The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-06-29

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several speeches from prominent
members of the convention, ENJOY the
music of the band and Whoop-lt-up
for the various presidential can
didates, At the night session an
interesting and exciting struggle
took place over motion to abrogate
the rule hitherto in force by "h1ch
state delegations were required 10
cast their votes as a unit. 1he
lines between the Wilson and Clark
supporters were quite closely drawn
in this contest, and the former halleo
with great enthusiasm the an
nouncement that the ballot STOOD
5e5k to 1917 to abrogate the rule.
The Harmon delegates were atlsneo
with the minority i'll this vote, when
meant that eighteen Ohio delegates
favorable to Wilson could not De
compelled by the Harmon MAJORITY
in the delegation to vote with the
latter.
At the suggestion of Col. Bryan
whose influence in the conVeiltlon
is very great, notwithstanding nus
defeat for temporary chalrman-the
usual order Of procedure was re-
yersed and the platform Will not pc
presented by the resolutions commit
tee until after the candidate Tor pres
ident has been nominated.
The credentials committee ala
not conclude its labors until THURS
day. when a report was supmltIed'
tha findings of which conceded Win
those Of the national committee, eA'
cent in the case of the South Dakota
contes.. where the credentials com
/ nittee favored seating the Clark con
Itestants in place Of the ten WILSON
|delegates placed OH the temporary
roll by the national committee. Inc
minority report Of the credentials
committee in favor of the Wllsol
!, delegation was adopted by the con
vention. The vote in this instance
was 639k to 437, another Wilson III
umph that ELECTED 4 WhirlWlnd oeh'
cnstration from the friends OF tn
, New Jersey governor.
Permanent organization OF the COT
! yention followed, Senator ON
James of Kentucky being chose
! chairman without opposition, an
a The otler officers recommended %
> the committee on permanent organ
izatioa being likewise accepted una
: in1ously, Chairman James made
strong speech on assuming the chall
e largely deGuy to a spectre stat
+ ment and coSy,ariscn Of the attitue
1, aud course y the Republican a
y Democratic Rerties with refefen'
< 10 the leqeg issues Of the q
III and particularly the tariff.
The most sensational incident
the convention up to that time {
Cured at the opening Of the Ihul
i day night session, when Col. Bfy
yn offered a resolution declaring tn
be the Democratic party is still t
&c cnampion of popular government a
lg- equality before the law; that
as proof of our fidelity to the peol
he we hereby declare ourselves oppos
till to the nomination OF any candid;
3D. for president WHO is the reDresen
rit- tive Of or under any Obligation to
or pierpont Morgan, Thomas +. Ky
ct August Belmont, or any OTHER, ms
ex- Der Of the priyilege-hunting
mt fayor-seeking class The resolut
cts contained another paragraph dema
it ing "the withdrawal from this
18th yeution of any delegate or delega
ect- constituting or representing
the aboye-named interests but on
on lection from the Virginia and \
York delegations the second p'
ana graph was Withdrawn by Col. BY
dis After an exciting debate the res
Pro- ton was adopted, the vote stano
zed $50 yeas to 1876 nays.
The nomination of presidential
didates was then begun and at n
EN- ~ 7 O'Clock Friday morning the
to suit of the first ballot was amour
ock as follows: Clark 4401a, Wilson
Harmon 148, Underwood 1177&,
en- shall 81, Baldwin %, sulzer 2, 81
Car [. absent 2. Total 1888; neces
ark to choice, 72S. The conVen
,nch then adjourned until 4 p. N. Fri
-, when balloting was to be resul
'li~ with the ultimate outcome lnvo
as in a cloud Of uncertainty thff
COM which one man could peer just a
of as far as another.
- The chances are many to one
- a final adjournment cannot be t
Jeh- until today.
in The Louisiana delegation OF
,sted lied by choosing Congressman
como y [onio as chairman Col l