Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-07-05
WILSON CLIMBS;
CLARK LOSES
AFTER TWENTY-SIxTH BALLOT
CONVENTION ADJOURNS TO
REST OVER SUNDAY.
CLARK 463;W|LSoN 4O7
IN DESPERATION OVER SITUA.
TIoN, SPEAKER COMES TO
CONVENTION.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Baltimore.-Although many confer.
ences were held Sunday, when the
Democratic national convention met
Monday morning, the leaders were as
far from settlement as they were
when they adjourned Saturday night.
after taking twenty-six ballots. They
reviewed the entire situation and
tried to devise some means by which
the warning factions could be brought
together, but to no avail.
Forty-four Illinois delegates are
talking of deserting Speaker Clark
and voting for Governor Wilson.
Other defections are threatened. Will
son supporters claim they are sure
10 win. They need 1876 for major
ity. Mr.. Clark needs 263 to win him
the nomination.
Amidst scenes of widest excite
ment the Democratic national conven-
tion, tightly deadlocked, adjourned
just before midnight Saturday to meet
Monday.
The drift was toward Governor
Wilson during the days balloting, but
he has nothing like majority Of
the delegates as yet. While hii
friends express the belief that he vii!
be nominated, the indications are that
he finally will be eliminated and a
dark horse chosen.
In desperation over the weakening
OF his lines, Speaker Champ Clark,
who has led in the voting up to the
present time, arrived in the city from
Washington Saturday night.
He rushed over from Washington
to speak to the convention before IL
adjourned, but the tumultuous session
came to an end before he arrived
He is angered over his reputation on
the floor of the convention by Will
lam J. Bryan.
1t Is his present purpose to go or
the floor of the convention and reply
10 the bitter attack made upon him
by the man from Nebraska. who had
previously indorsed his candidacy.
In denouncing Speaker Clark as one
of the candidates of the interests,
Mr. Bryan declared that the delegates
from Nebraska would vote for Ne
braska's second choice, Governor
Woodrow Wilson, SO long as Speaker
Clark had the support of the New
York state delegation. The man from
Nebraska also caused sensation by
declaring further war on the Morgan
Ryan Belmont coterie of financiers
and aiming fierce shafts of invective
and criticism at the New York dele
gates who, he said, do not represent
the honest democracy of the state.
The situation is one of the greatest
confusion and uncertainty. Confer
cnces are going on everywhere.
Representatives of the various can
didates are speeding here from va
rious parts of the country preparing
for war to the finish and a titanic
battle in the convention. Booms are
weakening. New booms are being
talked up. dark horses are being
groomed for entry IL the deadlock
continues.
Twenty-six ballots were taken Sat
urday. At the conclusion of the vot'
ing Speaker Clark had 463k votes,
Governor Wilson 4071a and Represen-
tative Oscar F. Underwood 112R.
Heroic efforts were made by the
Clark men to weaken the Underwood
lines. They were unsuccessful
All kinds of offers and promises
were made for the support OF the
Alabama mans delegates. but they
were spurned. Mr.. Underwood is de-
termined to stay in the race to the
end. He has reasons for believing
that the honor may finally come his
way.