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whisper, "the only order how is.. the' yo.te by
roll call of states."
. James at last recognized Senator Stone and
.thq Missourjah said:
"I don't arise to enter into any controversy
with, Mr. Bryaii or any other man. Any delegato
lias a right to speak as he pleases in obedience
to.uie instructions of his constituency. Tho ro
s'ponsfbility is his, not mine. So far as Speaker
Clark is concerned, I "
Here Congressman Palmer of Pennsylvania
d&manded ,thc regular order, but was bitterly
rebuked bynames, who said:
.'. J ''You didn't demand the regular order on Mr.
Bryap. and fair play demands that Mr. Stone be
'heard. "JiTbur point of order is not well taken."
Stone, 'continuing, called attention to' the fact
ill at' Clark's democracy" had never been ques
tioned; ' V ' .. '
''"ArM'.lh Ull 'tit" Bryan's campaigns,' he said,
'-" henever' hads'a more loyal supporter than
Clark" : :- ; l ......;,
M 'Following Is 'from tho Associated Press re-ppt:''-
Aiifkfabroma delegate asked to explain
his change 'of votS from Wilson to Clark, saying:
'''"My, narne'-ls "Clddings of Opulent, Okla.; I
have 'always' 'followed the leadership b,f - th'6
Nebraskan, but I don't like to sit here and hoar
aspersi&hs on my fellow-demoqrats. I1 'think it
is is time to call a halt in personalities aiVd "starm
tiii" principle. I want to go back to, Oklahoma
with a'. clean record." 1
; -'Here a delegate cried from the floor: "You
maV'go back, but! 'you will never come back."
Mi1. Giddings defended his record as a demo
crat and asked if Bryan could do tho same," ;
"I ask' this cdhVention," concluded 'the1 Okla
' lioman'," "to ttirn'iipon Mr. Bryan a paraphrase
of a'Statement Of his own: 'Thou sh'alt not
press (Town upon 'the brow of democracy a' cr'pwn
r",:H'erer a yell interrupted.' He tried' to finish,
'btfjt' an uproad' drowned his voice.. ' '"' ' '"-' J
- -'iY5U" shall 'notf press, down upon'he brow bt
Iein.pcracy a tlibrny crown of anardjfy f yoti Shall
hbfc ''crucify Us 'upon' a cross of' Belfishhe'ss,"
fohbuted Giddings, and left the .platform "
.The poll of -Oklahoma proceoded'and showed
the vote unchanged, Clark 10i WilsditlOU .'!- '
.SuwThev .squabble hadlaken 'more ha'n" 'half' an
ii(r',alidha'U 'Sccbtopliahed nothing. u -i
VEtite foil calls- cbntinued until the ninteeenth
ballot, when former Governor Francis of Mis
souri tried to get a recess until 8:30. This was
defeated by the- Wilson 'men. The convention
.continued tantil the twenty-sixth ballot' which,
vns.'astlfolldsi' Total, 1,088; Clark;1 467 ;
Wilson, 405; Underwood, 112; Harmony' 22 ; .
Marshal 30; Bryank 1; Fobs, 43. ''
ooit W i0 5-. o,'clo,eki Saturday night tbeinaohven
t.ipn adJaurnedi bw general consenbvuntih.il :00
Oj'clockTMonday,. morning. , tUun$ '.. j
,' At th4 instance iQfyGcorge Freds ;WiHiams and
.$red T-. J),uBoi8;. Clark managers, SpeakeriJlark
. hurried ' from ;. Washington to Baltimore, and
otor. a c.pn.erncpjwij;h William .RHearst and
others, Mr. Clark Jesued tho folloYing state-
PL, "ffodayi in ,thp ..national conventi0a;an;tout
7Tageoua.appersion.jwaa 'Cast upon moiand:;through.
.7me.upp.the-demp.cratic party by aneofthoyof ail
.p?en jought to befrthe last to. besmudge -or- he
jray,jifs rjiendoon his party. Sojvfan as- I- atn
personally concernea, it is enougnMOM say tuui
.choice of the, .denjbcr.aUc majority of, the house
vbt;repr!eseiitatVfi?;oAje, ranking ofllcjal , demo
crat in ,hatl9iial guhjjc life. T can npt be. false
pLcbrrptJthou fleeting upon my.jpa'rty in
the.(inost sefious. way,., , , . . , .
"Any man. wheu would enter into an. .alliance
.with any selfish, intprpst or. privileged-cass of
.'this country tQ gain -the nomination; for the
,presidenoy is unw.prtliy of the presidency. . and of
the speakership jof. .the house. If k have not
; entered, into such.3iain- alliance then ithe? demo-
f.cratf, hoiwey,er,4iytinguished,: whol, wantonly
charges me with this act is a traitor. to tho
democratfc party and .to his professed, -friend-
', ..,"3. ami not h,ere.itQ) plead for a nomination or
'to attempt tQ 4Afluem?e any man's support. Let
.very. man. prpqeedu4his convention according
"ito.his Qnvico.and. the expressed will of his
"fip'nstiWnts. c ,I rafikj no undue conpiderAtiom
r from. any. maxt.bj? hse friend or fop, but I de
mand eacfc jgatf$eijrpm very dempcyat either
,in this .c6ny,entioftupr .througpufc.ilAe nation.
.With William.!. JBrjan i and his.cha.rB made in
'the Convention to$a, the issue iapr.pojE or xe
Iraction, I.shallpect him to meet that 'issue,
acuoq,, j, .KjvAi CHAMP CLARK."
The Commoner.
(See Mr. Bryan's explanation, page 15, this
issue of Tho Commoner.)
There was considerable talk of Mr. Clark re
maining in Baltimore until Monday and going
before the convention in person. He roturnod,
however, to Washington Sunday evening.
Senator William J. Stone of Missouri gave out
for publication a letter which he had written to
Mr. Clark pledging him continued support and
urging him to remain a candidate before tho
convention .until a nomination was made.
At the same time Mr. Clark's managers gave
out Mr. Clark's reply to Senator Stono which
was ao follows:
"Replying to the communication of my sup
porters, forwarded to mo by you, I want to say
that in ordinary circumstances I would bo tho
last to encourage any movement which might
tend to create a deadlock in a democratic na
tional convention and thereby, perhapB, Jnjure
the standing of our party in tho estimation of
the country. I holievo that I am speaking tho
oxact truth when I say that no personal interest
would weigh with me for one moinont as against
my lifelong devotion to our party. If. a ma
jority of the delegates had not declared thoir
.preference "for mo as their candidate I would
not entertain your .proposal. Tho fact, how
ever, that they have done so on eight suc
cessive ballots created exception which surely
merits careful and Conscientious consideration.
"It i undoubtedly true that the custom of
our party was violated when the convention re
frained from ratifying by a two-thirds yote the
expressed wish of a majority. This was dope,
'according to my understanding at the )nstiga
tiofr of Mr. Bryan, who successfully solicited tho
co-Operation of others in an effort to prevent
such ratification. Mr. Bryan set forth his
reason fpr pursuing this course in his,.speech,
explaining his own change of vote. He declared
that -I was ai candidate at the primarie'of Ne
braska .as a progressive, that upon that lutyder
atanding ho was appdinted a delegate and in
structed to vote foe me at tho national con
vention. This is liueer. I am regarded to
night' and have been regarded for years, as a
iprbgressivo by thb 'democrats of Nebrasicaaria
iby Mr-'Bryan. Whtifras Mn&e convincWM'r.
Bryan thatthPUgh,'iilhW judgment, A iirogres
islve'Only two months ago, and even only a week
ago, I'am not' a progressive now? Have T sud
denly proved faithless to tho principles which I
have; upheld steadfastly for twenty ypars? " No.
Have I 'been recrPant to my trust aij speaker ,df
Uhe f house of representatives? No. MiC Bryah
'oitesijio act 'of evidence for his-assumptibn. He
withholds hiB vote from mo because ho ''will riPt
participate in the nomination of any man . who
ddpends upon the Now'York delegation';1"'
ttoiiMn; Clark then quotes at length' r-trbm the
statement which Mr. Bryan read in the 'conven
tion and continues: :..,
f'W'Although m r Bryan's words are shrewdly
cihdsfciri, to avoid hiaking a direct charge upon
in'etho implication is plain. It is. that if I
"were eiociea me president oi uie united ptatps
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i-wouiu ieei myseir oDijgaieu lo tnose.wnom ho
'mshtibns and that t would be under 'the. control
''o'P'th'dse influences;" It would be unbecoming
'ttf ohc holding mjrpoiitical position to oxpress
ttfe indignation which I ieei at these aspersfons
tifcibn'my character;, My integrity has i&vejc b,e
fore been questioned for the simple reason, that
notonce during the seventeen years that I have
vsarved in congress have I been subjected to tho
test of temptation of wrong in any form'. But
whether I shall become your designated "candi
date for president or not I am your speaker at
this time when your party Is in the 'crucial
scrutiny of the country and I can not, in duty,
.permit the aspersions to pass unheeded. As
speaker of the house of representatives, as a
life-long democrat, proud of being an Ameri
can man, I pronounce Mr. Bryan's implicated
accusations both false and infamous.
... . '.'If I am speaking the truth with respect to
this matter, it follows necessaryily' that tho
reasons advanced by Mr. Bryan for departing
from the- time-honored custom of our arty In
recognizing the voice of the majority are not
reasons at all, but the shallowest of pretexts
put forward to achieve some publicity which I
Bhall not attempt tor dovine. '
PI beg ydu then to say to my friends5 that I
accept with deepest gratitude their rjimewed
assurances of loyalty and now declare without
flualifijcatlpn.lhat my name will remain i Hot ore
,'t.he qpnvention, subject to no dicker, ua til two-
tljixdB pf, the delegates ratify or do.nofc.Tatify
'the action of the majority." vil l ; .
,, fMxnday; morning, July 1, the. Associated JPresg
.prft:ejd tho following: "I.eono-reaspnfcwhy-wo
should not conclude tho convention with the
nomination of both a president and a vice presi
dent," said William J. Bryan lato tonight. 'Tho
friends of tho various candidates have fought
out thoir dlfforonces and thoir loyalty lo tho mon
of their choico have consumed more tlmo than
is usually dovotcd to balloting. Thoro Is every
reason why tho progressives should not get to
gether and solect'a tickot."
Mr. Bryan said ho took It for grantod that
thero was no chanco for tho nomination of cither
Harmon of Ohio, or Underwood of Alabama,
whom ho designated as tho choico of a reaction
ary element in the party. Ho suggested that
If the convention could not agree upon
eithor Governor Wilson of Now Jersey or
Speaker Clark of Missouri, an availablo man
to head tho ticket might bo found in a list
furnished comprising tho names of Sonatpr Kern
of Indiana; Sonator-olect OIHo James of Ken
tucky; .Senator O'Gorman of Now York; Sona
tor Culbjerson of Texas, and Senator Raynor of
Maryland. Continuing, Mr. Bryan said:
"Tho antagonisms which havo boon .arouBOd
during ,t,ho preliminary campaign, antagonisms
which had not ought to havo boon aroused
should not. prevent tho coming togothor of dele
gates, upon somo common ground.
"New York is not necessary to a nomination,
and undpr the circumstances should not be per-,
mltted to dictate tho nomination. I do hot mean
to say that tho voto of Now York would vltiato
tho nomination i if tho candidate had onough
(Continued" on Page 9.)
A STRIKING FIGUKI3
H. Jia Nowbranch,, In tho Omaha World
Herald Mr. Bryan, as the convention was as- '
scmblin, did not tako his placo on the floor
with tho Nebraska delegation. Ho occupied a
chair albno.in the rear of tho platform, whore
from, tjmc to tlmo, faithful friends, as they
espied,. h'lra, came up to shako his hand and
wish hm success in lh'6. light ho was about to
eiter. Bryan's face Vda ,'palo and set in that
look" of grim, aTmoat ferocious determination.
with, which those who knpw him best are most
fafnillr.'' THo was vcryVvjdo'ntly tired -and worn
out, aimoat to tuo point 0 physical and nervous
exhaustion. Hp oven asked 'his friends not to
shake hands with him., that ho might belter
cpnsoryd his strength for the great offort ho
was preparing.
During Cardinal Gibbons' impressive invocation-Mr:
Bryan dtb'od with closed eyes. Ho
swhyed iicfticeably, almost alarmingly from side
to flidb.' and f ro'm tlmo to tlmo his lips were scon
tp move as tlie cardinal's prayer went on, as if
he,' too, Were praying, though possibly he was
doing more than fixing in mind one of tho elo
quent 'periods' with -which ho was soon to try
to 'entrance '30,000 ears.
His nas a striking, figure as he stood, thin,
Jtfalo and swayirig, hav lips silently moving and
"the sympathy of many who watched out to him,
even those who were not in accord with his
purpose), It was a, .scarred and heroic war
rior, who, was about togon tho. )3old of battle,
ope of. ihp, greatest, bray.est and best loved of
bis generation, and many, found that, watching
him, their hearts wore touched and their.. nd
miratiqnj compelled ovpn if their judgmentrwas.
against him. ,-, ,..,
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. ! WILSON THE WINNER X
. poy, after noon of Tuesday, July 2nd,, $-' be
came apparent that a nomination in the, demo
cratic nnational convention would soon' be
reached: The forty-third 'ballot showed' big
gains-for Wilson. Illinois tbrr its entire 58
votes to him., Virginia threw licr solid vote
tOj'Wifeonl West Virginia gave her 10 to Wll
sqn. JUe forty-third, ballot stood: Wilson, C02;
Cliirk, 329; Underwood, 98"-; Harmon, 28;
'Fo6s,2Y; Bryanf, .1; Ke, 1. On the 'forty
fourth ' ballot Mrs. Anna Spltzer, sister-ii-law
of Chanjp Clark and, one other Colorado, dele
gat,? vpted for Wilsons' hpn Colorado shifted
.morpP, Wilson. Qaj tho.forty-fourtli ballot
Wilson had 029, Clark 306, Underwood 99,
Harmon 27, 'Foss uuW.hlo the forty-sixth
baRpJ Awa,8 in, progress, Rankhead of Alabama
w.tdrpw the candidacy -of Oscar Underwood.
Tipn. .Stone pf Missouri. Pftid .that Chamtf JJark
had released his delegates. Then with a:gen
fir.ush Woodrow.WRsp won the prize and
.sPPAftatiqp was ?na;do unanimous. ThptiVOto
on the last ballpt topd,; j,. Wilson,, ;99Q; .GJarJc,
.ufipnYentipa ttien took a. recess until 9
o'clock p. m.
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