The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-30
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still confident that enough OF their del
eeates will remain steadfast to constr
large following among the progressives.
Today he threw his support openly TO
Wilson in speech that castlgaleo
Charles T. Murphy of New YORK, =! a
speech not expected to make the orol.
nary brand Of harmony any easier OF
attainment. IN.
The delegates did their duty manfuliy
today. They remained in their seats
from l clock in the afternoon until
aged to get sandwiches. Some dld not.
At l0:30 tonight they were frcsn
enough to take part in one OF the most
dramatic and enthusiastic demonstra'
tions of the noisy convention,
They were glad when tho ordeal was
over. But the ordeal had not moved
them TO desert any of their candidates
or to agree to any compromise Whag
their attitude will be Ethe lehders
are trying to figure out.
Rui tonight. as the men filed from
the hot and stuffy convention hall. one
thing was pretty certain. The Demo
cratic national convention was facing
a plain, old-fashioned American dead
lock and the delegates were sticking
to it with pertinacity that would
have brought grim smile to the lips
Of Old Hickory himself.
Call for Clark.
When the convention adjourned to-
night, Speaker Clark was hurrying to
Baltimore from Washington in response
TO an urgent call from his campaign di-
rector. William Jennings Bryan at the
afternoon session had attacked Clark
and had said he would vote for no man
willing to accept nomination at the
hands of Murphy of Tammany Hall. -
It was the plan of Mr.. Clark to appear
before the convention and make
answer. In this way his managers
boped to bolster the falling vote.
The ballots today ran from the thir-
teenth TO the twenty sixth. Wilson be-
gan at 356 and ended at 407, a net gain
Speaker Clark began at 5441a and fell
to io3ia. loss Of ninety-one votes,
The anti-Clark leaders In the conven-
tioD called attention to the fact that
they almost exactly offset the ninety
votes given to Clark by the New York
delegation. Breaks to Governor Will
son were coming from many different
delegations as the balloting closed His
managers believed that once be had
overtakeu Speaker Clark, the switch
ing Of delegates would become general.
The Clark forces plan to make des-
perate effort tomorrow TO win back
some of the delegates lost today and
in this work they probably will have
the personal direction Of the speaker
himself.
The Wilson forces meantime expect
to fight not only to hold their gains
Of today but to induce more to desert
the other candidates.
Senator Stone of Missouri tonight
made a motion TO eliminate the candi-
date receiving the least number of
votes on each succeeding ballot after
the twenty-seventh, until only one
the winner-was left in the race There
was storm of objection and the sub
Ject was pressed no further
Ohio's Switch.
The Harmon delegates from Ohio
threw their support to Speaker Clark
on several ballots but they did not ma
terially help him toward the necessary
two-thirds vote because of the gradual
inroads made by Wilson. They then
changed back to Harmon and remained
there until the last ballot Of the even.
ing.
The deadlock confronting the Dem
oeratlc convention is the most remarka
BILE in the history Of modern politics.
There was no one in the convention
today able to recall another instance
IN which It had required anything like
the number of ballots to nominate that
so tar have been taken without result.
Having failed to nominate with the
week end 1t Is not expected the dele.
gates Will hurry to decision on Mon
day and the fight NAV be prolonged
for several days. The Clark people are