The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-02

BALTIMORE, July with a feel
ing of bitterness engendered among
the delegates, which seemed capable
|of precipitating riot at any moment,
the dead-locked democratic national
convention resumed at noon its efforts
to select presidential nominee. The
situation today was changed from that
OF yesterday only that the leaders be
lieved the maximum strength Of Gov
ernor Wilson has been exposed They
insist that he, like Clark, has shown
his best efforts and that from this
time forward he will follow his chief
rival, along the backward trail. To-
day the fact was driven into the men
who must name the ticket. while eth,
er Clark or Wilson has plenty .o1
strength to kill off his rival, neither
I has strength to force his own candi
dacy to triumph.
Wearied from irregular meals. and
lack OF sleep, coupled with long hours
in the sitting heat of the great con
yention hall, which is generally pack
ed beyond its capacity, the nerve.
wracked delegates were milling today
like bunch of cattle in corral.
They are all at sea. The leaders who
have been manipulating them have
been unable to select the course
through which to pilot democracy, and
the helpless individual delegate, who
under the present convention bears
no relation to conditions and in most
instances is mere pawn in the game,
sits in his seat sweltering and swear
ing and ready for fight at any moment.
A Leader Needed.
| Any individual democrat with mag
netism and a record Of party con
sistency could sweep the present con-
ivention off its .eet. But the leaders
cannot agree and the rank and file OF
! the delegates have had no opportunity
: to vote their opinion OF the qualiflca-
tions of any man, as barring the Bryan
: episodes, there has not been strong
speech delivered on the floor of the
convention.
/ The jockeying for position continued
1
whole delegations in others, were NOV
/ ed backward and forward to test the
temper OF the convention. The state
bosses in many instances were work
ing in concert The reason for many
of their moves were seldom apparent
to the onlooker who knew the game
but that there was concerted action
was always obvious.
A single vote recorded for a can
didate who had not been placed reg
ularly in nomination would occasion
f ally be cast, and the effect watched as
closely by the chieftains of the party
as would fever chart by doctor In
a typhoid epidemic The delegates
were being tried out, but there was
little response, and the dark horse
chatter continued, while the leading
candidates received the full quota Of
their rock-bottom strength and the
manipulated vote that was being
Temporarily diverted awaiting the
psychological moment when it was te
be sent elsewhere.
The Fear Of Bryan.
The fear of Bryan obsesses the New
York delegation and the machine
leaders who are in alliance with Muir
4 ply of Tammany Hall.
With Murphy of Tammany Hall, the
tNehraskan's stopping of ChamI
Clark had displayed his strength
Early today just before adjournment
word was brought to the New Yor.
Header that Michigan, after shifting al
most its entire strength to Wilson te
.ltest the possibility of stampede II
4 that direction, was going to throw
thirty votes to the Nebraskan to sec
what effect this would have.
The Murphy seat is on the middle
II. of no ho1 on u.