The sun., 1912-07-01
O'Gorman, Kern, James, Gull
berson or Rayner
Will Do Him.
WILSON GAINS GROUND
Illinois Expected to Turn to
the Jerseyman Early
To-day.
CLARK FULL OF FIGHT
Speaker Still Hopes to Pre-
vent the Nomination
OF Wilson.
MAY POLL. NEW Y0RE
CLARK FULL OF FIGHT
MAY POLL NEW YORK
Wilson Men Say He Has 35
Votes Among the 80
Murphy Casts.

BALTIMORE, June 30.-William j.
Bryan tonight issued a statement In
which he suggested five men as COM
promise candidates.
They were United States Senator John
W. Kern OF Indiana. Senator .elect Ollie
James Of Kentucky. Senator Culberson
of Texas, Senator Rayner of Maryland
and Senator OGorman OF New York.
Bryan also served notice that the
candidate for Vice. President must be
as acceptable to the progressites as the
candidate for President.
Bryan also called upon Woodrow
Wilson for a statement that he will
not accept the nomination IL 1t Is to
come to him In any way that will obli-
gate him to Charles F. Murphy. The
impression tonight Is that the Com
moner Is now mannuvreing to put vii.
son in q hole just as he has put Clark
in one.
William r. Hearst in a statement
given out late tonight predicted the
defeat Of the Democrats at the polls
this fall and bitterly attacked Bryan
for his attitude toward Clark.
Illinois to Go to Wilson.
Members Of the Illinois delegation said
tonight that break would be made by
large number Of the delegates from that
State from Clark to Wilson tomorrow.
They announced that the shift would
come at about the fifth ballot
One Of the reasons why Illinois is ex-
pected to desert Clark is that Roger Sulli-
van. the Illinois boss. was sore all through
to-day because he was not invited to the
Clark Hearst Murphy conference early
this morning
When Champ Clark came to town the
first man he talked to. except a few Of
his immediate managers. was William r.
Hearst. Shortly after Charles F. Murphy
was invited to talk things over. From
time to time other leaders. like Senator
Stone Of Missouri. had the ear Of Mr.. Clark,
but at no time vas there an invitation
sent to the man who has been steadily
swinging ffty-eight votes to Clark.
sullivan Sore.
When Sullivan got up to-day and heard
Of the party to which he had not been
invited he was angry. He talked the
situation over with some of his personal
/ foil in, h.. 10,
arrangement was then made. according
to the private information given out by
Illinois delegates tonight. that Illinois
would not much longer support candi-
date who had been so thankless.
Roger Sullivan is Wilson man anyway.
and nobody believes that it would be q
severe wrench for him to part from Clark.
There was an informal meeting Of the
Illinois delegation this morning and forty
six Of the fifty-eight votes were for Viii
son.
The situation in Baltimore has resolved
itself tonight into this question: Can
Champ Clark hold together enough
votes to prevent the nomination OF
Woodrow Wilson?
Throughout this day Of conference,
the indications were that Wilson had
continued to gather strength and that
he would enter the convention whca
1t reconvenes at II o'clock Tomorrow
morning with a considerable increase
over the 407l5 votes cast for him on tho
twenty-sixth and last ballot last night.
The Wilson managers are predicting
tonight that the Governors total would
60 beyond the 600 mark at to-morrow's
session. They regard Wilson victory
as sure and contend that it will be only
question of wearing down what remains
Of the Clark strength. To accomplish
this the Wilson delegates are prepared to
stay on the ground all summer II neces-
sary.
| The Clark men. on the other hand, ara
p lainly depressed over the Speaker .
chances, but they contended tonight
that they have at least 40 delegates who
will stand by Clark until the heavens fall.
II is through their hold OH thess 40 dele
gates that the Clark managers expect 10
be able to prevent the nomination M
Wi!rcn. II they cannot turn the tide back
to Clark they think that at least they can
! prevent the nomination of tho Jerseyman.
To exercise this veto power, Speaker
Clark needs only 81: delegates. NO that v,