The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-28
Convention Hall Was a Sight This
Morning After the Carnival Of
Noise All
Night.
CLAIM AGENTS BUS
Dark Horse, Rooster and White Dove
Were Only Occupants Of the
Uttered up Audi
toriun.

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FIFTH REGIMENT ARMORY, Bal
timore, June 2S.-A weary wilderness
OF chairs, floor buried inches deep
in heterogeneous rubbish of chewed
cigars. bits of paper, remnants OF
lunch, beer and pop bottles, and fray
ed banners, air. fetid and humidity,
and few detected employees listlessiy
striving to clean up this was today's
view Of the national democratic con-
vention hail.
1t was not until nearly noon that an
attempt was made to clear away the
debris for today's session. Through
most of the day, sickly sun strove
In vain to tighten the gloom. Outside,
it rained, in fits and starts.
Ten minutes after Chairman James
gavel had declared a recess, there was
not delegate, or alternate, or visitor
left in the vast building. Sleepy-eyed,
the crowd had revived hurriedly to
scurry out of the structure. There
was no enthusiasm left.
Probably never before in national
convention have suCn scenes been
enacted as those Of last night. The
| frenzy of enthusiasm was unparallel-
ed. 1t left strong men weak from ex'
haustion. When the garish light OF
4 dawn Wed with electric lights 1t re
4 ayealed- sweat-begrimmed crowd o
men. flung listlessly into their hard
bottomed chairs, their aching limbi
4 stretched out to half recumbent atti
tudes Scores slept peacefully, de
spite constant din of hoarse com
ment flung at persistent speakers. ol
Chairman James vigorous pounding
The Missouri delegation, in the from
row, was there to a man, but not {
one had any voice left. An hour o
cheering for Champ Clark earlier ir
i the night, left them almost speech
less, with queer croaking utterances.
/ William j, Bryan left the hall short
ly after midnight but Chairman Ollie
James settled his mastadonic bulk II
big arm chair and stuck to the jot
through practically the entire session
relinquishing the gavel for few mo
ments rest about o'clock. Expect
ing ballot very few delegates de
serted the hall and while they wer>
there, they had their fun. Batting o
speakers was the main outlet o
amusement.
At noon the only sign of life in tn,
big convention hall was in one of th
ante rooms, where the resolution
committee wrestled with the plat
form, and In groups on the floor
where workmen struggled to clea
away the debris.
The only two things that did no
appear detected in the hall were
rooster, who wandered around strid
emily emitting the cock crow that tn
man who brought him into the ha
had throughout the night vainly e1
deavored to extract from the birt
and the white dove released durin
the Underwood demonstration. Bot
, were given freedom outside the hal
Clark on the Thtrd7
i BALTIMORE, June 2s.-Clark o
the third ballot; Wilson on til
r fourth, or fifth ballot; dark horse
1 after the, fifth or sixth fruitless vot
these were some of the prediction
voiced this afternoon by claim agent
for various candidates
The Clark managers claimed thu
r Clark on the second ballot would il
r crease his vote to 1881, gain {
r forty-six over the first ballot The
r said they would get 26 from Pennsy
vania, six from North Carolina, s.
r from Virginia. six from Tennessee
r and two from Utah, and would ha,
Il the necessary votes to nominate c
the third roll call They look II
v New York to give him ninety vot'
J. on this ballot
The Wilson bureau claimed tn
the New Jersey governor would w
on the fourth or fifth ballot. Th,
r. said a number of delegates wi
n voted for Clark on the first ball
II would desert him the moment tn
Z discovered the so-called Wall sire
combination swinging to him al
that the deserters would more thi
outnumber those who would go
Clark by reason of the Murphy-sul
. van-Taggart influence. The Wills
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