The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-02
GOMEZ SUPPORTERS
 BOLT CONFERENCE Lively Times Ensue at Ma
 tional Convention sUAREz IS LEADING
Delegates Cry Fraud When Vote Is Announced-Three Ballots Re- auired-Gomez Men Have
 Strong Following

Mexico City, September 1.-(Bulletin).- V Jose Pino Suarez had 615 votes as a result of the progressive convention's ballot for a vice presidential candidate. Dr. Fran cisco Vasquez Gomez received 500; Fer nando Iglesias Calderon 321 and Alfredo Robles Dominguez 297 The voting con tinued until 1920 a. m.
 Mexico City, September 1.-Shouting charges of corruption and yelling that the Inistas had bought their votes, the sup porters of Dr. Francisco Vasquez Gomez marched out of the convention tonight, making it impossible for the ballot in the vice presidential candidates to con- followed closely on the clearing of one of the galleries by police assisted by a band of stalwart delegates. Students who began roofing for Vasquez Gomez created so great a tumult that the work of the assembly was temporarily halted.
 Semblance of order had prevailed for not more than 30 minutes afterward when the Vasquestas declared they would have nothing more to do with such a farce.
 
 yaseuez and Jose .Pino Suarez were far in the lead, running side by side. Fernan- do Igles Calderon was in third place with Alfredo Robles Dominguez a bad fourth.
 The Vasquestas had developed unex- pected strength during the day and every available vote was guarded jealously. The supporters of Pino Suarez had already been charged with irregular methods, so when a. delegate from Chihuahua placed 50 votes, representing 5000 members in his state there was an instant comparing of notes and he was charged with abus- ing the confidence placed in him by his constituents who had instructed him to vote for vasquez. After much yelling and impromptu oratory whose import none could learn on account of the up roar. a majority of the disgruntled dele gates left the hall
 The vote was being taken by roll call and under the system of elimination agreed upon three ballots are required.
 Determined to bring the convention to close at the earliest possible mo- ment, it was agreed this morning to make the session continuous. Since then the delegates have retained their seats except for brief individual ex- cursions to the outside for refresh ments and tonight they proposed to stay until the business in hand was finished
 Until o'clock the entire time of tae convention was consumed in checking the number of votes to which each delegate was entitled. An unforeseen obstacle presented itself immediately after the convention got down to business. Dele gates. party leaders and those directing the business of the big meeting were congratulating themselves that few I. to all ha xrin president. The secretary announced that many telegrams had been received over night from clubs, some of which were unrepresented up to date and others de- siring to name other proxies than those originally authorized Apparently scent ing a coup of some sort, hundreds of del- egates began shouting disapproval of any change in the existing representation. Out of the tangle that resulted grew an insis- tent demand that a new canvass of the delegates be made to check the number of votes to which each were entitled be- fore a vote is taken.
 Each delegate is entitled to a vote for every 100 members of the club which he represents.
 The balloting was frequently interrupt ed by outbursts of enthusiasm for one candidate or another, in spite of the ear nest conjuration of the chairman who declared that this was the most solemn period of the convention"
 The days session was characterized by tediousness as pronounced as were the disorders of yesterday and the day before. However something of a sensation was sprung just prior to the beginning of the vote when Chairman Sanchez Azcona, if an appeal for the continuation of good order, announced that he had received information that supply of eggs and oranges had been smuggled into the gall lery by certain group of spectators who proposed to increase the result if the bal loting displeased them. His accusation called out a chorus of denials from the crowd and a. speech from one of the in- dignant suspects.