The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-07-05

he is performing to take such an Office
as vice president"
The Illinois break. which had been
predicted, came on the fOrty-third bal
lot. There was q hush when the state
was called. Roger Sullivan was stand
ing in the aisle consulting the lieuten-
ants. Finally he spoke:
CLARK. 10; Wilson. 40. Under the
unit rule, the complete vote of the
state, t%ifty-eight, must be cast for Gov
ernor Wilson,"
This brought renewed cheering from
the pro-Wilson contingent in the hall.
When Kentucy was called and Gov
ernOr McCreary cast the state vote of
t~wenty-six for Clark. Judge A. w.
Young Of Morehead. KY, demanded
whether the delegation could not
change to Wilson now hat a major
ity of the delegates believed that he
should be nominated" McCreary held
that under the instructions Kentucky
must vote Clark as long as his name
was before the convention. Chairman
James ruled that unless the poll of the
state was demanded the vote should be
recorded as cast. I'VE have been here
too long now" said Young, but he de-
clined to demand the poll.
Michigan caught the c%ontagion and
cast only two for Clark and twenty
eight for Wilson, a gain of eight for
the New Jersey governor on the forty
third ballot.
New York failed to shift it's position.
Virginia broke, casting its solid vote
Of tw%enty-four for Wilson, giving him
a majority for the first time. West
Virginia broke, throwing her sixteen
votes to Wilson.
The Virginia break was a factor
against the anti Wilson men, and many
OF them admitted that there would be
little chance of preventing Wilson's
nomination If another big state went
over. This became almost a certainty
when a moment later West Virginia
cast her sixteen votes for Wilson.
Tom Helm. congressman from Ala
bama, and manager of the Underwood
boom. advised tho Alabama delegation
at 12:45 to switch to Wilson.
John Bankhead. chairman of the
Alabama delegation. bitterly de-
nounced He1in.
After the forty-third ballot some of
the ultra-Clark leaders said that. while
they would concede Wilson about GAO
votes. that would be the limit OF his
vote and that he would not be nomi-
mated. They claimed to have 1863 last
ditch" Clark votes on whom they could
rely to hold out against Wilson all
summer il necessary. To this the Will
son men replied that if the New Jersey
governor received anything like $40
votes. no power on earth could keep
the anti-Wilson delegates from climb.
ing into the bandwagon. Totals forty
third ballot: Clark. 329; Wilson, COZ;
Underwood, 9Sh; Harmon. %: Kern,
l; Foss. q; Bryan. l; absent. w.
The f~orty-fourth ballot was ordered
at l:O1 p. m. On this ballot Colorado,
one OF the rock-ribbed conservative
delegates. broke nine votes to Wilson.
The Indiana delegation voted solidly
FOR Wilson.
On the forty-fourth vote Colorado
Wilson ten votes as against one
heretofore cast for him. Just at this
shift came Charles F. Murphy. who
came down to the Missouri delegation
and engaged In earnest conversation
with David r. Francis, and Francis
was assuring the Tammany chieftain
that he would be able to hold his
forces intact from now on. Indiana
came soltdly into the Wilson camp on
this ballot.
From this time on II was q series Of
breaks to the Wilson column. Every
new ballot swelled the total until the
nscessary number for q termination