The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-07-04


aud Viee-President dyinw. after th@l,
election and before Inauguration
/ that the Secretary Of State should be-.
come President. The wording ol
ihat act. however. does not seem tc
cover contingency like that which
/ 10 liable TO arise under present con.
| ditions- Indeed. no one seems 20
have ever conceived that such n con-
dition as the present one would arise.
The attention OF the beat iegai
minds Of the country viii be turned
TO this possible crisis. and The Cau-
casian win keep its readers advised
as TO their opinions with reference to
the same.
Wilson il Bryan's Nominee.
The nomination of Governor VIII
son al the Democratic Convention at
Baltimore was unexpected by the pol
| iticians and by the people of the
country generally. IL was known
when the convention assembled that
he had only about one-third of the
delegates in the convention. Speaker
Clark was largely in the lead on the
first ballot and his vote soon increas-
ed to more than a majority of the
convention.
If the same rule had applied In the
Democratic Convention as in the Re-
publican Convention, that a majority
should nominate, Speaker Clark
would have been the nominee on last
Friday and the convention would
have adjourned on that day. The
Democratic Convention, however, has
held for the two-thirds rule for over
seventy years, but during that time
/. it has been the claim and boast of
Democratic politicians that any DEM
ocratic candidate who received a ma
jOrity of the votes would be given,
as a matter of course, the nomina-
ton. This has been true in the past
in every case except Van Buren,. He
received majority OF a few votes in
the third convention in which his
name was presented for President,
but was finally defeated by dark
horse in the name of James K. Polk,
of Tennessee.
1t is almost certain that Speaker
Clark, when he reached a majority
in the convention, would have been
given the two-thirds vote, az mat
ter of course, had it not been for Mr..
Bryan, who has three times been
nominated for the Presidency by his
party.
Mr.. Bryan's Bold Move.
Mr. Bryan was at the Chicago
Convention and watched closely its
proceedings as reporter for num-
Der of large daily newspapers. When
he reached Baltimore he issued a
statement to the effect that the same
trust and monopoly influences which
had robbed Theodore Roosevelt of his
lawful and rightful nomination at
Chicago controlling the same class of
bosses had moved down to Baltimore
and were there determined to con-
troll the Democratic Convention and
progressive. He declared that these
monopoly influences having captured
the Chicago Convention were deter
mined to capture the Democratic
Convention and leave the people
without a choice between the homi-
nee of the two parties.
Soon after the Convention assem-
bled Mr. Bryan introduced a resolu-
tion declaring that Morgan, Belmont
and Ryan, the representatives of the
trust and monopoly interests Of the
country, were on hand, either in per-
son or through their agents, to con-
troll the nomination, and further de-
elaring that it was vitality essential
that no one should be nominated who
was under obligation, directly or in
directly, to any of these monopoly in
fiuences This resolution was adopt
ed by vote of nine to one. though
Mr.. Belmont and Mr.. Ryan were sit
ting on the floor as delegates to the
convention.
Mr.. Bryan's Second Bold Move.
When the State of New York which
Adu UScu INC AihCN- 'oS@c SSA-
idly for Governor Harmon Of Ohio,
changed and voted for Speaker Clark.
Mr.. Bryan, as the head of the delega-
ton from Nebraska, arose and asked
the privilege of explaining his vote
He said that while his State had in
structed for Clark. that he desired TO
change his vote from Clark to VIII
son. because he did not think that
any man should be nominated as the
Democratic candidate for President
whose nomination depended upoR
the vote of New York State, headed
by Mr.. Murphy. OF Tammany Hall,
and Mr.. August Belmont. represent
ing the Rothschilds of London
How Wilson Was Nominated.
This position taken by Mr.. Bryan