The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-01
Clarks Boom Blows Up and
Wilson Explosion Is Now
Looked For
UNDERWOOD MAY BE.
KEY TO SITUATION
Welliver Says Wilson Is Man
Agreed Upon, But Does
Not Say Who Has
Ayr eed OH Him
BY ROBERT H. GRAY.
tStafr Correspondent The Richmond
Nirginian).

Nirginianl.
BALTIMORE. MD, juno 30.--Last
night Will go down in history In bal
fimore on good many different
counts.
II ought. however, to be remember-
: ed as the might of the big sleep.
Everybody was doing IL. 1t vas a
question OF hats OF to mother nature.
As result the thousands rose up
refreshed to prophesize, The dope
fiowed In currents, There was the
dope positive, the dope negative,
Clark dope, Wilson sope. dope for
Kern. for Bryan. for tH1erwoou
out of II all there Is "a small
resiaium OF facts. They are: Clark =
statement putting Bryan IN the
Ananiaa club. Intended 10 he elec-
trical, has fallen fiat Bryans re-
g fnsaf to declare iiiIrse.f upon the
question ~ whether he witt support
the nominee and the adroit manner
IN which he avoided doing SO Ere
slowly daHD!ng upon the appreheh-
B sion OF the thousands OF Democrats
who came here for victory instead or
murder Clark seems To have shot
his bolt, and Wilson to be OH the eve
of doing tbs, same thing.
Underwood's spirit Is yet to come
with his fnas apparently preoraa shea
to happen at the quarter pole
One Of Three Things.
The other fats are inmaterial.
The one that remains In that bryan
has made split. which may be
mended only by one of three things
Surrender to Bryan. Bryan's SurEsn-
DER tsryHns st1IUiHa1'orl, " sTtr'I OF
of shes. solutions will be the an
swer. no man can Say. Tonorro"
may be the day 70 give birth 10 The
epoch making decision. IL may come
Tuesday. or Wednesday. or even later
In the meantime one can only drift
with the tide. hoping and fearing.
Clark's entry last night and MS late
abatement have been taken calmly,
even contemporary,
War With Bryan Not Fay.
On NIL stde~ there il heard expires
sion Of regret that the Nebraska
should have seen st TO precip'tate
this issue he has brought to pass,
but land Il is a ing ''but''p. ro .aah
san profit by the easy route OF caillhg
him a LIAR Ii In being talked tlet
Clark may come on the floor. II ne
does his finish win m"~rly be hastesl~
ed. War with Brys1 Tvs not cla'ld
play. nor lightly to b, entered u,"n
7. il scarcely probable that Clark
will he SO foolish Sc to carry the
r&sx4-SenHl Issue 50 Tar. VI h* Stt@ AZ
do So, II takes no prophet to deter
mine what would happen to Clare
Clark il taking the disappointment nj
common to all the leading candidates
more hardly than any others ials
coming here In IA state of hysteria was
IN marked contrast To Wilson's pols@,
The impression that he f. done for is
scarcely complicated with pity.
Regret For wilson.
F.sA1-
As to wilson's candidacy the i""l
ing il different IL is one OF regret.
he has been gaining. N sentiment
4ls4 -llttl.. Iad -Antss thai 1olAnt
much Bu. that he viii gain the roai
a. heven,i real expectation. The neht
has zone too far. The lines are too
t,rhtIy drawn. On the big chess
hoard of the convention the move
mcnt of a pawn may deSide the a"'S-
tion. but passion must first be cnecE-
mated.
Isdson welliver the political writer
AVA ans of the chiefest of Roose-
Welt boomers. states ~ fact In ms
afternoons Washington Times that
Wilson has been agreed upon III con-
v ference Ii is noticeable that ne say
4 vrthinr as to who conferred, or WEo
came TO the decision. The chief VIZ
ere In such q story is the audacity OF
the man who sprung It,
UNDERWOOD WAY Suicth ~
AT present the key to the deacloek
A. IN Underwood He has hundred
a. more votes that cannot be iaken
u S,.or him. These will probably form
y : nucleus about which Will form
MISREPRESENTATION to a gain New OF
& s,vrhably will go to him when the
= time seems ripe. $50
n a something of Joke that Clark
should have gone to wreck on ianlT
many support. when eVerynoas'
Rrran. more certainly than any
ether. knows that that support IS
fnEfYrere Bryan shipwr0~krd tfFtt y,
WIN. he alone knows. ana lac mas ii'l
yet told.
Humors Of CONVENTION
rh, burners az th. convention are
FL. ,,,.,,ee reus. Among them Is distinct.
~ fhe pink whislsered j. Ham Lewis
wbn frequently presides. with some
ts.xusa ntss Of people stanipedius W
nnd down the aisles he is in the hahit
~ leaning over, waving q uictatoi ~
u Ssrrer and saying in a yexed ana per
.s ;,S,s,i Ynnas. *YUu sit Down, yea
usauld think that ]. Ham was pre-
nared to spank the convention unless
II obeyed. or course II never does.
A ineffective is the constant threat
AZ Ollie James to Instruct the SET.
gcant-At-ars TO "ciear the galie,rss;
snAaking OF Bryan's position. r. j.
Yu.ticr. ~ North Carolina, shrewd
- they are made and radical OF
- dicals, declared that the best way
~ analvze the situation was IN 'ne
,.,xxr,is ~ Vance, who once said t1at
~ ~ certain thing were done the parry
..wo,,ld got I'M and walk out itse't,
~ NAV or may not come 70 the pass
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