The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-03-27
THAT KANSAS VOTE
wilson CONTROLS DELEGATION
BY GOOD MARGIN.
DELEGATES Will CONTOL

EEAEGG EU VI HILL UOls vi
Two-Thirds of Men on Delegation t
| National Convention Favor til
Nomination of Wilson, But The
Will Play Fair and Vote for Cham!
, Clark on the First Ballot.
!, The Kansas delegation to the Dem
ocratic national convention at Balti
more, is not for Champ Clark. 1t il
: for Gov. Woodrow Wilson. Such i
the claim made in a formal state
> n,ent, issued from the headQuarter;
Of the New Jersey executive in Wasn
ington. The statement Of the Wilson
campaign managers says:
"Adyices received from kansa:
make it certain that II and probably
Is of the 20 delegates to the Baltl
more convention favor the nomi1a
ton OF Governor Wilson for the pres
idency. It has been asserted that GOV
ernor Wilson only carried three ol
the eight congressional districts IL
Kansas, but information received al
Wilson headquarters shows that Gov
ernor Wilson's supporters elected del
egates in six Of the districts, giving
him a total Of u Of the, 16 district
delegates. In addition the Wilson
forces succeeded in electing two OF
the four delegates at large, one OF
whom is Henderson Martin, the Will
son campaign manager in Kansas.
There is no doubt that the Wilson
forces have two-thirds OF the Kansas
4a::c2 alton, and acting under the ii
structions Of the convention which
declared for Clark as first and Will
son as second choice, the vote Of tie
delegates will be swung to the New
Jersey executive whenever the opin-
ion of two-thirds Of the delegation
it. is deemed expedient to do So 1t
is plain that with two-thirds OF the
delegation in favor Of the nomina-
ton Of Governor Wilson perfume
tory vote of the first ballot would en-
able the Kansas delegates to go to
Governor Wilson, who is their real
choice for the presidency"
There is no disposition on the
part OF the Wilson people to violate
the instructions of the Kansas state
convention, and unquestionably
Speaker Clark will receive all 20
votes on the first ballot if he remains
candidate, but the friends OF Will
son are in absolute control Of the del
egation, and will be able to turn to
cation, and will be able to turn to
their candidate should such remote
contingency as a second ballot be-
come necessary"
Kansas newspapers confirm the ad-
vices received at Wilson headquarters
with reference to the complexion of
the delegation elected to the Balti-
more convention. Speaking OF the
work of the convention, the Kansas
City Star, an independent newspaper,
says that Speaker Clark got all the
DELEGATES except two-thirds OF them,
and that the delegates were instruct
ed 70 vote for Mr.. Clark until Gov
ernor Wilson wants them to vote for
him"
In its story of the convention the
Star, which is the leading newspaper
of the middle vest, gives much in
teresting information correcting false
impressions conveyed in dispatches
from Hutchinson, Kan, at the time
the state convention was in session
last week. The Star says:
"The Kansas delegates to the na-
tional Democratic convention were
instructed for Champ Clark, first
choice, and Wilson for second choice.
whenever, in the opinion Of two
thirds Of the delegation. 1t is deemed
eypedient to do so, is the instruction
as to when they shall leave Clark and
go to Wilson.
s'The resolution was added to the
regular Clark resolution when 1t be-
came apparent that it was doubtful
whether Clark could win instructions
at all. The resolution recltes that
Wilson is the second choice Of the
Kansas Democrats and when the del
egates leave Clark they must vote for
the New Jersey man.
$50 the convention really instructs
for both Clark and Wilson, and puts
the power to determine to what e1-
tent Clark shall be supported into the
hands OF the Wilson men. Then came
the district conventions and Wilson
got ten Of the 16 district delegates.
THE Sixth district delegates, who
had been snowbound for p hours,
arrived early in the afternoon and
added two more district delegates,
making y Of the Is to Clark's four.
"The election OF delegates-at-large
resulted in two more Wilson men be
ing added to the - district delegates.
B. S. Gaitskill, Of Girard, and Hen
derson Martin. Wilson manager, de-
teated two Clark men as delegates,
B.. ). Sheridan and A. NJ. Jackson,
two prominent Clark leaders, were
the other two.
"The Wilson men on the delegation
are J. VI. Orr and ". D. Kuhn, OF the
First district: Frank Comisky, Third
district: ". S. Carpenter and N. A
ILimbocker, Fourth district: John
Hostetter and Mike Fry, Fifta dis
trict;; Charles Sawyer and Edward
DYE Of the Sixth: Jerry Fitzpatrlcs