New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-27
Clark Wins in Test Vote.

Clark Wins in Test Vote.
The credentials committee overturned tne
action OF the national committee and gave
the ten seats from South Dakota 10 Clark
delegates in the FIRST actual test OF strength
between the Wilson and anti-WilsCn forces.
Rv the close vote OF Is 20 % the com
mittee unseated the ten Wilson delegates
who had received the highest vote In the
| state primaries on June I. and gave ;he
seats 70 the Clark delegation. headed by
| Andrew F. Lee. This was one OF two dele
cations that had run under the Clark ban
| ner. their combined vote exceeding that OF
the Wilson ticket.
! The overthrow Of the Wilson delegates
! who had been seated by the national COM
mittee came as surprise 10 the Wilson
| forces II was the FIRST case in which the
national committee was reversed, and the
close vote gave the Clark forces little 10
! spare in their tight
| Ex-senator PettErew. an active figure
in the Clark national campaign. aided IN
presenting the claims NJ the Clark con-
testAnts and was attacked by the Wilson
| delegates.
The South Dakota case presented three
| fDllehlHlE llthtlsg pIlt i'dNtA w '4'Nll'
BRYAN Progressive Democracy" another
'"Wilson- Clark BRYAN Democracy and a
third CLARK for President"
The second delegation was the one seat
ed. The Clark forces declared the third
ticket had been filed 10 divide their vote
but this was denied. The delegates are for
| Clark, and II was claimed that while they
received about four hundred less votes than
the Wilson ticket, the total vote cast for
both Clark tickets exceeded that cast for
! the single Wilson ticket. The Clark dele
gates who were seated held certificates Is
| sued under the law by the Democratic
state chairman. while tho Wilson delegates
! had been awarded later certificates by the
| state canvassing board.
| p H. Martin, the Wisconsin member al
the credentials committee. proposed that
/ the Wilson delegates be retained on the
| permanent roll OF the convention. AS a
substitute. Jerry c. South OF Arkansas,
moved the seating OF the Clark delegates.
The division in the committee was:
For the Clark MISREPRESENTATION Ala
hama: Little, Arizona; South, Arkansas;
Creswell, California: Galligan, Colorado;
Chase, Florida: Hutchens, Georgia. Heit-
felt Idaho; Campbell. Illinois; Bell, In
diana: Murphy. Iowa; Kinds. Kansas;
Young. Kentucky; Field Maryland; Dono-
hue. Massachusetts; Kinnane. Michigan
Talley, Mississippi. Shannon, Missouri;
Coffey. Montana: Miller, Nebraska; Wills
New Hampshire; Buckley, New Mexico
Ross. Ohio: Call. Oklahoma; Barry. Rhode
Island Ritz, Washington: McCorkle' Wes'
| virginia: Erwin Alaska-28
Against Clark deegstes-Thoms' Connec-
tjcut; Heisel. Delaware; Blanchard, Louis
lana; Harvey Maine: Knox. Minnesota;
Wedin. New Jersey; Bridges, New YORK
Hammer. North Carolina; Kelly, North
Dakota: Moses, oregon; Mccormick, Penn
sylyania; Glenn. South Carolina; Adler
Tennessee; Crane Texas; Whitmore. Titan
MAYO. Vermont; Story, virginia; Martin
Wisconsin: Hasenkamp, Wyoming; Harvey
District Of Columbia; Efiinger. Hawaii;
Molina, Porto Rico; Manley Philippines
%.
Fioht Over Illinois.
A bitter fight was made by the Illinois
contestants on the rule OF Roger {. sulli-
van as national committeeman from that
state. The Hearst Harrison faction claimed
20 rave carried a majority OF the precincts
IN Chicago ard 10 have controlled the Cook
County convention. They charged the
Sullivan men had bolted that convention
but that when the case Of the Hearst.