The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-07-05

William j. Bryan at the afternoon SEES
sion attacked Clark, and had said he
would vote for no man willing to ac-
cept a nomination at the hands of
Murphy of Tammany Hall" II was
the plan of Mr. Clark to appear be-
fore the convention and answer this.
In this way the managers hoped to
bolster up the falling vote
Clark 463Hz, Wilson 4o7Ia.
The ballots Saturday ran from the
sixteenth to the twenty.sixth. VIII
son began at 356R and ended at 40712,
a net gain during the day of 81 votes.
Speaker Clark began at 554 and fell
to 463R, a loss of 9Ola votes The
anti-Clark leaders in the convention
called attention to the fact that this
almost exactly offset the ninety votes
given to Clark by the New York dele
cation. Breaks to Governor Wilson
were coming from many delegations
as the balloting closed His man
ayers believed that once he had over
taken Speaker Clark the switching Of
delegates would become general.
The Clark forces plan to make a
desperate effort to win back some
of the delegates lost, and in this work
they probably will have the personal
direction of the speaker himself
The Wilson forces in the meantime
expect to fight, not only to hold their
gains, but to induce more 10 desert the
other candidates.
Elimination Motion.
Senator Stone of Missouri made a
motion to eliminate the candidate re-
celving the lowest number of votes on
each succeeding ballot after the TWEEN
ty-seventh until one--the winner
was left in the race There was
storm of objection and the subject
was pressed no further.
The Harmon delegates from Ohio
threw their support to Speaker Clark
on several ballots, but did not ma.
terially help him toward the neces-
Sary two-thirds vote because of the
gradual inroads made by Wilson.
They then changed back to Harmon
and remained there until the last bal.
lot of the evening.
The great bulk of the Massachu.
Sets delegation deserted Clark and
started a Foss boom. 1t created little
eXciten mt
Remarkable in History.
The deadlock confronting the con.
Vention is the most remarkable in the
history OF modern politics There
was no one in the convention Satur,
day able TO recall another instance
III recent years in which it had re,
qulred anything like the number of
ballots to nominate that so far have
been taken without result.
The Clark people are still confident
that enough of their delegates will re-
main steadfast to constitute the nee,
essary one-third to prevent nomna
ton. Many of the delegates were
hopeful that an early decision might
be reached, but the two leading can.
lidates were SO far short OF the 72512
votes necessary to nominate that the
problem ahead seemed a most diff
cult one.
Proceedings Of Fridays Convention.
Baltimore, Md.-Cheers greeted the
arrival Of Chairman James at All
O'Clock. The gavel fell just one min
ute later
Rev W. M. Harton, pastor of Brant
ley Baptist church of Baltimore, OF.
fered prayer
The prediction OF democratic sue.
cess met with approval expressed i'll |
an ouiburst of applause at the conclu
sion Of the prayer.
Chairman James at Ais announced |
that the roll call for the presidential |
nomination would be resumed at once |
Several minutes were required TO
clear the floor and restore order.
Alabama vas The first state called !