Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-07-05

TWenty-Six Ballots Taken Without Result.
Clark RusI1es to Baltimore.

Woodrow Wilson gaining on each bal
lot and Speaker Champ Clark constant
ly losing ground in the race for the
presidential nomination, the Demo
cratic national convention at Hos
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 final YER
dict 1t is against all political prece-
dent for a national convention to sit
on Sunday, but that day was 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 $50 and ended at 4071a, a
net gain during the day of 81 votes.
Speaker Clark began at 554 and fell to
1881, a loss Of 81 votes. The anti
Clark leaders in the convention called
attention to the fact that this almost
exactly offset the so 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 desperate effort Sunday
to win back some of the delegates
lost Sunday and in this they had the
personal direction of the speaker him
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 SUBJ
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 Sc votes for Eugene
Noble Foss, governor of the state. The
convention was 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
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
oaff Io
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 twenty-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
er, 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 affiliated with the mOneyed
interests seeking special privileges
was a direct stab at Ryan and Bel