The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-03-16
4 PRESIDENTIAL TRUST
PLAINLY IN EVIDENCE
Combinations Being Formed In Diff
ferent States to Prevent the
Nomination Of the New
Jersey Governor.


denials issued from Washington ev-
Iidences are plentiful that Governor
Woodrow Wilson is being opposed
for the democratic presidential
nomination by an alliance OF Har-
mon, Underwood and Clark forces in
} many sections of the country. THE
) allies,'' as the Wilson opposition is
popularity termed, are openly at
work in numerous localities to pre-
vent the election of delegates to the
: Baltimore convention pledged to the
. nomination Of the New Jersey exec
utive. Indisputable evidence of the
accuracy Of this assertion is afford
: ed in newspaper publications from
: number of states that have reached
Washington. The Wisconsin State
Journal gives the details of the
! fight being made against Gov. VIII
: son in mat state, In which the Har-
mon and Clark delegates are credit
led with being In agreement. The
story in question asserts that the
, same scheme is reported in other
: states.
If The Wisconsin publication attract
ed much attention among democrat
ic senators and congressman around
1.-THE capitol today, but no more so
9 than an editorial from the Com
. moner, Mr.. william J. Bryan's pa
|per which was headed, Keeping
Good Company" The Commoner ed
itorial said among other things:
1.-THE press reports may be doing
Speaker Clark an injustice but II 1t
is true that his managers. are seek
ing alliance with the Harmon forces
: wherever necessary to defeat the
:. Wilson supporters they should be re-
! minded Of the risk they run. The
. line between the progressive and
the standpattor is so clearly drawn
that a real progressive does not at-
), peal to stand-patter 1t always
excites suspicion, therefore, when
stand-patters begin to flock to one
who is running as a progressive
Thearticles in the Wisconsin State
v Journal, unfolding the plan to unite
4 the anti-Wi]son forces in Wisconsin
"a says among other things:
tol 1T will be Clark and Harmon
against Wilson In Wisconsin tor tn
Democratic presidential nontnAttcr
- tyrhts neana that tfcre prpbahly WI
~ ~ no Harm1x,n Ticket m tins field
rel this state, that 1nrmon's name VI
OF not appear on the presidential prs
ito erence ballot at the spring electi
and that the support of Harmon W
be asked in the name Of Speak
he Clark. Rumors to this effect ha'
OF been In circulation for some tin
nd and received practical confirmatio
IN today from VIM. r. Pierstorff. q
IN Middleton who has been selected b
1.-THE Clark boomers at Milwaukee a
la delegate at large to the nationa
Is convention at Baltimore.
y Called by telephone at his office
r in Middleton this morning Mr..
r Pierstorff said: Yes, I have consent
: ed to act as delegate If elected. I
y was telephoned from Milwaukee
: asking if | would consent to serve
= and agreed to do so. | was told
s that there was an understanding
between the supporters of Clark
and Harmon that whichever one of
: these two receives the larger vote
shall get the support Of the others
, friends. With that understanding I
agreed to become a candidate for
delegate
Apparently the purpose is to
unite the anti-Wilson forces in the
state and defeat Wilson in Wiscon-
sin, if possible The same kind Of
fusion will probably be tried in the
! H.
> presidential preference election this
spring Then when the time of the
national convention comes the dele
cation for Clark and Harmon can
be swung as may seem most expe-
dent The following selections for
delegates at large have been an
nounced from the Clark headquar-
ters in Milwaukee,: James W. Muir
ply, of Platteville, Geo. w. Peck,
Milwaukee, W. F. Pierstorff, Of
Middleton, and John NJ. Callahan,
of Milwaukee. Former Congress-
man Weisse, who is apparently act
ing in the double role of supporting
both Clark and Harmon, when ask
ed about the general feeling that
Gov. Peck was a Harmon man, said:
Gov Peck If elected a delegate to-
: the democratic national convention
will vote the expression of the peo-
pie of Wisconsin as expressed in
the primary election for democratic
candidate for president and will In
the democratic convention give his
support to the choice of the Wis
eonsin democratic voters for pres,
dent AS a candidate for a delegate
at large he will, however, run as
Clark man.