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Show Identity of Presidential Nominee is Still in Doubt Baltimore, July 2. When the Demo. cratic national convention met today exactly one week after It was first assembled, the identity of tho presidential presi-dential nominee was as much in doubt i at it was at the initial session Woodrow Wilson, the leading candidate, candi-date, lacked 231 1-3 votes on the forty-second forty-second ballot, the last taken before adjournment. Champ Clark, who had dropped from first to second during the day's voting, still appeared to control con-trol considerable more than enough delegates to block the nomination of Mr. Wilson, without depending on the scattering votes. To those in close touch with the situation today it appeared to be complicated as much as over. Friends of both "Wilson and Clark began to entertain serious doubts whether cither could be nominated in face of the stubborn opposition of the other and today they wore furtively casting their eyesfabout the field for a suitable suit-able "dark horse " The Clark forces fought desperato-I3' desperato-I3' all day yesterday to stem the tide of desertions from their wavering ranks Thoy saw their strength wane from 4C9 votes in the twenty-seventh ballot to 422 on tho thirty-ninth, while Wilson was crawling up from 406 1-2 to 501 1-2. Then, when all seemed lost, tho tide turned and the speaker made slight gains while tho New Jersey Jer-sey govomor was slipping back on the last three ballots. On the final poll Wilson had 491 votes against 430 for Clark. Illinois May Switch. Several times yesterday Clark was on the verge of losing the fifty-eight votes which the Illinois delegation had given him from the outset. Tho Wilson Wil-son adherents were confident that the expected switch would come on the first ballot taken today. With Illinois Illi-nois taken, thoy folt that the Clark rout would -be complete and that only a few moro ballots would be necessary neces-sary to win over the remaining votes necessary to their success. On the other hand, Clark followers appeared confident that the Wilson assault haa spent Itself and that tho deserters would return soon to the fold, bringing bring-ing many others with them. So they assured the speaker himself who was in Baltimore last night for a conference confer-ence in regard to the situation. This assurance is said to havo served to dissuade Mr. Clark from his purpose of appearing personally before the convention to answer the statements of Mr. Bryan. Oscar W. TJndorwood has continued to rank third In the voting and neither neith-er of the two loading candidates has been able to make serious inroads on his strength. Frionds of tho Alabaman Ala-baman insist that ho 13 the only man whose nomination would bring all factions fac-tions together. Indiana has dropped Governor Mar. shall and has gono ovor to Wilson, hut Massachusetts clings to its fa- vorlto son. Governor Fobs and Is urging urg-ing him as the best vote-gettor among the dark horseB In tho Democratic stables. Ohio has not yet given up hope for Governor Harmon, although his supporters admit that there Is a slim chanco that he will be nominated. nom-inated. Discuss Gaynor and Kern. TTae names of Senator John W. Korn of Indiana and Mayor W. J. Gaynor Gay-nor of Now York, were dlseussod more frequently than over today. Tho more radical anti-Bryan delegates expressed ex-pressed themselves aB strongly op-posod op-posod to Kern because they regarded him as Brj'an's candidate, but other supporters of both Wilson and Clark, appeared to regard him with moro favor. As to Mayor Gaynor, a New Yorker, It is significant that Mr. Bryan yesterday added him to his list of "available candidates." Not since 1SG0 has a Democratic convention balloted as many as forty-two times without nominating Its candidate for president. In that year at Charleston, S. C, John C. Breck-enrldge Breck-enrldge was choson on the forty-third ballot to make the race against Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln. That record was expected ex-pected to bo surpassed at this con- ention when it reassembled at noon today 00 |