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"I Played Game of Checkers With Convention and Won' Says Nebraskan—"Proaressive Assured BRYAN’S OWN STORY OF HIS FIGHT ON THE MEN OF WALL STREET WILSON IS IMPOSSIBLE; KERN A "DARK HORSE;" GEORGIA STANDS FIRM BALTIMORE. June 28.—The Georgia delegation was enthused and highly “ elated today over the showing Under wood made in the first ballot in the convention recorded at 7:10 this morn ing. Underwood polled, under the ab rogation of the unit rule, something like 20 more votes in the first ballot than the Georgians expected. He is ' generally regarded not only by the Georgians themselves, but scores of delegates from other delegations, as by far the most conspicuous so-called dark horse possibility before the con vention now. The Georgians confidently predict that Underwood will show ever finer form on the second and third ballots, although they do not look for his nom ination on an early ballot, of course. From the very first, the Georgians have received encouraging reports from the New York delegation, and Tom Tag gart this morning said his Indianans look not with any degree of disfavor on Underwood as an eventual proposi tion. Talking Underwood Only. The Underwood organization inside the convention is compact and aggres sive. Wherever it may go. should a break from the Alabaman come, it isn’t talking anything but Underwood for the nomination today. It is generally understood that Champ Clark will get Georgia’s vote when Georgia switches, if she does switch, as has been pointed out before, but the delegation sees no switching point in sight right now. ( If Clark should show up strong on the second ballot, and Underwood fall off. it is possible that Georgia might swing into the speaker's column on the third ballot. It seems more likely, how ever, that it will not swing away from Underwood to anybody soon. Strageti cally. the Georgians -"believe Under wood's position today to be ideal. Kern Looming Up. In the event of a long and uncom promising deadlock, and the apparent impossibility of either Clark’s or Un derwood’s nomination, the man most •likely to emerge into the limelight ■seems at this moment to be John M ■ (Kern, "f Indiana. The Georgia Underwood delegation ils not particularly enamored of Kern, •but it is beginning to realize that he a possible, dark horse of probable dangerous speed, and that his eventual nomination, in a deadlock, is a con- Itingency that they may be called upon tfo face resolutely by and by. If Bryan succeeds in blocking Clark's nomination, as Wilson's already has (been blocked, the Georgians realize (that they have nothing to hope for from the Nebraskan Ho is against lUnderwood and seemingly unalterably 180 Bryan would take Kern, if Kern is -the best he can get. He will tag Kern 8S a progressive candidate of compro mise, and in the final analysis of things, he might put it over. Only the ■actual -ballotting will tell the story. • At this stage of the game Kern fl >ims not nearly sq probable as pos sible. Astute delegates, gireerly dis cussing the Kern matter toWay. see in it a tragic finish to Democratic hopes of four years’ building. They say Kern ■would make, before the country, an Absurdly weak and unappealing candi date. Nevertheless, the Kern talk, for ■what it is worth, is going the rounds, quietly, but surely. If Champ Clark grows, and it Is pre dicted generally that he should and ■will, the Kern talk will vanish into thin air. and nobody will know exactly where, when, why and how it started. If Clark doesn't grow, lookout for Kern, say the wise ones. Wilson Outfit Exhausted. There is scarcely a delegate of prom inence in Baltimore, outside the Wil son ranks, who does not agree today that Wilson is clearly out of the run ning and can not hope to come back. 7.ate yesterday afternoon, following New York's vote on the South Dakota case, the Wilsonites were filled with ioy They thought It was to be Wilson .possible on the first ballot. Today they know, even if they yet are reluc tant to confess, that Wilson has been done for utterly. The Wilson outfit has exhausted itself. It has reached flood tide and never again will it be reckoned with seriously. New York’s flirting with Wilson on the South Dakota case, was not un rip,-stood by the Wilsonites. Cha-les Murphy is today suspected of a clever ly devised scheme behind that vote to smoke out Bryan. New York has no more idea of helping nominate Wilson than it has of flying to the moon. There is a large and swelling majority tn this convention plainly determined that Wilson shall not be nominated. Mr. Bryan, in the peculiar attitude of an instructed Clark delegate, has been credited with a large desire to further Wilson's cause. The cold truth of tile matter is, Bryan is for Bryan. But Bryan voted, under his instruc tions. for Clark on this morning's bal lot New York and Indiana may go to Clark, and they may go to Underwood. The best and surest bet Is they never will go to Wilson on the question of his nomination. Why Georgia Hit Bryan. The Georgia delegation cast its solid vote against th*' Bryan resolution last night more as a protest against what is ii-garded as a piece of impertinence and presumption upon the part of Bri - an and an utterly unneo-s.'-.a: y piece of clap-trap, rather than because It opposed an attitude of hostility toward ft;" nomination of any man or the pr pondt rating Influen e of any man ir.- sidt th Ta-mo'-rati' party, reactionary • 1n tde'il- oi- political ' end of test Thi Georgia delegation, wnich has By JAMES B. NEVIN. gained a convention-wide reputation ■for compactness, common sense and aggressiveness, assumed and still holds to the idea that the way to show its faith is by its deeds—that the way to keep reactionaries out of the party is to keep them but, and that the way to keep them from being nominated is not to nominate them. It also feels that the way to get a progressive platform is <to have it written by safe and sane progressives. The Georgia, delegation has persis tently and consistently resented by Bryan's efforts to run the Baltimore convention entirely his way. and large ly to Bryan's advantage and glory. It feels that Bryan himself has ultimate designs on the nomination, and not a few of the delegates cling to the notion that Bryan is determined, down tn his heart, to run the party Bryan-wise or bolt. The Georgia delegation attached lit tle importance to Bryan's resolution as a thing likely to accomplish some good. It feels that the Democracy can nut fool anybody with mere resolutions of godliness and political austereness. The Georgians feel sure, and have felt sure all along, that this convention is in no danger of nominating a Morgan or Ryan controlled man for president, and it resented Bryan's resolution as a thing insulting in its nature and a slap in the face of a convention willing and anxious to do its duty by the people, and that without prodding resolutions and certificates of character issued to itself by itself in advance of its acts. A Crazy Night. One wonders at the. futility and ut ter uselessness of adjectives w hen he attempts to tell in intelligent language of that wild, crazy, thrilling, wearisome, awful night here in the Fifth regiment armory in old Baltimore town, just passed into history. Whatever Bedlam was or is. that was worse. A man sitting next to me along about midnight said there were 29.000 people in the building. It struck me as rather curious that he didn't say 29.4t>7 or 28,998, or something like that, for all he knew. Long ago some mathe matical and otherwise wise philosopher said it was impossible for the human mind to conceive a million of anything 1 thought last night of him, and won dered if there might not be. really, a million people in that armory. One knows that all Baltimbre was not tn there, of course, besides the visitors, for outside there was jam terrific, and down town the streets were crowded early in the evening with thousands and thousands watching a suffragette pa rade. I think the adjective that fits the needs of this reportorial moment more nearly than any other is crazy. Last night was a crazy night, a lunatic night perhaps, in that a lunatic is said to have perfectly safe and sane intervals at times. Anyway. I marveled that men could lose all seeming sense of proportion upon so little provocation now and then and behave so much like monkeys aud very small children with out, in calmer retrospect, any actually compelling cause. The Clark Upheaval. However that may be, I leave to heads more clear, to pens more sure and to tongues more confident than mine, to say this morning. My emo tions, along with those of the crowd, ran the whole scale, over and over again. I got mad. and then I got glad. I almost went to sleep time and again, and I enjoyed long between nodding intervals, when I felt as if sleep never more should wome to me. and for that 1 was thankful. When Champ Clark’s name was mentioned for the nomina tion that thing that breaks loose in Georgia at times broke loose good and proper here. Believe me, that's a fact. There was one hour and five minutes of it. or five hours and one minute of it, I don’t, know which, and I don't care. It was the craziest thing I ever saw. and yet I was for it, strong and militant, and I got into it. right up to the neck, because a part of it. and had a rattling good time while it lasted. I previously had taken a hand tn the Un derwood dertaonstration, too. I was right there with the goods when it came to demonstrating last night. One would have thought that the demon stration business surety was my long suit. That's a mistake, however, for after the Clark round I retired with well earned laurels and victorious eagles. My demonstration average stood then easily at .999. Pendleton in Ecstasy. Colonel Pendleton said last night, on the way to the convention hail, that he was going there to perform the sweetest and most satisfactory service to Democracy he ever had performed. He was going to cast, for the first time since the war. Georgia’s vote In a nom inating convention for a Southern man Oscar Underwood. And the grim old war horse of Bibb sat tight through all the wearisome hours of the night and the morning, and well after dawn there came to him that opportunity for which his heart had yearned and bls soul had thirsted so long. In brave, booming words, dignified and erect, hfs good gray head thrown well back, the Georgia, chairman cast, at last, his state's vote for his sister state’s fa vorite son. and then he sank back, tired, but almost hysterically happy. As to the things in detail that hap pened last night, other writers than I will tell. The story will be dramatic enough and into it will go much of pathos and something of humor. From out the tangled mass of things, from thi words -aid and the talk indulged in. and from the more or less uncer tain comment in the cold, gray dawn •if the morning after three things stand forth. I think Champ Clark may bo nominated, Os rar Underwood may be. but Woodrow Wilson never will he Perhaps we are up against a ong. hard deadlock. Time will answer that. 'THE ATLANTA GEOKGIAN AND N EVVS. hftlDA Y. J I N E IHIZ. THREE INTERESTED SPECTATORS AND A WOMAN DELEGATE AT BALTIMORE Copyright, 1912, by International News Service. The top picture shows, from left to right. Mrs. W. R. Hearst. M. F. Torpe ami Mrs. Martin nsjpt Glynn, of New York. At the not- • JSBt tom is Mrs. R. F. Gainer, a >?’’ ' woman clebmate from California. MB \Wi / r !r ' \ Saga , : W f -jyWr JSI < / \ wW\W alwf /O 1 - IW /w Isl ■ Ex f --■ .S \\ -■ W. •• ' . fl® x \ /Hr' .?* /JfcX Hi Al ••■■-■ BBEaHK&SS* F Murphy, Sullivan And Taggart Confer BALTIMORE. June 28.—Charles F. Murphy, of New York; Roger Sullivan, of Illinois, and Thomas Taggart, of Indiana,* who yesterday combined against Bryan, held a conference after the adjournment of the Democratic convention today in an effort to agree on a candidate on whom to unite on the second ballot. No agreement was reached, and the conferees went to bed with the understanding they would confer again before the convention re assembled this afternoon. Report from the conference had it that Sullivan and Taggart had heard by wire from many home candidates who were concerned in their own suc cess at the fall election and who urged that they make such hay it* <he presi dential harvest as would Irttst op erate for harm against them In the autumnal combat. The Sullivan plan, as first outlined in conference, was to subtract some thing from the Illinois Clark support and add it to that, of another candi date’s asset. Wilson was suggested in this connection and there was good Sullivan reasons advanced for such a movement. Taggart, having an eye to home consumption of the news that must come from the session, advanced John W. Kern s name as a good one to take on a radical pinch. Murphy did not like either idea. So when they parted for a little sleep they had not agreed, but had in mind the question of naming a dark horse. Kern met with much favor in the talk, but there was question as to what Bryan would think of the selection, and Bryan is a factor In all conferences of the day, ■whether of his own or his foes’ making. It was esteemed likely that the third ballot might in some measure show the first tactical move on the firing line. Mrs. Taft and Mrs. Bryan Saw It BALTIMORE. June 28.—While the turmoil and din of political battle raged in the convention trail during the night such spectators as did not for the mo ment follow the hue and cry on the floor turned their glasses upon two wo men. From one to the other was di rected the lingering gaze of the con vention. One woman was Mrs. William Jen nings Bryan, whose husband was in the thick of the fray that was raging; the other was Mrs. William Howard Taft, at whose husband the collected fury of all the Democratic fire i« hurl ed. They presented a study interest ing in the extreme. The one in royal purple; the other in gray, the sat through the major por tion of the long session, and hung ujton every uttered word and every out break that told a story or adorned the tale of the fleeting history-writing that was in progress. Mrs. Taft held the high court that belongs to the first lady of the laud. Mrs. Bryan held the attention that comes to one whose busband has been first in that made veter ans. as women wept end prayed while their men folks went forth to bat tle. These two women typified the spirit of a comitoslte picture of women and of war. Mrs. Taft -at to the left of the speak er's stand. Mrs Bryan directly behind it. As the latter’s husband hotly at tacked the financial stronghold of the country in its political aspect, she bu ried her face in her hands and sat. head bowed, with every evidence of deep emotion. Th"n she r> • ivetfd her upright position and watched the dom- inant figure of tlie hour as he pounded away at the big men of money Mrs. Taft sat in the center of her court circle, divested of the purple tai lor Jacket and (hatted with those near her She laughed heartily when Roose velt came in for a little drubbing at the. bands of speakers, but the instant William H. Taft's name was mentioned, the contour of her face hardened and she gave every visual evidence of dis pleasure. And the opera glass turned from oue to the other. | Georgia‘Seconds Underwood’s Name BALTIMORE, June 28.—1 n second ing the nomination of Underwood, on behalf of the Georgia delegation, Jef ferson Randolph Anderson, nf Savan nah, great-grandson of Thomas Jeffer son. founder of the Democratic party, paid this tribute to the Alabaman: The state or Georgia lias given a large amount of territory Jo this Union out of which other states have subsequently been erected Os this, one of the fairest portions, ly ing nearest to her heart, was that comprising the greater part of w hat is now the state nf Alabama. It is with peculiar pride and pleasure, therefore, that. Georgia sees her daughter state, now in Ih' 1 full bloom of her magnificent maturity, bring forward for the presidential nomination a man whom every Democrat can delight to honor, and in whose integrity wisdom, ability and courage every American can place the most implicit trust and confidence. Georgia lias gladly given him her indorsement, and has instruct'-d us. her delegates in this convention, to give him our united support until his nomination Is se cured. We confidently to’k forward to the certainty of his nomination, and ask you to examine, as we have done, into his preeminent qualifica tions for this high office, in the serene conviction that when you have done so you will agree with us that there is no other man to day to whom our party owes more than it does to him. and that there is no other whose nomination holds out greater promise for the com mon people of our count: y, or whom they will more readtiy sup port. It gives me the most heartfelt pleasure on my own behalf and on behalf of the state of Georgia, and J trust also on behalf of our en tire party, to second the nomina tion of the Hon. Oscar W Under wood. of Mabatna. for president of these United States of America. “I Fepl That My Com ing to the Convention Has Not Been With out Avail”—Neutral on the Leading Can didates. BALTIMORE. MD„ June 28.—Wil liam Jennings Bryan said today that he had played a game of checkers in the Democratic national convention last night—and won. He likened the Intro duction of his resolution against a Wall Street candidate to the coup of a check er player who has moved hie man be tween two pieces belonging to the en emy, with the black spares on the board about him cleared so that the capture of one of the others is inevita ble. "Don't you see," he continued, "that I was bound mjjake one of them? I could afford tn I'Wndifferent as to w hat they did. “The resolution put the convention on record as against those influences as soon as it was offered. There was no way out of that. Moreover, the con vention itself is a small affair com pared with the party it represents. I am fighting for the party, and with this resolution adopted 1 believe the way is open to a great Democratic victory.’’ Tlie Nebraskan asserted the result was made inevitable by the resolution and it would have been the same whether the proposition had been voted down instead of having carried. ( “I was indifferent as to what the delegates did." he said. “If the reso lution was voted down it 'compelled a progressive to be nominated in order that the convention redeem itself. If sustained, the delegates did not dare to nominate a man who would be In con trast or out of harmony with the reso lution. “I Am Satisfied,” Says Bryan. "Some of my friends feared that It. might fall of a two-thirds vote, two thirds being necessary to suspend the rules, but if I had secured a mere ma jority in the roll call the effect would have been the same even if the reso lution itself had not passed. I am sat isfied.” The Nebraskan talked as he glanced over a sheaf of 500 or more, telegrams that had come in from all parts of the country commenting on the resolution. Evidently they did not displease the commoner. The Nebraskan, exhilarated as he was over his victory, would not discuss the probable result of the balloting. He said he would not discuss candidates. Ho felt a trifle more free to talk, how ever, when the names of Thomas For tune Ryan and August Belmont, whom he had mentioned in the complete reso lution he had presented demanding that they be removed as delegates to the convention "I am not worrying,” he said, "about Mr. Ryan nr Mr. Belmont. However, 1 do not believe they will be delegates to another Democratic convention tn the near future." The Nebraskan held that It would not be Infringing on the rights of states to have expelled the two men. "Some of our Democrats are sincere in the belief that it would be an In vasion of the rights of the state to ex pel these men.” he said. "Although that is one of the reasons I was willing to withdraw the Jatter part of the resolu tion. I do not agree with them. T believe that we have the same right tn expel a delegate from this convention as the senate has to expel Txtrimer. But I did not wa.nt to make the second part nf the resolution serve as an excuse for voting against the entire resolution. I Introduced this resolution to force the nomination of a progressive. That was my object in coming to this conven tion. 1 feel that my coming has not been without avail." Silent on Candidates. "In view nf the fact," said Mr. Bry an. "that the contest between the pro gressive candidates has apparently narrowed Itself until there are two who are leading, would you be willing to express your belief as te the possible winner?" the Nebraskan was asked. "I shall not discuss candidates," was the emphatic, reply, "further than to say that my position today is as it has been from the very beginning. My po sition regarding the two loading ran didates is neutral. I am instructed for dark." "Does that mean." he was . asked, "that you lean toward dark in your preferences?" "I announced before the primaries that my support of the man for whom the delegatee instructed would not change my preference." "How would you fee) toward Senator John \V. Kern of Indiana if neither • 'lark nor Wilson could be nominated?” "Any progressive suits me,” said Bryan. "My position from the first has been opposed to a reactionary. That is my whole fight.” Mr. Bryan was told that Colonel James Guffey, of Pennsylvania, had said that the resolution introduced last night had shattered any fleeting hope that the tommoner himself might be the party's nominee. Mr. Bryan smiled. "Well. Colonel Guffey is an authority on shattered hopes and, therefore, I feel apprehensive after what he has to say.” Mr. Bryan, rumor Is rife throughout the ((invention and in the various headquarters that you are seeking an opportunity to holt the party and that last night's resolution was to pave the wav fur such a move. Has this any foundation ?" ' That question is always the last that is put to me by newspaper men he < aitse they know that it will end the Intel' jew I regard the question as im- I pertinent and one that is not deserving | of any answer," replied Mr. Bryan. “Money Kings” Are Fiercely Attaked BALTIMORE. June 28.—The Demo cratic convention by a two-thirds vote declared itself opposed to the nomina tion of any candidate for president who is under obligation to J. Pierpont Mor gan. Thomas F. Ryan. August Belmont or "any privilege-seeking class." Wil liam Jennings Bryan introduced the resolution in the face of Belmont and Ryan, who were on the floor as dele gates, and led the debate for its pass age through one of the wildest scenes the convention has known. His de mand for the withdrawal of Ryan and Belmont was eliminated from the reso lution as finally passed, after a heated reply by Representative Flood, of Vir ginia, who defended Ryan. Demands Withdrawal. His resolution was: "Resolved. That in this crisis in our party’s career and in our country’s his tory, this convention sends greeting to the people of the United States, and as sures them that the party of Jefferson and of Jackson is still the champion of popular government and equality be fore the law. As proof of our fidelity to the people we hereby declare ourselves opposed to the nomination of any can didate for president who is the repre sentative of or undet any obligation to I. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas F. Ryan, August Belmont. or any other member of the privilege-hunting and \ favor see.kfng class. “Be i' further resolved. That we de mand the withdrawal from this con vention of any delegate or delegates constituting or representing the above named." "Objection having been made. I move to suspend the rule and consider the resolution at this time," said Mr. Bryan. The convention was thrown Into an uproar. Chairman James warned the specta tors to keep quiet. Mr. Bryan then began his argument for the resolution. "This is an extraordinary session, but extraordinary conditions need ex traordinary remedies." said Mr Bryan. “We. are now engaged in conducting a convention that will place before the country the Democratic nominee, and I assume that each delegate is here be cause he wants that nominee elected, and ft is in order that we may advance the Interests of our candidate. “There are questions upon which we may assume the American people are informed," he continued. "And there is not a delegate in this convention who does not know that an effort is being made right now to sell the Democratic party into the bondage of the preda tory interests. "Most Brazen Attempt.” ‘fit is a most brazen, impudent and Insolent, attempt to make, the nominee of this convention the bond-slave of the men who exploit the people of this country.” He then denounced Ryan, Belmont and Morgan as the men involved. The convention cheored the speaker to the echo. "Some one has suggested." said Mr. Bryan, "that we have no right to dis cuss the delegates here.” "I said It," Interrupted Governor Gil christ, of Florida, who remained on the platform. "I say,” retorted Mr. Bryan, "that If these men are willing to insult 6,500.- 000 people. Democrats ought to speak out against them and let them know we resent the insult. "I, for one, am not willing that Ryan and Belmont should come here with their paid attorneys a.nd seek secret conference with the managers of the party. No sense of politeness will keep me from protecting my party. Names Belmont and Ryan. "I'll make you a proposition.” said Mr. Bryan, "one of the men—Mr. Bel mont—sits with New York; the other —Mr. Ryan—with the, Virginia, delega tion. If New York will take a poll of Its vote, and If a majority—not Mr. Murphy, hut a majority of Its dele gates. will protest against ths with drawal ,of Mr. Belmont, and If Virginis on roll call will protest against the withdrawal of Mr. Ryan, I will with draw the last part of my resolution requesting their withdrawal from the convention Rut I will not withdraw the first part, which demands that out candidate shall be free from entangle ment with these men." Again the con vention was in an uproar, and Mr. Bry an found it difficult to proceed, John VV. Price, of Virginia, also asked time from Mr. Bryan to make a state ment. “On behalf of the state of Virginia, we protest as to the latter part of the resolution.” he said, “but no one will accede more heartily to the first part of it." "If there are undesirable men on the Virginia delegation,” he said, "Virginia will take the responsibility. Virginia can right her wrongs and demand her rights without outside interference." Bryan Tones" It Down. Mr. Bryan, resuming his argument, said he would modify his resolution as to Virginia and the unseating of Mr. Ryan, as two men had spoken for that state objecting to the latter part of his resolution. "Does New York ask the withdrawal of the last part of the resolution?” questioned Mr Bryan. "No, no,” came from the floor. “Withdraw it yourself." shouted some one. "I prefer to hear from New York nersel f." Tile New York delegation sat in ab solute silence. Chairman James had the resolution read as modified by Mr Bryan. It omitted all of the paragraph demand ing the withdrawal of delegates repre senting Ryan. Belmont or Morgan. The vote which gave lhe resolution two-thirds of the votes in the conven tion was ( ast by Texas. That state voted lit solid for the resolution. This gsve the proposition 737 vote- Seven I hundred and twenty-six was two- I third- with the six Philippine delegates eliminated by this afternoon s action. 5