The Washington times., 1912-07-02
Delegates Embittered BY
Long Drawn Out Struggle
At Baltimore.
CLARK APPARENTLY
is OUT OF THE RACE
Speakers Boom Collapses Follow
ing Terrific Attack BY
Bryan.
By JOHN sNuRE.

July Z.-GoV. woodrow Wilson Will be
nominated for President on the Demo-
cratic ticket unless a small but intense
ly embittered coterie of bosses and
leaders insist on standing out against
the will of the party.
tremendous force of public opinion
and sentiment is driving Wilson on, inch
by inch. toward the nomination. The
only obstacle in the way is the stub
bornness of a small body of men who
are now so blinded with wrath and
anger at Bryan that they want to
wreck revenge on any man who looms
UP as the Bryan candidate.
True, Congressman Oscar Underwood,
the same suave, serene, smiling per-
sonage, sitting over in Washington,
away from the heat and smoke of bat
tie, is still holding his forces intact.
Everybody agrees he has made a mas
terly fight with the delegates at his
disposal, but the general feeling Is that
Underwood is amenable to reason, and
that he will not hold out indefinitely
against Wilson or any other candidate
who receives a majority.
Underwood To Stick.
Underwood's only purpose is apparent
ly to stay in the field until the last
vestige of hope for his own nomination
is gone. For that nobody can find fault
with him. He is merely playing the
part of wise politics.
All day yesterday Wilson gained step
by step. His strength kept mounting
| one ballot after another in a fashion
| that was profoundly impressive. 1t
passed the mark of 500 on the thirty
| ninth ballot, and hung around that
| figure until the convention adjourned.
| All the while the Clark strength steadi-
ly diminished. 1t got as low as 422 in
the thirty ninth ballot, and stood at 43O
| when the convention adjourned last
| night.
| The Clark strength faded. despite the
/ fact Boss Murphy was still backing the
| Speaker; despite the fact Mr.. Clark
| himself hurried over from Washington
| once more and made frantic efforts to
rehabilitate his forces. But there was
no sign of rehabilitation. On the con-
trary, the Speakers lines were still
further broken when 1t became known
Illinois had decided to quit Clark and
go to Wilson.
Clark Impossible.
|
bility, according to the view generally
taken here today. But the Speaker, ike
some of the men managing his cam
paign, like the chieftains of the Muir
phy-Ryan-Belmont combina ton, Is sore
and envennomed against Wilson. With
the Speaker as with a number of the
captains In the anti-Wilson elements,
it has become a question, not of nomtn-
ating Clark but of beating Wilson, this
was the object of various confabs and
| conferences held last night and this
morning. To strike at Bryan over the
shoulders of Wilson is now the object
of the men who have been the main
stay of tire Clark movement.
Speaker Clark, worn out, hurt
crushed, Is coming to present hguI,
little short of pathetic. He is not help
ing himself. however, by the atutud;
he Is assuming toward the Wilson CAM
paign. 1t is to be expected he will fgh
: 10 all reasonable limits to obtain th'
nomination. But this sort of fgh
5 is one thing while dog IN the mange
fight to shut out Wilson is ancther.
Already 1t is being talked about Bal
timore that the Speaker is succeeding
= rapidly in getting himself into posi-
: ton where he will end his political Ca
. reer in rapid anti-climaX. Unless h.
/. displays clever generalship, he will fine
himself not alone beat out of the Presi
= Dental nomination. but a one-tern
= Speaker of the House Of Representa-
I tives.
e1 Tho strength shown by Wilson Is re
y markable, not so much as expressed Il
= figures as in the manner in which
I has been gained. The Democratic part
ri
mary. But there have been man
IL symptoms that Wilson is the real choic
e of the great body of the Democrati
): voters. The floods of letters and tele
l. grams descending on Baltimore tror
e every section of the country demon
,r strate the depth of the sentiment 70
- Wilson or some strong progressive car
o. didate. 1t thus happens that one atte
l. another reluctant delegates are bein
/: forced to abandon their early position
J. and line up on the Wilson side, whic
has become pretty closely identified wit
/: the Bryan side in this long drawn OF
- controversy.
7 The extent to which the situatio
n here has shifted since week aSo L
m day is amazing when considered. NJ
m body believed such complete chans
" the Murphy clark Belmont Suillya
combination had all IT'S plans peIlee't
1 for. putting Speaker CLARK across
q: The leaders had gone owe" the stu;
D. tion in detail They knew. or thousl
y. they knew. where tney could draw II
votes from to nOmtinate the SpeakG
p 1t was declared tTimnphantlv that u
"A Sneaker would be nominated on Il
~ srcmnd or third ballot. Some Of Il
su more sanguine of Mir. Clarks frien'
n said he would br nominated hN chang
ed on the first ballot:
30 New York. Illinois. and Indiana we
~ &c, linz up TOR clark, Underwood W;
" 10 bring his column up az the rig
- time to re-enforCe CLARK. Help was e
of pecIed from Harmon.
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