The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-29
WILL GET KANSAS
| SAY WILSON MEN

Special 1.-THE KANSAS delegation to
8 ne Democratic national convention az
altiinore is not Tor Champ Clark. It
for Governor Woodrow Wilson
uch is the claim made in formal
tatement Issued today frori the head
uartefs of the New Jersey executive
Washington. The statement of the
wilson campaign managers says:
"Advices received today from Kan
as make it certain that fourteen, and
robably fifteen OF the twenty dele
ates to the Baltimore convention,
avor the nomination Of Governor Viii
on for the presidency It has been
sserted that Governor Wilson only
arried three of the eight congress
ional districts ia Kansas but infor-
nation received at Wilson headquar-
ers today shows that Governor Will
ons supporters elected delegates IN
tx Of the districts. giving him total
( twelve of the sixteen district dele
| ates. In addition the Wilson forces
ucceeded in electing two of the four
.elegates-at-large, one of whom is Hen
erson Martin, the Wilson campaign
manager in KANSAS.
i ~There is no doubt that the Wilson
oreea have two thirds Of the Kansas
/ elegatlon. and acting urder tie in
k tructions of the conyeAtion, which
I declared for CLARK as first and Wilson
! IS second choice. the vote of the del
gates or two thirds of the delegation
4 4 is deemed expedient to do so'-the
ansuage Of the resolution of instruc-
10 mas adopted by the convention. It
n plain that with two thirds of the
delegation in favor of the nomination
E II Governor Wilson perfunctory vote
] ,n the first ballot would enable the
/ Kansas delegates to go to Governor
wilson, who is their real choice for the
presidency"
The statement issued by the Wilson
headquarters places the twenty votes
ii Kansas in the Wilso ncolumn along
With the ten votes given the New Jer-
sey executive In Oklahoma. In all,
.hifty votes are now claimed for Gov
srnor Wilson and the statement adds:
There is no disposition on the part
of the Wilson people to violate the in
structions of the Kansas state conven-
ion, and unquestionably Speaker
Clark will receive all twenty votes on
he first ballot IL he remains candi-
late. but the friends of the governor
re III absolute control of the delega- |
ion, and will be able to turn to their
candidate should such remote con-
ingency as a second ballot become
< necessary"
Kansas newspapers received here to-
lay confirmed the advices received at
Wilson headquarters with reference to
h he complexion of the delegation elect |
ID to the Baltimore convention. Speak |
ng of the work of the convention, the
Kansas City Star. an independent
newspaper, says that Speaker Clark |
cot all the delegates except two thirds |
of them. and that the delegates were
instructed to vote for Mr. Clark until |
Governor Wilson wants them to vote |
or him.
In it's story OF the convention The
star, which is the leading newspaper
If the middle west gives much interest
ng information correcting false i'm
)ressions conveyed in dispatches from
hutchinson, Kans.. at the time the
tate convention was in session last
week The Star says.
"The Kansas delegates to the ma
ional democratic convention were in
tructod for Champ Clark. first choice
md Wilson for second choice
whenever in the opinion of two
birds Of the delegation it is deemed
axpedient to do so. is the instructions
is to when they shall leave Clark and
% to Wilson.
"Tho resolution was added TO the
egular Clark resolution when ii be
anne apparoat that it was doubtful
whether Clark could win instructions
1t all. The resolution recites that VII /
son is the second choice of the Kan
las democrats. and when the delegates
cave Clark they must vote for the
new Jersey man. II
"The convention authorized all the I
delegates to abide by the decision of S
he two-thirds vote If the delegation
ieeas that ii is eYpedient to leave the I
glark forces at any time after dis s
harging their instructions.
Wilson has fourteen Of the twenty /
delegates. That IS two-thirds of the
delegation. They are even saying to-
lay they have fifteen Of the twenty,
out the Clark men deny that.
so the convention really instrncts
or both Clark and Wilson, and puts |
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