129 to 36 to 23 to 0

With 770 votes as the winning number at the Chicago convention, the Democratic field for the Presidential nomination was last week running as follows:

Franklin Delano Roosevelt 129

James A. Reed . . 36

William Henry Murray 23

Newton Diehl Baker 0

John Nance Garner 0 Albert Cabell Ritchie 0

Alfred Emanuel Smith 0

P: After a table-pounding, all day session in Chicago, a sub-committee of 23 Democratic National Committeemen chose Senator Alben William Barkley of Kentucky, Roosevelt supporter, to be keynoter at the national convention. Jouett Shouse, rival for the position, was recommended for convention chairmanship.

P: "Particularly happy'' was Governor Roosevelt fortnight ago to win the preference vote of Georgia, thereby adding the State's 28 convention votes to his 63 already pledged.* In what he calls his "other state" the New York executive beat a proxy candidate for Speaker Garner better than 7-to-1. Warm Springs where he goes several times a year to bathe his crippled legs gave Candidate Roosevelt all but one of its 219 votes. The voters of Roswell in Cobb County, whence came Martha Bullock, mother of the late great Theodore Roosevelt, gave every one of their ballots to T. R.'s fifth cousin.

P:Maine Democrats, convening at Portland last week, were at first reluctant to tie up their twelve convention votes to any one candidate. On a poll, however, they voted (286-10-245) to instruct their delegation for Governor Roosevelt whose strength thus rose to 103. The Maine meeting also went Wet.

P: James A. Farley, the Roosevelt campaign manager, was in Davenport, Iowa, last week to harvest a crop of 26 convention votes for his candidate. After pledging its delegation to use "all honorable means" to help nominate the New Yorker, the meeting howled down a proposal that Oklahoma's Governor Murray, who ran Governor Roosevelt a nip & tuck race in the Des Moines Register and Tribune poll, be named as second choice. Iowa Democracy also favored re-submission of the 18th Amendment to the States.

P: Missouri Democrats meeting in St. Louis pledged their 36 convention votes to their "favorite son," James A. Reed, but decided against taking a "last ditch" stand.

P: "I'm not a candidate for President." declared Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas last week. On the strength of this statement Arkansas' Democracy picked an uninstructed delegation to cast the State's 18 votes in Chicago. Most of the delegates personally favored Governor Roosevelt's nomination.

P: Very busy about his father's political business last week was 25-year-old James Roosevelt, eldest son of the New York candidate. A strapping big insurance man, he lives with his young wife, the daughter of famed Dr. Harvey Gushing of Boston, in a little white house in Cambridge, Mass. Young Mr. Roosevelt is one of his father's principal campaigners in New England. He it was who held the power-of-attorney necessary for his father's admission to the Massachusetts primary. In that election he is on the Roosevelt slate as a delegate-at-large to the Chicago convention. Last week he told a Boston audience: "Neither Father nor his close friends can understand at this time the failure of Governor Smith to support his candidacy." Then he hustled off to Portland to gladhand Maine Democrats meeting there.

*Alaska, 6; Washington, 16; New Hampshire, 8; North Dakota, 9; Minnesota, 24.

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