The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-30
Democrats Put in Weary Day at Baltimore
Trying to Select Presidential
Candidate
BRYAN's SUPPORT OF WILSON HARMFUL
Talk of Dark Horse Grows With Kern Of In
diana and Gaynor Of New York
the Favorites

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
FIFTH REGIMENT ARMORY, BAL
T1MORE, June 29.-The democrats
are still without a standard bearer for
the coming campaign. After two days
of wearisome balloting, during which
the roll OF states was called twenty
six times, the 1893 delegates were
forced to give up, until Monday. They
left for their hotels, Respondent and
discouraged
The convention was seemingly in a
state of hopeless deadlock. No one
candidate was now enjoying COM
manding lead. The more than major
ity which came to Speaker Champ
Clark, following the shift Of the new
York ninety to his camp. had been
wiped out and the last ballot taken to-
night Clark, while still in the lead, had
only 4631a as against 4071s for Gov
ernor woodrow Wilson Of New Jersey,
his nearest rival.
Physical limitations forced the ad-
journment of the convention at L:07
p. M, tonight until II O'Clock on
Monday.
! From / o'clock in the afternoon the
delegates had battled in dazing heat,
which seemed well nigh unbearable.
An attempt to force dinner adjourn
ment failed. The Clark men wanted
| Il to rally their weakening ranks. The
Wilson men fought and prevented 1t
because they believed that II they
few hours the break they SO anxiously
awaited would come
Their calculations we're wrong The
Clark ranks, although giving steadily
before the onslaught of the opposition,
we're still holding on desperately. The
Wilson gain was in ones and twos and
threes. And at last all of the leaders
agreed that there was no hope OF I'M
mediate settlement. A recess until
Monday was the logical conclusion ans
the representatives of every candidate
who was being voted on agreed to It,
Clark Men Made Wrong Guess.
The final ballot taken showed the
strength Of the candidates as follows:
Clark, 4631ss Wilson, 4o71a Under
wood, 112k; Harmon, 30; Marshall,
30 Foss, 49,; not voting, ". Clark
had entered the contest with total
vote of 4401a as against 324 for Will
son. There was little change in the
totals for the speaker until his man
ayers made their desperate effort to
| put him across on the tenth ballot,
when they swung New York in line
for him. His high water mark was
| $50 and 1t was then that his sponsors
insisted that 1t was all over but the
shouting They had told Murphy that
there would be an immediate break in
the Harmon and Underwood strength
that would persuade the doubling
Thomases," but their guess was wrong.
/ With the eleventh ballot the Clark
strength began to wane. Wilson how
ever, gained consistently but slowly.
His only big gain was late this after
abandoned Clark for him Otherwise
his increases came from several dele.
gates who we're impressed either by
his managers or with the belief that
he really was the man of the hour.
But despite the optimistic declara-
tions Of the Wilson men and the
i healthy progress that his boom has
made throug hout the various roll calls
there was general belief among the
more experienced politicians that the
New Jersey executive would never re
ceive the two-thirds vote needed tc
\ nominate him. The open espousal Of
his cause by Bryan admittedly hurt
him among the big eastern delegations
i Murphy, it was claimed, would never
4 let New York vote for him and thers
were other state delegations which
we're supposed to resent the action O
i the Nebraskan in trying to force theil
hands and show them up in bad ligh
liz they failed to follow where he led
I. Talk of Dark Horse.
, Because of this belief the talk 0
, dark horse candidates throughou
!, the late hours following the adjourn
ment was unusually great. No on
man was accepted as filling the bill