Arizona republican., 1912-02-21
Pre-arranged Slate Went Through Without Hitch at the Missouri State Convention Held at Jop- lin Yesterday.
INSTRUCTIONS
 ARE IRON CLAD
Delegates Are Told to Vote as a Unit for Speaker Champ Clark for Presi- dent, First, Last, and All the Time.

THSSOcidtcd Press DiSbGtchl
 After an all afternoon fight on the
 floor of the convention caused by tho
 effort of David A. Ball. of Bowling Green, candidate for the gubernatoriaj nomination. to oppose the convention slate agreed on by party leaders, the democratic state convention elected eight delegates at large to the Bal timore convention. each with half a vote. Balls fight to stop what he termed gag rule" and "Cannonism
 was unsuccessful and the prearranged program went through. The delegates at large are: Senators w. J. Stone and J. \. Reed; former Governors A. M. DOckery. of Gallatin; Lon Y. Ste phens and David F.. Francis. of St. Louis; w. T. Kemper of Kansas City: G. s. Burpee, of Joplin; Virgil Rule, of St. Louis. The delegation was in structed to vote for Champ Clark for president on every ballot 1aken before The Baltimore convention. Edward Goltra. the St. Louis millionaire, was nominated by .. E. Cook. his most talked Of rival for sational commit teeman for Missouri, and was re-elect- ,d by exclamation. The platform adopted attacks upon republicans for broken promises. declaring it is dom mated by the great special interests. IL charges wastefuI extravaganza ''un- parallej in history"
 Continuing it says: Tt not only permitted the establishment of mon opOly but gave executive sanction to the destruction by the greatest trust on earth of it's last potential rival It promised in advance legal immunity to those who consummated criminal conspiracy. The democratic party. under the splendid leadership of Champ Clark. overthrow Cannonism ard restored representative govern ment to the popular branch of con- gress since Clark has been speaker"
 Taft was cencured for vetoing the tariff reduction bills. It closes pledg- ing allegiance to the candidacy of Clark and instructing the delegation to work and vote for Clark as a unit continuously and use all proper hon. orable means to secure his nomina- tion"
 Concerning national politics. I wish to say that this is our year." de- clared Jos. B. shannon of Kansas City. the state chairman. in calling the democratic state delegate conven- ton 10 order today.
 All one has to do to be convinced of it. said MT. shannon. "is to talk to those who comprise eacn wing of the republican party today. The Roosevelt people tell you that Taft can't be elected. In fact we democrats in Missouri owe a great deal to the Roosevelt wing of the Republican party in this state. for they were the originators of the idea of ajop.ing resolutions which say in substance that i've hereby endorse the many ard splendid achievements of the ad- ministration of William Howard Taft. however. We favor as our candidate for the second term of that splendid administration. Theodore Roosevelt"
 We democrats should lose no sleep over whom our republican friends shall nominate, for I assure you we can lick Roosevelt as easily as the Roosevelt people say we can lick Taft. 1t is mere flip of a coin so far as We are concerned. whether it shall be Roosevelt ar Taft"