Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1912-07-05

public Underwood refused to aid
Speaker Clark, when his votes would
probably have nominated Clark, and
Clark men, perhaps in revenge, went
down to defeat without throwing out
life line to Underwood. The latter,
however, swung to Wilson when Un-
derwood's votes would cinch the nom-
ination of Wilson. Senator Stone,
manager for Clark, then released the
delegates supporting the speaker to
vote as they pleased, and it was all
over-but the shouting and the elec:
tion in November. -.
When the nomination of Woodrow
Wilson as the Democratic candidate
for president was officially announced
there was a great demonstration. 1.
Underwood's manager, tSenator
Bankhead, refused to consider the
nomination of Underwood for vice
the event of Democratic congress
that Underwood will be . candidate
cal sun Of Champ Clark has gone down
forever. ~
Clark, who is personally the best
liked Of all the candidates, was the
victim Of unfriendly conditions. In
the first place his delegates voted
against Bryan for temporary chair
man, and this was repaid by Bryan at
IN opportune moment, when Bryan
roasted Tammany Hall, and made it
his excuse not to vote for Clark long
or. After that moment Clark 8 fate
was doomed, and Wilson was almost
certain of the nomination.
Bryan, although defeated in his first
move in the convention, emerges in
triumph, and he is the biggest man IN:
his party. He wrote the platform and,
dictated the nomination-and still will
roast the bosses. iss4
t+Fheze WAS pathos fHsstthe
scene. Major Fitzgerald Of New York,
after Underwood and Foss had been
withdrawn, moved that Wilson be Civ
en- the nomination by acciamation.
Missouri objected, because it's dele
gated wanted to express their loyalty
and devotion "to old Camp Clark" on
the final ballot. After expressing their
devotion to the utmost limit, the nom-
ination of Wilson was made unamim.
ous-and the Princeton schoolmaster
emerged the victor of most strenu.
Gus and record breaking national con-
vention.
His followers predict that his nom-
inatiOn will knock out Roosevelt's
third party plan, as they say all the
progressives in the country can sup
port Wilson.
Baltimore, July 2.-The first ballot
on the opening Of the convention at
noon, showed the results Of the ad-
journment, and the strife of the lead.
ers. The Clark men were supposed to
to make one more effort to nominate
the speaker, and failing in that they
would throw their votes to Under
wood. The Wilson men, under the
leadership of Bryan anticipated that
move, and increased Wilson 8 vote on
the 43rd ballot to 6O2. Illinois led the
break, giving it's So votes to Wilson,
Connecticut changed, giving 5 out of
IA to Wilson, Michigan followed with
it's solid % for Wilson for the first
time. West Virginia fell in line with
16 votes, for Wilson, and great were
the cheers of the Wilson men. Despite
all these gains Wilson still needed 124
more votes to give him the nomina-
tion.
On the next voSe Wilson gained 27,
having total of 629. The Clark men
still hung to their man with desperate
obstinacy, and the expected switch to
Underwood did not come. The Wilson
men were naturally enthused with
fresh courage, and confidently predict
ed a few more ballots would give Wood
row the victory. Urgent appeals were
made to New York to swing their 80
votes to Wilson and settle the fight
but the Bryan fight on Murphy and
Parker still ranked.
It soon became evident, however,
that the promised switch to Under
wood was not coming, and Tom Helm,
manager for Underwood, advised the
Alabama delegation to 60 to Wilson.
Bankhead, chairman Of the Alabama
delegation, protested against this
move, when Heflin argued: 'tI am
only trying to save your forces" but
Alabama refused to change. The Wilson
managers confidently asserted that
they had enough reserved votes to win
the nomination.
The gains Wilson made on the 44th
ballot were from Pennsylvania, Wis
consin and Utah.
Boss Murphy of Tammany Hall held
a hurried conference with Gov. Fran
els Of Missouri, who assured him that
he had enough votes to prevent Will
son g nomination.
When the state of Washington was
reached demand was made for a poll
of the delegation before the official
announcement was made Of the 44th
ballot, which Chairman James refused.
An appeal was taken from the decis.
ion of the chair. and this was met
by motion to lay the appeal on the
table, which was promptly done. :,
The 45th ballot gave Wilson an.
other small boost, and his total wa.