When John William Davis was chosen by the Democratic Convention on the ninth day of balloting, he issued a formal announcement. In
he spoke, with seeming understatement, of "the resolution and endurance ... the supreme vitality" of the delegates, and of their "deliberate and unanimous choice." It was a touching tribute.
McAdoo Withdraws. For eight days, a mountain of a Convention—1,098 men and as many assistants—labored and brought forth not even a mouse. In the travail ot the eighth night, William G. McAdoo and his supporters were watching in the Madison Square Hotel,...
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