The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-05-10
HllEYS EMPTY BOAST
Texas senator Dragged ON the Combi-
nation AEsinst Wilson, Only to
Have HIS Own state Repud-
late His Words

Washington, May 10.-With South
Carolina and Porto Rico TO his credit,
Gov. Wilson captured Tuesday twenty
four delegates to the Baltimore con-
vention, more than offsetting the cleo
|tion of sixteen delegates in Maryland,
committed to the candidacy of Speaker
Clark
Far Ahead of the Field
With the twenty-four votes that he
received yesterday Governor Wilson
now has 232 delegates elected to the
Baltimore convention, which is a very
much larger number of votes than can
be commanded by any of the other
candidates.
1t is interesting to note that Speaker
Clark and Governor Harmon supported
the same set of delegates in Maryland,
while the supporters of Governor Will
son put up straightout list of Wilson
delegates. This latest display of team
work on the part of the speaker and
Governor Harmon, illustrates anew the
character of the fight that is being
made to prevent the nomination of
Governor Wilson.
Senator Joseph w. Bailey, who is un-
questionably the leader as well as the
ablest of those conducting the allied
campaign to prevent the nomination Of
Governor Wilson, has frankly disclosed
the whole game, making ridiculous the
denials that there is an alliance to pre-
vent the nomination of the New Jersey
governor. This he did last week in
speech at Mckinney, Tex, where he
was campaigning in behalf of an in
structed delegation for Governor Har-
mon.
Senator Bailey not only admitted the
alliance but justified it, as the follow
ing utteranee by him shows:
Il must reply to the frequent charge
that Underwood, Clark and Harmon
are in a joint conspiracy to defeat
Governor Wilson. My countrymen,
whenever you find three democrats
like them making common cause
against fourth you may be sure that
the fourth ought to have common
cause made against him. 1t is true
that in some states Clark has been CIV
en- the field against Wilson; in others
Harmon has been given the field: in
still others Underwood has been given
the field. And l suppose you have
heard from Georgia and Florida in the
last few days: That's no crime; neither
is it a combination in restraint of polit-
ica1 ambition. Wilson represents a de-
parture from democratic principles
and it is just and fair to see whether
he could get a majority in the demo-
cratic states or not. He has not car
ried majority in a democratic state
yet and he will not carry one. He is a
Southern man and yet he has not car
ried a Southern state that held a pri-
mary, and don't believe he will. 1t is
not the man; it is the policies and the
principles he advocates. I do not hes
itate to say that 1 would vote for Har-
mon, Clark or Underwood. either or all
of them, to defeat Wilson,
Governor Wilson has not only car
ried two Southern states, but he has
carried that Southern state that is the
largest democratic state in the Union
He is the only candidate who is max
ing nation wide contest. The vic
tories recorded by him in the great
state of Pennsylvania on the Atlantic,
Oregon on the Pacific. Wisconsin on the
Great Lakes, Texas on the Gulf, and
Maine in New England, attest this fact.
Where he has failed to win as the re-
suit of the combination of the allies,
he has been close second. Witness
Georgia. Maryland, Kansas, Nebraska
and other states.