Talk:1920 Democratic National Convention

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--JeffGBot (talk) 02:59, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Odd Votes
This info could be useful for the article, if it can be checked. It concerns sports writer Ring W. Lardner and humorist Irvin S. Cobb covering the convention. From “The Lost Journalism of Ring W. Lardner”:

As the balloting continued, a few bored delegates responded to the long feud between the candidates with some nonsense of their own. On the twenty-third ballot Lardner received half a vote, while Cobb got 1½. On the next ballot, when Lardner got the vote of Mrs. James J. Shepard of Kansas City, the Kansas City Star ran her picture along with Lardner’s column, which made news around the country. Other papers commented on these antics, which they viewed as something new in political coverage.

“There was a marked air of cynicism in the press in all the articles about the conventions,” the San Jose Evening News editorialized. “Ring Lardner, Irvin Cobb, and the other avowed and confessed humorists made no bones about making all kinds of fun of the delegates and their intentions and general infirmity of intention. And the supposedly serious writers were almost as bad. There was a time when national political conventions were not so regarded. It was then considered quite a solemn and important thing. At first glimpse, such an attitude seems preferable. But after all, this light easy cynicism of the press may do good, and may cause the mass of the voters not to take too seriously the pretensions of the mass of the politicians.”

Finally, on the forty-fourth ballot, the convention nominated James A. Cox and the fun came to an end. 2A00:23C7:E287:1901:94A8:1E9F:4F7F:8133 (talk) 20:26, 22 January 2023 (UTC)