The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-07-05
BALLOT TWENTY-S|x
WITHOUT RESULTS
CLARK LOSES HEAVILY, WHILE
WILSON MAKES BiG GAINS At
SATURDAYS SESSION.
Democrats Forced 10 Take Recess
Over Sunday, Being Unable TO
Agree Upon Presidential Candidate
After Taking Twenty.slx Ballots.

/ Baltimore After twenty.sIx ballots
had been taken without selecting d
presidential candidate. the Demo.
cratic national convention at I1.05
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.
/ ~ lost ground In the race.
When the convention adjourned
Saturday Speaker Clark was hurry.
Ink 10 baltimore from Washington In
response TO an urgent call from his
campaign director William Jennings
Bryan al the afternoon session had
! attacked Clark and had said he would
vote for no man willing To accept
/ nomination at the hands or Murphy
OF Tammany Hail. II was the plan
or Mr., Clark to appear before the
convention and make answer. Tn
this way hiH 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 366
and ended at 407, net gain during
the day or nifty one votes, Clark be
gan al 55ah and fell to 1894, d loss
on nlnety-one votes,
The anticark leaders In the con
ventlon 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 a. the bal.
lotlng closed
His managers believed that once
he had oyertakcn Speaker Clark the
switching Of delegates would become
general
The Clark forces plan to make
desperate effort to win back some or
the delegates lost, and this work will
probably have the personal direction
Of the speaker himself.
The Wilson forces meantime ex.
pect 10 fight not only to hold Their
gaina Of Saturday. but TO induce more
to desert the other candidates.
Senator Stone Of Missouri made
motion to eliminate the candidate re.
ceiying tho least number OF votes on
each succeeding ballot after the
twenty.seyenth until only one--the
winner was left in the race. There
was a storm Of objection and the sub.
ieet 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 inr6ads 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 Massaehu. |
setts delegation deserted Clark sat
uFday night and started a Foss
boom. II created little excitement.
The deadlock confronting the Dem
ooratic convention Is the most 70.
markahle in the history of modern
politics. No one In the convention
was able to recall another instance
In recent years IN which II had re-
qulred anything like the number of
ballots to nominate that so far have
been taken without result.
Having failed to nominate with the
week end, II was not expected the
delegates would hurry to decision
on Monday and II 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 nomination.
Many OF the delegates were hopeful
that an early decision might be
reached. but the two heading candl.
dates on Saturday were so rar short
OF the 725 1.3 votes necessary to
nominate that the problem had seem.
ed most difficult one.
After the twenty first ballot the
Clark people in something of panic,
sought to have recess ordered.
The Wilson people. encouraged by
their gains. fought the motion and de-
feated It on roll call
The confusion in the hall during
the voting was such that the clerks
became badly mixed up on their fig.
ures and 1t variously was claimed
that a recess had been ordered and
defeated until Chairman James or
dered recasting OF the vote.
The afternoon session was marked
by another dramatic outburst from
Mr., Bryan. Claiming the privilege