The Washington times., 1912-07-03
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS
II, WILL VISIT WILSON
ON JULY FOURTH
New National Committee Will Take No Active Steps To-
ward Organization Until Nominees Have Been
Conferred With BY Their Chiefs.

BALTIMORE, Mo-, July weary
bat happy, the new Democratic ma
t.onal committee met today. rushed
through with grist of routine busi-
ness and informally decided to- travel to
Sea Girt, n. j.. in a body tomorrow to
inject the party's Presidential nominee
Gov. Woodrow Wilson.
The committee decided that, until
latter Chairman Mack could ar, range a
c,hnmistee to confer with Governors
Wilson ana Marshall the present tenn
porary organization would be contln-
ued.
The decision to visit Governor VIII
son came at an informal gathering OF
the committee, Immediately follow
win ID. Wood. of Michigan, moved that
as an indication of the complete har,
mony with which the committee and
DemoGracy % recelyed sne non hhon'nae'ens nav ens
tire committee visit him tomorrow.
The motion was carried vociferously
and unanimously.
practically completed this AFTERNOON
by Sergeant Martin The
committee plans to leave Baltimore
on a special car at o'clock tomorrow
morning.
McComb for Chairman.
1t will not reassemble except on
call of the chairman. The general
understanding among committeeman
was that Governor Wilson would
pick William F. McComb, who was his
Campaign manager in the pre-conven-
tion fight, to manage his campaign
before the election, and that the
'"Tssee The scenes "t that accompanied the clos
ing of the convention were in decided
contrast to the tumultuous sessions OF
the week that had az gO,S sy The
The only dramatic INCIDENT was the
Bryan, delivered shortly after l o'clock
this morning, which brought his de-
voted followers to their feet with what
proved the final demonstration of the
long drawn out convention.
Choice of Marshall.
With Gov. Woodrow Wilson of New
Jersey as the head OF the ticket. the
party chieftains wanted man in sec
lond place who would be a strong fac
tor in the debatable Middle West.
Bryan disagreed with the first and
second choice Of the active party lead
ers-Speaker Clark and Gov. Thomas
II. Marshall of Indiana. The Nebraskan
favored Governor Burke of North Da-
kota as his first choice. His second was
Senator Chamberlain Of Oregon:
But the practical politicians, Taggart
Murphy Sullivan, and their lieutenants
who had gone down to defeat before
Bryan in every issue raised during the
progress of the convention, declared
that neither Burke nor Chamberlain
should be the man.
They pointed out that Chamberlain
was a Democrat representing Repub
lican State in the upper branch of Con
gress. Nominate him and Republican
would certainly take his place in tn
Senate, and the Democrats are full.
as much interested in making the Sen
ate Democratic as they are In electint
their national ticket this year.
Kern Refuses Place.
So far as Governor Burke was con
cerned, the practical politicians pointe'
out that geographically his position wa
not such as to command votes. The
insisted that the real candidate for tn
place was Marshall. Some of then
wanted Senator John w. Kern Of In
diana. He could have had PRACTICAL
the unanimous nomination. But he pos
Iitively refused, asserting that he wa
not strong enough to stand the worrie
of another protracted campaign, an
that he preferred his seat in the Senate
The politicians had their way. Brya
worked as hard as he could to preven
the Marshall nomination. He positive
Ily asserted that his opposition to tn
Indiana governor was in every way I'm
partial, and that he believed bette
known progressive should have bee
But when the nomination was finall
assured on the second ballot, II wa
Bryan who urged and finally succeede
in having the North Dakotans witt
draw Burke SO that the nominate
might be unanimous.
Party Leaders In Accord.
Wilson and Marshall seemed today
satisfy every delegate to the convention
The sore spots were being rapidly hea
ed as the men who have made part
history in the most remarkable DEM
cratic convention ever held departed Il
their homes.
Murphy and Bryan joined-althous
not together-in eulogizing the tick
and in predicting success for 1t ne:
November And Bryan positively prom
ised, in one of the most eloquel
speeches he has ever made, that he w
stump the country from one END TO u
other to assure its success.
The voluntary passing OF Bryan W,
the one great dramatic incident of 4
night. The convention had stopped
the middle of its rollNcall on the nomin
tions to spend a couple of hours di
POSING of the platform and the usu
resolutions. !,
sumed its labors: The roll S.ar,I' Was procee e.;
still jammed with people. The galleri
had been listening in amusement TO !
efforts of orators to pay eloquent I
huteS to the men lneS MeIS pldSihS
nomination for the Vice Presidency.
District Names Bryan.
The heat and the lateness of the no
had had its effect and so per cent of
enormous crowd was lazily lolling ba
IN chairs, hoping for something to
uyen the monotony. The reading Gle
finally reached the District of Column
NEXT TO the last on the list. He had
call twice. Finally the figure of laI
man climbed on a chair. He was
with perspiration His collar was a
and his general appearance one or co
pIete physical exhaustion.
There was a general laugh from
gallery and then the representative
The District, in voice that penetra
10 every part of the hig armory beg
"Mr. Chairman" he shouted,
have nominated for the head or I
ticket a man whom everyone admits
progressive. We believe that his
cess is assured.
but to make assurance doubly 81
now nominate as our candidate
the Vice Presidency of the Uni
states, the most progressive OF all a
ericans, the man who personally
created these policies which mean
nIacing of this nation of ours on rec