New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-28
BALTIMORE PLOTTING
AMAZING TO BLYTHE
Intngues So Complicated There That Participants
Find Thew Are Working Against Themselves.

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defeat Wilson and eliminate Bryan.
The first vote against Bryan was
warning to these leaders that Bryan had
great deal more strength than they
thought he had; so instead Of using the
axe they Immediately changed their plan
and began to honeyfugle Bryan. They
decided TO give him everything he
wanted so far as the non essentials were
concerned. That plan explains why the
unit rule was abolished, why Bryan was
allowed to put through his proposition TO
make the platform after the candidate
had been named, and why the vote on
the South Dakota contest came out as
it did.
Mr.. Taggart and Mr.. Sullivan and Mr..
Guffy threw sufficient delegates to VII
son on that vote for the purpose Of
showing Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Wilson they
are entirely unprejudiced men, of open
mind and ruled only by the rights and
equities of each case. 1t was good pol
itics-excellent politcs-and the poll
ticians who planned and put through the
scheme were Stone and Sullivan and
Taggart and Pettigrew, Pettigrew TAX
ing a beating in his own state on the
South Dakota contest in order 10 help
along They fought Mr., Bryan once,
and. having beaten him, they proceeded
to show MIN 1t was nothing personal by
giving him about everything else he
wanted.
This is the way the lines were laid
when the convention assembled TO begin
nominating. All the old guard, all of
the men who nominated Parker in 1904.
all the remnants Of the machine, having
no chance Of naming Harmon. turned to
Clark Clark himself had secured a big
wedge of delegates in his own right.
The combination was d strong one, and
it was never so strong nor so compact
as when the balloting began.
The opposition was scattered. Wilson
had the most votes, but not so many as
Clark. Outside of Wilson and Clark the
other aspirants were of no particular
consequence only TO be considered when,
the Clark plan failing it becomes neces-
sary to turn elsewhere At the proper
time in the convention Murphy will de-
liver, Taggart will deliver and Sullivan
will deliver, Stone and his crowd Will
produce, and then it will he Clark
against the field, and not much of the
field is friendly to Wilson.
Plan to Plaeate Bryan.
Simmered down, the situation IN the
Democratic party Is somewhat like the
situation In the Republican party. The
machine was against Roosevelt and
nominated Taft. The machine is against
Bryan and may nominate Clark This
leaves Bryan with the alternative of
going alone, going with Roosevelt or
supporting the machine nominee. or
course, the machine may not be able to
name Clark, but the chances are in
Clarks favor If Clark is nominated
there is no doubt Mr.. Bryan can have
any kind Of a platform he desires. He
will be invited TO write II. TO revise II,
TO dictate il and TO supervise it. He can
put in plans for anything from stipula-
his hair 70 g demand for the burning Of
the custom houses. Nobody Will object
1t will be pointed out to Bryan that
he has been fairly treated; it will be
shown TO him that he has been allowed
10 dictate about everything save the
actual nomination. He will be patted on
the back as the greatest Democrat since
Jefferson, and he will be put d peg or
two above Jefferson II he thinks It neces-
sary. If, perchance, it is not IN the
cards to nominate Clark, and there is a
deadlock and a long drawn night, the
Gaynor folks hope TO come in Hope is
the principal Gaynor asset
Not much attention has been paid to
the Presidency. The Mayor Of Bal
timore IS a candidate His name is Pres
ton and he has large house and is run
ming on a platform of a nightly recep-
ton with a firebrand If punch served
literally. Representative Redfeld, Of
Brooklyn, has announced himself. His
Then there are Representative Sulzer OF
New York; Mayor Baker of Cleveland
and all the defeated candidates for the
Presidency-that is, all the candidates
Of the second class. including Marshall,
Baldwin. ct al Mayor Gaynors name
has been suggested. and the name Of
Senator OGorplan. OF New York II
Clark is nominated il is likely New
York man Will be chosen. II it is Wilson,
Baker, Of Cleveland, is a good guess.
and. looking forward a bit, il must
not he forgotten that Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt has about as keen an interest
in this convention as any man. II Ia un-
likely that Roosevelt's third party move
ment will amount 10 much If Wilson Ia
nominated here. If Wilson is not ncmi-
mated, just as a final prophecy-it being
safe to prophesy about an August event
watch for a ticket composed Of Roose-
welt and Wilson on radical platform.
PEOPLE TO NAME LEADERS
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