Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-07-01
BRYAN DESERTS
CHAMP CLARK
SUPPORT OF TAAIMANY is RE-
SPONSIBLE.
26 BALLOTS BRING NO CHOICE
Clark and Wilson Hold Field Against
All Others-Speaker Loses and
Governor Gains SlOwly-Deadlock
Causes Adjournment.

Baltimore, Md.-William ]. Bryan
tore the lid off the democratic con-
vention again Saturday afternoon,
when in stirring speech explaining
the shift of his vote as a delegate
from Clark to Governor Wilson, he
virtually laid the foundation for a
bolt should the nominee of the con-
Vention secure a victory at the price
OF promised allegiance to the Ryan
Belmont-Morgan money trust inter-
ests, on which the Nebraskan's attack
had been centered throughout the
convention.
In his speech Bryan held Charles
F. Murphy of Tammany Hall up as
the connecting link between the big
business interests and the democratic
party.
. Bryan declared, in changing his
vote, that he would not support any
candidate whose success in landing
the nomination was contingent upon
allegiance to Tammang Hall or whicn
was made possible by securing the
80 Murphy controlled votes from the
Empire state.
After the storm thus precipitated
had subsided, Bryan in a reply to a
direct question as to whether he
proposed to bolt in event of the can
didate being selected under the con-
ditions he named, said that he could
not conceive of a convention choos-
ing presidential candidate under
the conditions outlined, once the del
egates were appraised of the real sig
Mt 80 I,.os,. l. 4
clined TO be pinned down to any more
definite answer
The convention spent ten solid
hours in voting Saturday in the most
suffocating heat At the close of the
26th ballot, adjournment was taken
until today, the delegates being thor
oughly tired out with the monoto-
nous routine of the day, The day
was one of grief for Clark inasmuch
as he lost heavily on each succeed
ing ballot after the thirteenth, end
ing in the twenty-sixth with 463 y f,
but 3 more then was given him ~
the Ilrst.
The high water mark for the Clark
boom came in the tenth ballot, when
the 80 New York votes, controlled by
Murphy, switched from Harmon to
the speaker. On this ballot, the Mis-
sourian polled $50. The thirteenth
gave him 5541 amd the slide began.
1t was demonstrated by these pro-
ceedings that the nomination will not
go to Clark, and Wilson has far to
60 The Missouri delegation came
forward Loyalty in support of their
candidate, when the speakers vote
was at its height, by sending to each
of the other candidates wire asking
a withdrawal from the race in favor
of Mr.. Clark. Subsequent ballots,
however, indicate that the other can
didates still cling to the hope of sue
cess
The Wilson men are standing pat
for their candidate and from the first
ballot he has gained steadily. His
nomination, however, is another
question as the Clark men are equal
ly stubborn and can hold out enough
votes to control the nomination if
they choose.
Starting with 324 votes on the first
ballot, the New Jersey governor
gained slowly up to the sixth, when
he received 354, holding about even
until the twelfth, when the steady
rise began anew. The twenty-sixth
ballot gave Wilson 407, a clear gain
of SO votes over the first. Massa-
chusetts endeavored to start a boom
for their governor, Foss, on the
twenty-secOnd ballot when the entire
Clark contingent of "a votes switched
to Foss. The attempt had no percep-
tible result, however, and the twenty
sixth ballot showed only 43 votes for
Governor Foss.
Baldwin, Kern, Sulzer, James and
Gaynor received scattering votes on
occasional ballots and one persistent
Wisconsin delegate cast his vote for
Bryan on every ballot but four
Bryan received seven votes on the
nineteenth, which represents the
height of success for the Nebraskan.
Talk of a stampede in his favor was
in the air but failed to materialize
on Saturday.