Milford chronicle., 1912-07-05

and the police we're kept busy pre-
venting fights in all parts oSN>he hall
during the Nebraskans bitter speech
a speech he was permitted to make
when the rule was suspended.
Opposition having been beaten down,
Bryan stepped forward and prepared
for a supreme effort. He opened the
debate with savage attack on August
Belmont, Thomas F. Ryan and Charles
F. Murphy He did not intend that
the representatives of the predatory
interests should dominate the conyen-
tion and stiie the will of 6500,000
Democrats. He spoke of the merciless,
despotic control of the money trust.
q am not willing that August Bel
mont and Ryan shall come here with
counsel" thundered Mr.. Bryan, and
seek with the managers of this con
vention to dominate this convention
No sense Of fairness or courtesy will
! stop me from protecting my party. l
cannot speak for the delegates. You
must take the responsibility. l refuse
to take the responsibility"
After bitter debate the latter part
Of the resolution was withdrawn.
Late Saturday afternoon Mr.. Bryan
reused the delegates with another
TRADE against Morgan, Ryan, Belmont
and all the privilege seeking and favor
asking classes, while attacking by
name Charles Murphy, the Tammany
leader, and raising a storm of Kisses
by announcing that he would withdraw
support even from the man of his
choice, should Murphy at any time
cast the ninety votes of New York for
him.
Bryan's frs public announcement
that his choice was the New Jersey
governor accompanied this threat, and
though some accessions to the Wilson
vote followed, the move brought out
with vivid force the fact that some
thing more than tie needed one-third
vote is firmly held against any candi- !
date upon whom Bryan may place his
hall mark.
The Clark army at once began to
disintegrate, slowly, it is true, untl
from one having a clear majority OF
the 1888 delegates, he had dropped on
the twenty-siN.h ballot to 469; Wilson
had advanced from $50 to 4O712, and
Underwood held about his early vote,
11212, after being boosted up 10 about
150 Governor Foss, of Massachusetts,
had picked up a lew votes here and
there until he had a hOtal of 43. Gov
eInor Marshall, OF Indiana. retained
his original 30, and Bryan himself was
kept in the field with vote or two.
When this ballot had been announc-
ed, Senator Stone, OF Missouri, took
the floor to ask unanimous consent to
offer an agreement that promised to
bring the struggle to an early end;
but objections from Bryan CulbersOn
and Henry Of Texas, and many 9th
ers, put an end to this project. Sena-
tor Stones suggestion was that, after
two additional ballots, on the third,
the lowest man be dropped; the same
course to be pursued on each success
sive ballot until two remained, and
then on the last ballot, the candidate
receiving the majority to be declared
the nominee.
When the convention adjourned for
Sunday it was believed that some so
luton of the deadlock would result
from conferences between the cham
piOns of the three leading candidates,
but it developed that the time had not
arrived for the withdrawal Of GitEer
Speaker Clark, Governor Wilson OF
Representative Underwood.
The campaign managers possibly
might have reached some agreement
if interest in tie deadlock had not
been dwarfed by the personal contro-
versy developed between William J.
Bryan and Speaker Clark The visit
Of Mr.. Clark to Baltimore and his ar
rival too late to attempt viniica,i)n
Of himself before the convention over.
shadowed everything else and was
subject of Sunday gossip.
Speaker Clark had a conference
with Mr. Hearst, Senator Stone. David
r. Francis and others. Speaker Clark
after the conference issued the follow
ing statement:
In the national convention an ogt.
rageous aspers.on was cast upon me,
and through me. upon the Democratic
party by one, who, of all men, ough-
to be the last to besmudge or betray
his friends or his party So far as
am personally concerned, it is enough
to say that the charge which reflects
upon my personal or party integrity is
utterly and absolutely false. l might
afford to forget myself, but l am by the
choice of the Democratic majority of
the house Of representatives. the rank
ng official Democrat in national pub
lie life. cannot be false or corrupt
without rejecting upon my party in
The most serious way.
ANY man who would er%er into an
alliance with any selfish interest of
privileged class of this country to
lain the nomination for the presiden-
", is unworthy of the presidency and
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