Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1912-07-04
BALLOT TWENTY-S|X
WITHOUT RESULTS
CLARK LOSES HEAVILY, WHILE
WILSON MAKES BIG GAINS AT
SATURDAYS SESSION.
Democrats Forced to Take Recess
Over Sunday, Being Unable to
Agree Upon Presidential Candidate
After Taking Twenty-six Ballots. =

After Taking Twenty-six Ballots. :
Baltimore.-After twenty-six ballot.
had been taken without selecting
presidential candidate. the Demo
cratic national convention at ITO;
Saturday night adjourned until Mon
day morning at IL o'clock
On each ballot on Saturday, Cover
nor Woodrow Wilson made gains
while Speaker Champ Clark constant
ly lost ground in the race
When the convention adjourned
Saturday Speaker Clark was hurry.
| ing to Baltimore from Washington in
response to an urgent call from his
campaign director. William jennings
Bryan at the afternoon session had
attacked Clark and had said he would
vote for no man willing to accept
nopination AT the hands OF Murphy
of Tammany Hall" 1t was the plan
of Mr.. Clark to appear BEFORE the
convention and make answer. In
this way his managers hoped to boil
ster the falling vote.
The ballots on Saturday ran from
the thirteenth to the twenty-sixth.
Thirteen ballots had been taken on
Friday without result
On Saturday Wilson began at 356
and ended at 407, a net gain during
the day Of fifty-one votes. Clark be
gan at 5541a and fell to 4631s, a loss
of ninety-one votes.
The anti-Cark leaders in the con-
vention called attention to the fact
that they almost exactly Offset the
ninety votes given to Clark by the
New York delegation. Breaks to Gov
ernor Wilson were coming from
many different delegations as the bal
loting closed.
His managers believed that once
he had overtaken Speaker Clark the
switching of delegates would become
general.
The Clark forces plan to make a
desperate effort to win back some of
the delegates lost, and this work will
probably have the personal direction
of the speaker himself
The Wilson forces meantime ex.
pect to fight not only to hold their
gains of Saturday, but to induce more
to desert the other candidates.
Senator Stone of Missouri made a
motion to eliminate the candidate re-
ceiving the least number of votes on
each succeeding ballot after the
fWantU-CounntI
winner-was left in the race There
was storm of objection and the sub
ject was pressed no further.
The Harmon delegates from Ohio
threw their support to Speaker Clark
on several ballots, but they did not
materially help him toward the nee
essary two-thirds because of the grad
ual inroads made by Wilson. They
then changed back to Harmon and re.
NAMED there until the last ballot OF
the evening.
The great bulk of the Massachu-
sets delegation deserted Clark Sat.
urday night and started Foss
boom. 1t created little excitement.
The deadlock confronting the Dem
ocratic convention is the most re-
markable in the history of modern
politics. No one-in the convention
was able to recall another instance
in recent years in which it had re-
quired anything like the number of
ballots to nominate that so far have
been taken without result.
Having failed to nominate with the
week end, it was not expected the
delegates would hurry 10 a decision
on Monday and it was predicted that
the fight might last several days. The
Clark people are still confident that
enough of their delegates will remain
steadfast to constitute the necessary
one-third to prevent a nomination.
Many of the delegates were hopeful
that an early decision might be
reached. but the two leading candi.
dates on Saturday were so rar shorr
of the 725 1-3 votes necessary to
nominate that the problem had seem
ed a most difficult one.
After the twenty first ballot the
Clark people, in something of a panic
sought to have a recess ordered.
The Wilson people, encouraged by
their gains, fought the motion and de.
feated it on a roll call.
The confusion in the hall during
the voting was such that the clerks
became badly mixed up on their fig.
ures and it variously was cIaime.
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