid tent at the Montana hotel run by smelter teams.
The article analyzes Democratic delegate dynamics amid McAdoo’s rise. Smith is seen as not the candidate to defeat McAdoo, while anti McAdoo leaders’ tactics loyalize his western and southern followers and shape the race. Delegates must decide if another contender emerges to beat McAdoo.
The latest statewide vote totals list McAdoo with leading shares across many states such as Nebraska North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina and more. Smith Underwood Davis Baker Glass and others show scattered support percentages in various regions.
The 67th ballot totals show McAdoo with 4907 votes and Underwood with 21 as Owen Digan and Fontana receive markers. Details are incomplete but indicate a tallying scene in a New York setting with multiple names appearing on the roll.
The Associated Press notes results from a New York event at Madison Square Garden. Smith leads with 236.5 points while Davis trails, indicating a clear, standout tally amid incomplete details.
The fragment notes a 69th ballot at Mabiron Square Garden near Oak on a July date, with a figure described as reaching a stage two inches below the necessary threshold, indicating a shortfall or failed tally. The incomplete OCR limits full context or outcome details.
A Fresno driver, Stanley Brown, was killed in a preliminary auto race when his vehicle skidded, crashed through a fence, and rolled over several times in San Luis Obispo on July 4. The incident follows a fatal wreck during the same meeting. A London bridge project, a Chinese goldfish discovery are also noted in brief notices.
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