Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-06-28
FRIDAY, JUNE aS, 1912.
CONVENTION OF DEMOCRATS
CONTINUED from page two.)

Sullivan of Illinois, and Tom Taggart
of Indiana, as we'll as most Of the Har-
mon. and Underwood delegates were
behind Champ Clark and that practi-
cally every Wilson man in the conven-
ton was behind Mr.. Bryan. Previous
to this Mr.. Bryan had indicated no
preference as between Clark and Will
son, although his own state had in
structed for Clark, and he had no
comment to make even on the result;
but two things seemed to be made
clear-that the Clark crowd was
against Bryan and although Bryan did
were that he had a balance Of power.
The Clark people were in a high
feather as the outcome OF the hght
over the temporary chairmanshlp.
They lacked nearly hundred of get
ting as many votes as their prel1ml-
nary polls had indicated; but still
they believed that the result OF the
ballot promised them victory, and a
majority of the most experienced pol
iticians seemed to share that view.
Most of the dispatches published In
the papers Of Wednesday morning
fore shadowed the nomination of
Clark on one of the early ballots; but
the Wilson people did not lose heart.
They began to bank on the fact that
II was a Progressive convention; that
Clark had allied himself with the re-
dictionaries, and believing as they had
good reason to believe that many of
the delegates instructed for Clark ana
Underwood, especially Underwood.
were Wilson men at heart, kept a stln
upper lip and continued to fight.
The purpose of the fight for the
temporary craftsmanship having been
r..1a tlAr m tne
permanent craftsmanship. BY this
time all the candidates as we'll as all
the leaders were avowed Progressives,
and Senator ELECT Ollie James, OF
Kentucky was accepted as permanent
chairman without opposition. Urey
Vvoodson. who has for many years
been chairman of the Democratic
committee and as if by virtue OF this
position, secretary or the natlonai
convention, was defeated for re-elec-
ton to this last named office, and T..
F.. Britton, a newspaper man OF Raj
eigh, N. c., was chosen in his place.
The most significant developments
of Wednesday were the refusal or
BRYAN to serve as chairman or the
committee on resolutions and Of the
determination by the convention TO
nominate q candidate before adopting
a platform The explanation of the
first development was like this: the
committee on resolutions as consti-
tuted was composed of an anti-Bryan
majority. Mr.. Bryan was aware OF
this fact. While he was not certain
that the committee would attempt to
make a platform with which he could
not agree, he was unwilling to take any
risks. He saw that 1t would be embar-
RAISING If he should be compelled as
chairman to present to the convention
a platform on which he would be un-
willing to stand, and decided that the
best place for him was as a private
member of the committee where ne
could, II he saw proper, present mi
nority report. and advocate the same
on the floor Of the convention. 1t was
in Difference to Mr. Bryan that the COM
mittee recommended and the conVen-
tion endorsed the proposition to nom
mate a candidate and make a plat
form afterward. The reasoning was
like this: Under existing conditions,
the man, the candidate, means great
deal more than the platform, and this
thing Of having to change a platform
to fit the candidate as was done In
the case of Judge Parker. eight years
ago, is awkward and embarrassing.