Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-05-07
STILL
IN THE LEAD
Has 1856 Delegates Against
Clark's 1856.

Woodrow Wilson once more FORCES
to the front as the leading candidate
for the Democratic presidential
nomination as a result of his sweep
ing victory In the precinct primaries
held in Texas Saturday. This as
sures Governor Wilson the forty
votes of the Lone Star State in the
Baltimore convention. These forty
with six more from Porto Rico gives
him a total Of 1856 delegates, or
forty more than his next highest
competitor for the nomination,
Speaker Clark, who has 1876 dele
gates to his credit. The total for
Wilson Ices not include the ten
North Dakota delegates, who were
instructed for Governor Burke, of
that State, but who are known TO be
Wilson men, and will go to his sup
port in the Baltimore convention
after casting a complimentary vote
for Burke on the first ballot.
Dispatches from Texas received at
the Wilson headquarters here today
say that the New Jersey governor
carried the State by two to one over
his competitors. Speaker Clark and
Governor Harmon. Dispatches COM
ing to members of the Texas delega-
ton in the House tell the same story.
1t appears that the anti-WilsOn
forces in Texas, led by Senator JOS
eph w. Bailey, practically dropped
Governor Harmon in the last few
days of the campaign, as they found
they were getting nowhere with him
as their candidate in opposition to
Wilson. They turned to Speaker
Clark in the hope of stemming the
Wilson tide, but they were no more
successful with the speaker than
with Harmon.
Carried Bailey's Counties.
The private dispatches reaching
Washington say that Governor Will
son carried every county in which
Senator Bailey spoke, as well as the
home counties of the prominent
State leaders who acted as Bailey's
lieutenants in the effort to prevent
the State going to the New Jersey
candidate. The effect of Senator
Bailey's apparently overwhelming
| defeat in his fight to hold Texas for
any candidate other than Wilson
will be to eliminate him as a strong
political factor In the councils Of
the Democratic party in the State.
He already is eliminated as a factor
in the party in the senate and the
nation.
His fight on Governor Wilson in
Texas was peculiarly bitter and vim
dictive and the triumph of the gov
ernor Is all the more remarkable
and gratifying to the l~atter's friends.
Progressive Texas Democrats for
years have charged that Bailey was
an incubus on the party in the State
and his elimination through the
candidacy of Governor Wilson will
be hailed with delight by the great
bulk Of Texas Democrats.
The Wilson column Of delegates
to the Baltimore convention is now
made up as follows: Delaware, G;
Illinois ?; Maine -; oklahoma, 10;
Oregon, 10; Pennsylvania, rs;
Texas. 40, and Wisconsin, "a; Porte
Rico, G.; total, 1856.
Revolt Against Machine Rule.
The following telegram was re
ceived at Wilson headquarters thi!
afternoon from Cato Sells, manager
of the Wilson campaign in Texas:
Texas precinct conventions helC
saturday have returned delegates tC
the county conventions TO be helt
next Tuesday, giving Governor VIII
son more than three times as many
state convention delegates as those
for Harmon, Clark and Underwood
combined. and insuring a solid VIII
son delegation of forty votes IRON
Texas to the Baltimore convention
This great victory was accomplished
over the combined opposition or al
the other presidential candidates
and against the Texas political ma
chine, which recently denied the al
most unanimous request OF TeXa!
Democrats for a Statewide presl
Dental preference primary and the1
utilized the political machinery o
the State against Governor Wilson
1t was accomplished on a squared!
made issue between the progressive
and reactionary elements of oul
party, Governor Harmon II Sena
tor Bailey having each within The
Hast week made an extensive canvass
of the state. We have completed!
routed the opposition In every par
of the State. carrying their strong
holds by great majorities and defeat
ing for delegates to the county con
yentions practically all of their lead
ers. 1t means a new political re
gime and that Texas will hereafte'
stand for Democratic principles a.
exemplifed in the Democratic ma
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