The Sentinel=record., 1912-06-22
DELEGATES AND CoMMiTTEEMEN BEGIN TO ARRIVE FOR THE
 BALTIMORE CONVENTION.
TICKETS BEING ASSIGNED
Bryan Gets Busy With His Opposition to Parker as Temporary Chair man-Specuatio as to the
 Probable Nominee.

Baltimore, June 21-Only a small proportion of the delegates to the | Democratic national convention and about half the national committeeman were here tonight. but Baltimore has assumed the aspect of a convention I city
 l All the candidates headquarters are we'll established and the crowds in the hotel Hobbies discuss the Dem oeratic situation with an interest al most as if the Republican fight in Chicago was not in progress The physical arrangements for tho convention that meets next Tuesday practically are complete and the sIlD- committee of the national committee
 has about finished etntative plans.
 Aside from the selection of the tenn
 )orary chairman. which now seems
 certain to be contested in the national committee, these arrangements which include the appointment of minor of- ficers and the committee on rules, probably will stand.
 Today convention tickets were al- ntted and positions were assigned to state delegations. The biggest block of tickets-l e0A-went to the local citizens committee. Each delegate will receive three tickets, in addi
 tion to his individual seat, while the alternates will have to be satisfied with their single seats.
 | Members of the national committee will be given on an average 10 tick
 cts each, the number varying in ac-
 cordance with the needs of each com mitteeman. All the recognized can didates also will be supplied with tickets, but aside from saying can 1 didates' supply will be liberal the l committee will not say how many tickets were to be given to each man
 In the assignment Of seats on the
 convention floor those states fared
 best which have candidates to pre- sent to the delegation. Ohio New
 Jersey, Missouri and Alabama were given prominent positions in front of l the speakers stand with the New
 Jersey and Missouri delegates in the | front seats on opposite sides of the center aisle and Ohio and Alabama just behind them
 Those delegates who gathered af the various state headquarters seemed in- cllned to leave the controversy Oevr the temporary chairmanship for the pres ent to their national committeeman. The Ohio delegates are interested in
 a light which the opponents of Cover nor Harmon propose to make against the prevalence of the unit rule in the Ohio delegation. Governor Harmon's opponents take the ground that the
 state convention was authorized to
 instruct only the six delegates at
 large. "The claim that Ohio is a unit
 for Harmon" said National Commit
 teeman Garber, lis preposterous." If
 this question comes before the con-
 vention it will he a test of the rela- tive strength of Mr Bryan and his
 friends and those that oppose them.
 The latest claims of the Wilson
 managers is 315 instructed delegates. This number, they say. is the min-
 imum and does not include the Wilson
 district delegates from Ohio, which the Harmon people declare are bGea;i
 to them by the unit rule The Wilson | leaders concede that Clark will get 3S0 on the first ballot and Underwood S6
 Senator John H. Bankhead of Ala hama tonight said Underwood had be- tween no and 120 votes on the first
 ballot The Underwood men. wEo have one of the smaller hotels all ;o thmeselves, hope to dominate the sit- nation in the event of deadlock A report that Mir Underwood was com- | ing to Baltimore next week was em- | pnatically denied today by his cam l paign managers.
 "Mr. Underwood has turned the
 campaign over to his friends said
 Dr. R. H, Owens, secretary of yhe 1 Underwood national campaign. T be- 1 lieve he has not even visited his head. quarters in Washington"
 The mistake regarding Underwood
 was due to the fact that the telephone
 company had arranged to put It's wires in the private car of President $. B.
 Underwood, of the Erie railroad. which will be parked here during the convention
 Few of the Clark leaders were in
 Baltimore today, for most of them re-
 mained in Washington to attend the
 meeting of the Clark campaign execu- tive committee. Those who came
 over from Washington tonight declar
 ed that the latest estimate of the Clark delegate strength was 470, of which 406 were instructed and 64 un- | instructed dplppateS