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2 Underwood, Clark and Wilson Supporters Take Turns in Loud and Prolonged Demonstrations CONVENTION IN UPROAR AT NAMES OF FAVORITE MEN FOR PRESIDENT Proceedings Delayed by Di sorder, Despite Limiting in Time of Nominating and Sec onding Speeches. Continued From Page On* essary two-thirds. The quesilon as to whether the fractional part of a vote a.ould be accepted as completing the necessary two-thirds has not arisen, and if such a contingency arose an In teresting contest would be sure to en sue. Summarizing the pressing needs of the elements. Clark, the high man. will have to add 285 1-2 votes to his initial vote in order to win. Wilson xx ill have to get 402 more than he has Ihe con servative elment must corral some 600 votes, taking the scattering strength, at its best estimate, before it can hope to land a man of Its Simon pure faith. it thus becomes of moment as the main question, whence can these sev eral elements draw the strength Resembled Sleepy Hens at Roost. It was 6:36 a. m. when the calling of th. roll on the fit st ballot began. Weary from the night of sensation of surprise and tumult, the delegates listened to the calling of the first few States with interest, interjecting a few stray demonstrations of the lung-tireu brand. Then they settled back in their chairs, many of them to slumber. Eyes that had acquired black circles by the sleepless vigil of the night, closed and heads dropped. For all the world the convention hall resembled a huge hen nery in which the fowls were drowsily dozing on their perches, awaiting the chanticleers reveille heralding the breaking of the dawn. And. per incident, there had been an early morning performance calculated to break the nerves of the most dough ty knight who ever stormed a political castle or tilted headlong into a forlorn hope. The clock on the east wall had swung by the hour of midnight. The convention was still humming with the sensational aftermath of William .1 Bryan's attack upon the citadel of finance when a delegate from one of the states plucked his state standard and ran before the speakers' stand. It was a signal that seemed to be under stood, for almost Instantly the leaders from 22 states seized their standards and. holding them like lances at rest, rushed to the front of the speakers’ stand and massed for a demonstration Its rallying reason-to-be was soon apparent. In the speakers' stand ap peared Miss Genevieve Clark, the win some daughter of the candidate, whose supporters had assembled before the stand. Her dainty and fetching blue gown was slashed with an American flag. She pulled the flag from her gown and waved it Never did action more promptly fol low the flag Clark’s Daughter Leads Tumult. "Hurrah for Genevieve. .ailed a delegate, and again and again the cry was repeated until the big armory re sounded with the cheering of the Clark followers. The young woman stood at the head of this tumult, as an enthu siastic cheer leader and whip of the big demonstration Forty-five shouting, cheering, howl ing. horn-blowing minutes went by. Clark's name was sent to the roof and echoed back again In a mighty chorus, governed as completely by the undulat ing form on the speakers' stand as any great band might have conducted by its leader. Delegates who had not taken off their coats did so. They tossed them in the air A vast rain of descending coats obscured the vision from the speakers' stand for a moment, but when it had passed the Clark delegates were seen evoluting war dances after the most approved fashion of the Sioux in the palmy days befor. Nelson Mil -s went West with a mission to fulfill In the meantime New York's delega tion sat at its collective feet silent and unmoved. The Wilson delegates, hith erto fast to take up a demonstration, challenged, joined in the decorous quiet of the Gotham brethren. Evidently "Big Hubert" Fisher, of Tennessee, once star center rush of Princeton, had de cided to call off his team for a rest be fore playing the next half The band tried to play. Upon in formation and belief it Is lice assert ed that the band did pkix but that statement is based purelx upon the clr c,umstantial evident t that the leader was waving his baton th. players had their instruments In unit :nb- r- <1 action and there was visual p’ >f that the band was not asleep. But no such guarded rnent is essential for the delegate They sang They sang the old. old son- ■.. re frains made familiar by band organ and by street piano. Then ' - . went back to Harpers Ferry for it ~ti.m and started "John Brown's B The crowds were changed to sue the J feeling Every opposing candid..t .no every' rival leader in the hall w. duly and musically hung to a sout .umi. tree before the vocal effort was for sheer want of breath. Vardaman the picturesque from .Mississippi, was in the chai" lb pounded the gavel with vigor it wa but the signal for more cheering on more disorder An hour passed wl”t the deposed gavel wa« reinstated as th" titular rules of the hall. Then, at 1: So o'clock. Joe T. Robinson, the governor elect from Arkansas, came to second the nomination of Clark which had been made by Senator Reed, of Mls aouri. California added her seconding voice ~ Henry Wnde Rogers, of New Huven a i 1 JUST A FEW THINGS TAD SAW AT THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION (hasA,ST rwAT Surr l hc7?A « > w ...... N *-T-’" MAO H.snwu SUES -rou c- N QJ W> WU IpW vc I’C's't so t- \ i,j TMe -/cu sAslr iti FgpM lgA a -ro CCMU. | ETsEMOtW cnee CIHMTMI cgAßiOvp JauAO i S£WATOP CkOroM o zv x PAtS CICAB V'U . CXAB PUOO'N(r J qS'NNEB Or O-tL |QU OAli H, 's—- Pugir-Cr IMG A’MOxe/t F- Conn., dean of the Yale law school, an swered the .all of his state with a speech .placing Simeon E. Baldwin in nomination. He went at the task us a writer preparing a leading story and shot his candidate's name into the very first crisp sentence. The others had prepared the verbal clothing for the greatness of their men and then sud denly dropped the man into the situa tion as a climax designed to start the applause. The Baldwin guard few, but devoted, had determined that none should depart the hall without recalling that Connec ticut had made a brave start. A bright blue banner bearing the Baldwin pa tronymic in letters of gold, flashed up from the Connecticut delegation. So did the delegates from the state of nut megs. The Underwood delegates, full of the courtesy of Dixieland, sent in their rooters to aid the Baldwin noise on Its merry way. Also, there were volunteer rooters. From the gallery a largo delegation shouted the praises of the man from home. A squad of college boys, many from Yale, had dropped into the half empty press box to be on hand at the crucial moment. They rah-rahed them selves into the situation with The force and effect that can only come of long training in intercollegiate lung com bats. The Baldwin echoes died. In the slow, monotonous drawl of bls kind, ths weary clerk called the state of Dela ware. "Delaware yields to New Jersey," an swered the chairman of the delegation. Gridiron Stars Lead Procession. It was the cue for the Wilson players to sally from the wings and take the center of the stage. Every man jack of the Wilson host was straining at the leash awaiting the call, like the industrious actor in ‘‘Uncle Tom's Cab in." who frequently stampeded rural audiences by their canine eageiness to reach the footlight space. "Woodrow Wilson, the Yankee Doo dle candidate," was the title of a long streamer that was thrown across the aisle. The procession of Wilson states formed around the aisles. In the line were many gay banners, with state ensigns that bore the legend: "Give us Wilson .and we will give you Texas," the wording being changed to fli the several states. The colors of Prince ton were prominent in the parade. Old football stars, men whose names had decorated the brilliant stories of grid iron prowess, had the lead In handling the host. From the press box there climbed a man carrying a live rooster under his arm. The new-comer resembled one who has paid a call upon a neighbor’s hennery without any Invitation and departed without leaving a card. In vain did the man with the feathered friend try to get his huge chanticleer to summon the Wilson dawn. Said chanticleer was not human and therefore not foolish enough to stay up all night in riotous living Besides, it lacked some hours of the time set apart by the roosters union for a day's work to begin and the bird refused to crow a single defiant note. There came a rapid streak of red over the scene, it might have been the modest blushing of the coming day for the speed of its gorgeous trip across the area of politics. A delegate had borrowed a red parasol from a woman and was cutting a dizzy streak over the scene with the newly acquired property The red bandanna of the bull moose party, lately born to Colonel Roosevelt and the Republican party, was strongly in evidence. A picture ten feet high, showing the thin lines of the college president's face, was carried into the gallery. It Was the Same Old Demonstration. Then the Wilson movement took on the first real dash and nerve-breaking action of the demonstration period. It xvas the same old demonstration I'ut in the flags, the men shouting themselves into the care of throat spe ialists, the women In the gallery risk hmitlinerj for political sentiment, i' ■ hand--lapping, the surging, milling. -.-vlessly marching delegates, the fanfare of tin horns, the din of all sorts of mdse-making machines and the cho rus of the Woodrow Wilson song, and you mt t picture that each individual mentality < an carry ns a serial and paint wit’ -of the gaudy hues that the im agination may dictate or permit. It -x •<s sex on minute* after 3 o'clock ih r, zM'LANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY. JUNE 28, 1912. Bryan Says: '“Boss Murphy Controls'" ‘‘The eoiititry is now able Io look upon the amazing spectacle of a national convention con trolled by a national committee, that committee controlled by a sub-committee of sixteen, the sub-committee controlled by a group of eight men, these, men controlled by Boss Murphy and Boss Murphy controlled by Thomas Fortune Ryan. Mr. Ryan, Mr. Belmont and Mr. Morgan have municipal work in New York and Brooklyn that will involve the letting of contracts amounting to more than $250,000,000. This group of financiers also has large financial inter ests in many of the great cities, and wherever they work they need a political boss. Some of their bosses work under the name of Democrats and some bear the Republican label, but they all work for their masters. These big financiers have been using the organizations of the two leading parties to do their service.” —William Jennings Bryan in telegram to The St. Louis Post-1 tispatch. when the Wilson demonstration, lack ing some of the vigor of the Clark epoch which bad preceded in the ear ly part of the big business of the even ing, sank to rest, and it was fifteen minutes before Its echo had sufficiently subsided to permit the business of the convention to take a fresh hitch on it self. Os the 15,000 persons who had jammed the hall to a point that created fear for their safety more than 9,000 yet remained at the expense of sleep and rest. Os these many were women, who clung to the thread of the rapidly developing national chapter in history with all of the tenacity that would have been expected from only the more steeled of the old politician. Then Judge John W. Westcott came to nominate Wilson. Really he second ed the nomination made in chorus from the floor. The Jersey Judge proved that oratory x* as not the exclusive product of the South, where they make a speech every time a watermelon is cut and children are taught to address their fa. thers from the cradle as "Mr. t.h ilr man.” He talked well and earnestly, often there came applause that stopped the flow of oratory. The judge got through with his verbal decorative xvork at 4 o’clock and with the full picture before them with its high lights worked in their proper places and the contrasts duly plumed in oratorical splendor, the Wilson delegates again broke loose. Small Outburst For Gov. Marshall. Thirteen minutes later the chairman, by the aid of the gavel and the ser geants-at-arms, cleared the aisles and J. R. Anderson, of Georgia, arose to second (lie nomination of Underwood. Em- ('lark. Douglas Patterson, of Illi nois. performed a similar pleasing task. Then came Senator Shively, of In diana. to place the Marshall name on the roll call as one xvorthy of the chief nomination. When he bad finished a band marched down the front aisle bearing the Marshall gonfalon and a small demonstration, some nine min utes in size, followed. The Indiana del egation xvas prominent in the excite ment. It had a brass band to lead it and a banner to blazon its wishes on high. Two hundred rooters carried lithographs through the hall and a small army of men and boys put the American flag actively to work in the Interest of the man from the "Banks of the Wabash. Far Away." which for xvarding address was furnished by the band. At the end of the Marshall demon stration Judge P. O'Brien, of Michigan, seconded the nomination of Wilson More cheers. John H. Cummings, of Michigan, put the Clark half of his del egation on record in a seconding effort for the man from Missouri. Still more cheerst Alfred J. Jacques, of Minne sota. seconded the Wilson cause, and Governor Earl Brewer, of Mississippi, came along xvitli a few kind words for Underxvood But the convention xvas weary. It hungered for action and thirsted for such knoxvledge as might come from the calling of the roll on the main question. 'The delegates interrupted the speakers time and time again. Brexver xx as folloxved in ton minutes by Char les F. Toxxn. of r'olorado. xvlro opined that Clar k xx as coming under the wire a winner and congratulated the convention on sticking around to see the finish. It had xx agged along until the hou. was 5:36 o'clock S J. Doyle, of North Dakota, mounted the stand Ho came to simplify the political equation and was therefore a reiiet to the tired dele gates and the galleriee. In the Interest of harmony and of the patty. Mr Doyle said, he wislied to pre sent a letter from Governor Burke, of his state, for whom the state vote xvas Instructed, asking that the delegates vote for some other candidate. He re leased. without condition, the men who xvere for him. Burke Delegates Go to Wilson, Doyle then settled on the problem of the night. He seconded the nomination of Woodroxv Wilson and sent the ten votes of the Burke faith solidly into the Wilson camp. This recruiting expedi tion brought some more cheers from those who adore a tiger other than that of the Tammany family. Governor Harmon was brought along to join the fighting first rank. M. A. Daugherty, of Ohio, picked for his prowess as a good holder of attention, made the speech. When he told the delegates that Governor Harmon was the man who had "transformed Ohio from a Democratic dead sea to a Dem ocratic paradise," the delegates gave noisy and sincere evidence of their ap proval of that service, which, in many delegates' eyes, constituted a para mount issue. It xvas at 5:45 o'clock when Mr. DaugherLjz came to recommend that the party carry a buckeye in its nomination pocket to guard against the election rheumatism of the fall. His references to Governor Harmon's services as at torney general, tn his stand for reform and progress in Ohio politics and to his balance mentally were all received with aplauSe and with cheers. It required a vigorous use of the gavel to cut short the demonstration that Senator Gore of Oklahoma, the blind leader of his state's delegation, might raise his voice for Wilson. The senator came to the stand at 5:58 o’clock. It was a dramatic scene that found the man without sight, led to the stand ■by friendly hands and respected by those who xvere at dagger’s point with his cause, pleading for the nomination of the Princeton president. He xvas sure that Wilson had both availability and ability, and he aroused the good' humor of the delegates by declaring: "During the last three and one-half years President Taft has been busy carrying out the policies of Theodore Roosevelt- —on a stretcher." He predicted that with Wilson in the field against the Republicans there xvould be only six states on tile Re publican side when the returns were counted in November. Then it was tabloid talk, with the delegates unwilling to listen and the galleries making it impossible for the speaker to be heard. Scott Ferris, of seconded the Clark nomina tion at 6:17 o’clock. He dwelt upon Clark's friendship for the farmer and the laboring man. and started nexx ap plause. A. Mitchell Palmer, the young leader xvho took the place of Colonel James Gussy as the head of the Penn sylvania delegation when the regular out-turning of the colonel took place, seconded the Wilson fight. Representative Flood. -I Virginia, xvho had taken a prominent part in the Bryan resolution debate of the early evening, came to second Underxvood at 6:24. and seven minutes later John Walsh. 6f Wisconsin, put the Wisconsin seal of approval on the Wilson end of the tight. Senator E. D. Smith, of South Caro lina. followed in five minutes with an appeal for Wilson, and at 6:37 Lase Pence, formerly of Colorado, but now of the District of Columbia, finished the xvork by seconding Clark for the last time. Roll Call of States Started "Cail the roll, call the roil." shouted the delegates. The gavel rose and fell with ma chine-like regularity. There was a pre liminary stir and bustle among the delegates as they got back behind their lines for the first big fight of the vot- ing. Then there came comparatively good order. “The secretary will call the roll of states," yelled the chairman, sending his words along like disjointed freight cars, which, having broken their coup lings, are halting upon a dead level. "The state of A-l-a-b-a-m-a,” call ed the secretary. Dov. n the list of states went the call, the delegates sitting up and taking no tice xvhen the uninstructed and doubt ful states were called and then drop ping back, listlessly, in their seats. Many of the delegates dropped their heads upon their wilted and soiled shirt fronts and slept the sleep that comes at length to the just and the un just alike. The call was finished. From the mass of struggling dele gates on the floor, as they aroused for the next movement, thete rame, a motion to adjourn until 4 o'clock this afternoon. "No!" shouted half of the delegates, ready and willing to carry the sleepless fight to a finish—to make an endurance test that xvould stand for al) political time. "The question is upon the motion that the convention do noxv take a re cess until 4 o'clock this afternoon," shouted the chairman. "All in favor of that motion will signify by saying aye." “Aye." called back a droxvsy and sleepy multitude. “All opposed, no.” went along the chair. “No.” shouted the active youngsters, xvho wanted to keep up the fight. “The ayes have It,” said the chair, “and the convention stands in reces's until 4 o’clock.” The band woke up. It played a more or less lively air as the delegates went lienee. Thirty minutes later the Demo cratic party was at harmony on one point—it was snoring. 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 Nexv Y'ork that Tass leaders had of fered at Chicago to seat the Roosevelt delegates from Washington and Texas if Roosevelt would consent -to the nom ination of Governor Hadley or some other third man. "This proposition xvas made to me and 1 understood that it xvas also made to Colonel Roosevelt," said Governor Hadley. “I refused to consider or dis cuss it unless it first had the approval of Colonel Roosevelt, as I was for him for the nomination and no one else. I was told afterward that Colonel Roose velt had refused to consent." WEALTHY SUITOk, REJECTED. SHOOTS GIRL AND HIMSELF GRAND RAPIDS. MICH., June 28—Be cause she refused to marry him. L. H. Schuerman. a wealthy furniture manu facturer of Carrollton, Ky., shot and wounded Miss Elizabeth Morse. 28 years of age. daughter of the postmaster at Lyons. Mich . and then mortally wounded himself, according to a story told the police today by Miss Genevieve Waldron, whom Miss Morse was visiting here. The tragedy followed a quarrel in a taxicab last night. They are in separate hospitals and both are reported t< be dying LIGHTS FOR FT. OGLETHORPE. CHATTANOOGA. TENN , June 28 The war department has awarded to W P Berry, of Brooklyn, N. Y.. the contract for lighting Fort Oglethorpe at Chicka mauga. Ga The installation of the sys tem will cost between $3,500 and $4,000 It provides adequate illumination for the entire park and ail property which is tinder Federal reserve “Most- Progressive Platform”—Bryan. BALTIMORE, June 28.—The resolu tions committee of the Democratic na tional committee at 3:45 o'clock this afternoon unanimously adopted the platform to be presented to the con vention as soon as a candidate is nom inated. In the xvords of William Jennings Bryan, it Is "the most progressive platform ever adopted by a Democrat ic convention." It was unanimously accepted by the entire resolutions com mittee. The members predicted that fexv dis senting votes xvould be heard from the convention floor. COURT URGES IDLERS TO LOAF AT LIBRARY, READING GOOD BOOKS In the trial of two Idlers in police court today. Recorder Broyles urged loafers to spend their time in the Carnegie library. He said this would prove profitable to the loafers and would also keep them off the streets. "If the loafers would all make the Car negie library headquarters, Instead of hanging around saloons and pool rooms, they xvould be better off," said the court. "Os course, they ought to be at work, but if they’ve just got to loaf, they ought to spend their time In the library, where they can mingle with respectable people and read good books and magazines.” POLICE ARE WARNED OF GANG OF THIEVES WHO ROB DENTISTS Following the attempt of burglars to break into the 8. S. White Dental of fices in the Grant building, the police were notified today that a gang of thieves is robbing dental offices in the principal cities of the country. A similar warning was sent to the White company. M. P. Reeves, manager of the American District Telegraph, which was notified of the presence of the burglar in the Grant building by the company's burglar alarm system, said today an unidentified man was seen to enter the building shortly before the alarm xx'ent off. Urges reward be OFFERED FOR NEGRO WHO ATTACKED GIRL Sheriff Mangum today asked Governor Brown to offer a reward for the capture of William Barksdale, the negro porter, accused of attacking and brutally beating Miss Pearl Murray in the Aragon hotel last Sunday night. It is believed a re ward will be posted. Despite an active search by the city police and county authorities, not the slightest trace of the negro has been found, and it Is believed he has left the city. Miss Murray, who is cashier in the hotel case, is reported greatly improved. SLEEPERS TRAPPED IN BURNING HOUSE; 2 DEAD, 4 INJURED LOUISVILLE, KY„ June 28.—Two lives xvere lost and several injured in a fire which broke out early this morn ing in an apartment house at 128 West Market street, cutting off the escape of the sleeping occupants of the third floor. Four of the injured persons may not recover. Cromie Vannort and Mrs. May Carter died soon after reaching the hospital. AUGUSTA FLOOD BOARD PREPARING FOR LEVEE AUGUSTA, GA.. June 28.—A meeting of the floor commission of Augusta was held this afternoon to take up the question of a levee. F. B. Pope is chairman of the flood commission. Other members are Mayor Thomas Barrett, J. P. Doughty, T. S. Haworth, T S. Gray, W. B. Young and Charles Estes. The commission discussed the purchase of property and other Im portant matters It is believed that a levee can be built within eighteen months or two years. WEATHER MAN AGAIN SEES A RAINY SUNDAY Clear xveather and no change in tem perature Is forecasted for Atlanta, while in many portions of the state local show ers are due. Rain may reach here by Sunday, ac cording to weather officials at the United States bureau, but even then the rain will be In the form of thunder showers The Way the States . Voted on President Alabama —Underwood 24. Arizona—Clark 6. Arkansas—Clark 18. / Californai —Clark 26. Colorado—Clark 12. Connecticut—Baldwin 14. Delaxvare —Wilson 6. Florida—Underwood 12. Georgia—Underxvood 28. Idaho—Clark 8. Illinois—Clark 58. Indiana—Marshall 3#. lowa—Clark, 26. Kansas —Clark 20. Kentucky—Clark 26. Louisiana—Clark 11, Wilson 9. Maine —Clark 1, Underwood 2. Wil son 9. Maryland—Clark 16. Massachusetts--Clark 36. Michigan—Marshall 1, Harmon 7 , Clark 12, Wilson 10. Minnesota—Wilson 24. Mississippi—Underwood 20. Missouri —Clark 36. Montana—Clark 8. Nebraska—Clark 12, Harmon 4. Nevada—Clark 6. New Hampshire—Clark 8. New Jersey—Wilson 24, Clark 2, Un. derwood 2. New Mexico—Clark 8. New York —Harmon 90. j North Carolina—Wilson 16 1-2, Un derxvood 7. Harm m 1-2. North Dakota —Wilson 10. Ohio—Clark 1. Wilson 10. Harmon 35, Bryan 1. absent 1. Oklahoma—Clark 10, Wilson 10. Oregon—Wilson 10. Pennsylvania—Wilson 71. Harmon 5. Rhode Island—Clark 10. Couth Carolina—Wilson 18. South Dakota—Wilson 10. Tennessee—Clark 6. Wilson 6, Under xvood 6. Harmon 6. Texas—Wilson 40. Utah—Clark 1 1-2, Wilson 6. Har mon 1-2. Y r ermont—Baldwin 8. Virginia—Wilson 9 1-2, Underwood 14 1-2. Washington—-Clark 14. West Virginia—Clark 16. Wisconsin—Clark 6, Wilson 19. ab sent 1. Wyoming—Clark 6. Hawaii—Clark 2, Underwood 1. Wil son 3. Porto Rico—Clark 2. Wilson 3, Un derwood 1. Totals—Clark, 440 1-2: Wilson, 324; Harmon, 148; Underwood, 117 1-2. Baldwin, 22; Marshall. 31; Brvan, 1; Sulzer, 2; absent, 1. Number of votes. 1,088: necessary’ for choice, 725 1-3. Nothing to It But Clark, Says James BALTIMORE. June 28 —Ollie James, permanent chairman of the Democratic national convention, speaking as a del egate from Kentucky, today predicted the n » inatlon of Champ Clark on the second ballot. "Clark on the next ballot when th“ convention convenes at 4 o'clock this afternoon, is the way it looks to nie.” he said. "I am speaking, you under stand, only as a member of the Ken tucky delegation and the delegation is instructed for Clark. Os course, I nerd not say that I am no seer and no prophet, and that the forecast I am making might go wrong. But from what 1 am able to infer as to the trend of things, there is no one else to it but / Clark. Understand, my state Is in structed for Clark. But aside from that, and speaking only as a member of that delegation, I believe I am view ing it in an absolutely fair and sound way xxhen I say that there is nothing to it but Clark.” "Between Kern and Gaynor,” Says Hall "The race now is for a dark horse, and the contest has narrowed down to a choice between Kern and Gaynor," said P. L. Hall, national committee man from Nebraska, and right-hand man of Colonel Bryan, today. “I am basing this opinion on a close study of the situation as outlined by develop ments which have thus far occurred. All other candidates, and this includes Clark, Wilson and Underwood, seem to have been eliminated. Clark spent his strengtli on the first ballot and from noxv-e>n will grow weaker. Wilson and some of the others may grow a trifle stronger as the ballotting proceeds, bm it will be a fictitious strength and none; of the candidates will gather enough poxver to win. “Both Kern and Gaynor are accept able to all factions of the Democracy, / especially Gaynor, who is growing vis ibly stronger in the Western states, where the delegates are very friendly toward him.” Here’s What Politicians Think. Other prominent Democrats com. menting on the first ballot on the nomi nation and the Bryan resolution said: Clark Howell, Georgia: "The reso lution will not affect .the ballots on nominating in any way." J. Thomas Heflin. Alabama: “It looks like Underxvood by 10 o’clock tonight " Theodore A. Bell, California: "It ape pears to me that Clark will win on ar early ballot today.” Edwin O. Wood, Michigan: “I am convinced the Bryan resolution will prove a serious setback to Wilson Tha personal feeling against Bryan among the delegates was so strong it can not help having its effect." Judge G. C. Tucker. Michigan: "I do not think Bryan's resolution will weak en W ilson s chances. Wilson's strength will grow, and he will secure the nomi/ nation. It will tak" several ballots." FOR ADDITIONAL NEWS OF THE CONVENTION, SEf PAGE FIVE.