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Show BATTLE IS I NOWJNDED I Exciting Day as Crisis H Was Reached in Big M Political Contest H Baltimore, July 2. The convention H hall began to fill by 11 o'clock, but H delegates, wearied with the long night :H sessions and numerous roll calls, -were . 1 late appearing. Free admission j&afi . H again an attraction of the crowds, M which filled the galleries and massed M solidly in tho areas flanking and jH back of the delegates. Cool breezeB H through the upper windows added H comfort to the day and kept the flags H fluttering. H The New York delegation arrived H early for the purpose of holding a H caucus. The stand-pat element in the H delegation, which thus far has been in H the ascendancy, was for standing by H Clark through thick and thin, but the jB Clark men conceded that there was a jH considerable element that felt that the H time was near for a change. H The New York delegates were still jH in caucus when the convention met. H The Information that came from the f caucus room was that the, New York l vote would continue to be cast for iH Clark 1 1 At 12:09, Chairman James took his tH place on the platform. James" voice, HH worn by a week of shouting was husky jH as he announced the Rev. George T. H Grose, of Grace Methodist Episco- B pal church, of Baltimore, -as chaplain jjH of the day who offered prayer. jVfl The clerk of the convention an- 'H nounced another extension of time to H July 15 for the validation of railroad JB tickets held by delegates. BVjVJ At 12:15 Chairman James directed the calling of the roll for the forty- H ' third time. There was a general im- M pression that today's session would JH find some means of breaking t 'H deadlock. .H In Arizona, on the forty-third vote, M Clark lost one vote to Bryan. fM Connecticut showed a gain of two "H for Wilson. They left the Clark col- H umn. H In Idaho Wilson gained 1 1-2. m 'The hall was quiet as Iillinois was M cached. When Roger C. Sullivan of ,-fH Chicago announced: 'jl "Eighteen votes for Clark, forty for ,H Wilson," there was great chcerins ' Chairman James pounded the table SH with his gavelkind finally quieted the U uproar. i Illinois for Wilson. M "Illinois, under ihe unit rule, "U ZH -jS votes for Wilson," he announce H and another cheer greeted the M This gave Wilson a clear gain 0' o ' JM votes in Illinois. ll The New Jersey governor contwiM jH to gain. In. Iowa he added l"1.- -M his total voto. H When Kentucky was called anl t n 'H 'ote was announced 2G rnr Clar H one of the delegates demanded: M "I want to know if Kentucky r" M vote for Wilson If a majority of the H delegates desire to do so?" H Governor McCreary, chairman of JM the delegation, argued that the In- H structions of the Kentuckians would H not allow a break. The Wilson men H did not press the point, although eyl- H dently confident of a vote in the dele- 1 H gation. . , x j r 1 In Louisiana Wilson gained two and H In Michigan olght, yL M New York stopped for what for a f. H few minutes looked like a Wilson IM landslide. Representative William Sulzer announced tho New York vote mjM as 90 for Clark, as heretofore. This N91 dispelled all hope of a nomination on BH this ballot. The delegation had de- M cided In caucus to continue to cast jH Its 90 votes for Clark. The vote In H the caucus showed 78 for Clark, 10 H for Wilson and 2 for Underwood. H North Carolina Helps. M North Carolina added two extra H votes to the augmenting Wilson H count. When Virginia was reached, H Senator Swanson arose to explain Ue H state's vote Ho asserted that at a H caucus this morning the delegation (H had decided to enforce the unit rule H for the first time. Wilson had se- H cured a majority of the delegation and H the state's 24 votes were cost for him fm The Wilson adherents cheered the h Virginia vote, but from the Clark lH forces there went up a shout of: H "Ryan and Bryan." IH Thomas R. Ryan, who was de- jjH nounced by William J. Bryan. Is a H member of the Virginia delegation H Tho disordor was quickly eup- H pressed, only to break out with re- H lewed vigor when the entire Clark H voto of 16 in West Virginia went oer H to Wilson. In Wisconsin Wilson H gained one more. H The forty-third ballot gave: m Wilson 602. M Clark 229. B Underwood OS1,?. m (Continued on Page Eight.) jM (Continued from Page One ) Harmon 2S. Foss 27. Kern . Bryan 1. Absent li. This gave Wilson a gain of 10S and Clark a loss of 101. Underwood lost o1. The announcement of this -vote staitcrf a Wilson demonstration. "Come on, you Wilson," yelled the Jersey delegates. The ballot left Wilson 124 votes short of the necessary two-thirds to nominate. Forty-Fourth Roll Call. Once more the call of the loll began. be-gan. It was the forty-fourth ballot and Wilson In the beginning gained one in Arizona Colorado climbed aboard tho "band wagon," ghing Wilson Wil-son a gain of nine. This mado the vote ton to two for Wilson. One of the two was Mrs Anna B Pitzcr, sister-in-law of Speaker Clark- In Idaho on this ballot Wilson lost half a vote, but he gained two as Indiana's vote was cast solidlv for him It was rumored on the convention floor that Governor iMarshall of Indiana In-diana would be a candidate for vice president if Wilson were nominated Wilson gained Zz in Iowa and Louisiana Lou-isiana gave him one more. Tho Mississippi delegation was in caucus when called, and was passed Previous to the conclusion of the forty-fourth ballot it was said that in the event of Mr. Wilson's nomination nomina-tion ho would be asked to visit the convention, and it was expected he would accept the Invitation. Under the new order, the presentation presenta-tion of the platform was postponed until after the nomination of the candidate, can-didate, to permit him to Inspect tho declaration of principles In advance of Its adoption. The leaders think the candidate can give better attention atten-tion to the matter here than at his home. Maryland gave Wilson a gain of l1 and Ohio gave him a gain of on more. Pennsylvania's two Clark men swung into line and Wilson received the solid 7C from that state. In Tennessee Wilson gained on" ttah cast its eight votes for him a gain of 1U votes. Wisconsin swung into line with its -G solid votes and a cheer from the Uiison adherents greeted the gain of foar votes. The fortj -fourth ballot put Wilson 9GU votes a-way from a nomination His vote was G29, a gain of 27 as compared with the fortv-third ballot Clark dropped from 329 to 326 Th" situation led to the belief that Wilson Wil-son v.ould be nominated on the fortv-fifth fortv-fifth ballot. An effort was made at the end of the forty-fourth roll call by the Washington Wash-ington delegation to vote proxies on a poll of that delegation. Chairman James insisted upon maintaining his position, formerly taken, that no proxies prox-ies should be voted in the convention An appeal was taken from the convention, con-vention, but the chair was sustained by a rising vote which seemed almost al-most unanimous. The poll of the Washington delegation delega-tion showed five of the twentv-eight delegates, with half a vote each absent, ab-sent, cutting Washington's vote In the convention to 11. On the poll eight were cast for Clark and 3V-for 3V-for Wilson, but, as Washington was under the unit rule, 14 were recorded for Clark An expected break in the solid Alabama vote of 24 for Underwood Under-wood did not take place on the forty-fifth forty-fifth ballot The Wilson people are anxiously awaiting a change In tho Alabama vote in the hope that It would start the final landslide In favor fa-vor of their candidate There was less disorder in the convention con-vention today than at any other session ses-sion during the week and demonstrations demonstra-tions which marked other sessions were missing In the early balloting today. Wilson Gains Steadily. Woodrow Wilson continued to gain steadilj In the ballot for the presidential presi-dential nomination In the Democratic national convention this afternoou, but after the forty-third ballot his progress was slow. His managers had confidently expected his nomination nomina-tion on the forty-fourth ballot, but at that time hie total vote was 23, as against 725 1-3 to nominate. Clark s vote at that time had dwindled dwin-dled to 30C. Althought Wilson made slight gajns early in the forty-fifth ballot, there were no serious breaks in the Clark ranks. During this ballot the Wilson leaders lead-ers worked like beavers to secure the Underwood strength for the New Jersey Jer-sey man A Mitchell Palmer. leader of the Wilson forces, urged the Alabama Ala-bama delegates to throw their votes to Wilson, but he could secure no agreement. A poll of the New Mexican delegation delega-tion on this ballot showed an inclination inclina-tion to break the solid eight Clark votes, but they were held by the unit rule. New" York's 90 again wont to Clark and hope of a nomination on this ballot bal-lot was lost. In Ohio Wilson gained a vote, being be-ing Harmon 25, Wilson 23. The change on the forty-fifth ballot was slight, Clark remaining at 306. Wilson advanced from 602 to C33. Wilson's progress at this point had not been so steady, while the Clark forces endeavored to gather enough votes ,to block the rush to Wilson End In Sight. The end came in sight when, at the beginning of the forty-sixth ballot, Senator Bankhead of Alabama, manager man-ager for the Underwood forces, mounted the platform. "Mr. Chairman," ho began, "Mr. Underwood Un-derwood entered this contest hoping he might secure the nomination from this convention. But I desire to say for him that his first and greatest hope was that through this contest he might eliminate for all time oven vestige of sectional prejudice in this convention. Mr. Underwood would willingly forgo this nomination if the country has concluded that Mason and Dixon's lino has been tramped out and that this is once more a thoroughly united country." Senator Bankhead said Mr. Under wood did not enter the race to defeat any man and would not be a party to any such plan. His hope wns that what he had accomplished for the Democracy would help to secure the election of a Democratic president next November. He was the party nominee and alwavs had been. Mr. "Underwood had taken no personal part in the campaign and would have no rogretR. "He and his friends," said Sonator Bankhead, stand ready to support the candidate and the platform of his party " Senator Bankhead said Mr. Underwood would stay in the house and perform "his great duties there without complaint." "How about lce president?" called a delegate. "Vice president9 No," shouted the senator. "Do not lake him from his present position if you cannot deliver to him the highest office in the land. Vice president? No; anybody can 3lt in the vice president's chair! even 1, humble as I am, could sit there and say: 'The gcntloman from New York moves that Te adjourn' It would be a crime to take him from his present pres-ent duties and I hope no one will present his name to this convention." Senator Bankhead's action in withdrawing with-drawing Underwood aroused the. Ire of the Missouri delegation and toward the end of his remarks he was constantly con-stantly interrupted "Whv did you not withdraw him when Clark had a chance?" demanded demand-ed one of tho Missourians. Senator Bankhead paid no heed. "Why don't you tell them you arc faking?" shouted the delegate. Tho interruptions wore greeted with hisses. Senator Bankhead concluded con-cluded briefly with tho statement that at Mr. Underwood's request ho withdrew his name from further consideration, con-sideration, leaving his delegates free to ote for whom they chose. While Senator Bankhead talked, the Clark forces, foreseeing a break from Underwood to Wilson, scurried about the hall. Charles F. Murpivy moved up the center aisle to the Missouri delegation delega-tion Daid R. FranciB and Senator Reed of tho Missouri delegation, joined him in a whispered conference Representative Fitzgerald of New York left the platform and joined the group. .The Wilson leaders hurried to the platform Senator Gore of Oklahoma Roger C Sullivan of Illinois, A Mitchell Palmer and Representatie Burleson of Texas talked there in excited whispers. When Senator Bankhead concluded, conclud-ed, Senator Stone of Missouri went to the platform and asked unanimous consent to bo allowed to make a statement state-ment Clark Delegates Released. '"Speaking for Speaker Clark." said Senator Stone, "I will release If release re-lease is necessar- any delegation instructed in-structed for him " I would not have a single delegation stay with him under un-der any sense of obligation to him I need not tell this convention or the friends of old Champ Clark that he will stand bv the nominee of this convention loyally to the end " When Senator Stone finished. Maor Fitzgerald, of Boston, mounted the platform. He withdrew tho name of Governor Foss of Massachusetts and announced that the Massachusetts Massachu-setts delegation would vote for Wilson. Wil-son. Uproar greeted this announcement, for the nomination of Wilson had now become a practical certainty. When the disorder subsided, Representative Rep-resentative Fitzgerald, who had just finished a conference with Murphy, took the stage. His advent marked the end of the opposition to Wilson as an organized body. Fitzgerald made a plea for harmony. har-mony. "Wo want to leave this hall a united unit-ed democracy, with glory ln November Novem-ber assured," he said. "I moe that the roll call be despensed with and that the convention proceed by acclamation accla-mation to nominate that distinguished. Democrat, Governor Woodrow Wilson." Wil-son." The weary delegates stood in their chairs and shouted wildlj'. Missouri and New York alone sat unmoved throughout the demonstration. Wilson adherents dashed about the hall, shaking hands, hugging each other and dancing with glee. The aisles were jammed and the serge-ants-at-arms and the police fought in vain to quiet the throng The solid mass of men who had sat through ballot after ballot until they had almost gone into a stupor of routine, rou-tine, greeted the lelief with an outburst out-burst of jubilation and became as noisy and mischievous as a crowd of school boys It tooic fifteen minutes to quiet them. Finallv Chairman James announced that the plan proposed pro-posed by Representative Fitzgerald to nominate by acclamation could be carried car-ried only by unanimous consent Senator Sen-ator Reed of Missouri took the platform plat-form to object to this scheme. "Without the slightest desire to express ex-press any sentiment or rancor, I object ob-ject because Missouri wants to be recorded on this ballot for old Champ Clark," said he, and the Clark forces cheered. F. H. McCollough of Missouri, asked and leceived permission to make a brief statement. He said the people of Missouri "loved old Champ Clark " The regular order was demanded and the forty-sixth and final roll call was begun at 2:53 p. m. "Alabama 24 votes for Wilson," called call-ed out the chairman of that delegation. delega-tion. "Arizona six for Woodrow Wilson.' "Arkansas 18 for Woodrow Wilson." It was difficult for the clerk to proceed pro-ceed on account of the applause that greoted each response. When California was reached, Theodore Theo-dore A. Bell, chairman of that delegation, dele-gation, which had been one of the Clark bulwarks, made his way to the stage. C. Mitchell Palmer and several Wilson Wil-son leaders met Bell as he reached the platform and endeavored to disuade him from speaking. An argument ensued, en-sued, California was passed and Bell left the platform. Colorado gave all her 12 votes to Wilson and Connecticut Connecti-cut did llkewiso with her 11. Dolaware, always consistently in the Wilson column, col-umn, cast her votes there again amid applause. Florida votod seven for Wilson and five for Clark. Underwood's 28 in Georgia went to Wilson. A cheer greeted Illinois' solid 58 as it was cast for the New Jersey governor. , Iowa, Indiana and Kansas supported tho New Jersey governor. Maine Goes to Wilson. Maine's 12 were cast in a block for Wilson. Maryland's 16 and Massachusetts' Massa-chusetts' 36 wore likewise given to Wilson. Michigan's 30 climbed onto the "band wagon" beside the 24 from Minnesota who had a seat from the beginning. Undorwood's 20 In Mlssls- Y'" -r ; , i. ; w : , fl sippi was announced for Wilson b. Governor Brewer in his best baritone oice. When Missouri was reached Senator Stone, in a voice that could be heard throughout the hall, announced: "Missouri casts 3G votes for Champ Clark." The Missourians cheered and they were gien a round of applause Montana In Line. Montana gave her solid vote to Wilson and was followed by New Mexico The four Clark delogates in New Jersey remained firm and the vote was recorded 25 for Wilson and 4 for Clark. Another outburst occurred when Charles F. Murphy rose in his place to announce: "New York casts 9 votes for Wood-row Wood-row Wilson." North Carolina gave Wilson its full 24, and North Dakota's 10 got into line. Then Ohio was reached and Ed H Moore of the Harmon forces took the stand to release the Ohio delegates from any obligation to support Harmon. Har-mon. Ohio was passed. Oklahoma's delegation, so long divided di-vided 10 nnd 100, cast its entire 20 for Wilson. Oregon's 10 and Pennsylvania's Pennsyl-vania's 76 remained in their accustomed accus-tomed place behind Wilson. Rhode Islands 10, came Into line. South Carolina oted Its 190 for Wilson. South Dakota gave Wilson 40. The badly split Tennessee delegation for the ffirst time in the convention was united and gave Its 24 votes for Wilson. Wil-son. When Texas was called, n little girl, Frances Ball, was lifted to the top of a chair to cast the state's vote. She was cheered as she chirped: "Tevas votes 40 for Wilson." Utah, Vermont and Virginia went to Wilson Then Washington, which had stood solidly for Clark, was reached. "We have stood by Clark until he went down to defeat," announced the Washington chairman, "and we'll stay by Wilson to victory." West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Wyom-ing, Alaska. Hawaii and Porto Rico suuporled Wilson, but the six votos from the District of Columbia stayed with Clark to the end. California, which had boen pasBod, was called and Theodore A. Bell nsk-ed nsk-ed unanimous consent to make a brief statement Objection was made. Thereupon Bell rose to explain his voto and finally secured quiet Ho went to the platform. Bell said that he would support Wilson. He announced his intention of moving to make WHswn's nomination nomina-tion unanimous. He announced the vote of California as Clark, 24; Wilson, 2. Ohio was tho last state to vote and she gave. Clark 1; Harmon, 12 j Wilson, 33. The total vote for Wilson Wil-son was 790. Clark received 84 and Harmon 12 Two were absent. |