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KEYNOTE SPEK
DRAWS A STRIKING PARALLEL I
BALTIMORE WITH THE DISC
A NATIONAL
TARIFF WAS ONE OF HIS F
He Opposes the Class Distinction am
Alto Enactments to Restrain the
(ng Upon tho Pool?Many People
There Was Much Cheering Done
Baltimore.?Former Justice Alton B.
Parker of New York, who was elected
temporary chairman of the convention,
was greeted with great applause as
he stepped upon the platform to de
liver the keynote speech.
Judge Parker said in part:
"We meet while the hills yet echo
to wild cries of liar, thief, and traitor,
and furious wails of fraud, bribery,
treachery and corruption; and
our ears are weary with the din of
the articulate shriek'ng and passionate
villiflcation of the most shameful
brawl of our political history. Our
* candidates, however, are, without exception,
men of such lofty mien that
Swe meet immune from the distemper
which seized the Chicago convention
and privileged to discharge a solemn
public duty calmly, deliberately, seriously.
"The cause of government by Ihe
people the world over has been materially
checked by the di. grace* ul
brawl which terminated in the bedlam
of Chicago. Every good citizen has
been put to shame by the brutality and
the abuse which characterized this
wrangle between a President and exPresident.
Gratitude, friendship, party
loyalty, patriotism and common decency
were forgotten in the tussle.
"The assault upon the unwritten
prohibition against a third term made
in the wild scramble for the Republican
nomination warns us of the vital
necessity of incorporating in our constitution
a safeguard against repeated
terms.
"The man who split his party at
Chicago, once re<v>gnized the third
term tradition and acknowledged lt?;
f application to his situation. On the
eve of his triumph In nineteen hundred
four he said: 'The wise custom
which limits the President to two
terms regards the substance and not
the form, and under no circumstances
will I be a candidate for or accept
another nomination.'
"Wrong in this year of grace, he
was right iu that. Peradventure he
was honest with his soul and he
may have confessed to it that even
a President may be tempted to resort
to sordid devices and shameless importunities
to gain his ambition. If
so, he was in mental condition to realize
to the full the danger to the
republic involved in setting aside a
custom constituting the only bulwark
against assaults of men whose ambition
chokes their patriotism and
whose selfish desire tor personal victory
and power throttles those moral
scruples with which they may once
have been endowed.
"Would the man who threw his hat
In the ring and sought to slug his
opponent over the ropes in his fight
for a third term rest satisfied with its
achievements?
"Clearly his lust of power would
have brooked no such limitation. A
third term would tiut have whetted
his desire for more and as the terms
slipped away each renewal would discover
greater injury to our constitution,
to the form of government established
under it and to every legal curb
on his imperious will. This is the
man who menaced us with an increase
of Federal power by usurpation of
states rights and without authority of
constitutional amerdment; the man
. who took the Isthmus of Panama, and
let Congress debate about it afterwards;'
the man who having enough
money to send the fleet on its famous
cruise to the Pacific sent it without
SOME OF THE PROBABI
Baltimore.?They declare, among
other things, for the following:
A tariff for revenue only. The breaking
of the control of big business over
the affairs of the country.
A regulation of the money trust so
that it shall not be a menace to the
country, and the destruction of its
power to create panics.
An income and, possibly, an inheritance
tax.
Effective regulation of the trusts.
ana a declaration in iavor 01 tne perFirst
Money King at Convention.
Baltimore.?For the first time one
of the great money kings of America
has appeared in person at the naitonal
political convention to carry on the
fight for the money interests. Mr.
. Thomas F. Ryan, multi-millionaire, of
New York, one of the heads of the
tobacco trust, head of the New York
Traction interests, and a power in
railroad and financial circles generally,
came to Baltimore Tuesday in his private
car over the Pennsylvania railroad.
~ WILLIAM jT BRYAN Dl
Baltimore.?Substitute William Jennings
Bryan for Theodore Roosevelt
and the situation which confronted the
Democratic convention at its opening
session Tuesday is ljut a repetition of
the Republican situation at Chicago.
Here, as there, is the Irreconcilable
conflict between the radical and the
conservative-progressive wings of the
party.
Here, as there, the national committee
stands for the conservatives
and 1b determined on the destruction
THE
91.
ARKER IKES 1
1LFBB DEMOCRACY
BETWEEN THE QUIET DIGNITY AT
GRACEFUL SCENES AT CHICAGO
CONVENTION.
PRINCIPAL TOPICS IN SPEECH
i Demands Laws For the Masses and
Combinations of Wealth From ImposWere
Present to Hear the Speech.?
f.
sanction of Congress, leaving It to
appropriate the money for the return
when Congress deemed that necessary.
This is the man who advocated Feder
al incorporation for the increase of
power at Washington and the lightening
of legal burdens on the corporations;
the man who authorized the
absorption of the Tennessee Coal &
Iron Co. by the tSeel Trust; the man
who, by many such drastic acts, and
by unnumbered words has sought to
batter down our statutory and c^istltutional
safegards.
"He who runs may read the danger
of the country ruled by such a
man.
"Unquestionably we have been
wrong in assuming that a tradition
against a third term constitutes a
sufficient safeguard against unscrupulous
ambition for unlimited power.
We need a definite constitutional limitation
which shall prevent imperialistic
souls from forcing personal continuation
in office for long periods or
for life and the personal selection of
a successor in office. And the constitutional
provision should limit to
a single term.
"In this great country which boasts
of a wealth of one hundred and thirty
billion as against eighty billion
for Great Britain and Ireland; sixtyfive
billion for France and sixty billion
for Germany, all are conscious that
too large a part of our wealth has
been secured by a small percentage of
our population and that the cost of
living rises faster than the average
income.
"The principal cause of all this is
to be found in the tariff statutes and
in the combinations restraining trade
and competition, created for the purpose
of wringing from the public
every dollar which the tariff statutes
make possible.
"The average of duties under the
tariff of 1789 was eight and one-half
per cent. Now the average is 50 per
cent.
"Protected interests benefitted by
two increases during the war, the first
to an average of 37 J-2 per cent, the
second to 47 per cent. That high
average, then excused only by the exigences
of the war is exceeded now,
as the average is nearly 50 per cent.
"The ReDublican nartv has thus
geared the machinery of government
to enrich the few at the expense of
the many.
"An awakening of tfio people led
the Republican national convention
of 1908 by its platform to promise a
revision.
"In vain did the people demand of
Congress the fulfillment of the Republican
pledge, for the masters of that
party?the protected interests?insisted
upon the pound of flesh nominated
in the bond.
"Mr. Taft said in a speech in 1908
that during the preceding ten years
nine-tenths of the combinations to
restrain trade had come into existence.
During nearly all that time the
Republican party was in control of
every Northern, Eastern and Western
state.
"The reason for the encouraging inactivity
of the Republican officials is
plain. The tariff beneficiaries were
and for many years had been contributing
to campaign funds of the
party which in turn protected the
special privileges enjoyed by the donors.
But competition prevented in
some instances the collection from
the people of the full sum stipulated
in the tariff. To secure it all, tempted
the cupidity and stimulated the
ingenuity of the beneficiaries. But
one way could be found?combination
_E PLANKS OF THE NATIONAL D
soual punishment of directors of such
organizations as violate the law.
Full publicity in all the affairs of
the government.
The publication of the names of contributors
of campaign funds befor?
election.
Tue idea of having the platform
short and crisp, with the pledges made
in the fewest possible words, seems
to be growing in favor.
It is regarded as unwise to have it
filled with denunciation of the RepubHand
Will Show Says Delegates.
Baltimore.?In spite of the interest
in the temporary chairmanship fight
and the speculation as to whether the
Murphy-Mack-Sullivan-Taggart combination
could put the "steam roller"
over Mr Bryan, there was considerable
platform talk Tuesday among the
delegates. Mr. Bryan probably will
be chairman of the committee on resolutions.
He will be the representative
of his state on that committee and his
position in the party is such that the
place will be conceded to him by common
consent.
0 AT BALTIMORE WHAT ROOSE
of the disturbing element.
By a curious coincidence, the figures
are almost the same. In Chicago the
national committee stood 02 members
against Colonel Roosevelt. Last night
the national committee by 31 votes selected
Judge Alton Parker, of New
York, for the temporary chairman of
the convection. In Chicago Mr. Roosevelt'*
hat was in the ring. Here Mr.
Bryan has thrown his hat into the
ring, and here, as tn Chicago, the
national committee has welcomed the
: fo
i
to control the price up to the point
where the statute let lh foreign competition.
The same party which shut
out foreign competition was found
willing to permit the formation of
combinations which effectually banact
were treated by Republican officials
as repealed by implication. Need
it be said that the protected interests
for these larger privileges made larger
contributions?
"We are indebted to the President
for the evidence that his predecessor
having first enjoyed an interview with
George W. Perkins restrained his Attorney
General from bringing suit
against the Harvester combination.
"For the Steel oCrporation he went
further, for he wrote his Attorney
General in advance of its absorption
of the Tennessee Coal & Iron Co., that
he had decided 'to interpose no objection.'
"Indeed he apparently stood ready
to perform similar kindly offices for
all corporations, for he advocated
t"> nasan cro nf a ntAtlltp Tlprmitfine
voluntary submission of all engaged
in Interstate commerce to Federal
authority with the advantage to them
of immunity from prosecution because
of contracts made if stamped in advance
with executive approval as
reasonable.
"Whatever excuse may be ofTered,
the ugly truth is that the Republican
national machine has received the
moneys of the corporate and individual
beneficiaries of the tariffs and
combinations and in return has compelled
Congress to continue high the
tariff rates and their Attorney Generals
to close their eyes to violations
of law.
"I submit that the Jury of the people
should find as a general verdict
'that the failure of the executive and
legislative branches of government
both federal and state, to protect the
people from the special privilege
hunters and graft seekers, is deeply
rotted in a corrupt alliance between
the latter and leaders of the Republican
party.' Upon that verdict but
one judgment can be entered?that of
eviction."
Judge Parker quoted the muchdiscussed
letter written by Colonel
Roosevelt to the late E. H. Harriman
and said Mr. Harriman read between
the lines of that letter, hurried to
Washington, hurried back and promptly
raised the quarter of a million demanded
with $10,000 over for good
measure.
"The time has come when the salvation
of the country demands the
destruction of the leaders of a debauched
party, and the restoration to
place and power of men of high ideals
who will wage unceasing war against
corruption in politics, who will enforce
the law against both rich and poor
and who will treat guilt as personal
and punish it accordingly. *
"For their crimes against American
citizenship the present leaders of the
Republican party should be^lestroyed.
"For making and keeping the bargain
to take care of the tariff protected
interests in consideration of
campaign funds they should be destroyed.
"For encouraging the creation of
combinations to restrain trade, and
refusing to enforce the law, for a like
consideration they should be destroyed.
"For the lavish waste of the public
funds; for the fraudulent disposition
of the people's domain and for their
contribution toward the division of
the people into classes, they should be
destroyed.
"For these efforts to seize for the
executive department of the federal
government powers rightfully belonging
to the states they should be destroyed.
"\11 destruction would be theirs,
this year, if we but do our duty.
"What is our duty? To think alike
as to men and measures? Impossible!
Even for our great party! There fs
not a reactionary among us. All
Democrats are progressives. But it
is inevitably human that we shall
not all agree that in a single highway
is found the only road to progress
or each make the same man of
all cur worthy candidates his first
choice.
"It is our duty to put aside all selfishness,
to consent cheerfully that
the majority shall speak for each of
us and to agree that this convention
shall stand shoulder to shoulder, intoning
the praises of our chosen leader?
?md that will be his due, whichever
of the honorable and able men
now claiming our attention be chosen."
EMOCRATIC PLATFORM
lican party for its misdeeds, because it
is regarded as certain that the people
are fully aware of this.
Several Southern delegates added
their voices to a protest against any
plank in the platform calling for the
free admission of raw materiuls. The
industrial development of the South in
recent years and the development of
its productive capacity of raw materials
as well, causes delegates from the
states most affected :o look with disfavor
on radical free trade legislation.
Platform Underwood Forces Want.
Baltimore.?The Underwood forces
want a platform which will conform to
that adopted by the Democrats of Alabama,
as far as it is applicable. That
platform declared for a tariff for revenue
only, and demanded that such
taxes be limited to the necessity of
the government when honestly and economincally
administered. It demanded
the rigid regulation of trusts and monopolies,
denounced the "profligato
waste" of public money by recent Hepublican
congresses, and favored the
election of senators by the people.
VLErbTDlfCHICAGO
challenge.
There is the same violent language.
Mr. Bryan Tuesday night gave out a
statement that recalled Colonel Roosevelt
at his best. The majority of the
national committee, said Mr. Bryan, is
under the control of the "predatory
interests." "Talk about harmony," he
said. ' Is absurd." The Belmont-RyanMurphy
crowd, which dictated Mr.
Taft's renomination, is as active here
as at Chicago, and the same corrupting
influences are seeking controL
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FORT MILL, S. C., THU
IRK OF FRIDAY
' IS A BIT TIE
NDICATIONS POINT TO DEAD
LOCK WHICH MAY LAST FOR
MANY DAYS.
CLARK AND WILSON IN LEAD
Harmon Drops From 127 Down to 29
Votes?Underwood Is Holding His
Own in Contest?To Be a Fight to
tho Finish.
Baltimore.?A monotonous succession
of roll calls brought no nomination
in the Democratic convention late
Friday night when the sweltering
delegates were still answering the
droning voice of the reading clerk.
Tho results of the roll calls up to
the ninth were discouragingiy similar.
None of the leading candidates
made any material gains or losses.
There was no change of more than 6
votes in the totals up to that time.
The steady gain of the Wilson vote
had culminated with a count of 354 on
the sixth ballot. On the seventh Wilson
lost 1 1-2 votes.
Bryan, Kern, Ollie James and Mayor
Gaynor of New York each received
one or two votes in the course of
the balloting. Harmon lost slowly
but steadily from his 143 of the first
ballot. Underwood gained a trifle.
The leaders of the various factions
hurried about the hall. The air was
: full of rumors of "deals" an^ "trades."
! A shift that would throw a deciding
vote to one candidate or another was
! looked for on every ballot by some of
" * * 1 ?- AvnontnH
me aeieguiee wmie uiu?a
an all-night session.
The long predicted "break" in the
New York delegation came on the
tenth ballot when Leader Murphy announced
81 of the 90 \otes from that
state for Clark. He got no further
when a great demonstrtition broke out
among the Speaker's delegates and
friends.
While it was in progress there
were several fistcuffs on the floor.
Those who claimed to be in the confidence
of the New York delegates
predicted there would be a switch
away from Clark on subsequent ballots.
Murphy later announced thfct the
New York delegation? showed 81 for
Clark, 8 for Wilson and 1 for Underwood,
but under the unit rule gave
all its 90 votes to Clark.
The result of tho balloting was as
follows:
First Ballot.?Sulzer, New York 2;
Clark, 440 1-2; Wilson 324; Underwood,
117 1-2; Harmon 148; Marshall
31; Baldwin 22; necessary 72C; absent
2; Bryan 1.
Second Ballot?Clark 446 1-2; Wilson
339 3-4; Underwood 111 1-4; Harmon
141; Marshall 31; Baldwin 14;
Sulzer 2; Bryan 2; not voting half.
Third Ballot.?Clark 441; Wilson
; 345; Underwood 114 1-2; Harmon
140 1-2; Marshall 31; Baldwin 14; Bryan
1; Kern 1.
Fourth Ballot.?Clark 443; Wilson
349 2-2; Underwood 112; Harmon
13C 1-2; Marshall 31; Baldwin 14;
Kern 2.
Fifth Ballot.?Clark 443; Wilson
351; Underwood 119 1-2; Harmon
141 1-2; Marshall 31; Kern 2.
Sixth Ballot.?Clark 445; Wilson
'354; Underwood 121; Harmon 135;
Marshall 31; Kern 1; Bryan 1; total
' 1,083.
Seventh Ballot?Clark 449 1-2; Wil<
ft. TT I 1QO 1 O. Hot-.
8011 602 l-z; uuuemuuu ii.o i--, iini*
mon 129 1-2; Marshall 31; Kern 1;
Bryan 1; total 1,088.
Eighth Ballot?Clark 448 1-2; Wilson
351 1-2; Underwood 123; Harmon
130; Gaynor 1; Marshall 31; Bryan 1;
James 1; Kern 1; total 1,088.
Ninth Ballot.?On the nlneth ballot
, the leaders stood: Clark 452; Wilson
I 351 1-2.
Twelfth Ballot.?Clark, 549; Wilson
354; Underwood, 123; Harmon, 29;
Marshall, 30; Kern, 1; Bryan, 1; not
voting 2 1-2.
Bryan Is Storm Center.
Baltimore.?Mr. Bryan was the
storm center of the remarkable fight
in the convention Friday night, precipitated
by him at the opening of the
evening session and continuing: nearly
three hours. There was much speculation
as to what his purpose was
when ho rose almost immediately
after the fall of the gavel and asked
immediate consideration of a resolution
which would have thrown Thomas
F. Rfan of the Virginia delegation
and August Belmont of the New York
delegation out of the convention.
Large Crowd Again Attends.
Convention Hall.?The convention
hall again became a center of anima
tion toward 3 o'clock Friday in expectation
of the decisive struggle ahead.
Quito a number of delegates were
early in place despite their strenuous
labors of Thursday night. The galleries
began to brim with a buttering
mass of humanity, promising a record
crowd. The sultry weather brought
out many women in pretty whito
gowns, their fluttering fans adding to
the color and animation of the vast
encircling galleries.
Eyes on Pivotal States.
Baltimore.?The ballot of Friday
morning was taken as the starting
point for speculation as to who will
be the candidate. All eyes were cen- .
tered on Illinois, New York and Indiana
with their large ngregate of votes. ,
The feeling was general that the nom- |
inee of the convention is assured of !
a practically solid South next November
and all energies were aimed to
add to this conceded Southern power
the additional strength of the pivotal
Northern States, notably New York,
I Illinois and Indiana.
MILL
RSDAY, JULY 4, 1912.
LOOKED BAD FOR I
EARLV SOLUTION
OF THE BIG DEADLOCK AT THE I
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
FIGHT MAY LAST F09, DAYS I
Wilson People Propose to Stand Firm F
?Underwood Forces Unwilling to
Yield and Will Keep Their Man In
the Race to the End.
Baltimore. ? Hope of nomination
on the twenty-seventh ballot for Pres- 1
ident was practically abandoned by 1
Democratic leaders Sunday night. (
When the national convention ad- 1
Journed for Sunday it was believed
that some solution of the long dead 1
lock would result from conferences f
between th*. champions of the three | i
leading candidates, but it developed 1
that the time hal not arrived Jor the <
withdrawal of either Speaker Clark, '
Governor Wilson or Representative <
Underwood. It was not expected that 1
the first ballot Monday would differ
materially from the twenty-sixth.
Campaign managers possible might '
have reached some agreement if laI
terested in the deadlock had not been '
dwarfed by the personal controversy 1
developed between William J. Bryan I
and Speaker Clark. The visit of Mr. ?
Clark to Baltimore overshadowed '
everything else. 1
Party leaders generally took the po- 1
sition, notwithstanding the Missou- ;
rian's impassioned denial of Mr. 1
Bryan's imputation that he waB be- 1
holden to Morgan, Belmont and Ryan, j 1
that he would be unable to regain the
votes he had lost. At the same time J
many of them thought _that syrapa- ! 1
AU.. tUn In^ttlfnRln i
IUJ 1UI Jll. vuii a cauu me iuc uawic , linking
of Bryan and Wilson In the !
minds of delegates, by reason of the 1
New Jersey candidate having been ;
the beneficiary of the votes turned ;
away from Mr. Clark by the N'ebraskan's
phillipic, had Injured the chance 1
! of Wilson's nomination.
If Clark and Wilson fall on the
next two or three ballots It was predicted
that there would be a turn to
Representative Underwood, who had ,
i held his normal vote from first to last, ;
The following is the result of Saturday's
balloting:
Thirteenth Ballot.?Clark 554; Wilson
356 1-2; Underwood 115 1-2; Harmon
29; Marshall 30; Foss 2; Bryan 1. ,
Fourteenth Ballot.?Clark 550; Wilson
362; Underwood 113; Harmon 29;
Marshall 30; Bryan 2; Kern 2.
Fifteenth Ballot.?Clark 552; Wilson ,
362 1-2; Underwood 110 1-2; HArmon
29; Marshall 30; Bryan 2; Kern 2.
Sixteenth Ballot.?Clark 551; WJlson
362 1-2; Underwood 112 1-2; Harmon
29; Marshal! 30; Bryan 1; Kern 2.
Seventeenth Ballot?Clark 545! Wilson
362 1-2; Underwood 112 1-2; Har1
mon 29; Marshall 30; Kern 4 1-2; !
(
Bryan 1.
Eighteenth Ballot.?Clark 535; Wilson
361; Underwood 125; Harmon 29;
| Marshall 30; Kern 3 1-2; Bryan 1.
Nineteenth Ballot?Clark 532; Wil- 1
son 358; Underwood 130; Harmon 29;
Marshall 30; Kern 1; Bryan 7.
Twentieth Ballot?Clark 512; Wilson
388 1-2; Underwood 121 1-2; liar- '
mon 29; Marshall 30; Kern 1; Bryan
1; Foss 2; James 3.
Twenty-First Ballot?Clark 508;
Wilson 395 1-2; Underwood 118 1-2;
Harmon 29; Marshall 30; Kern 1;
Foss 5.
Twentv-Serond Ballot.?Clark 500 1-2
Wilson 396 1-2; Underwood 115; Marshall
30; Foss 43; Bryan 1; Kern 1.
Twenty-Third Ballot.?Clark 497 1-2; i
Wilson 399; Underwood 114 1-2; Mar- 1
Bhall 30; Foss 45; Bryan 1; Gaynor 1.
Twenty-Fourth Ballot?Clark 406; ;
Wilson 402 1-2; Underwood 115 1-2;
Foss 43; Marshall 30; Lrynn 1.
Twenty-Fifth Ballot ? Clark 469; ]
Wilson 405; Underwood 108; Foss 43; !
Marshall 30; Harmon 29; Bryan 1;
James 3. i ,
Twenty-Sixth Ballot?Clark 463 1-2; ,
Wilson 407; Underwood 112 1-2; Harmon
29; Marshall 30; Bryan 1; Foss
43; absent 1 1-2; total 1,088.
Several Big Breaks Are Expected.
Baltimore.?Denial was made Sun- ,
day night of a report that the Illinois (
delegation, which has hoen for Speaker
Clark throughput would go to Wilson ^
on the first ballot Monday.
It was reported also that the Indian (
delegation, which had been held intact
for Governor Marshall would split.
Several delegates said this might oc- (
cur as the delegation was not bound ,
by the unit rule. The Iowa delegation (
also was reported as preparing to
swing to some candidate other than
Clark.
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Candidates Rest on Their Oars.
Washington.?"There is no change
In the situation, that 1 can see," said
Speaker Clark. "Ft is exactly as it '
was when the convention adjourned
Saturday night. I went over to Balti- , '
more to see some of my friends because
it was more convenient for me
to go to see them than for them to
come to see me. I have no intention
of going to Baltimore again. "My
friends tell me that this is the time
for me to stay in the race," said Representative
Oscar W. Underwood of
Alabama.
Demonstration Over Maryland Split. ^
Baltimore. ? Demonstration for
Woodrow Wilson was precipitated in '
the convention Saturday night when r
the Maryland delegation which had |
stood solid for Clark from the first de- ^
manded a poll, indicating a possible
split. The Wilson people gave vent to
their enthusiasm over the gains the
New Jersey Governor had made for
fifteen minutes before the chair made
any effort to check them. The Clark '
a
adherents, not to be outdone, took a ~
h;nd in the demonstration
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MONDAY'S 11 I
III CONVENTION
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)ELEGATES SPEND ANOTHER k
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DULL DAY BALLOTING WITH- w
OUT RESULTS.
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/VILSON AND CLARK MEN FIRM *
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humors Were Afloat That It Might p
Be Necessary For the Leaders to ^
Come Together and Decide On a a
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Compromise Candidate. M
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Baltimore.?The deadlock in the
Democratic national convention over
i presidential nominee seemed more j
somplete than ever when adjournment ii
ivas taken Monday night, until noon S
1 C1
Tuesday. Wood row Wilson had made ^
steady gains during Monday's ballot- w
ng until he reached a high water
nark of 501 1-2 votes on the thirty- 3
ninth ballot. He remained stationary 3
)n the fortieth ballot and then began tl
to lose ground. The last ballot was c
he forty-second, when Governor Wil- t
son polled 494 votes. ||
Speaker Champ Clark reacher the n
lowest ebb of his candidacy on the n
ballot where Wilson reached a crest, p
By the time the fortieth ballot had
been concluded there was seemingly \
no hope of a nomination. The dele- 1 y
sates sat in a sort of stupor. The roll t
:an cients eniereu wie vuie mwuaur i ^
jally often without waiting for the 3
responses from the various states. At ?
(he end'of the fortieth ballot a tired &
i\labma delegate move to adjourn but a
when a roll call on the motion was de- a
manded by the Wilson forces he with- j
3rew It. | jj
Another attempt was mnde to ad- j f
lourn after the forty-first ballot and g
*gain it failed.. The convention ad- (
lourned after the forty-second ballot
was taken. Following Is the results <af
Monday's balloting:
Twenty-Seventh Ballot. ? Wilson
406 1-2; Clark 409; Underwood 112; ^
Marshall 38; Harmon 29; Bryan 1; \
ubsent 1-2.
Twenty-Eighth Ballot.?Clark 40S 1-2 n
Wilson 437 1-2; Underwood 112 1-2; i v
Harmon 29; Foss 38; Kern 1; Bryan 0
I; absent 1-2. ?
Twenty-Ninth Ballot.?Clark 408 1-2; 1
Wilson 430; Underwood 112; Foss 38; v
Harmon 29; Kern 4. *
Thirtieth Ballot.?Clark 455; Wilson b
400; Underwood 121 1-2; Foss 30; *
Harmon 19; Kern 2.
Thirty-First Ballot.?Clark 446 1-2; v
Wilson 475 1-2; Underwood 116 1-2; a
Foss 30; Harmon 17; Kern 2; absent
1-2. . 1
Thirty-Second Ballot.?Clark 447 1-2; (
Wilson 477 1-2; Underwood 103 1-2; r
Foss 28; Harmon 29; Kern 2; absent 1
1-2. f
Thirty-Third Ballot.?Wilson 477 1-2; I
nark 44 < l-z; underwood xu.t l-z;
Harmon 20; Kern 2; Foss 28; absent' '
1-2. ! 1
Thirty-Fourth Ballot.?Wilson 470'4 f
Clark 447 1-2; Underwood 101 1-2; r
Harmon 20; Kern 2; Foss 28; absent '
!-2.
Thirty-Fifth Ballot.?Wilson 404 1-2; 1
Clark 433 1-2; Underwood 101 1-2;
Harmon 20; Kern 1; Foss 28; absent 3
1-2. ?
Thirty-Sixth Ballot?Wilson 400 1-2; *
Clark 424 1-2; Underwood OS 1-2; Har ^
mon 20; Foss 28; absent 1-2. i '
Thirty-Seventh Ballot. ? Wilson g
406 1-2; Clark 432 1-2; Underwood 1
100 1-2; Harmon 20; Kern 1; Foss 28; c
absent 1-2. *
Thirty-Righth Ballot.?Wilson 498 | v
Clark 425; Underwood 106; Harmon c
20; Foss 28; Kern 1; absent 1-2. v
Thjrty-Ninth Ballot.?Clark 422; 1
Wilson 501 1-2; Underwood 106; Har- ^
mon 20; Kern 1; Foss 28; absent 1-2. r
Fortieth Ballot.?Clark 423: Wilson s
501 1-2; Underwood 106; Harmon 28; a
Kern 1; Foss 28; absent 1-2. t
Forty-First Ballot.--Wilson 400 1-2; 1
Clark 424; Underwood 10; Harmon s
27; Bryan 1: Kern 1; Foss 28; Claynor 1
1; absent 1-2. I o
Forty-Second Ballot.?Clark 430; i a
Wilson 404: Underwood 104; Harmon n
27; Bryan 1-2; Kern i; Foss 28; (lay ' 8
nor 1; James 1; J. Hamilton Lewis 1; t
xbsent 1-2. f
Bryan Attacked By Stanchfleld. a
Baltimore.?John B. Stanchfleld ol h
Wtt> Wnb fMrnifVir.,1 th/v <.Ation#Un ^4 M
?> x vi rv i iii Midiicu inr- ariiaaiiuu ui "
the early convention Monday when s
while the twenty-seventh ballot was
Loins taken, he asked permission tc i '
explain his vote, and used the oppor ! >'
[unity to launeh a bitter attack upon a
William J. Bryan. Stanchficld's at i'
tack was made in answering what h( n
termed the "insults" offered New c
fork's delegates by Bryan in the eon b
troversy growing out of the passage
>f the Ryan-Belmont-Morgan resolu ^
:ion. , S
Situation Grows Bitter. n
Baltimore.?Police were warned tc ^
>xert extraordinary vigilance. The a
dow, vacillating rise and fall of the *
rote throughout Monday had increas?d
the growing bitterness of the past w
ind a match of offense, touched to the !l
excitement, would have set the entire 1
invention ablaze. It was on this situ '
ition that many of the leaders based w
i bono of a final vote and nomination ''
rhey argued that the weary delegates, r:
vould break and throw enough votes f*
0 one of the candidates to end the ''
Lgony and suspense. , r'
Convention Hall Scene of Animation. : ^
Baltimore.?The democratic conven- r
ion hall was again tlie center of anination
from an early hour Monday, ti
'rowds began to besiege the entrances ?
v 9 o'clock and the galleries were S(
alf filled. A sprinkling of delegates r
ad taken their place on the floor. A *'
001 breeze through the high transoms
ept the banners fluttering and prom- ^
ied relief from the exhausting heat of ^
revious sessions. IC.iger Interest was
very where manifested in the strug- 01
le about to be renewed.
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MES
ROM THE PALMETTO STATE
hort Paragraphs of State News That
Have Been Gotten Together With
Care By the Editor.
Gaffney. ? The summer term of
jurt of general sessions of Cheroee
county adjourned after one of the
tiortest sessions ever held. Court
as in session only two day.
St. George.?The so-called "Grace
iction" was injected Into the sena>rial,
congressional and sollcitorial
ampaign meeting In St. George and
rovoked a rather heated colloquy bejveen
George S. Legare and his oponent,
H. Leon Larsley.
Columbia.?A normal school for all
unday school workers in the Luthern
church of South Carolina will be
eld at Leesville July 22 to 25. There
Ill be three departments under the !
harge of Mrs. E. C. Cronk, Rev. A.
Golgt and Rev. E. J. Fox.
Darlington. ? The tobacco season
jr this market will open here July
1, and there will be three warehouses
1 the business this year?Sydnor &
item, Milling Williams, and a new
oncern, Mozingo & Jones?will buy
saf tobacco in the Central '>rlck
rarehouse.
Conway.?A shout from J. A. Lewis,
ounty chairman, "Everybody to the
ak, gentlemen," was the signal for
he assembling of several hundred
Itizens around a stand built about
he base of a venerable moss draped
Ive oak on the bank of the Waccalaw,
the occasion being the ninth
leeting of the state political camaign.
Chester.?J. L. McLean of Maxton,
?. C., a high school teacher of several {
ears' experience, has been elected
o succeed H. H. Scott as a member of |
he faculty of the Chester High J
chool. Mr. McLean ib a graduate of (
>avldson College, holding both the i
achelor of arts and the master of 1
rts degree, ahd comes recommended
s a most resourceful Instructor.
btimter.?me cuauiuer ui wuiuiciw I
) satisfied that Sumter will be well
epresented at the organization of a
tate commercial body to take place
n Columbia Tuesday, July 9. A spelal
will probably be run over the
louthern railway, leaving here at 1
'clock and returning after the banuet.
The presence of the Sumter
and is expected to liven up the trip.
Columbia.?A well attended mass
iceting of the citizens of Waverley
ras helu to consider the annexation
f that suburb to Columbia. The city
ouncil was represented by Messrs.
Ilalock, Keenan and Stieglitz, each of
rhom ably expressed himself as to
he advantages that would be derived
y Waverley and the city, each one
aking up his branch in the management
of the city government and to
rhat extent Waverley might expect
dvantageB.
Aiken.?A 530,000 stock company, to
>e known as the Aiken Industrial
Company, has been formed and the
najority of the stock subscribed to
ake over the plant and business of
he Southern Cotton Oil Company's
>lant at Aiken, which was recently
mrehased by J. T. Shuler, who has
leen elected temporary president of
he new company. In addition to operating
the oil mill and a ginnery, the
lew company proposes installing an
ce plant, conducting a wood and coal '
jusiness and the building of a fertil- j
zer plant.
Columbia.?Playing with a pistol in
l restaurant at the union station several
days ago. J. H. Altee of Columbia
hot and seriously wounded Henry
["line of Augusta, fla. The shooting
B said to have been accidental. Altpe
urrendered himself to the authorities,
rime was shot once in the face. Mpdi- i
al attention was given him and he
ras carried to a local Infirmary
rhere he is said to be in a serious
ondition. It is not thought that the
t-ound will prove ratal.
Cheraw.?Pee Dee camp, No. 227,
Voodmen of the World, held their anlual
picnic at Wilsonla, a beautiful
uburb of Cheraw. There was a fine
ttendance of Woodmen who pnjoved
he spread presented them. Col. T. C.
famer, of Bennettsville, head couneior
of Jurisdiction for South Caro
ina, delivered an interesting address
m Woodcraft. A number of addition1
speeches were made by local Wood- J
nen. The day closed with a ball |
;ame in which Cheraw, with Wilson
loward pitching his usual good game,
asily defeated Ruby in seven innings
Newberry.?Tom Marshall was shot
nd killed by Coot Danzey. The kill j
ng took place about a mile and a bail
lorth of Newberry. Dar.zey shot Mar
nail rour times.
Orangeburg Orangeburg will have
is second annual "booster trip this
ear. so say the directors of the Orngeburg
chamber of commerce. Sol
Tohn, chairman of the executive comlit
tee, lias appointed the following
ommittee to have the automobile
ooster trip in Charge: M. O. Dantz-1
sr, chairman: Leonard Hennett, Cecil
1 Culler, Ceolton Zeigler and A. H. j
larchant, commercial secretary.
Larlington.?Work on the new postfllce
building is progressing nicely. 1
'he building is located on Pearl St.,
nd is being erected at a cost of
50,000.
Manning. ? Harry Lloyd, a young
hite man, IS years old, while clean
is a gun accidentally shot bis moh?T,
who is the widow of the late i
>. It. Lloyd and lives just outside t'.ie
estern limits of town. The ball enured
the abdomen, hut apparently
anged toward the hip and did not !
nter the cavity. The patient is reorted
as resting fairly well and seIons
results are not anticipated.
Chester John Culp McFadden, who
prved Chester county for almost a
nirth of a century?22 years?as the
(erk of court died.
Charleston.?Seven nurses received
leir diplomas as graduates of the
t. Francis Xavier Infirmary training
^hooi with appropriate exercises at
olumbus hall. The graduates are:
[isses Ellen Bore Bertrand of Burigton,
VL; Elizabeth Crouch, Helen
lizabeth Gilbert and Mary Loretta
yan of Charleston; Mary Veronica .
antos of Beaufort; Kssle Viola Smith i
' Georgetown and Sister Mary i eter |
dwards.
$1.25 PER YEAR
INTEREST JN SHOW
NATIONAL CORN EXPOSITION IS
ATTRACTING CONSIDERABLE
ATTENTION.
ro BE HELD IN COLUMBIA
The Date of the Corn Show Is Jsnuuary
1913.?Farmers From the West
and the Middle West Will Attend In
(
Great Numbers.
Columbia. ? The National Corn
Show will be held In Columbia during
January and February of next year.
Many farmers from the West and Middle
West will attend the exposition. y
In the last Issue of The Country Gentleman,
one of the most widely read
agricultural papers, the leading paragraph
heading a page of "Notes From
Progressive Communities," tells of
the National Corn Show.
The paragraph follows:
' The National Corn Exposition to be
held at Columbia proposes to have
an exposition school for the prizewinners
In the county contests of the
Boys' Corn Clubs, as conducted
throughout the Southern states by the
federal farm demonstration bureau.
The school will open on Monday, January
27, 1913, and will continue a
week. The scholars will be the two
boys in each county who win first and
second places in the club contests and
the instructors will be agricultural experts
from all parts of the country.
The boys will be quartered In a large
building near those of the exposition,
will be organized In semi-military
fashion, will visit the exhibits In the
morning and be given Instruction In
corn-Judging, stock-Judging and the
like, and they will prepare reports of
what they see. At the close of the
week they will be given a banquet by
Al- ?1A~ ?us.?<1 ?# Prtllimhio with
I lie Cll) CUUUl.ll VI VUIUU1UIO, ......
speeches by notable men. Prof. O. B.
Martin will have charge of the ar?
rangements."
Governor Blease At Marlon.
Marlon.?Marlon county which gave
F'eatherstone a handsome majority
over Blease two years ago, seems to
be the seat of a strenuous effort this
year on the part of the Bleaae forces,
but representative men here say that
It will be carried easily at the August
primaries by Judge Jones, In
spite of a profession by the governor
of confidence that he had made large
gains here recently. Judge Jones cer- .
talnly has reason to be pleased with
the attitude toward him of a majority
of the audience, composed of about 1.200
people, which he addresaed on tha
court house green.
Automobile Highway Fund Growing.
Charleston.?President J. M. Connelley,
of the Charleston Automobile V
Club, who for some months past has
been engaged In the work of raising
a fund for the completion of the Summerville
automobile loop between this
city and Summervllle, now hns In
sight $2,285 to devote to tbls purpose.
Mr. Connelley stated that contributions
had not been coming In as rapidly
as they should In view of the great
Importance of the work.
Will Glass Still At Larg?.
Lexington.?Will Glass, the negrc
who shot and mortally wounded hie
wife, Battle G1hbs, and seriously
wounded her baby, two loads from n
breech-loading shotgun having been
fired into her body, has so far managed
to elude the officers. The mur
der occurred near Cayce, the shooting
taking place in the same house
where "Pinky" Culpepper, a negrc
woman, shot and killed her husband
about two years ago.
Train Kills Young Man.
Charleston. ? Julian Stelnmever, a
young white man was run over and
killed by a train of the Southern rail
way near the six mile post. The par
ticulars of the accident are hard tc
get and it is not known definitely just
what train struck him. HIb body war
found some time after he had beer
killed. It is supposed that he probably
attempted to board a moving train and
met his death in this way .
Man Shot 15-Year-0ld Daughter.
Manning.?J. J. Bryant, a white mar
about GO years old, was before Magistrate
P. J. Bradham for a preliml
nary hearing on a charge of assault
and battery with Intent to kill, he having
shot his 15-year-old daughter In
the leg and foot with a shotgun. Nc
testimony was taken, as the defendant
acknowledged having done the shoot
ing. He offered to explain why he did
it but the magistrate would not hear
it. He was required to give a bond
of ?300 for his appearance at the next
term of court to answer the charge.
Charge Withdrawn After Hearing.
Columbia Affpr a preliminary hearing
boforp Magistrate Fowles. the
charges against J. C. Easterllng of
Columbia were withdrawn. Mr. Eos
furiinp who is well advanced In years.
was arrested a few days ago on a
warrant charging him with commitIng
a serious crime at Hyatt Park.
The charges preferred against him
surprised his friends and relatives,
who are glad that efter investigation
they proved without foundation. Mr.
Easterling is a member of a prominent
family.
Loses Horse In Peculiar Wry.
Newberry?Clarence Wise of this
city lost a valuable horse In a peculiar
way. He was driving the horse to
a buggy, when it took fright or became
contrary at the corner of Nance ?
and Friends streets, reared up and fell
backwards, striking the back of Its
head on the pavement. The blow '
must have cracked the skull. The
animal died soon afterward. The
horse had lately been brought from
the West, was four years old and wei
allied by Mr Wise at $400. ?