Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-06-30

(By Morning journal Special Ieasea wire.)
Baltimore, June 29-With Governor
Woodrow Wilson gaining on each bal
lot and Speaker Champ Clark con-
stantly losing ground in the race for
the presidential nomination, the dem
Ocratic national convention at 11:O5
o'clock tonight adjourned until Mon
day morning at IL O'clock.
Twenty-six ballots had been taken
since the first call of the states and
there was no hcpe of final verdict
tonight. 1t is against all political pre-
cedent for national convention tn SIT
on sunday but tomorrow will be day
OF important conferences among the
party leaders and day of hard work
Tor the campaign managers
When the convention adjourned to-
night, Speaker Clark was hurrying TO
Baltimore from Washington in re-
sponse to an urgent call from his cam
paign director. William j. Bryan 1T the
afternoon session had attacked clark
and had said he would vote for no nun
willing to accept nomination at the
hands of Murphy, of Tauimany Hall.
II wAsA the pian OF Mr.: Charxt 10 ap-
pear before the convention and make
answer. In this way his managers
hoped to bolster the falling vote.
The ballots today ran from the tiiir-
teenth to the twenty-sixth. Wilson be-
gan at 356 and ended at 407, a net
gain during the day Of 81 votes.
Speaker Clark began at 554 12 and
fell to 463 1-2. loss of 81 votes.
The anti-Clark leaders in the con-
vention called attention to the fact
that they almost exactly offset the 30
votes given to Clark by the New York
delegation. Breaks to Governor VIII
son were coming from many different
delegations as balloting closed. Ills
managers believed that once he had
overtaken Speaker Clark the switch
ing of delegates would become genera.
The Clark forces plan to make des-
perate effort tomorrow to win back
some of the delegates lost today and in
this work they probably will have Ihe
personal direction of the speaker him
self. The Wilson forces meantime eX-
pect to fight not only to hold their
gains of today, but to induce more to-
desert the other candidates.
Senator Stone, of Missouri, tonight
made a motion to eliminate the ca adj
date receiving the lowest number of
votes on each succeeding ballot after
the twenty-seventh until only oas-
the winner, was left in the race.
There was a storm of objection ami
the subject was pressed no further.
The Harmon delegates from Ohio
threw their support to Speaker Clark
on several ballots. but they did not
help him toward the neces-
sary two-thirds vote because of the
inroads made by Wilson. They
then changed back to Harmon and re-
mained there until the last ballot of
the evening.
The great bulk or the Massachusetts,
deserted Clark tonight and
started a Foss boom. 1t created little /,
The deadlock confronting the demo-
cratic convention Is the most remark
able in the history of modern poll
tics.
There was no one in the convention
today able to recall any instance in
which II had required anything like
the number of ballots to nominate /
that so far have been taken without
result.
Having failed to nominate at the
week end, IL is not expected that the |
delegates will hurry to decision on
Monday and the fight may be prolong-
ed for several days. The Clark people
are still confident that enough of
their delegates will remain steadfast
10 constitute the necessary-one-third
TO prevent nomination.
Many of the delegates were hopeful
that an early decision might be reach
ed but the two leading candidates We're
loHlgnt SO Tar snort OF tne go %
votes necessary to nominate that the
problem seemed most difficult one.
The democratic national committee
struggled in vain through long and
'ultry afternoon session today trying
% make a nomination for president.
Tonight the perspiring delegates were
'till at their task, many OF them on
he verge of prostration from heat
md lack OF rest.
Champ Clark steadily lost ground
Turing the afternoon. dropping from
's4 on the thirteenth ballot to SOS on
he twenty-first, despite the fact that
New York's support up to that time
rad continued firm.
Woodrow Wilson made important
'ains during the late afternoon ballot
Ing going from 353 1-2 on the thir-
zenith to 3s5 1-2 on the twenty -first
rhe Wilson forces were enthusiastic
onight and were claiming they ultl-
nately would win. The Clark people
'lainly were worried by the defec-
ions In their ranks Kansas was the
irsf important state to desert Clark az
$ n whole for WILSON,
The sentiment in that delegationl
lad favored Wilson from the Begin
ing, hut the Wilson contingent was
lot able to get a two-thirds vote un-
u today. Then, under state convention