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Georgians Stand Loyally by Underwood, Leading Dark
WILSON IMPOSSIBLE, DECLARES NEVIN,
WILSON OUT OF IT
ON ACCOUNT OF
W. J. ORYAN
Gaynor. Too. Eliminated From
Presidential Race. First
Ballot Shows.
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Continued F r om P®Qe One.
phy. 'had something up his in
the iray of h dark hnrsp.
Oliie .lames, permanent chairman «»f
the convention, said todav that he was
certain ’’tamp <’lark would he nomi
nated on the second ballot. He inadr
It plain that he was speaking as .♦
me in be i of the Kentucky delegation
and not as < haitman r»f the ((invention
The first ballot, which was taken
shott’x before 7 o’clock this morning,
gave <’ia.’k 44<» 1-2. Wi son 324. I’nde - .
wood 14K Ha nmn 117 1-2. Baldwin 22 1
and Mais hh 11 J? 1
Votes Were Cast
For Eight Men.
After one fruitless ballot following
an all-night session, the Democratic i
ns t ions I convention nt 7:10 o’, lock «Ills ;
morning adjourned until 4 o'clock this I
afternoon, when the great struggle for,
the presidential nomination will he re- .
Sum cd
In the line of totals there whs
no radical departure from the estimated I
votes and no changes that could be I
made the basis for a new deduction on j
the face of the actual figures. The net |
result of the balloting was that all of ‘
the elements of the convention were I
left Intact and unbroken in strength. I
and it was obvious that something |
must have to give way under strain or I
pressure before the complexion of the I
day's news changed as to the figure- ,
making
t'hief among the unknown quantities ,
that were in part solved by the early
morning vote and w hich clarification is
here first made plain was the utin
structed list. This list, originally con
taining 184 votes, had been reduced to
178 by the dropping of the Philippines
from the total, which same operation
In political mathematics changed the
total Vote of the convention to 1.088 :
anil made the number essential to a
nomination 725 1-3 by the two-thirds |
majority rule of the convention.
Here is how the uninstrutccd vote
lined up on the first ballot
Delaware, fi for Wilson; Maine. 1 sot ,
dark, 9 for Wilson. 2 for Underwood: I
New York. 90 for Harmon: North Car
olina. is 1-2 for Wilson. 1 2 for Har
mon, 7 for t'nderwood: Vermont. .8 fm
Baldwin. Hawaii. 2 sot Clark. 3 for |
Wilson and I for-Underwood. Total,
178 votes.
Conservatives Winners
Os Unknown Votes.
It will r>< noted that this unknown
quantity tote gave to Wilson 34 1-2
votes, to the i omhined Harmon and 1
t'nderwood. which may be taken col
lectively as the conservative element. |
Ifin 1-2, and to Clark. 3. The eonserva- I
tive vote from the unknown list, there. !
fore, becomes of the utmost importance '
in making subsequent .adulations as
to what .an take plate in event of a 1
long drawn out combat
Putting further the meat of the po
litical breakfast before the fruit of the
early morning of struggle, with its pic- '
turesque spots, daring sorties and bril
liant sidelights, and the moments when
the spotlight could not be turned tap- ■
idly enough to do justice to all of the
leading actor, the net result shows that
3fi3 votes, held cohesively, will prolong
the convention Indefinitely. It shows
that Wilson, generally < onceded to rep
resent the Bryan last ditch strength,
needs 39 vote® to make sure of this
deadlock. And it is remembered that
Bryan on the lowest of hie test votes
of strength sin. e the convention began,
he'd 147 more votes than is necessary
tn tie up the voting until such time as
he is satisfied with the candidate.
Whether nr not he can still hold this
, 147 votes is a matter that no man.
s Jealous of his propheti. reputation,
would care t'> make the subject a defi
nite statement.
As a strong factor -n this calculation
it must be considered that a la ge ele
ment of the delegates desire victor.' and
harmony without ®o much regard to
personal Issue- Tennessee e rlkingb
illustrates this element on th. fi st bal
lot when she cast six votes each for
Clark, Wilson Harmon and Under
wood. dividing exactly between the
radical and the conservative wings of
the party voice
New York Free
To Flop at Will.
As for tile New York vote, it can be
taken as no .criterion of the f ume «< -
tion of the state. Undoubtedly It rep
resented the sentiment of toe controll
ing factors In the delegation. Possibly
it did not represent the political Judg
ment of the same leaders They ate
free to throw toe vote any way they
please, and it is assured beyond the
question of any man that It will be
thrown In subsequent ballots In that
direction w hich will most surely tend to
defeat Mr. Bryan. Mr. Wilson and all
that is allied with that element
An exact two-thirds of the total vote
In the convention t» 725 1-3 <»n gi-
n-os’ every ballot that has been taken
• actional mlf« have appeared In the
tela 1' possiWe. therefore that
• . i and:-..,. ’<■ might receive 725 1-2
ONE NIGHT LN BALTIMORE
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. iess.tr> two-thirds. The question as to
. I whether the fractional part of a vote
. i should be accepted as completing the
necessary two-thirds has not arisen.
. and if such a contingency arose an in-
> terestlng ontest would be sure to en-
• ; sue.
■ | Summarizing the pressing needs of
• i the elements. Clark, the high man. will
t have to add 2*3 1-2 votes to his initial
, vme in order to win. \\ 11 son will have
1 to ge- 402 more than he has. The con
servative elment must corral some Soft
> votes, taking the scattering strength
at its best estimate, before it can hope
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. F RIDA V. JL N E 28, 1912
Hadley Says He Was
Offered Nomination
CEDAR RAPIDS. IOWA. June 28-
| Governor Herbert S. Hadley of .Mis
souri. in passing through here, con
firmed the statements of Colonel Roose
velt and Comptroller Prendergast of
New York that Taft lenders had of
fered at Chicago to seat the Roosevelt
delegates from Washington and Texas
if Roosevelt would consent to the non..
Inatlon of Governor Hadley or some
othet third man.
"This proposition was made to me
and I understood that it was also made
to Coloner Roosevelt." said Governor
Hadlee. "I refused to considet ot dls
■ use It unlees it firs- had the approval
of Colonel Roosevelt as I was for him
ft the nomination and no one else I
; mid afterward ihw Colonel Roose-
Iv»• t had refused to onsent."
Col. Pendleton in Ec
stasy as He Casts the
State’s Vote for South
ern Man—G ra ph i c
Story of the Conven
tion Turmoil and De
monstration forClark.
By JAMES B NEVIN.
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 th. ab
rogation of the unit rule, something l
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. Ls by
fat 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.
Ihe 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
Geoi gla a vote when Georgia switches,
if she does switch, as has been po!r< ed
mil before, but rhe 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
I nderwood to anybody soon. Strageti
cally, the Georgians believe Under
wood's position this morning to be
ideal.
A Crazy Night.
One wonders at the futility and ut
ter uselessness of adjectives when 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 atone
about midnight said there weye 2!».'firm
people in the building Jt struck me
as rather curious that lye .didn't say
29.467 or 28.998, or something Jike'.tliat.
for all he knew. Long mathe
matical and otherwise wise philosophe”
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 avimuy. one
know- tliat all Baltimore was not in
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 lw
t a de.
I think the adjective that fits th
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
r.ow and then and behave so much like
monkeys and’very small children with
out, In calmer retrospect, anv actually
compelling cause
The Clark Upheaval
However that, may be, | | ea ve to
heads more ,-lear. to pens more sure
and to tongues more confident than
mine to -ay this morning. My emo
tions. along with those of the crowd,
tan the whole scale, over and over
again I got mad. and then I got glad.
I almost went to sleep time and agaim
and 1 enjoyed long between nodding
intervals, when I felt as if kleep never
more should come to me. and for that
I 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 anil
proper here. Believe me. that's a fai t.
There was one hour and five minutes
of It. or five hou s and one minute of
it, f don't know which, and I don't
<'Hte. It was the craziest tiling 1 evil
saw. and yet 1 was for It. strong and
militant, and I got into it, right up to
the neck, because h part of ft. and had
a rati Ing good time while it lasted. I
previously had taken a hand in the Un
de wood demonstration, too. I was
' igiit there with the goods w hen it
came to demonstrating last night, on,-
Mould have thought that the demon
stiatlon business surc-y was my long
suit. That's a mistake, however, for
after the Clark round I retired witli
well earned laurels and victorious
eag:es My demonst: ation average
stood then easily at .999,
Pendleton in Ecstasy.
Colonel Pendleton said last night, on
the way to the convention hall, that
he was going there to perform the
sweetest and most satisfactory service
to Democracy he ever had performed.
He was going to east, for the first time
since the war, Georgia's vote in a nom.
inating convention for a Southern man,
Oscai Underwood And the grim old
w ir horst of Bibb sat tight through all
the wearisome hours of the night and
iht morning, and well after dawn there
I- unit to him that opportunity foi
Horse—Kindly Eyes For Champ Clark
DESCRIBING ‘CRAZY NIGHT'
THREE INTERESTED SPECTATORS AND
A WOMAN DELEGATE AT BALTIMORE
<'opyright, 1912, by International News Service.
The top pictiiro shows, from 1
left so riolit. Mrs. \V. IL Ibai'.st. ' , ’j®
M. E. Torpe and Mrs. Marlin §
Glynn ; of Nctv York. At ih.- tmi-
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which his heart had yearned and his
soul had thirsted So long In brave,
booming words, dignified and erect, his
good gray head thrown well back, the
Georgia ehalvman qast. at last, hl®
state's vote for his si-ter state's fa
v?lrite son. and then he sank ba< k. 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 he dramatic
enough, and into it will go much of
pathos and something of humor. From
out the tangled mas- of things, from
the words said and the talk indulged
in. and from the more or less uncer
tain comment in the cold, gray dawn
of the morning after three things stand
forth. I think.
Champ Clark may he nominated. < >s
car Underwood may he. hut Woodrow
Wilson never will be. Perhaps we lire
up against a long, hard deadlock. Time
will answer that.
ARMY~ORDERS
WASHINGTON. June 28. Army or
ders: Captain J. J Miller, from Tw. n.
tieth to Nineteenth infantry: Captain
J. Rugge, from Twenty-eighth to Thir
t entli infantry. Captain A R. Kerwin,
from Thirteenth to Sixteenth infantry:
Captain •’. H. Danforth, from Sixteenth
to Fourteenth infantry: Major W. E.
\y. 1. from Ninth to Second infantry:
Major G. B. Dunean, from Second to
Ninth infantry; Major I Mi l, t'arter,
general staff assigned as -e.-retary.
gedeial staff corps, vi-w Majci W. S
G -e»
BILLWNERFRFF:
SWSSMLES
Continued From Page One.
commission of the escape, and on learn
ing from The Georgian of the affair
<'hairman Davidson immediately called
Foster over long-dfstance phone for
particulars' and also reprimanded the
state farm officials for their delay in
reporting the matter to his office,
Tiie escape of Miner is the second
since lie was air. sted and convicted.
March I-’.. 1911, for the Hall count,
holdup He escaped from the prison
farm October -7. 1911. and was recap
tured and returned to the farm Novrm
her less than a month latc.r. Whether
or not lie will he retaken this lime l« a
question.
Miner and Didem amp sawed Cueir
way to liberty . Wiggin®, being a short
termer. v.as not so -< ,'urely shackled,
it weasy for him to follow the lead
of the two life-termers.
Miner was double shackled to his
iron cot and to a post on toe second
floor of tin new nri-on building. Ib-;
sawed the shackles from his legs, anu
then, witli a bed slat, pried the iron
bars from a winnow. Through this
opening he lei himself to the ground by
a rope made of bed clothing. Widen
eamp sawed the shackles’ from his legs
and followed Miner t > liberty Wiggins
went along when tiie way to freedom
was open.
Miner i® feci 8 1-2 inches tall,
weighs 13<1 pounds, fill complexion,
‘lender, .ight chestnut hair, light blue
eyes and mustaehi He is 70
years old.
Widrioamp Is 3.'. years old He was
sen; no Fein H ir\ J 3 1911
Wiggins Is 37 anti was soni up April
10. 1912 lb hir- been at the camp less
I i han ten w• < k-.
rhe Way the States
Voted on President
Alabama - Underwood 24.
Arizona Clark 6.
Arkansas—Clark IS.
<'alifornai—Clark 28.
Colorado—-Clark 12.
Connecticut —Baldwin 14.
Delaware--Wilson 8.
Florida —Underwood 12.
Georgia -Underwood 23.
Idaho —Clarl: 8.
Illinois—Clark SS.
Indiana -Marshall 30.
lowa—Clark. 20.
Kansas—Clark 20.
Kentucky Clark 28.
Louisiana -Clark 11, Wilson 9.
Maine—Clark 1. Underwood 2. Wil
son 9.
Maryland--<’lark IS.
M a s sa c h uaell s—clark 38.
Michigan—Marshall I, Harmon 7 .
• 'lark 12, Wilson I".
Minnesota Wilson 24.
Mississippi —Under n ood 20.
Missouri—Clark 3s
Montana—Clark 8.
Nebraska Clark 12, Harmon 4.-
Nevada—Clark 8.
New Hampshire—<'lark 8.
New Jersey Wilson 24. Clark 2, Un.
dcrv.ood 2.
Now ’lark 8.
New York —Harmon 90.
North Carolina Wilson 16 1-2, Un
derwood 7. Harm >n 1 -2.
North Dakota—Wilson io.
Ohio -Clark I. Wilson 10. Harmon
35. Bryan 1. absent I.
Oklahoma—< ’laik 10. Wilson 10
Oregon-Wilson io.
Pennsylvania —Wilson 71. Harmon 5.
Rhode Island—Clark 10.
Couth Carolina- Wilson IS.
South Dakota —Wilson 10.
Tennessee—Clark 8. Wilson 6. Under,
wood 8. Harmon 8.
Texas- Wilson 40.
Utah—Clark 1 1-2. Wilson 6. Har
mon 1-2.
Vermont—Baldwin S.
X irglnla—U ileon 9 1-2, Underwool
14 1-2.
Washington—'Clark 14.
West Virginia—Clark 16.
Wisconsin—Clark 8, Wilson 19. ab
sent 1.
Wyoming—Clark 6.
Haw ait—Clark 2, Underwood 1. Wil
son 3.
Porto Rico-Clark 2. Wilson 3. Un
derwood 1.
Uy.l. 4TzM 1. SHRDLUSHRDLUUP
Totals -Clark, 444)1-2; Wilson. 324
Harmon. 118 Underwood. 117
Baldwin. U Mar-hall. 31. Bryan i
Mii/.er. . .in.ent. 1 Number of votes
I." 88. necessary for choice, 725 1-3.