The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-28
PARKER PRES|DES
OVER DEMOCRATS
New Yorker Elected Temporary
Chairman of Convention.
DEFEATS BRYAN, 578 TO 500
Wisconsin Delegation Stands Solid
for Nebraskan on Vote-Parker's
Speech Attacks Roosevelt-CaIIs
G. Q. p. Convention "Brawl.r

Baltimore, June 26-At 1880
Yesterday by all the clocks that adorn
the numerous spires of Baltimore.
the twenty-first national convention
OF the Democratic party came to com
paratlVe order in response to the
falling of the gavel of National
Chairman Norman E. Mack. At 3:3O
1t had adjourned.
! In the interval, William JENNINGS
| Bryan had been nominated for tenn
| porary chairman by John w. Kern.
| had been defeated by Alton B. Par
| ker, the national committees choice
| for that Office, by a vote of SIS to
| 509, there had been three or four
minor clashes, a riot Of enthusiasm
and the delegates, who came with
| fight in their systems, retired in per-
! feet harmony and good feeling
| Defeat came to William Jennings
Bryan in the most important battle
in the history of his political career
! He staked his name and reputation
against that of Judge Alton b. Par
ker of New York, the latter backed
by the prestige of the great conserva-
| tive leaders of New York, Illinois, In
diana and Georgia, and lost Parker
was elected temporary chairman of
the democratic convention.
| Bryan will be Nebraskas member
of the resolutions committee and he
will renew his fight there for a plat
form that is really progressive.
One result of the fight was the
open break between the Clark forces
and Bryan. 1t was Clark pledged
votes that threw the balance of DOW
er against the peerless leader" and
Bryan, in his speech, made il plain
that he considered the Parker vic
tory a reactiOnary one, and due to
the Clark forces entering. into a
combination with the conservatives
in the hope that they would get votes
from New York for Clark
The vote was $40 for Parker and
sos for Bryan-totals that slightly
disagreed with all unofficial figures
Senator Luke Lea of Tennessee, Aoor
manager for Bryan, moved to make
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storm of nays from the floor and
the motion was never put.
Mack appointed Senators Stone of
Missouri, and Lea of Tennessee and
Delegate Hudspeth of New Jersey, a
committee to escort Judge Parker to
the stage. They performed their for
NAL function, amid a volley of cheers
that increased to burst as Parker
appeared on the platform smiling
slightly, and made his keynote
speech
The greater part of Judge Parker's
speech was devoted to an arraign-
nent of Roosevelt, whom he COM
pared to Diaz. The recent republi-
can convention he characterized as
''the most shameful brawl of our po-
litical history
The Wisconsin delegates figura-
lively went down with the ship
when William j Bryan was defeated
for the temporary Craftsmanship of
the convention. Five of the Clark
men on the Wisconsin delegation, on
the informal poll, voted for Ollie
James of Kentucky, but when Robert
Kirkland, chairman of the delega-
ton, appealed to the Badgers to
stand as a unit for Bryan, they raj
lied to the cause When the vote
was announced all of Wisconsin S
twenty-six delegates were listed for
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