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Show fflLSi IS NAMED FOR PRESIDENT Democrats in Most Streaaous Con- veation liver Held Names Wood row Wilson for PresMeit. TIIOS. R. MARSHALL, YICE PRESIDENT Bryan and Clark Offered Second place but Kefusc Clark Scores Bryan. Shortly before 2 o'clock Wednesday Wed-nesday morning the national Democratic convention at Baltimore Balti-more adjourned, after ten days of the most strenuous work ever done, in a Democratic convention. conven-tion. , After days of balloting, Gover nor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey was nominated on the 46th ballot, receiving 990 votes. Speaker Champ Clark who re ceived more than half the votes , of the convention on the first ballot v?as finally bested, but not r until he had authorized his cam- ; paign managers to release his I ' friends in the convention. 1 If the opponents of Wilson had . not voluntarily released their supporters, the convention would not have been able to break the I ' dead-lock that had existed from f the very first ballot. ,J j i -limn , ThoAnommatuon,nf, Wilson. Wfla ,y ' due to tlie active efforts of Win." 1 J. Bryan. Although the Nebras- ka delegation was instructed to support Clark, Bryan was opposed op-posed to him for personal reas-'i reas-'i I " ons, and took the first opportun- ity to attack him on the floor of i the convention. It is apparent "4 ? that Clark would.have been ribm- jgj inated but for Bryan's opposi- m tion. In a statement, alter the H f close of the convention, Speaker m I- Clark announced his intention to m ? support the ticket, but took oc- II . casion to express his opinion of , Bryan. , On his return to Washington H from Baltimore Tuesday Speaker M Clark issued the following state- M - ment: 11 "No set of men made a better m or braver fight for any man in m this world than my friends all m over the country made for me. m They have my heartfelt thanks. W We never had money enough to If v even pay for an adequate supply if of postage stamps and literature. l I was tied down here by my dull du-ll . ties of .speakership. I could, HI J - therefore, aid my friends very am little. They made the fight, m gave me 200,000 majority in the H state where Gov. Wilson and I S competed in the primaries and H caused me to lead on 30 ballots in H the convention, in nine of which IH I had a clean majority. Never-Wb Never-Wb theless the nomination was be Hf stowed on Gov. Wilson. Wm "I never scratched a Demo-H Demo-H cratic ticket or bolted a Demo- H cratic nominee in my life. I shall II , not change the Democratic habit BE now. I am too seasoned a soldier Hj not to accept cheerfully the for- B tunes of war. H "I will support Gov. Wilson H with whatever power I possess w and hope he will be elected. I Wm lost the nomination solely through MB the vile and malicious slanders 3 of William Jennings Bryan of 1 Nebraska. True, they were REV. FREDERICK E. HOPKINb. Chlcagoan Who Denounced Flirts. slanders by innuendo and insinuation, insinu-ation, but they were no less deadly for that reason. (Signed) " CHAMP CLARK." After the presidential nomination nomina-tion had been 'settled, the convention con-vention lost little time in trails-acting trails-acting the remaining business. Bryan and Wilson favored Governor Gov-ernor Joseph E. Burke of North Dakota lor vice president, but at the close of the second ballot his name was withdrawn and Governor Gover-nor Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana Indi-ana was chosen by acclamation, thus giving Bryan his second defeat de-feat of the convention. The ticket is a strong one and will pull a heavy Vote in the fall ocratic nominees being not at all improbable. -. - I i mi- |