The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-07-04
DEMOCRATS IN A DEADLOCK
1Wenty-Six Ballots Taken Without Result
Clark Rushes to Baltimore.

Woodrow Wilson gaining on each bal
lot and Speaker Champ Clark constant
ly losing ground in the ace for the
presidential nomination, the Demo.
cratic national convention at 11:05
o'clock Saturday night adjourned until
Monday at IL o'clock.
Twenty-six ballots had been TAX
en- since the first call of the states
and there was no hope of a final yer.
dict. 1t is against all political prece.
lent for a national convention to sit
on Sunday, but that day was a day OF
important conferences among the
party leaders and a day OF hard work
for the campaign managers.
The ballot Saturday ran from the
thirteenth to the twenty-sixth. Wilson
began at 1856 and ended at 407h, a
net gain during the day of 81 votes.
Speaker Clark began at 554 and fell to
463k. a loss of 81 votes. The anti.
Clark leaders in the convention called
attention to the fact that this almost
exactly Offset the 80 votes given to
Clark by the New York delegation.
Breaks to Governor Wilson were COM
ing from many different delegations
as the balloting closed. His managers
believed that once he had overtaken
Speaker Clark the switching of dele.
gates would be complete. The Clark
forces made a desperate effort Sunday
to win back some of the delegates
lost Sunday and in this they had the
rNrc0~ol 1s.@@k:~~ 80 Al- ----1.-- H.
self.
The Wilson forces, in the meantime,
were fighting not only to hold their
gains. but to induce more to desert
the other candidates.
Senator Stone of Missouri 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 a storm of objection and the sub.
ject was pressed no further.
The Harmon delegates from Ohio
threw their support to Speaker Clark
on several ballots, but they did not
materially help him toward the neces-
sary two-thirds vote because of the
gradual inroads made by Wilson. They
then changed back to Harmon and re-
manned there until the last ballot of
the evening.
The dark horse attempt was made
when Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston cast
"a of the states SO votes for Eugene
Noble Foss, governor of the state. The
convention vas not in a compromise
mood and Fitzgerald was denied the
five minutes he asked, on unanimous
consent, although it was known. that
he wanted to place the name of Foss
formally before the convention.
Foss stretched the "a votes start
Massachusetts had given him into 43
and held it there, but could get no
further.
And so the convention was left.
Bryan is a factor that no one can
reckon on. Bryan has sprung an
average Of one sensation a day since
the convention started in.
Champ Clark broke with w. ]. Bry.
an, Sunday. Fastening over from
Washington, intending personally to
denounce the Nebraskan in the con.
vention for Bryan's charge that Clark
had dealt with Tammany to obtain
the presidential nomination Clark ar
rived here to find the session adjourn
ed. He conferred with his lieutenants
and issued a statement demanding that
Bryan retract the aspersion that Clark
had entered into an alliance with the
privilege-seeking interests.
Ever since last Tuesday the Demo-
cratic national convention has been
attempting to nominate a candidate
for the presidency. The two-thirds
rule is largely responsible for the
deadlock which has caused the long
drawn out session. When the dele
gates cast their tw~enty.sixth ballot
without nominating, they smashed all
records made in previous contests.
Seymour, named by the Democrats in
1858, secured his place on the twenty
second ballot. In 1856 was the next
longest, when Buchanan was nominal
ed on the seventeenth.
Undoubtedly, William Jennings Bry-
an has had more to say than any other
man and has been the foremost lead
or, at Baltimore. His great fight
against Parker when he lost the tenn
porary craftsmanship by a good mar.
gin OF votes at the first of the session
did not seem to lessen his prestige.
Although he refused to have the chair.
manship Of the resolutions committee,
which was rendered to palliate him,
he has had the major portion Of the
work Of drafting the platform which
that committee is to recommend, left
to his Judgment The resolution
which he forced upon the convention
declaring the party opposed to any
candidate afaliated with the moneyed
interests seeking special privileges.
was a direct stab at Ryan and Bel