platform of Mr, Baker, urged' immediate joining of League of Nations. It declared the Republican policy of was as revol fin al aspects ux it wax harmful in its material eonsequences. It predicted that Wilson policies would sweep the country at the coming election. The document averred that there had not been a true referendum at the last Presidential election on the League as that issue was interwoven with many others.
Mr. Taker in an emotional speech said that the man who ought to be pleading for the proposed plank lay dead, but his voice was calling from' consecrated The Convention rejected the Raker substitute and adopted the majority platform.
The Convention was almost equal y. divided on the Ku Kiu sue, the majority report single vote.
Mr. Baker's substitute League lank was defeated by 742 votes to Later.
'The Democratic Convention rejected the Ku Klux Klan minot Report, which' provided for specific "of the Klan in the Mr. McAdoo and Governor Smith Most Popular Candidates New York, June 30.
The Democratic Convention today will begin ballotting for the Presidential "nomination. Governor Smith and Mr. MeAdoo are still the leading champions. Senator Ralston and ex-Ambassador Davis continue on the trail, awaiting a possible deadlock that' would swing, the Convention in their direction.
Political experts predict a long and fierce battle. Sixteen candidates have been submitted for nomination, but the delegates are not oon, fined to voting for these and vote for anybody they consider deserving. ing" "the Democratic Convention started the roll-call of the States in the first ballot for the Presidential nominee.
The official figures for the first ballot were as follows: Me-Adoo 4311 voles and Governor Smith 240! votes.
No candidate received tiecessary two-thirds majority. remainder of the votes were scatter= ed_among 18 other candidates, Mr. MeAdoo and Governor Smith picked up: additional votes in the next few ballots, but not enough to indicate any general -abundonment of their "favourite sons" by the delegates.
Mr. McAdoo the fifth ballot] secured 443 votes and Governor Smith 261. Louisiana cast its entire 20 votes in favour of '|EX-'Ambassador Davis in the seventh ballot.
Tu the ninth ballot Mr. M secured 444 votes, Governor 278 and Mr. Davis 633, though he started with a few West Virginian votes only.
The Convention has now gone! into recess.
Later.
When the Convention resumed, the figures in the 10th ballot were! Mr. McAdoo 471 votes and Governor Smith 229, Later
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