Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1912-07-04
LOOKED BAD FOR
EARLY SOLUTION
OF THE BIG DEADLOCK AT THE
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CON-
VENTION.
FIGHT MAY LAST FOR, DAYS
Wilson People Propose to Stand Firm
Underwood Forces Unwilling to
Yield and VIII Keep Their Man In
the Race to the End

Baltimore. - Hope OF nomination
on the twenty-seventh ballot for Pres
ident was practically abandoned by
Democratic leaders Sunday night.
When the national convention ad-
journed for Sunday it was believed
that some solution of the long dead
lock would result from conferences
between the. champions of the three
leading candidates, but it developed
that the time hal not arrived for the
withdrawal of either Speaker Clark,
Governor Wilson or Representative
Underwood 1t was not expected that
the first ballot Monday would differ
materially from the twenty-sixth.
Campaign managers possible might
have reached some agreement If in
terested in the deadlock had not been
dwarfed by the personal controversy
developed between William ]. Bryan
and Speaker Clark. The visit Of Mr..
Clark 70 Baltimore evershadowed
everything else.
Party leaders generally took the po-
sition, Notwithstanding the Nilsson.
rian's impassioned denial Of Mr..
Bryans imputation that he was be-
holden to Morgan, Belmont and Ryan,
that he would be unable to regain the
votes he had lost At the same time
many of them thought that sympa-
| thy for Mr. Clark and the inevitable
linking Of Bryan and Wilson in the
minds of delegates, by reason of the
New Jersey candidate having been
the beneficiary of the votes turned
away from Mr.. Clark by the Nebras-
kan's philippe, had injured the chance
Of Wilson's nomination.
If Clark and Wilson fall on the
next two or three ballots 1t was pre-
dicted that there would be turn to
Representative Underwood, who had
held his normal vote from first to last.
The following is the result OF Satur-
days balloting:
Thirteenth Ballot-Clark 554; WI.
son 356 1-2 Underwood 115 i-2; Har.
mon 20; Marshall 30; Foss 2; Bryan l.
Fourteenth Ballot.-Clark $50; vii.
son 1862; Underwood 113; Harmon 20;
Marshall 30; Bryan 2; Kern 2.
Fifteenth Ballot.-Clark 552; Wilson
1862 1-2; Underwood 10 1-2; Harmon
20; Marshall 80; Bryan 2; Kern 2.
Sixteenth Ballot.-Clark 551; Wilson
362 1-2; Underwood 112 1-2; Harmon
20; Marshall 80; Bryan /; Kern 2.
Seventeenth Ballot-Clark 545! Will
son 362 1-2; Underwood 112 IL; Har-
mon 20; Marshall 80; Kern 4 1-2;
Bryan l.
Eighteenth Ballot-Clark 595; VII.
son 361; Underwood 1c5; Harmon 20;
Marshall 80; Kern 1-2; Bryan /.
Nineteenth Ballot-Clark 5S2; Will
son 35S; Underwood 1870; Harmon 20;
Marshall 80; Kern i Bryan I.
Twentieth Ballot-Clark 5l2; Will
son 3SS 1-2; Underwood 121 1-2; Har.
mon 29; Marshall 3O Kern / Bryan
!; Foss 2; James 3.
Twenty-First Ballot-Clark 50S;
Wilson 395 1-2; Underwood 11S 1-2;
Harmon 20; Marshall so; Kern l;
Foss 5.
Twenty-Second Ballot-Clark 500 IL
Wilson 396 1-2; Underwood 115; Mar
shall 30; Foss AZ; Bryan l; Kern l.
Twenty-Third Ballot-Clark 497 1-2;
Wilson 399; Underwood ia 1-2; Mar.
shall 3O Foss As; Bryan /; Gaynor l.
Twenty-Fourth Ballot-Clark 496;
Wilson 4O2 1-2; Underwood lis IL;
Foss 43; Marshall 30; Bryan l.
Twenty-Fifth Ballot - Clark 469;
Wilson 405; Underwood 10S; Foss 43;
Marshall so; Harmon 20; Bryan L;
James 3.
Twenty-Sixth Ballot-Clark 463 1-2;
Wilson 4O7; Underwood 112 l-2; Har.
mon 20; Marshall 80; Bryan /; Foss
43; absent / 1-2; total 1,0SS.