The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-07-05
BRYAN IN SENSATIONAL SPEECH EXPLAINS
HIS VOTE CLARK GOES TO BALTIMORE
AND HITS BACK AT NEBRASKAN
Speaker in Statement Given Out After Conference With Hearst
Stone and Other Friends Holly Asserts That the COmmOne
Must Prove Charges Or ReHact.

DiiAllllOl c.-ope dheT CldIh CdIle W
Baltimore in response to the urgent
request Of ex-senator Fred I. Dubois,
his campaign manager, and George
Fred Williams of Massachusetts, who
represented that the Missourian's can
didacy had suffered by reason of an
attack upon his honor" made by Will
lam Jennings Bryan. The convention
apparently hopelessly deadlocked, had
adjourned until Monday before the
Speaker arrived
Mr. Clark reached the city at Has
and went to the Emerson Hotel There
he went into conference with his man
ager. ex-senator Dubois of Idaho, and
William r. Hearst of New York
After his conference Speaker Clark
issued the following statement:
To-day in the National Convention
an outrageous aspersion was cast up
on me, and through me upon the
Democratic Party, by one who of all
men ought to be the last to besmudge
or betray his friends or his party.
so far as | am personally concern
ed it is enough to say that the charge
which reflects upon my personal or
party integrity is utterly and absolute
ly false.
Il might afford to forget myself, but
| am by the choice of the Democratic
majority of the House of Representa-
tives the ranking official Democrat in
National public life l cannot be false
or corrupt without rejecting upon my
party in the most serious way.
"Any man who would enter into an
alliance with any selfish interest of
privileged class Of this country to gain
the nomination for the Presidency is
unworthy of the Presidency and of the
Speakership of the House.
'If l have not entered into such an
alliance, then the Democrat, however
distinguished, who wantonly charges
me with this act is a traitor to the
Democratic Party, and to his profess
ed friendship to me.
Il am not here to plead for a nom
mans political action. Let every man
proceed in this convention according to
his convictions and the expressed will
of his constituents.
81 ask no undue consideration from
any man, be he friend or foe but de
mand exact justice from every Demo
crat, either in this convention or
throughout the nation.
With William ]. Bryan and his
charge made in the convention to-day
the issue is proof or retraction.
shall expect him to meet that issue.
"CHAMP CLARK"
81 came here to Baltimore to confer
with my friends on matters concerning
which | will probably have something
to say after the conference" said Mr..
Clark just before he went into the con
ference. THAT is all l have to say
now"
The fire marshal of Baltimore kept
out thousands who were waiting to
get into the convention hall, hoping TO
hear the nominating speeches. The
marshal said that the armory was
filed far beyond its capacity Of a.
600, and he refused to allow any
one else to get in.
Policemen around the convention
hall chased, and sometimes captured.
ticket spectators. The scalpe1s who
at first were complaining SC bitterly
that nobody Courted thei" society.
grew quite disturbed when the police
showed real desire to make their ac
quaintance.
The women who visited Baltimore
in the interest of the anti-suffrage
Increment say that for every hearing
giTer the suffragists they toe would
demand hearing of the resolutions
committee.
Congressman d. J. Lewis. OF Mary
land, representing labor organizations,
urged the committee to declare In
favor of wiping out express corr
panies and substituting parcels post
therefor.
The credentials committee of the
Baltimore convention reversed the &C
tioL of the national committee and
seated sixteen contesting Clark dele.
cations from South Dakota and the
district of Colu.nbia.
Many southern and western dele.
gales deserted tie standard of Clark
for that of Wilson because of the alli-
ance of the forces back of the Mis-
sourian with the reactionaries in sup.
port of Parker.
with our Wilson we VIII win"
sang Princeton boomers, but there
was always one discordant note
Jude" Jones, Princeton, 1910, III.
sists on singing Il Small win"