The Washington herald., 1912-06-29

was almost .InpOS5lDIe lot lne QelcSAlel
| TO follow the voting.
Senator W. J. Stone Of Missouri fol
lowed Senator Gore from one delegation
to another. It was believed he was try
| ing out the Clark sentiment in tn,
various delegations and that a desperat,
| effort to change the result on the tenth
| ballot was being made
In wild Disorder.
The Indiana delegates are watching the
demonstration with smiles
The deIeg ltes three minutes after the
vote Of New York was announced stood
delegation led in the shouting. Califor.
MAS banner, carrying a picture Of Clark
was taken from its place and paraded
around the hall, stopping at the Missouri
delegation. Above It all the band played
Justify ''Tammany." Enough OF the mu-
sic could be heard above the general din
to distinguish the melody.
SerEeant-at-arms Martin, himself a Mis-
sourian. stood at the front of the speak
er's stand, forgetting all about order
waving his handkerchief and helping out
with the noise. Not once did he order
his assistants to clear the aisles or make
the delegates take their seats. State
standards were plucked up and started
about the hall.
The California banner was started to-
ward the stage and soon the Arizona,
Colorado, District of Columbia. Rhode
Island. Iowa. Kansas, Maryland and
Washington, in the hands OF struggling
delegates, were massed at the foot OF
the stairway leading to the speaker
stand.
New and strange Clark banners were
unfurled and brought into the demon
stration. Oddly enough, the galleries,
that had taken their full part in the
previous noise making, were almost en-
tirely silent. The New York standard,
borne by lusty delegates, were carried
to the speakers stand and was soon
waving from the stand where a few
moments before Ollie James had been
welding the gavel. At 1890 a m, the
demonstration had been going on just
eleven minutes; it started at l2:ls.
When the standards appeared for the
second time on their march to the stage
the sergeant-at-arms, who had at first
repelled the invasion, indulgently stepped
out of the way.
At 1872 the delegates were all jammed
in the aisles in front Of the speakers
stand and press boxes. The noise was
deafening, although the galleries still re-
Trained from taking part. An enthusias-
tic Clark man seized a big American nag
and waved it from the speakers stand
as the noise continued. The last State
standard borne away from the stand by
the tubilant delegates was that Of IIi-
nois.
Speakers Stand Cleared.
At 12:S4 the speakers stand was cleared
and for a second time the delegates
started their way around the hall. The
gallery visitors evidently considered at
last they were seeing the performance
they had come to witness. They sat back
and smiled and famed. occasionally clap
ping their hands
One burst of applause came from the
Missouri enthusiasts, headed by the per-
spring and hard-working band. which
struck up the "Houn' Dawg" song.
During the demonstration the Wilson
and other delegates kept their seats and
attempted to prevent their standards and
banners from being seized by the Clark
ites.
The Wilson men in the New Jersey
delegation sitting in the front row did not
seem in the least perturbed by the noise
and movement.
They knew that the Clark people had
some "a votes to go in order to nominate
their candidate.
At 1873 the sergeant-at-arms endeav-
ored to quiet the hall The delegates
quieted down suddenly. The banners
were furled and the not, weary dele
gates sank into their seats.
Gradually the aisles cleared and the
monster pictures Of Clark were taken
back under the galleries ready to be
brought back again when the occasion
arose.
For a time at least the demonstration
was over. 1t had lasted twenty-five
At last the cast Of the Empire State
vote was announced. One went TO
Underwood, and eight to Wilson. The
Wilson announcement brought a burst OF
cheering. Under the unit rule the chair
declared New York's ninety votes cast
for Clark.
A delegate from Oklahoma questioned
the Oklahoma vote. saying that the dele
cation was instructed first for Wilson
and then for Clark. He demanded that
the vote be polled. The chairman Of the
delegation, however, asserted that the
was in two parts, and said
that. the poll was 10 for Clark and 10
for Wilson.
Again in Confusion.
I'VE insist" shouted the chairman.
that We do not join Tammany." Then
the visitors got into the game, and from
all sides wild cheers rang out. and for a
second time the convention was in con-
fusion. The speakers gavel rose and fell
with the regularity OF a trip-hammer,
but the cheering and the fusiIlade OF