The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1912-06-28

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eliminated because he cannot get thu
Bryan support, and this would make
his candidacy impossible in the west.
ern states against Roosevelt ant
hazardous in the eastern states against
Taft.
Whether the progressives or the
conservatives will win the chairman
ship depends upon the Clark dele
gates more than upon Clark himself
They hold the key. If they follow
their leader into the conservatives
camp Bryan and Wilson are doomed
If they believe Clark has desired by
combining with the conservatives to
get the nomination Bryan and Will
son may win. 1t is reported that the
! Clark forces are badly split over the
temporary craftsmanship.
| If Clark cannot deliver all dele
gates to Parker so as to elect him it
needs no guessing to say that the
Murphy Taggart- Sullivan combina-
ton will not feel called upon to throw
the nomination roll call. 1t can hard
ly be possible, however, that the
Murphy Hearst Clark conservative al
lance would have been entered into
unless it was certain that Clark so
could swing his entire $50 or 400 votes
Into the Parker camp against Bryan.
A straw as to how the wind is blow
ing in regard to the Clark claimed
delegates is shown by the attitude of
the Massachusetts delegates. Ac-
cording 20 Major Robert Green, Gov
ernof Foss' chief {. 1900, ,ue major
fly Of the Massachusetts delegates
will be found on the Bryan side in
contest between the pTogressives and
the conservatives. Again Governor
Vardaman of Mississippi, a strong
Bryan man, does not want to fight
Parker, fearing it will hurt Under
wood, so he is counselling Bryan to
make peace.
Conditions at Baltimore this morn
ing are not entirely unlike those at
Chicago. Before anything like an ac-
curate estimate of the outlook here
can be had the same old fight between
the progressives and the conservatives
for the control of the convention must
be met and settled. The victorious
forces will then name the candidate
and write the platform.
By an alliance with the Hearst
Murphy combination in the event of a
Democratic victory Clark will get the
presidency, Underwood the speaker
ship, Francis Burton Harrison, a
Tammany congressman, the chair
manship of the ways and means COM |
mittee of the house, and Congress-
man Fitzgerald, another Tammany |
shall retain the chair |
of the house committee on
appropriations. This would place
Tammany in a position of power in
national legislative halls, which many
thousand Democrats do not want
Charles Francis Murphy to occupy. 1t
would be an extension of Murphy's
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for Theodore Roosevelt to
chew on when he begins his campaign
as a progressive. Murphy would de-
liver the New York ninety votes and
them would come the Har-
mon, Marshall and Underwood dele
gates and the uninstructed conserva-
tives. With Clarks approximately
400 delegates, these, 1t is believed,
would give him the necessary two
thirds majority.
Taft's nomination at Chicago, with
4 prospect of a Roosevelt bolt, has
not helped the conservatives. The /
alarming reports that thousands Of
Democrats stand ready to support
Colonel Roosevelt in the event of
nomination at Baltimore ,
las made many leaders believe that
{ would be wise TO name a progress
i've, but just what degree they have
lot decided 1t may be an ultra pro- !
Tessive like Wilson, or a near-pr {
ressive like Gaynor or Clark