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Show MILSON NOW LEADS IN THE CONVENTION 1 L Explain His Vote for Wilson and jB-tunity to Call Commoner "Mon-Hg "Mon-Hg Marplot From Nebraska." k I'MIOm BE NAMED SHbt Vermont Delegation Dropped BHB Going to Wilson Fold Iowa Wjm Wilson and 12 to Clark. j GHHB99ftldato for MKHKaHHLfore the HflBflBnKon late BnB9ffiH Champ KjB9Hir' WiI gmlBmflH ly BvHHIft wii-ft wii-ft SBHf-'HIH vot-HHElBB1 vot-HHElBB1 for KktiMfciKmSm5 the KfJkHeBHr)reak iHnBHLfl' Af- HflBHr e re HHr o o n Lv in V the' m and HHj thus HHlung Hcom -HilHH i 1 s o n MHallot, BH. 29; HHclock H their Hitering H&ervat- WM floor liHK, noth- H; quite HE r e Hte con-pith con-pith so Hffk or Khcre p Bryan's Vthc Vtho HT convention Hid the Kd Its K Cochran, T throughout Tbreak the H&w York state Band is Pvas no band today Its cou-Kuvlng cou-Kuvlng expired, and the band-fws band-fws occupied by a group of Bal-iiHnnrc Bal-iiHnnrc belies. i K. few inlnutes after H o clock ftlrman JamesD11 the conven-Vn conven-Vn to order and the Rev. S. Carroll Koal of the First M. B. church of Baltimore offored prayer. bH A cheer swep the convention ha 1 Bi WHliani J. Bryan entered and took KVscat with the Nebraska delogation. Kwaa smlUneJind held an animated Kverflation with several delegates. 7Jrman James quieted the crowd. Pflieodore A. Bell of California was Hijcu reepgnized. He made a motion Hftat a committee be appointed to sc-HLe sc-HLe the validation of trip railroad tckets held by delegates. The mo-Hnn mo-Hnn vas adopted and the committee ppolnted. The twenty-seventh roll H-ii lwas then begun. the first six stateB called Clark If" ; " gained four Yotes over thc twenty-sixth twenty-sixth ballot, Illinois asked to be passed on this ballot, and Marshall's 30 in Indiana remained Intact. In Massachusetts Wilson gained five votes and the Wilson Wil-son supporters cheered. When Missouri was called the entire en-tire delegation arose and called defiantly. de-fiantly. "Thirty-six votes for Clark." In Nebraska Clark gained a vote. When New York was called a poll of tho delegation, the first since the balloting was begun, was demanded. Abraham I. Elkins of the Eleventh New York district was the first New Yorker to ote for Wilson and a round of cheers greeted him. William J. McAdoo was the second. Stanchfleld Roasts Bryan. When the name of John B. Stanch-field Stanch-field was reached, he took the platform plat-form to explain his vote. "I come from a state whose electoral elec-toral vote Is vital to Democratic success," suc-cess," began Stanchfleld. "We represent rep-resent 10,000,000 people." Stanchfield then started to review the hjslory of New York UplitlsThe delegates showed" signs orBecoming ' impatient. Is there any limit on the gentleman gentle-man s time?" demanded a Michigan delegate "New York has a right to be heard on the floor of this convention," returned re-turned Stanchfield. "The intcgrit of every delegate from New York 'has been impugned and insulted." Stanchfield said the New York delegation del-egation included Jurists, lawyers and business men of known standing.. "It is by tho common censent the most representative delegation that ever came to a national convention from New York. If these be thc puppets pup-pets of wax' that Mr. Bryan reters to, tte say to that money-grabbing, office-seeking, office-seeking, publicity-hunting marplot of Nebraska " Stanchfield could not conclude the sentence. It was drowned in a burst of cheers. While the speaker delivered this attack, at-tack, Bryan watched Stanchfield closely close-ly and smiled. "I desire to sny again the vote of New York is vital to success." continued con-tinued Stanchfield. "And no man can go from this convention stigmatized and branded with the mark of Bryan -ism upon him, and come within half a million yotes of success. Calls Bryan a Plutocrat. "When Mr. Bryan makes the statement state-ment that these New York delegates are under the influence of Morgan and Ryan and Belmont, the 'plutocrats' of this convention, ho omits one name. Outside of the three he has named, the richest and most powerful plutocrat pluto-crat on the floor Is the gentleman from Nebraska himself. "If the Now York delegation is to be prevented from participating, then any man who for pay has been writing writ-ing from the floor of the Republican convention in favor of Mr. Bryan's partner nnl ally, Theodore Roosevelt, ought also to be excluded. "Colonel Bryan has never intended to support the candidate of this convention con-vention unless that candidate was Mr. Bryan himself," said Stanchfield. "We have heard for months that Mr. Bryan has been combatting Underwood Under-wood here and Wilson there, Clark here and Harmon there, working all the time in his own selfish interest, to produce a deadlock in Baltimore." In conclusion, Stanchfield throw the convention into disorder with tho declaration: Votes for Wilson. "1 cast my vote for Woodrow Wilson Wil-son of Jcw Jersey." As the poll proceeded. It became appaient uiat ciark would again get New Yorks 90 votes under the unit rule. It waB generally believed that the vote had been challenged and the poll demanded for the sole purpose of enabling nchfleld to doliver his attack on Bryan. Of tho four delegates at largo, John A. Dix, Alton B. Parker and Charles F. Murphy voted for Clark. Senator O'Gonnan voted for Wilson. The district dis-trict delegates who voted for Wilson -.vere Abraham i. Elk New York City; William c McAdoo, New York City; John a Stanchfield, Thomas F. Conway, sburg; Thomas W. Meachani, sacusc; Bennett Brooks, of Pearl CreeK, and Walter H. Edson of Falconer. William Temoifl i2mmett o New ,.J-'- -r jr ' '' York city and Joseph E. Kellogg of Great Falls voted for Underwood. Under the unit rule, New York's y0 went to Clark. Illinois, which had been pas-sed in the roll call, cast 5S otes for Clark The Illinois delegates filed into then-scats then-scats while the poll of the New York delegation was In progress Their caucus cau-cus resulted in a determination to stand by Clark, for whom the 5S votes had been cast since the beginning begin-ning of the balloting. The result of the twenty-seventh ballot was: Ciark 4C9, Wilsou 43GM:, Underwood 122, Foss 3S, Marshall 30, Harmon 29, Bryan 1. Absent VA. This gave Clark a gain of 56, Wilson Wil-son a loss of one and Underwood a loss of half, as compared with thc twenty-sixth ballot. John B. Knox of Alabama introduced intro-duced a resolution deploring the bitterness bit-terness of the convention and callins for a united front in order to facilitate facili-tate the work of tho convention. It was referred to the resolutions committee com-mittee without reading Indiana for WIIgod. The twenty-eighth roll call went as far as Indiana before any material shift was made. Then the convention went wild as Senator Shively announced: an-nounced: "Kern 1, Wilson 20." When quiet was restored a poll was demanded, but the demand was later withdrnwn. The Indiana vote hud heretofore gone solid for Marshall. After conferring with a number of friends, Mr. Bryan said it was unlikely un-likely that he would reply to the speech of Mr. Stanchfield It was reported that Senator Rayner of Maryland might seek opportunity to defend the "progressives." The New Mexico delegation demanded de-manded a poll after the vote had been reported "eight for Clark." The roll call ahowed Clark 5. Wilson 3, and, under the unit rule, the eight went to Clark. Oklahomn'u delegation was polled, but the vote remained Clark 10, Wilson Wil-son 10. Pennsylvaia added one to her usual vote of 71 for Wilson. The result of the twenty-eighth ballot bal-lot was: Clark dCSVG. Wilson 4372. Underwood Under-wood 112 , Harmon 2D, Foss 38, Kern 1, Bryan 1 Absent ono-half. Marshall was eliminated, 29 of his 30 votes in Indiana going to Wilson, who srained 31 on the ballot. Clark lost 1. At the closo of thc twenty-eighth ballot it was announced that arrangements arrange-ments had been made to extend all railroad tickets, making them good until July 10. "1912 or 1913?" demanded a delegate, dele-gate, but there was no reply. Tho twenty-ninth ballot was ordered called. Indiana on the twenty-ninth vote gave Kern -1, Wilson 26. Thus Wilson Wil-son lost three. A dispute in tho Iowa delogation showed that tho state stood Clark Ubf Wilson 11, but under tho unit rule the entire vote of the state went to Clailc. Wrangle Over Kansas. AuoUier wrangle followed .when, ) ' '.," Kansas was called The chairman of the delegation asked that the state be passed Half a dozen delegates yelled "We want to vote now Two-thirds Two-thirds of this delegation are for Wilson Wil-son and we want the vote cast that way." The delegation was ordered polled A chorus of yells and jeers greeted the beginning of the poll an J the joll of thc delegation proceeded Jn great disorder. The vote was Wilson 13, Clark 1, absent 1, and the vote of Kansas, 20 in all, went over into the Wilson column. col-umn. When James ruled that the vote should go to Wilson, Theodore A. Bell took the floor after a disorderly dispute to argue against casting thc vote of Kansas for Wilson. Thc delegates wore impatient and Bell was frequently Interrupted. He argued that the Kansas delegation could not shift to Wilson until two-thirds two-thirds of tho delegation voted for Wilson, Wil-son, lie asserted that 13 was not two -thirds and contended that 20 votes should go to Clark. Bell had trouble getting a hearing and his argument was punctuated by Jeers. "Sing it," shouted a delegate as he neared the conclusion. A. Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania, the Wilson leader, answered Bell. He said that with only ninetween Kansas Kan-sas delegates on tho floor, thirteen constituted two-thirds of the delegation delega-tion and their votes should control tho state's votes. Ben Gaitzel of the Wilson men in the Kansas delogation, asserted that fourteen of the delegates from that state had voted yesterday to desert Clark. Chairman James ruled that "two-thirds "two-thirds of the delegations" meant "two-thirds "two-thirds of the delegates present, and gave the twonty votes to Wilson. The result of the twenty-ninth ballot bal-lot showed changes in the vote of only three states. It was: Clark 4C8VA, Wilson 43GVJt Underwood Under-wood 112, Foss 38, Harmon 29, Kern 4. This gave Clark a loss of a half vote, Wilson a loss of 1; Bryan lost his single vote and Kern gained 3, The thirtieth ballot proceeded monotonously mo-notonously until Ohio was reached. Then ten of Harmon's 29 went to Underwood. Un-derwood. Wilson's 19 remained Intact. In-tact. Vermont gave up Foss on this bal lot and her eight votes wont to Wilson. Wil-son. Tho result of thc vote put Wilson Wil-son In the lead. Iowa Splits Voto, The vote of Iowa, which had been pasjsed, gavo Wilson 14, Clai'k 12. Up to that time the entire vote of 2G had gone to Clark. Whon the vote vas announced a roll call of the delegation dele-gation was demanded and again showed Clark 12, Wilson 11, Iowa's voto as announced gavo Wilson the lead with 460 votoa It gavo Clark 4D5. Cheors greeted each Wilson vote is It was announced during the roll call. When thc total vote of the thirtieth ballot was annouucod, tho Wilson followers, fol-lowers, with their candidate for the ' " first time in the lead, made a demonstration dem-onstration The thirty-first ballot gavo Wilson trifling gains early in the roll Wyoming announced that its delegates, dele-gates, having determined that Clark's nomination was no longer a possibility, possibil-ity, shifted to Wilson, a gain of 3i for the New Jersey goverrior Wilson held and improved his lead on the thirty-first ballot This gave Wilson a gain of 15V, Clark lost S1. Underwood lost 5 and Harmon lost 2 Sit Still in the Boat. At the end of the thirty-first ballot bal-lot the Michigan delegates supporting Clark sent to Senator Reed of Missouri Mis-souri for instructions. "Sit still in the boat," counseled the senator. "They (Wilson forces) can't get two-thirds to save their lives." Thirty-second Ballot. The 32nd ballot proceeded with practically no change. Tho result was: Clark, 446 1-2. Wilson, 477 1-2. Underwood, 119. - m ... Foss, 28 Harmon. 14. Abseut:, 1-2. Wilson gained two; Underwood gained Thirty-third Ballot. There was little change on the thirty-third balloL The result was: Calrk, 447 1-2. Wilson, 477 1-2. Underwood, 103 1-2, P-oss, 28. Harmon, 29. Kern, 2. Absent, 1-2 This gavo Clark a gain of one, while Wilson's vote was unchanged. Harmon Har-mon gained 15. |