Evening journal., 1912-06-28
FRIDAY JUNE %. 1919
cLARK FAR IN rHE LEAp.

~, HE Democratic National Convention following an
all-night session devoted largely 10 nominating and
seconding speeches and foolish attempt by William
Jennings Bryan to read all wealthy out Of the Dem
ocratic party all delegates in any allied with
them out Of the convention took ballot this morn
ing and then adjourned until o'clock this afternoon.
when ballong will be resumed. AS RAPIDLY as the
ballots are announced they win be bulletined on THE
EVENING JOURNALS large bulletin board and also
announced by meeaphone.
The FIRST ballot showed some surprising changes
when compared with the estimates made the proba
bic status Of the hrst ballot The estimates we're
Clark 464; wilson 500: Underwood 1O2; Harmon
se: Marshall 30 Burke, TO- Gaynor. 90
great the shift especially so far as Govern
or Harmon Of Ohio affected is shown by the fol-
loving figures of the actual ballot
clark 440 IL, wilson s24; Underwood III IL; Har-
mon l4s, Marshall 81; Baldwin, az Bryan. L; sulzer.
q not voting, O.
The big jump in the Harmon vote caused by the
80 votes Of New being for him instead Of for
Mayor Gaynor favorite son whom Tammany Hall
supposed to desire honor with complimentary vote.
II also will be noticed Clark Wilson Underwood
al ran ahead Of the estimates when the hrs ballot
cast And yet not one Of them approximated the
T8o needed for nomination under the two-tnirds
vote rule which obtains in Democratic National Con-
ventions Seemingly IL still anyhody's light with
Clark and Wilson standing the best show of winning
out The Jersey Governor is depending upon vii
liam Jennings Bryan to pull him through and Bryan
seemingly is confident he will be able TO do f. The
Democratic leaders who endeavorng 70 eliminate
BRYAN from the high party councils may form comb
nation however which may both him and Wilson
and give prize Clark Harmon or some other man
upon whom they may agree No effort viii be made, IN
nl likelihood TO defeat the Bryan plan for proeress
i've platform but admitted there many men in
the convention who do desire that the candidate
shall be man dominated by Bryan influence
Bryan made a spectacular and many thought fool
feh last nj pht IN Al m their
friends out Of the Democratic party and the national
convention He offered resolution 10 that effect, men
tioning j. P Morgan, August Belmont and Thomas F.
Ryan by name Belmont and Ryan present in the
convention as delegates Bryan seemingly thought the
convention would down his resolution and that all
ant-Wison delegates would be revealed friends Of
the so-caed predatory interests Il is thought that
had the resolution been voted down Bryan would have
boted and that he might have joined with Colonel
Roosevelt the third party progressive The
ant-Bryan men too smart for the Nebraskan.
After delegates from New York Virginia and other
States had him offering such resolution out
OF order and had compelled him to agree TO the with
drawal of its Objectionable features the Bryan
delegates swung and assisted in putting the resou-
ton through That changed the pose OF Bryan from
the heroic the ridiculous and he laughed for
the way IN which he had caught his own trap
The resolution a veritabls boomerang for him and
Wilson and it is asserted It has done Wilson harm
which will manifest the shifts the ballots
Whether predictions justified will shown by
the baoting this afternoon. Meantime both the Clark
and the Wilson confident of victory.