The Washington times., 1912-06-30

among themselves. They are not 70
even progressive. But they do want
victory in the home States this
year. and they realize II any man
bearing the hallmark of Wall Street.
suspected Of being reactionary. or be-
; lieved to have made deal with Tam
many is nominated he cannot win,
and the Roosevelt movement Will
sweep everything.
Hence they decided to accept the in
evitable, let the progressives have
the national ticket, and they go back
home to keep hold of their State or
ganizations and win. This conclusion
has bee nforced upon them by the
unparalleled pressure from home in
the last three days.
Bryan may not be popular at Balti-
more. where he is damned for every
cratic party to the excessive heat and
the high price of drinks, but he is
popular with the people. and the peo-
PIE win elections. Not only have the
kilograms and letters demanding their
support Of Bryan in his fight, but
men began to arrive in Baltimore
Saturday from the Middle West and
South, who left their, homes after
Bryan's fight Of Thursday night.
They come as thep ersonal represen-
tatives of local and State organizations,
who have heard what the people have
been saying. The message they bring
is that e. general revolt is certain un-
less the convention nominates a pro-
gressive.
For these reasons the old machine
leaders in the West and South have
carried word to Murphy they must
leave him and hoe their own row Of
beans. If they expect to gather a crop
this year at home.
Monday will witness the crumbling Of
the arch of which Tammany has been
the keynote. Murphy may save himself
from exposure by joining in the move
as anxious as any to do the square
thing. He may not 1t makes no differ
ence; The die is cast. 1t is Wilson
Last evenings session. following the
defeat Of the first motion to adjourn,
saw the last chance for a dark horse,
or for Underwood. pass into the limbo
of things unattainable.
The general presumption was that
when the sessions opened Monday.
Murphy would switch from Clark. and
by throwing his ninety New York votes
to Underwood, Kern or Foss, try to
make stampede in that direction with
the view to beating Wilson.
But the plan, 1t was found on close
canvassing, would not work. the in
slant Clark is taken out of the running
by the deserton Of New York, so much
of his support will jump to Wilson
that the governors nomination will be
assured.
Iowa, Kansas. Oklahoma, Georgia,
Florida, Tennessee Mississippi These
and many other delegations are ready
and anxious, in whole or in part, to
reinforce the Wilson cohorts. They will
play no politics; they have only one
second choice, and that is Wilson Some
OF them. indeed, started into the fight
with an amiable disposition toward
Clark as second choice, but the tre-
mendous assaults of Bryan on Clark:
Tammany and the coterie of financial
bosses have convinced these that 1t
would be suicide to name Clark.
Bryan As Warwick.
Wilson will be the Presidential nomi-
nee, and Bryan will be the Warwick.
The Nebraskan never held a convention
so firmly in his grip. not even when in
1896 he hypnotized it, as he has held
this one since he started his great per-
formance of shaking out the bosses and
the financial group. Never has a sue
cession of more daring mo3es been
made by leader in a convention, than
that series of assaults by which Bryan
has broken up the combination so care
fully set up to turn the Democratic
party over to the bosses and big bus
mess. 1t was Roosevelt's Chicago per-
formance over again; the parallel con-
session passes.
But there is from all present indica-
lions, going. to be this striking differ
ence in the last stages. That Bryan will
win and nominate his party's ticket.
While Roosevelt was not able to do 1t.
Bryan formally deserted Clark on the
fourteenth ballot and took the platform
announce his reasons for voting for
Wilson, despite that he was an in
etructed Clark delegate-at-large from
Nebraska. In that half hour of defiance,
turmoil. and bold demand that the con-
vention must not desert the Bryan
standard, the Nebraskan proved him
self, once for all, master of the sieua-
ton.
End to Clark Boom.
He put an end, apparently. for all
time, to the Clark boom. 1t was an
unprecedentedlt bold strike; a piece OF
Bryan's own generalship.
By the same blow that left the Clark
candidacy limp and lifeless. its last
hopes crushed cut of 1t. Bryan revivi-
fed the Wilson enthusiasm. started a
new and steady flow of recruits toward
the Wilson camp. and instituted war
against the big bosses domination OF
the nomination. He defied Tammany
and told the convention that, in the
conditions prevailing here, he would
port of Tammanyr He named Charles
+. Murphy as the master of the New
York Democracy, denounced it as a
combination of selfishness and loot, and
reiterated his previous declarations that
an effort has been made in this con.
vention to deliver the Democratic party
over to the control of the interests
II was one of the most dramati,
perfCl marCes ever staged in netiona
convention. 1t came shortly afts: tht
gathering convened for the afternoon
session. The delegates dragged them
selves into the hall, worn, disgusted
qePrfal that the convention would r,Ir
over into next week. They had beer
hcId IN thS nan IiI near dawn M
hours. II they found time and place Il
dc even that. and had returned hope
less OF early results. IL seemed th'
very worst Of all occasions for an ef
fort to do the effectively dramatic
All nj Expectancy.