Omaha daily bee., 1912-07-01
IMPORTANT GAINS FOR WILSON
Governors Total Raised to Four
Hundred and Seven.
TwENTY.sIxTH ROLL CALL HAD
Speaker in Washington to Try to
Restore Confidence.
LOSSES BALANCE MURPHY VOTE
Their strength to Clark for
Time, but Find Their Help
Does No Good.

BALTIMORE. June 3O.-With Governor
Woodrow Wilson gaining on each ballot
and Speaker Clark losing votes for the
presidential nomination. the democratic
national convention at Hos o'clock last
night adjourned until Monday morning at
II o'clock.
Twenty-six ballots had been taken
since the first call of the states and
there was no hope of a nomination to-
night. 1t Is against all political prece-
dent for national convention to sit on
Sunday, but today was day of
important conferences among the party
leaders and day of hard work for the
campaign managers
When convention adjourned last night
Speaker Clark was hurrying to Baltimore
from Washington In response to an
urgent call from his campaign director.
William Jennings Bryan at the afternoon
session had attacked Clark and had said
he would vote for no man willing to ac-
cept nomination at the hands of 'Mur-
ply OF Tammany hail."
II was the plan of MIR. Clark to appear
before the convention and make answer.
In this way his managers hoped to bol-
ster the falling vote.
The ballots today ran from the thir-
teenth to the twenty-sixth. Wilson began
at $50 and ended at 407. net gain during
the day of fifty-one votes. Speaker
Clark began at 5541s and fell to 1874.
loss of ninety-one votes.
Breaks Favor Wilson.
The anti-Clark leaders in the conven-
ton called attention to the fact that
this almost exactly offset the ninety
votes given Clark by the New York dele
cation. Breaks to Governor Wilson We're
coming from many different delegations
as the balloting closed. His managers
believed that once he had overtaken
Speaker Clark the switching would be-
come general.
The Clark forces plan to make desper-
ate effort to win hack some of the dele
gates lost today and In this work they
probably will have the personal direction
of the speaker himself Tha M Milson forces
meantime expect to fight. not only to hold
their gains Of today, but to induce more
to desert the other candidates
Senator Stone of Missouri tonight made
a motion to eliminate the candidate re-
ceiving the lowest number of votes on
each succeeding ballot after the twenty
seventh until only one--the winner--was
left In the race. There was storm OF
objection and the subject was pressed no
further.
Harmon Tries TO Aid Clark.
The Harmon delegates from Ohio threw
their support to Speaker Clark on several
ballots, but did not materially help him
toward the necessary two-thirds vote be-
of the gradual inroads made by
Wilson. They then changed back to Har-
ballot of the evening.
The great bulk of the Massachusetts,
delegation deserted Clark last night and
started Foss boom. 1t created little
excitement.
The deadlock confronting the democratic
is the most remarkable since
1880, when the republican convention
nominated Garfield on the tairty-fourth
ballot.
Having failed to nominate with the
weekend 1t is not expected the delegates
will hurry to a decision on Monday and
the fight may be prolonged for several
days. The Clark people are still confident
that enough of their delegates will remain
steadfast to hold the necessary one-third
to prevent nomination. Many Of the
delegates were hopeful that an early deci-
sion might be reached, but the TWO lead
Ing candidates were tonight so far short
of the votes necessary to nominate that
the problem ahead seemed a most difficult
one. 6s, 553.sz=
Great Disorder in Hall. "85
The sixteenth ballot was begun with
the hall in disorder. Idaho caused trou-
BILE again and was passed and at the end
Of the call demanded poll of the dele
CATION. Five delegates voted for Kern,
four for Clark and seven were absent.
Each delegate had half a vote. This
made four and one-half votes present
and a majority was for Kern. Chairman
James ruled that the delegation was
controlled by the votes of the delegates
present and directed that the eight votes
be cast two for Clark, three for Kern
and two and one-half not voting.
Trouble on the seventeenth ballot was
almost Identical with that on the six
teenth ballot.
The result was. Clark, 545; Wilson,