The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-25
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Baltimore June 26 fere. was only one issue in; the Democratic national convention that assemhied here todays That Swasf Colonel William !. Jennings Bryan. y, Yssss, Q z Ys
 Whether the three time candidate for tfe presidency was :t6 win dis tinct victory oter the forces of the opposition theaded by. Tom Taggart. of, 1nslia ra Rqger Sul 1van, Of illinois, Charles E. Murphy of New York: %aIld d sspsntvs 9sesss @ bs slsIsse 1sa a
 Democrafic conSentioii, was stfi | problem to be solved by the votes af4 ter the deIeg&tes : had sbsen recorded. Bryan and hie followers declared he WonM win an easy victory Prepioui to the assemh ling Of the convention ma V v NchoSep 1ieutenanf fs. ,Tiie program to De followed lns Dveftufnin& the eelecti6n byfs the na atfonal commif5 tee sof Fhtmer Judge Alton B. 1arket were withhelde untiI the -convention actually assembled. It Maa- annonnc- ed that Kern would be Bryan's cans
 Bryan's assistants in the light had canvassed the situation sand declared him to be assured of nearly TOO votes for himself and almost 500 for any
 man he might sselect should she deem 1t advisable to shift, his plans an:i name another man to oppose Parker.
 Murphys however. was fully assinsis- tent as was Bryan. in claiming control. ana committeeman who was most ac- ttive in rounding up delegates for the Eanti-Bryan forces. the m anti Bryan men had more than 600 delegates pledged to their cause in overthrowing Bryan. Neither side would give fig uress for publication but careful in- quiry developed the fact that in many instances identical delegations were claimed by both sides
 The Murphy TagEart, Sullivan com the fight he would himself run for the presidency. Some of them went SO far as to assert that the ticket had already been selected should the Me- braskan control. He was to head the ticket and Governor Woodrow Will That Champ Clark wasS to be the gainer if the combination against Bryan were able to elect Parker was admitted. Many Of the Clark leaders were behind the movement to over throw Bryan domination z as they termed 1t and they asserted if Bryan went down Clark would set all of New Yorlx's 90 votes on the first ballot and would be absolutely certain of being nominated on the second.
 The CfOWQ SL8TI0Q TOT The -COuVeQIlOn hall early. The arrangements, so far as the meeting place was concerned, were superb The 9th regiment arm ory, in which the delegates and more than 15,000 visitors assembled. had been completely transformeds for the occasion The floor space mad been SO divided that the grouping of both delegates and spectators was such that all could see and hear. The con- ,vention was called to order at noon by Norman E. Mack of Buffalo. N. F., chairman of the national committee. The first business was the. prayer by His Eminence, James, Cardinal. Gib- hons, of Baltimore after which the call was read by Secretary Urey Wood- son of Kentucky. The temporary roll as made up by the committee then was called.
 There was no fight over the tempor- ary roll In making it up, last night the committee followed precedent. The most important of the contests dispos- ed of was that brought on behalf of Roger Sullivan and 26 delegates from Illinois. The Hearst Carter Harrison combination claimed these seats but the Sullivanites were insistent.
 In the District of Columbia contests the Newman delegates, Clark men, went on the rolls. the Vermont con. test was withdrawn. and in all of the others the regulars obtained tempor- ary possession of the seats.