Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-06-13
|MORGANTHAU WANTS
SECRETARY BAKER TO
Be ". WILSON'S NATE
Chairman McCombs Declares
That Slate Will Go Through
as Arranged.
Ii.M.a
CALLS THE OPPOSITION
TO INCUMBENT ABSURD
Bryan Fails to Show His Hand
as Delegates Begin to
Gather.

st. Louis, June 12.-Anti-convention
discussion centered today on moves
and suggestions to defeat plans for
the denomination of Vice President
Marshall and put q new man on the
ticket with President Wilson. As the
number Of delegates to the Democrat
ic convention grew, boomlets for var.
ious favorite sons appeared on the
surface to rise and fall with the tide
of talk.
To Defeat Marshall.
A move to defeat Vice President
Marshall took well defined form and
substance when Henry Morganthau,
who recently gave up his post as am
bassador to Turkey, that he might en-
gaze in the work of re-electing Presi-
dent Wilson, announced that q
stronger man" than Marshall should
be named. and brought forward, tho
name Of Secretary of War Newton D.
Baker, to run with President Wilson.
News that Mr.. Morganthau was
booming Secretary Baker created
something more than mild discussion
for it was pointed out that Nj. Nor
ganthau had been close to the, admin.
istration. Mr.. Morganthau hastened.
however, to make it clear that he was
making the Baker nomination on his
own initiative, with the desire Of nam
ing the strongest possible candidate
for the Office.
National Chairman McCombs said
tonight that he had received a tele-
gram from Jacob Schimm, the New
York banker, asking that stronger
candidate than Mr.. Marshall be nam
ed. Talk that Secretary Bakers
name would be presented as candi-
date for vice president caused a rush
of delegates to the national commit
teeman and other party leaders to
know if there had been any change in
plans to rename Marshall
No Hitch Says Meconbs.
'"There will be no hitch in the plan
to rename the present Democratic
ticket" said National Chairman Nc
Combs tonight. National COMMITTEES
man Mack of New York also said the
talk to upset the nomination Of Mr..
Marshall was SILLY and absurd"
Booms for new candidates for vice
president, the last one to come to no
tice being Judge J. A. Jackson Of
Kan. The delegation from
Kansas is to arrive tomorrow.
A. Mitchell Palmer, national COM
miteeman from Pennsylvania, came in
today with part of the delegates from
that state, and promptly declared all
the delegation is for Mr.. Marshall.
Palmer said he made the announce
nent to kill off "the little boomlsts."
Bryan to Be Good7 -s+
VIM. ]. Bryan does not expect to
any fight on the party plat
farm. That was the Information
brought here tonight by a close friend
of the former secretary of state. who
admitted that Mr.. Bryan might not.
after all. go before the resolutions
and that he would not
make any effort to obtain q proxy
hat would seat him on the convention
floor. Mr.. Bryan is expected hers
ate tonight. or tomorrow. when Sens
Tor Ollie James, President Wilson's
choice for permanent chairman, SeCre-
,ary Baker and other notable political
eaders, are due to arrive.
Senator Stone, who is to be chair.
nan of the committee on resolutions.
ssued a statement this afternoon in
which he criticised the nomination Of
Justice Hughes by the Republican
party as in every way bad ana vi.
:ious." His announcement was taken
TO mean that the Democratic party
would probably make q party issue
against Justice Hughes on the ground
that his nomination to the presidency
was made while he was on the gu
preme court bench. Other leaders
were not inclined to make this IN is
sue, recalling that the party drafted
Alton B. Parker when he Was chief
Justice of the New York court Of %.
peals.
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BAKER TO BE WILSON'S
SPECIAL REPRE8ENrATlvE
Washington, June 12.-Secrotafy
Baker left for St. Louis tonight @ .
representative Of President
Wilson at the Democratic coayention.
He had frequent conferences at the
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