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Tammany Men, Decided to Support the Will of the People This Year, Fall in Behind the Speaker i
ALL POSSIBLE DOUBT OF CHAMP CLARK’S VICTORY GONE, SAYS GRAVES
« TALKS
ID DEMOCRATS
“Message One of Hope and
Courage at Parting of the
Ways.” He Says.
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combination? o{ great wealth in our
country. If they accomplish any good
whatever I should be in favor of with
drawing opposition to them. If they
lowered prices or raised prices I would
be in favor of supporting them.
"But they do not one of these thing’
They raise prices, they lower wages
and -for profit and for power they de
stroy earnings and tend their ravag
ing hand into every house In the coun
try.
“We must protect the rights of the
states against the invasion of Federal
power. I am a state's right Demo
crat."
“Hurrah for the defender of Ad
miral Schley!" shouted a delegate.
“We mum see that no president of
the United States shall in future days
invade the precincts of legislation.
“We must declare in favor of the
election of United States senators by
the people. If the people have not
enough Influence to name their sena
tors. then freedom is a dream in this
republic.
“We must declare in favor of pri
mary elections by the people. I know
It is said in some quarters that this
would put incompetent men in office.
Mr. Chairman. 1 am not afraid to trust
the people. The Democratic ship of
state is safe, and we will survive the
tumult of the storm ”
Rep-esentatlve Henry D. Clayton,
of Alabama, was next Introduced. He
made the first appeal for the vote of
women that was ever made in a Dr mo.
cratic national convention.
Clayton Talks
For Woman Suffrage.
"I believe." he said, “that every wo
man in the land who has a vote will
cast it for our ticket and I am here to
predict that every good woman in the
United States who has the misfortun
to be married will compel her husband
to vote the Democratic ticket at the
next election. T am for woman- suf
frage. If she can vote let her vote
the Democratic ticket. If she can't
vote let her make her husband and het
son vote the Democratic ticket."
He declared the Republican par’ i«
sn association for the protection of
predatory wealth and that the voters
who wished to get relief from it must
go back to the Democratic party.
<’layton's speech was made tin- ex-|
cuse for a demonstration for Under
wood. Delegates favoring the Alabama
candidate started the cheering and the
friends of all of the other candidates
took a hand and a voice in the pro
ceedings
Mingled shouts of “Underwood,"
"Bryan." "Clark." "Marshall." "Wilson,"
and all of the other candidates came
in one long continuous howl. The dele
gates stood in chairs. The Woodrow
Wilson song was started by the New
Jersey delegation to the tune of "Mis
ter ' oley.'
It was perfectly evident from watch- |
ing the band that it was playing, but ■
a deaf mute could have guessed the
tune as well as the rest
A New Jersey man was tugging at
the s.andard. Sergeant-at-arms Mar
tin leaned forward.
"Don't touch that standard." he
shouted.
The delegate gave another tug
"Don't take up the standard." Mar
tin shouted above the confusion Then
he pointed to a policeman in the front
rdw.
Bluecoat Guards
State Standards.
"Don't let him take up tta stand
ard," Martin commanded
The policeman toddea and mover
over to it
Finally the band got a hearing It
played "Maryland. My Maryland ' and
me delegates sent up a mighty cheer.
Then "Old Kentucky Home" came Into
the air. and Kentucky folks from the
land of pretty women and fast horses
started a whoop
“Suwanee River" took the boys back
to the cottcn land and the Southern
outfit sent the rebel yell ar.ro.-s.
Then came "Dixie" to get cheer aft
er cheer from the noisy demonstra
tive crowd.
A policeman and a delegate struggled
to get possession of the Missour: stand,
ard. The policeman managed to push
the man back into his chair.
Sergeant-at - Arms Martin hammt ed
desperately with his tiny gavel aoi
shouted above the general roar:
•’Don't let 'em get it: don't let 'em
get it."
Herbert Fisher, once the star cent<
rush of the Princeton team, left tne
Tennessee delegation to lead th.' Wil
son singing.
"Wi'l you give us five minutes nt
• our attention?” pleadeo Martin
Sure, an' if yee don't the pleecemen
an' meself will be after making yez.
< ailed a deep voice from the stand.
“Oy ole.” yelled the mam-ed dele
gates.
Mr Clayton, waiting like a man sit
ting at the top of a chimney waiting
for the smoke to blow away, got
enough of an opening to say that the
party would name the next president.
"We will get a Democratic house of
rMsr.aa» um whoever
POOR OLD MAN—BY T. E. POWERS
° KNOW
I FEEYL
-s. 50RRN FOR.
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thal) ‘be the nominee of this convert
lon ”
Every man in the house tried to sup
ply the name at one and the same
ime.
“I know tiie man who — st Tied
he speaker.
"I rave you, Woodrow." shrieked a
•nan from Hoboken.
Again the stormy sea of delegates
:os*ed up its waves of favorite sons.
Mr. Clayton Joined the game long
•nough to ray a good word for Osca"
Underwood and then hr got out of the
ivay for Mr. Riley, of Massachusetts,
fight Between Dollar
Und People’s Rights.
Mr. Riley was of the opinio" tha*
•very fight in politics was a flgot be
tween the dollar on the one side and
he rights of the voter on the other
He told the convention what the
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Democrats of Mnstachusetts had done
In politics and said that his people
wanted men as well as measures, and
llien added:
"We came down here from Massa
chusetts looking for men. We could
only find one man who had stood all
of the tests and that was old champ
Clark, o 1 ’ Missouri."
There was a Clark demonstration
lasting half a minute, when Senator
Gore, tiie blind senator of Oklahoma,
was called to the stand.
chairman Parker Introduced him aa
"One of the most useful Democrats in
the United States." and the blind ora
tor got on ovation.
This convention," he said, “has as
sembled foi no other purpose than to
nominate the president of the UniJed
States.
lust as the contention at Chicago
was tin- forerunner of disaster, this
convention Is the augury of success.
Mr fellow Democrats, let us have
peace at any sacrifice. Eet us have
peace nt any price. Let us have peace
ful sacrifice.”
There was a deadly silence.
Except at the pi ice of honor." he
added, and got a cheer.
"Let us have and now put everv
Democrat under bond to keep the
peace Let us adopt a prohibitive tar
iff upon the apple of discord
“While Republicans divide let tha
Democrats unite and multiply and con
quer
A house divided against itself can
not stand. The Republican party can i
not stand half slave and half free; half
l-i 'gressive and half reactionary; half
living and naif dead,
"Nothing unless the Deme. racy like
i shorn and blinded to Samson should
pull .-own the temple upon the altar
of Its own faith.
"Tit idor Roosevelt undertook to
bear! . the breath of life undertook to
put the spirit of modern progress into
the mummified Republican part.', but
the mummy would not stir Its heart
beat v O stilled. The heart best of hu
man xymrxithj was still. la«t Mr
Roosevelt learn, lot this convention
teach and teach the republic that It
1 tIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AAi) DtruVV IS. Vv EDGE'S DAY, JUAE iwiz.
Is the Democratic party that believes
in the equality of man.
“Less Tariff, More Trade,
No Grade, No Taft."
Senator Gore advocated the purchase
by the government of the home of
Thomas Jefferson, to be made into a
national shrine where the people might
renew their political faith. He com
mended the work of Mrs. Martin W.
Littleton, of New York, in trying to get
the government to take this step.
He stated his creed thus:
“Less tariff, more trade.
“No trusts, no graft and no Taft.””
“The people will no longer miss the
Jeweled hand that smites them; they
have already been smitten on both
cheeks."
He pleaded for harmony and the dele
gates to go from the convention ready
to accept for the full fight whatever
man was named.”
John Temple Graves, editor of The
New York American, followed Senator
Gore.
"In the five minutes that I shall con
sume,” he said. “1 shall mention the
mime of no man and cry the shibbo
leth of no candidate. From the ranks
there can be but one message, the mes
sage of unfaltering courage and trium
phant hope. Never in the last 50 year-'
has there assembled a convention full
of so much hope.
"1 believe that at least we have com,
to the parting of the ways."
Confusion was so great that Graves
was* forced to discontinue for a mo
ment while the house was quieted.
('olonel Graves predicted Democratic
victory in November and said that
Theodore Roosevelt was a political John
the Baptist, preaching the doctrine of
the Democratic vit'or? that was to
come after.
"I believe that all things are work
ing together *ot the good of those who
love the Lord and follow the teachings
of Thomas Jefferson."
Republican Party
Divided in Itself.
Mayor James H Preston, of Balti
more, was next introduced to “speak a
word of welcome."
"1 want to convey to you the greet
ing and the welcome of the people of
Baltimore and Maryland to the grea*
avalanche of the Democracy." he said.
“We have met you. and we love you.
We greet you in our city. We hope
you, stay in our city has been and will
continue to be pleasant.
“A Democratic convention is a great
crucible into which are brought the
great Ideas from lh“ East and from the
West; from the North and from South,
and those ideas are fused into a plat
form and on thet platform a candidate
is nominated. One thing, my friends.
Is most important and that is that we
should have a united front.
“I renew my welcome to you. my
friends We are delighted to see you
and In behalf of this municipality I
bid you welcome."
Ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio, was
next introduced
“Ohio, which has given six Republi
can presidents to the nation," he said,
“is sitting right there now, next to
Texas, and she Is marching side by side
with Texas as a Democratic state.
“In 1860 the Democratic party Jtnd
been governing the country for 60
years. But it split and lost the elec
tion and went out of power. Since
that time the party that has almost
continuously governed the country has
split.
Word of Welcome From
Baltimore's Mayor.
“The Taft wing Is a disorganized
body composed of the camp followers
“The other wing is led by an egotist,
whose sanity and probity have both
been questioned, a man who dedicated
the monument on the field of Antietam
and never mentioned General McClel
lan. the only president who ever had
the gall to go to Gettysburg and make
a speech on the spot where Lincoln
made his immortal utterance
"Let them go. and the Democratic
party will come into another 6fi years
of pon er “
Delegate Roberta, of A kans-as.
moved to adjourn until 2 o'clock tomor
row. The point of order was made by
A. Mitchell Palmer that the convention
had already passed a resolution that
when the convention adjourned it
would be till 8 o’clock tonight. The
chair sustained Palmer, who then
moved that the convention adjourn. r t
carried, and the convention was de
clared adjourned till 8 o'clock p. m.
Coatless Delegates
In Hot Hall.
Th lure of the race for the chief
honors of the Democratic national con
vention kept many delegates and
workers late at their hotels this morn
ing. It was long past the usual hour
for opening the scenic part of the con
vention when the Fifth regiment ar
mory began slowly to fill.
The band, patiently in place from the
time the doors were opened, found it
self "all alone, all alone,” and said so
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In sad and dulcet notes. By 11:30
o’clock the seats reserved for dele
gates began to fill. A thin lino was
forming in the first rows of the gal
leries. And this little crust for the pie
of humanity that was to come indus
triously plied palm leaf fans.
It was hot —intensely hot—in the big
tireless cooker in which the convention
was held.
For the benefit of those who follow
the fashions in men's wear, the modish
Democratic delegate "shucks his coat.”
It Is the correct thing to unlimber the
front of the collar and to put a hand
kerchief around the remaining portion
of a half-wilted collar. The fashion
whs duly observed today.
Oklahoma, leader in constitutions
and apparel, started the fashion. It
spread rapidly. The galleries took it
up and then the patient, dutiful-drudges
in the press stand followed suit.
It was a coatless, vestless multitude
that faced the chairman at the opening
of the session and a thousand fans beat
time with the band in a vain effort to
coax an errant breeze Into the councils
of Democracy.
Among the first comers was Mrs.
Nellie B. VanSlingerland. organizer of
the Joan of Arc society of New York.
She came to the delegates' section and
made a plea for the incorporation of a
suffrage plan in the platform. Mrs.
VanSlingerland had heart-to-heart
talks with many of the delegates before
the convention was called to order.
Exactly at noon Judge Parker, being
a man of punctual habits, ascended the
stand.
Three interesting angles showed
themselves when the Democrats start
ed a new day full of memories of the
exciting contest that had the day be
fore reached a milestone in political
history. They were:
Tlie prospect of an earnest fight over
the platform to be presented, with par
tlcular reference to the tariff plank.
The many-sided fight for the presi
dential nomination with Arid i jnnlng
against t’lurk and with the present
odd* favoring the Missouri champion
The reported visit of Francis J He
ney and t'lierles R. t'rane, emissaries
from the Roosevelt Progressive party,
to William J. Bryan, with the conse
quent rumors that they were seeking
to lead Mr. Bryan into the newly form
ed third party.
The attempt to win Bryan to the
Roosevelt cause was the sensation of
the lobbies- where the Bryanites con
gregated. An early i eport had it that
Heney. the fire-brand representative
who goaded the steam roller party at
t'hicago until It hooted him and who
rankled Root until the chairman let fly
a covert threat to restrain his speech,
rushed down during the night. With
him came Charles R. Crane, of Chi
cago, who is an ardent Roosevelt sup
porter and one of the main financial
contributors to the Roosevelt fund.
Frankly these elders from the bull
moose faith were here to proselytb. and
the air was filled with reports that they
had come with authority to talk for
the party of their making and that they
were dickering for a recruiting station
In the Bryan army. Mr. Bryan admit
ted he had seen Heney.' but refused to
discuss what was said between them.
The presidential situation is best ex
pressed by Delegate John Fletcher, 'of
Tennessee, who said:
Speaker Clark
Is High Man.
"While all of this racket is going on
the friends of all of the candidates ate
busy try ing 'to land their men. The
Clark movement stands out most prom
inently, which Is both an evidence of
Its strength and of its weakness. On
the one hand it shows the Missouri man
as the strongest man in the field—
now. On the other hand, it places him
like the high man in a seven-up game
where all of the other players throw
the game to the low man in order to
keep the high man from going out.
That is the best possible explanation
of the ( lark status.”
The complex situation has resulted it:
the naming of many dark horsey.
Among those named In the hotel cor
ridor gossip are Governor Eugene Foss,
of Massachusetts; William Randolph
Hearst. William J. Gaynor, of Nev.
York; Representative A. Mitchel Pal
mer. of Pennsylvania; Joseph \V. Folk
of Missouri; Senator Claude A. Swan
son. of Virginia: Mayor Carter H. Har
rison. of Chicago.
The Tammany view of the nomina
tion with its 90 votes, and the alliances
that go with it. is expressed in these
words by Pat E. McCabe, after having
had a talk with Charles F. Murphy:
"The likeliest choice of this conven
tion is Speaker Clark. I say this mere
ly as a cold blooded political proposi
.Hen. based upon the situation as it is.
Surely Wilson was hurt and Clark's
chances enhanced by the defeat of,
Bryan for the temporary chairmanship.
The Wilson men staked all on Bryan
and lost. I look for a number of bal
lots. If the speaker can hold his pledg
ed vote and draw out others as he goes
for two or three ballots he will be
named.'
"Senator James O'Gorman, of New
York, today declined to permit his name
to be used as candidate for vice presi
dent.
The Massachusetts delegation in cau
cus decided to support Champ Clark
for president.
Bryan Declines To Be
Platform Chairman
BALTIMORE, June 26.—Senator
John W. Kern of Indiana was today
elected chairman of the resolutions
committee of the Democratic national
convention, after W. J. Bryan had de
clined to accept that post.
When the sub-committee offered the
chairmanship to Mr. Bryan he ad
dressed the committee declining to ac
cept the post.
“I do not wish to bind myself to this
committee in this way,” he said. "It
may be that I will desire to present a
minority report. In that case I should
wish to be free to do so. I thank you.
gentlemen, who wish me to take the
place, but I feel that I should decline.
"I place before you the name of John'
W. Kern* and place him in nomination
for chairman.”
Kern Made Chairman.
Mr. Kern had preceded the Nebras
kan to the room. The nomination of
Senator Kern was accepted by the res
olutions committee and he was chosen
chairman.
Illinois Contest
Before Committee
BALTIMORE. June 26.—The creden
tials committee of the Democratic na
tional committee this afternoon voted
40 to 10 to eeat the Sullivan faction of
the delegates In Illinois. This decision
upheld the decision of t.lie national
committee, which had ruled against the
Hearst-Harrison delegates.
BALTIMORE, June 26.—The creden
tials committee of the Democratic na
tional convention met in its room at
the Fifth regiment armory shortly be
fore 11 o'clock. The Illinois contests,
involving 31 delegates, was first taken
up. Each side was given 45 minutes to
present its case. The delegates of the
Sullivan organization were upheld by
the national committee and the Hearst-
Harrison organization presented its ap
peal today.
There was some opposition to limit
ing the time In :!te Illinois case and
some of the members of the committee
complained that Joseph Bell, of In
diana. chairman of the committee, had
carried the resolution under the gavel.
The door was guarded by “Billy" Skid
jnore. notorious Chicago saloon keeper
and lieutenant of Roger Sullivan.
The first speaker was Major Edgar B
Tolman, of t'hicago. who presented the
is of Henr-t-Harrison < ontestant*.
At tlie table by which Major Tolman
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WON INI WEEK
In Rapid-Fire Wooing Sweet
hearts Refuse To Wait
Until Fall To Wed.
Wooed and won In a week—wed in
six. That’s the pretty surprise un
folded to Mrs. Clarence Angier, of 267
West Peachtree street, today when her
daughter, Martha, and Harry Willis
Stotesbury-Cutter, whom she first saw
hardly more than a month ago, walked
in the front door and announced: “We
are married.”
The wedding was set to take place
October 7 on the bridegroom's birth
day. and Mr. and Mrs. Angier had is
sued wedding invitations for that date
and were making preparations for a
church wedding at which the friends of
tlie bride and bridegroom were to be
present in large numbers.
Won in a Week;
Decide Not To Wait.
Instead, the wedding took place be
fore only two witnesses today at St.
Lukes Episcopal church, where it was
performed by Rev. C. B. Wilmer.
Mr. Stotesbury-Cutter came to At
lanta two years ago to represent a
wholesale drug firm. Six weeks ago
he passed Miss Angier on the street.
His first glance was merely such as
any young man might give to an at
tractive looking young woman, but the
first glance so impressed him that he
looked tlie second time, and then some
more.
“I'm going to meet that girl and mar
ry her,” he said to himself, and he soon
found a mutual friend who introduced
him. One week to a day after he had
bowed over the formal “I am very giad
to meet you, Miss Angier,” the young
woman had promised to become his
wife. The consent of her parents was
obtained and three weeks after the
meeting invitations were issued for the
wedding in October. Sunday evening,
sitting on the porch at the Angier
home, the decision was reached by the
couple that it was foolish to wait un
til October, and they planned the sur
p'ise of today.
34th Anniversary of
Mother’s Wedding.
"The only reason we waited until to
day, after deciding to get married at
once.” said Mrs. Stoesbury-Cutter, “is
that , today Is the thirty-fourth anni
versary of mother's marriage, and we
thought we would see if the day would
not be as lucky for us as it has been
for her.
“No; there's nothing particularly
startling about our marriage,” she add
ed, “and I just hate any notoriety.
“It was jus* a plain case of love at
first sight, and that’s all there is to it.”
And the bridegroom echoed her re
mark.
Mr. and Mrs. Stotesbury-Cutter are at
home with Mr. and Mrs. Angier for the
present and are receiving congratula
tions from many friends who are just a
bit disappointed at not getting a chance
to see the pretty Miss Angier In bridal
attire at the altar.
spoke were seated Mayor Carter H.
Harrison, President Peter Bartzen, of
the county board, and W. H. Sexton,
all of Chicago.
“Every Sullivan delegate that pre
sents himself before this committee
was illegally elected," said Major Tol
man. in his argument, "for the reason
that the state convention that selected
them was itself illegally chosen, and
for the further reason that the pri
mary law of Illinois does not empower
a state convention to name delegates
to the national convention.”
Major Tolman at this point read a
lengthy excerpt from the Illinois pri
mary law. which was to the effect that
delegates to the national convention
shall be chosen by district conventions.
"My clients," he continued, “held such
conventions. They are the only people
from Chicago who did hold them. We
contend that the national delegates
they then named are the only ones that
have been regularly and lawfully elect
ed from Illinois.
Sullivan's "Rump” Convention.
"If. however, the state convention
has the power to name such delegates
we still contend that these against
whom this contest Is directed are not
lawfully elected because the delegates
from Cook county, who held the bal
ance of power in that pretended con
vention, were chosen in a rump con
vention which was without any stand
ing In law and Which was dentinal “d
b> Roger Sullivan,"
Indiana for Missourian
on Second Ballot and
Others Are Flocking
Into the Houn’ Dawg
Band Wagon.
By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
BALTIMORE, June 26. —ls there was
any doubt of Champ Clark's nomina
tion for the presidency yesterday, that
doubt has al-
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en. Even the stoutest of the Wilson,
Underwood or Harmon men are free to
say that if Clark can hold his vote to
gether through the second ballot he is
sure to win.
Clark can hold his delegates through
a dozen ballots and increase their num
bers every ballot up to the last and
triumphant one.
Georgia's ballot, instructed for Un
derwood, will go to Clark after the sec
ond ballot.
South Carolina's delegation, unin
structed but credited to Wilson on the
first ballot, will go to Clark after the
second.
There will be a stampede to him after
the third ballot.
New York’s Vote
All For Clark.
Three things have occurred which
almost Insure Champ Clark's' nomina
tion.
New York's 90 delegates, under the
unit rule, will go for Clark!
Never before in any national conven
tion have Mr. Murphy and his Tam
many men mingled so freely with the
delegates and the people. It is the
subject of universal comment. They
have been genial, approachable and
friendly with everybody. It is evident
that the Wigwam and its chief have
made up their minds in this conven
tion to ascertain the people’s will and
to do It.
There is absent any indication that
they are here to trade and barter, and
present everywhere the spirit that in
dicates a wholesome change in Tam
many tactics, and a closer and loyal
study of the people's will.
Murphy s
Quiet Canvass.
The story is told here upon absolute
authority that Mr. Murphy two weeks
ago, in conference with his, lieutenants,
determined to find out the popular man
among his followers and friends.
Through his agents he set on foot an
investigation in New York, whose re
sults astonished him. Nobodj' was so
licited, nobody was commanded, but al!
the Tammany clientele were impartial
ly interrogated.
The result was astonishing In its
revelation of Champ Clark’s popularity.
Every factory visited was discovered
full of Clark men. Clark's rugged his
tory, his rise from the common people,
his hard life, the fact that he had been
one of them, seemed to take hold of
these people, and Murphy discovered in
New York what the presidential pri
maries have told him and what he has
confessed in Baltimore—that the peo
ple—the plain people everywhere—are
enamored of the great Commoner of
Missouri.
Murphy and Tammany have a state
election next year and they wish to win
in November to make sure of it.
Murphy and Tammany have found in
Champ Clark a winner in November.
Clear Majority
On First Ballott.
Therefore, Murphy and Tammany
have run up the Clark flag above the
wigwam—and word has been passed
alon;, the line by Cohalan and Cram
and the rest, and New York's 90 votes
added to Champ Clark's 460 votes, will
give the speaker 550 votes on the first
ballot—a clear majority of the whole
convention.
To add to tills magnificent reinforce
ment of members comes Roger Sullivan
from Illinois, saying that Illinois’ mag
nificent majority of 146.000 for Champ
Clark would not permit him, If he
wished, to be less than absolutely loyal
to Champ Clark to the end. and sitting
at rest the rumor that the Sullivan
men, would bolt Clark on the first Op
portunity.
Indiana’s
Second Choice.
It is said here upon high authority
that Tom Taggart has declared that
Indiana holds Clark next to Governor
Marshall, who has not developed
strength, and that after a ballot for
Indiana's favorite son. Indiana will go
solidly for Clark.
These three things have practically
settled the presidential nomination.
The Clark men are jubilant on every
avenue, and recruits are climbing on
to the Missouri band wagon in every
direction.
Baltimore Is a Champ Clark town,
although it has been conspicuously fair
In every particular to all the candi
dates, and the courtesy and hospitality
of the people of Baltimore to the con
vention guests have been almost with
out a parallel.
Baltimore has really won the heart
of the national Democracy at this con
vention. and those who remember the
week will always hear with grateful
consideration any future bid which
Baltimore may make for a national
Democratic contention. Mayor Pres
ton. the city's ehlvnlrh- and hospitable
executive ha- won golden opinions b
his untiling and effective considers
tlon. and there are scores of delegates
who are holding him in their heart?
most thoughtfully and gratefully for
ihe -hr prcshieniia| honor whleli they
nave to icstow
most disappear
ed today.
There Is not a
break in tin-
Clark line from
Massachusetts to
California
They entered
the convention a
phalanx and will
remain unbrok-