Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-07-11
SENATOR IVES EXPLAINS HIS
 VOTE FUR WOODROW WILSON
CHAMP CLARK MADE FATAL LEAP IN COMPROMISE CORRUPT FORCES THAT COMPLETE CONTROL DEMO- CRATIC CoNvENTIoN-WooDRoW WILSON BETTER JUDe- OPPOSITION

In his formal statement issued to- day, B. s. Ives says:
 q think it proper to make a state ment to the Democrats with respect to my actions at the Baltimore con- vention.
 'In the first place I have no apollo gies to make. What I did was right and for the good of the country at large, the Democratic party and Ari- zona. I understand that in some quar- ters I have been criticized, but if l had it to do over again I would do precisely as did in Baltimore.
 Wall Street and the People
 'The issues began to develop rapid ly a day or two prior to the opening of the convention. They were plainly drawn. AS forcibly expressed by MT. Johnson, of Texas, it was a fight be tween Wall Street on the one side and the people on the other.
 "The play opened when New York forced the name of Parker for the l temporary chairmanship of the con- vention. This was a slap, and in- tended as slap at the progressive Democracy. MT. Parker was known to be the confidential attorney of MT. Thomas F. Ryan and what he repre- sented. Elihu Root, another of Ryan's attorneys, had been made chairman of the Republican convention. It could be seen that the Ryan-Belmont syn dicate after first putting it's brand up- on the Republican convention had then moved from Chicago to Baltimore where they proposed to similarly brand the Democratic convention.
 Bryan's Fight
 The Democratic party at that mo- ment was in peril Fortunately for it and the people at large the progres- sive element had in w. J. Bryan the right kind of a champion.
 "He accepted the issue at once, and wired all of the Democratic candidates for the presidency asking them to op- enly oppose Parker for the temporary chairmanship.
 "Clark's answer was, unfortunate ly for him, ambiguous. Governor Will sons managers also framed an ambig- uous answer and submitted it to Gov ernor Wilson, who tore it up, and said that it was no time to sit on the fence, and he prepared and sent his answer to Bryan unequivocally opposing MT. Parker for the Craftsmanship.
 My disappointment at Clarks atti- tude was keen but nothing compared to what it was when afterwards and on the day preceding the convention it was announced in Baltimore that MT. Clark's managers had made a compact with the Ryan-Belmont-Murp reac- tionary wing of the party, the two es- sential elements of which were the election of Parker as chairman by Clark votes, and the acquisition by Clark of the 90 votes of the state of New York.
 No sane man doubted that such compact had been made. Hundreds of the Clark delegates were diSheartened and dismayed beyond expression. No one believed that Taft had any chance of election, but the third party, headed by Roosevelt was a dangerous factor, and it was believed by hundreds of delegates, among them myself, that any halting or vacillation in the cause of progressiveism by the Democratic convention would alienate from our standard and drive into the ranks of the third party not only hundreds Of thousands of disgusted republicans but as many progressive democrats who were determined that the price of their support of the democratic party should be a square front in line with the pop ular form of government such as is typified in our enlightened Arizona constitution.
 The Unit Rule
 Hundreds of delegates whose votes were recorder for Clark were against him. but were recorded for him by virtue of the unit rule. For instance, Kansas had 20 votes. It's convention had instructed it's delegates as unit for Clark until two-thirds should de termine otherwise. A roll call of the Kansas delegation disclosed 13 for Will son and ' for Clark, and Chairman Jones ruled that IA and not 13 being two-thirds of 20, the entire 20 votes should be recorded for Clark; and this occurred for a number of ballots. It was so in great many other states.