New-York tribune., 1912-02-21
CLARK WINS IN MISSOURI
DeIegateS-at-Large to Baltimore
Instructed for Speaker.
EIGHT WITH HALF A VOTE
Fight in Convention Against
"Cannonism and Gag
Rule" Fails.

Joplin. No Feb 2o.--After a long fight
on the floor Of the convention, caused by
the efforts Of David A. Ball OF Bowling
Green, a candidate for the nomination for
| Governor, TO oppose the slate agreed on by
the party leaders, the Democratic State
| Convention late to-day elected eight dele
gates-at-large. 10 the Baltimore convention,
each with half vote. Each of the six
teen Congress districts chose two delegates.
! Balls fight to stop what he called gag
rule and Cannonism" was unsuccessful, and
the prearranged programme went through.
The delegates-at-large are United States
Senators William J. Stone and James A.
Reed, ex-Governors A. NJ. Dockery. Lon V.
Stephens and David r. Francis. William T.
Kemper, Of Kansas City; Gilbert s. Barbee,
of Joplin, and Judge Virgil Rule of St
| Louis
| The delegation vas instructed 10 vote for
Champ Clark for President on every ballot
taken before the Baltimore convention.
Edward +. Goltra, the St Louis million
aire, was reelected by acclamatlon as ma
tional committeeman from Missouri. In a
speech accepting the appointment Mr.. Col
ira pledged his allegiance to Mr.. CIarks
candidacy
The platform adopted charges that the
| Republican party destroyed popular gov
| ernment In the House of Representative
and vested in the Speaker arbitrary power,
| which was employed I'm the service of the
great special interests; declares that agents
of those interests were allowed to dictate
| the terms OF statutes under which they
| plundered the people, and alleges that the
! President, declaring the most important
schedule Of the Payne-AldrIch tariff bill vt
| terly indefensible, nevertheless signed the
measure and gave 1t the force Of law
II then says that the Democratic party,
under the splendid leadership Of Champ
| Clark. oveTthrew Cannonism and restored
| representative government in the popular
branch of Congress; passed a bill reducing
the tariff tax on woollen goods, and passed
| bills reducing taxes on Steel cotton, chemi-
Gals and other prime necessities Of life
and forced them through the Senate by aid
OF insurgent votes, though in response TO
the demands of the monopolies and othe.
great protected industries President Taft
vetoed all these measures"
Praising Champ Clark the platform says;
We hereby specifically instruct the dele
| gates elected by this convention 10 the
i
| for Champ Clark and sote as unit con
/ tinuously for him IS the nominee of said
| Democratic national convention for Presl-
dent of the United States, and to use all
! proper and honorable means 10 secure his
nomination.
Predicting that IL Mr. Roosevelt should
be the nominee of the Republican party,
that party would never again nominate a
candidate for Preside nt' and declaring that
| the insurgents would make Of President
| Taft the sacrlfcial goat Of the Republican
| party" William S Cowherd, the peTma-
! nent chairman, said that Missouri would
I offer 20 the Democracy Of the nation aS
| their candidate for President the best jewel
| in her diadem-Champ Clark and that
the next President of the United states
will be from Missouri
| cratic opportunity were needed II could be
| found in the fact that the Republican
! party was divided and for the first time
! in its history effort was being made 10 de
! feat Republican President tor second
/ term