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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. Continued From Page One. 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. jJjXf O' 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 WK "V ‘ Uju. / • WB/ / F w^cW.l»g T , o „ 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 r~77~x /TBHI ft 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 z / J.S/MKa sEff fiw 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- 3crr— i 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-