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Hl End Deadlock.
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Anal ballot before tine renewal of t<>-
day> otruKKle. tells the tale
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!/'■ Candidate. First Bal. Bal. Net change.
||H Clark 44'>l -2 43<i 10 1-2 Ins'-
IM WllHon .. . .324 494 17" gain
Harmon . ,14k 121 10.-s
■HI I’ndernoo.l 117 1-2 1"4 13 1-2 loss
ZW Ramw-ln '"- s
Marshall ■ 31 :!l ' t,s "*
Bryan 1-2 '"'r
Kern 1 * H,n
■ Foss "8 - s S»in
B Gaynor 11 gain
■ These figures take no account of the
absentees, never considerable, nor of
the occasional complimentary votes
A-ast for Chairman James. James Ham
ilton Lewis and such other dlstin
■Tuished citizens as from time to time
Lere sent to the front for a vote to
Anliven the situation or give some del
egate a chance to rest his lungs by the
mention of another name.
Backbone of
Conservatives Broken.
Turning the spotlight upon the sev
eral items of the summary, the first
and most important deals with the
general drift from the conservative
candidates. It will he noted at a glance
that when the Harmon. Underwood
and Baldwin camps were first pitched
they represented an aggregate of
. ' 156 1-2 more votes than appeared this
morning when mess call summoned the
faithful to the test of purple and fine
linen for the breaking of their fast.
Caating about foe. some other con
servative leader to whose standard
they might have gone, one finds the
Military Foss banner erected by a little
guard solidly massed under that token
of war. Counting these noses, it ap
pears that of the original conservative
forces 128 1-2 hare left the old home
stead and are trying now to be happy
under a progressive banner
But even that does not mean the
slightest thing in sentiment For It
must be remembered that of the 128 1-2
there are 90 in one i hunk accredited
to Clark from New Voik, which fact
represents merely a condition and not
theory.
These missing New York votes are
just as conservative as they ever were
’ they are ln the l >lo Kfesslve camp
not for the love of the surroundings,
but that the half a loaf may be re
tained where the proposition of no
bread stared the delegates from the
Empire state in the face with William
J Bryan on the watch tower to see
that the supply of provender was not
surreptitiously increased
. The progressive rote represents a
shifting of delegates from one to the
other It is in some cases merely tac
tical and not sentimental Less than >"
votes have shifted for sentiment—the
sort of sentiment that makes men fight
for w hat they want.
Wholesale Shifting
Still Necessity.
S t that the net result of the whole
Efik; > on of balloting and balloting I
n < am!
went out arid it started, continuing unabated
nearly an hour. Then in marched a motley
array of leather-lunged hotel workers, bellhops and
messenger boys In uniform, thick-chested ice men,
today at the opening of the new bal
lotting, dark required 295 1-2 votes to
win. Wilson needed 231 1-2 votes Un
derwood, the highest conservative,
needed 621 1-2.
The most industrious worker on the
figures today could not see where any
one of the candidates named was going
to get the requisite number of addi
tional votes. So that it appeared sure
that If anybody had a Fourth of July
speech to make at the old homestead
he might as well start hotneward with
out waiting to take part In the ultl
mate doings
Deadlock Record
About To Be Broken.
General predictions were made today
that the Democratic national conven
tion would break all record* for dead
locks The first high record —49 bal
lots —-was made In this city In 1852,
when Franklin Pierce was nominated.
At Charleston In 1869 49 ballots were
cast.
The delegates are casting glances
homeward. Many fear that their busi
ness w ill be wrecked by long absence.
Others fear that they will go hungry If
they stay much longer. These condi
tions only can prevent a record-break
ing session, several leaders asserted to
day.
Many predicted that both of the pre
ceding long balloting contests would be
broken Others predicted that the
break to the successful candidate would
come not later than Wednesday, while
still others are predicting that the
deadlock will not be broken and that
the convention will have to adjourn to
leave the entire question again to the
people to select their '.hoice from the
three leading candidates now in the
deadlock
In some quarters a plan was put for.
ward in effect that the convention
could adjourn and reconvene in Chi
cago late in August, In the meantime
each state holding a preferential pri
mary.
RECEIVERS TO SUE
STOCKHOLDERS OF
BANK THAT FAILED
MACON, GA., -July 3.---The receivers of
the Exchange bank, the $2,000,000 insti
tution which failed here five years ago.
have been granted permission by the su
perior court to bring suits against the
stockholders tn recover about $40,000 nec
essary to pay the creditors their full
claims The creditors have already been
paid S 5 per cent, and another dividend of
five per cent will be distributed tn a few
days The receivers will sue for enough
monex to discharge the remaining 10 per
cent.
MACON WATER CONSUMERS
TO BE GIVEN FREE METERS
MACON. GA.. July 2.— Ab soon as me
ters can be Installed, all water consumers
of Macon will be put on a meter basis,
and charged for the amouflt of water used
by them The commissioners last night
abolished the fiat rate” system, and de
cided to Install about 4,009 meters at the
city s expense Macon will thus be the
first In the United States to furnish con
sumers with meters free of charge An
outlay of $50,000 will be required
A resolution, fixing the maximum rate
at 20 cents per thousand gallons and 10
cents for the same quantity for large
consumers, was Introduced and favorably
considered, and will doubtless be adopted
next week
COOK CLAYTON NEW CLERK
OF JUDGE SPEER’S COURT
MACON. GA, July 2.—Cook Clay
ton. court crier of the United States
■ mrt for the Southern district of Geor
gia. has been appointed chief clerk for
the district, succeeding T F Johnson
son of Hirschel V Johnson, Georgia’s
ante-bellum governor Mr. Johnson
was removed from office by Judge
Speer Mr Clayton, the new clerk, wl.l
have his headquarters in Savannah
taking charge today
PERSONS TURN OUT.
GA . There was no
mK .: to bupst tie
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. IfTESDAY, JULY 2. 1912.
Previous Democratic
Convention Records
No. Leader on
( Year Bullets Ist Ballot Nominee
1832 1 Jackson Jackson
1844 9 Vanßuren Polk
1848... 4 Cass Cass
1852 49 Cass Pierce
1856 17 Buchanan Buchanan
••1860 59 Douglass Douglass
1864 1 McClellan McClellan
1868 22 Pendleton Seymour
1872 1 Greeley Greeley
1876 2 Tilden Tilden
1880 3 Hancock Hancock
1884 3 Cleveland Cleveland
1888 1 Cleveland Cleveland
1892 1 Cleveland Cleveland
1896 5 Bland Bryan
1900 1 Bryan Bryan
1904 1 Parker Parker
1908 1 Bryan Bryan
••Bolt from convention of 1860,
bolters nominating Breckenridge.
SMILER WEAPON
IN PORTIA'S WAR
Mrs. Weaver’s Campaign for
Woman Lawyer’s Bill Deter
mined, Not Bombastic.
Mrs Geo Mclntyre Weaver, lone woman
graduate of the Atlanta Law school, a
lawyer in knowledge and by virtue of
diploma but barred- or rather disbarred
—by Georgia statute, still is waging a
quiet campaign before the legislature to
have tjie law' changed She has adopted
as her motto the proverb that sugar
catches more flies than vinegar would
round up in a summer, and isn’t attack
ing anybody, not even Joe Hill Hall.
Every day Mrs Weaver may he seen In
the balcony of the house of representa
tives. watching the arduous labors of the
representatives It may be that she is
doing some excellent campaigning even
there, for the wives of the lawmakers are
fond of watching their husbands from the
gallery and If Mrs Weaver reaches the
wives she may be accomplishing as much
as reaching the members themselves
Sometimes she leaves the gallery for a
chat with some member in the lobby,
though she hasn’t registered as a lobby
ist and wouldn’t like being called one
Joe HUI Hall Still Hostile.
But in spite of her belief that Joe Hill
Hall, the old warhorse from Bibb, is not
as black as he is painted, she must yet
reckon with his opposition. Not even
Mr Hall’s candidacy for governor has
kept him from speaking his mind this ses
sion and he declared today to a reporter
that he was still opposed to the bill and
would fight It.
It is m the hands of the judiciary com
mittee, and as that body is largely com
posed of lawyers it likely will receive an
unfavorable report.
Dr. Heck, of Brooks county, author of
the bill, will endeavor to have it called
for second reading today, in order to get
a quick report from the committee and
have an opportunity to fight it out on the
floor He Is confident it will be passed
this session unless action is deferred in
some way until too late for it to reach the
senate
NAPIER AND McKENNA IN
RACE FOR MACON MAYOR
MACON. GA, July 2.—Hendlex V
Napier, a prominent Macon lawyer and
recently elected president of the Eagles
; of the South. Is the latest candidate to
enter for the Macon mayoralty W
A McKenna is the first bona fide can
didate. and Mr Napier is next There
i are expected to be several others, in
■ eluding former Mayors Bridges Smith
• and W A. Huff and probably Aider
man P L. Hay.
MAYOR WARNS ChTeF OF
POLICE TO CLOSE CLUBS
MACON. GA July 2 If this illegal
Sunday operation of clubs can not be
stopped by you. then 1 am going to get
some one who can stop it. 1 Mayor John
' T. Moore declared to Chief of Police W
B Chapman In open court Evidence had
jjgt been presented to the court to the
‘ elect that clubs stayed open all day Sun-
I day The chief did not make any reply
k ESCAPING PRISONER WOUNDED.
GA . jjaily 2 Frank Tanner i
leg. ar
bellows - lunged taxicab drivers and barbers, re
cruited from outside the convention. They were
fresh. It was a wonderful parade. What It lacked
In delegates it made up In picturesqueness. I rec-
BRYAN’S AVARICE
15 BLAMED ERR
DEADLOCK
Nebraskan’s Attitude at Con
vention Assailed by Demo
crats to Alfred H. Lewis.
By ALFRED HENRY LEWIS.
BALTIMORE, July 2.—While the bal
loting for a presidential nominee goes
on what shall one’ w rite about? Obvi
ously comment, and comment of the
most cursory* kind, one’s single cave of
refuge.
Talk has largely swung and rattled
upon that Bryan resolution, which,
while pretending to be aimed disas
trously at the ’’interests.’’ possessed but
, the one purpose of trouble-making. If
there be worth in a proverb, Bryan’s
ears must have burned, for few were
here to employ his name in conjunction
with a compliment. When Bryan read
his resolution Sulzer, of New York, was
for answering him from the platform.
His fellows on the delegation prevailed,
however, in favor of letting the occa
sion pass.
’’What I wanted to do,” explained
Sulzer, ’’was to ask Brother William J.
whether or no August Belmont gave
him $15,000 in the Parker 1904 cam
paign to assist him In carrying Ne
braska for the Democrats, Also I de
sired to Inquire how many thousand
dollars August Belmont and others of
his caste of millionaires contributed to
Bryan’s political campaign of 1908.”
There was other comment. Sulzer
stood in no wise alone. The following
might furnish a bird’s-eye view of opin
ion as It ran:
Calls Bryan a Harpie.
Stowe, of Massachusetts: "Bryan?
What do 1 think of him? Go get Bul
finche’s Mythology and read up about
the ’Harpies.’ Bryan is a Harpie’—the
’Harpie’ of the Democratic party."
Ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio:
“Bryan’s whole attitude in Baltimore
has been one of oad manners and an
assumption of party authority. For
one, 1 resent this attitude. 1 am tired
of receiving orders from Bryan. Ob
serve. 1 said ’receiving.’ 1 have never
taken any of Bryan's orders, never
shall take any. 1 do not need Bryan
to do my political thinking; do not re
gard him as the keeper of the party
conscience. My ow n belief is that the
resolution was just a desperate effort
on Bryan's part to inject himself into
the situation with the hope—a wild one
—that it would end in his becoming the
convention’s nominee.
"Did his resolution advance his
chances of a nomination? If he ever
had any, 1 should say that it knocked
them eternally on the head. I think
we are seeing the last of Bryan as a
dominating figure tn Democratic poli
tics. and as one who wishes the party
well. 1 thank the gods for it.”
Dahler, of Indiana—-'The resolution
itself was flapdoodle It was bound to
be adopted. It was as though he of
fered a resolution. Resolved, That we
as a party will not name a pickpocket
for the presidency. Everybody must
agree to that, none the less, to offer
such a resolution was of worse an in
sult to two delegates as regularly elect
ed as Bryan himself, and Bryan so
meant It 1 think he expected one or
two result*—a stampede that would
nominate him again or tile rejection of
1 the resolution, which would give him
an excuse to bolt. Both his plans
‘ failed."
Wouldn’t Vote For Him Again.
Martin, of lowa "1 voted for Bryan
in 1900 and 1908; 1 wouldn’t vote for
him now for the .office of dog pelter. For
six months he has been doing all he
knew to split the party. He's doing
all he knows how. There is a big
chance for a Democratic victory in
Nowember, and the thought < f the
, Democrats winning and some other
than himself the white house n- minee
i has made Bryan frantic”
from Nebraska w I o asks
ognized a barber who had shaved me in the morn
ing. He seemed to be yelling, “Will you have a lit
tle Bay-R-r-rum-Dum-Dum! ” When the exhausted
Wilson demonstration had staggered past the Clark
that his name be withheld: “Bryan
has not astonished us of his own state.
We know him. always selfish.
Can you name a man he ever helped?
Can you name a man he ever tried So
help? He is utterly selfish, utterly un
grateful. We have an ex-mayor and
an ex-governor in Nebraska who can
tell you all about it. Thus far at this
convention he has hurt nobody but
himself. It will be a bright day for
the Democracy when we re rid of him.”
Carroll, of Alabama: "Bryan's ac
tion? It was what I should have ex
pected. Bryan is a composite of Peck
sniff and Uriah Heep. As hypocritical
as Pecksniff, he has all of the pre
tended humility based upon vicious
ness which Dickens gave to Uriah
Heep.”
Remember Bennett's Will?
Bald-win, of Tennessee: “I’ve never
heard much good of either Ryan or
Belmont. On other hand. I’ve
never heard of anything so unalterably
mean as what Bryan himself admitted
he did to old Dotard Bennett. If there’s
anything in the record of either Ryan
or Belmont which for meanness can
compare with Bryan’s share in the
Bennett will business I will favor Bry
an’s resolution to throw’ them out of
the Democracy. The Bennett will?
Why, you must have heard of ft. If
not, you can partially instruct yourself
at least by reading 'Bryan’s Appeal
From Probate' in the 77 Connecticut
Reports. Any lawyer can show it to
you.”
Sanders, of Kansas: “That resolution
and what claptrap oratory went with it
were merely part of Bryan’s plan to get
himself the nomination. Bryan is seek
ing the nomination for the presidency.
He will get It If there are enough hope
less fools among the delegates to give
it to him. Also, mark my words, if
Bryan isn’t nominated he’ll quit the
party. Certainly that's the best of rea
son for not giving it to him. Talk of
Sinbad the Sailor and his Old Man Os
the Sea. Bryan has been Democracy i>
Old Man of the Sea, weighting down Its
shoulders and giving It the backache
ever since the party was so unlucky as
to heaV of him.”
AIRSHIP BLOWS
UP; 5 ARE DEAR
Vaniman and Crew of the
“Akron" Fall to Death Dur
ing Test Flight.
Continued From Page One.
denser. Flames enveloped the after sec
tion of the framework. The men in the
balloon could be seen clinging desper
ately to the structure Suddenly the
balloon shot earthward with sickening
speed. In her wake was a thick trail
of smoke. Flames billowed for many
yards behind the blazing plummet.
.Many on the ground were sickened by
the sight. Chief Black, of the fire de
partment, a man hardened to sights of
distress and excitement, was nearly
overcome. Black, who was at the han
gar. afterward said:
' We heard the screams of the doom
ed men for two miles across the wa
ter. It was awful. I tried to keep my
head turned away, but the shrieks of
the frantic spectators about me com
pelled me against niy will to look up
ward.”
This was the third flight of the Ak
ron. About $7‘,000 had been spent on
the balloon preparing her for flight
She was constructed along the lines
of Walter Wellman's famous dirgible.
in which he made an unsuccessful at
tempt to cross the Atlantic. Vaniman
was Wellman's i hies engineer. He was
born in Virden. 111., 40 years ago and
had spent most of his life experiment
ing in aeronautics.
PLANS FOR LAYMEN’S MEETING.
COLUMBUS, GA.. July 2 —Horace V.
Sanderson, field secretary of the Lay
men’s Missionary Movement, is in Co
lumbus and last night held a confer
ence with the committees on arrange
ments for the big institute to be held
In this city next >ear.
GEORGIANS HOLD
SUN ROPE FDR
RNDERfDD
Alabaman Expected to Have
Tryout Today—ls He Doesn’t
Win, It’s Champ Clark.
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
CONVENTION HALL. BALTIMORE,
MD„ July 2.—The morning of another
balloting day in the national convention
' found things pretty much where they
‘ were yesterday morning, save that it
is more vident than ever that Wood
, row Wilson will not be the nominee of
; the party. ,
, Yesterday morning I sized the situa
, tion up in a sentence reading: "Clark or
I chaos." I repeat that sentence today.
It is as much Clark or chaos now as
then.
The Woodrow Wilson forces worked
like beavers yesterday. They endeav
ored with all their might to accom
plish two things—first, to nominate
Wilson; second,"if not to nominate him,
at least to crowd him across the ma
jority line, and thus make answer to
, Clark's crushing appeal that he has
, been named seven times by a majority
, vote and by all unwritten, undisputed
law ’ and custom is entitled to the
, nomination.
Georgia Wilsonites Active.
The Wilson people have accomplished
. neither consummation so devoutly
, sought by them. Wilson reached high
. water mark last night and fell below it
before adjournment. Maybe he may
muster a few’ more votes on the early
ballots today. The chances are he has
spent his force and from now on will
fade as a compelling factor in the prob
lem. .
The whole Georgia Wilson line-up Is
on hand -jn Baltimore, working with
might and main to bring about the
nomination of the New Jerfeeyite. J. R.
Smith, of Atlanta, who went home Fri
day, hurried back for Monday’s voting,
in response to a wire telling him Wilson
was about to pluck the plum. The
I plucking was expected to take place
last night. Besides Mr. Smith, Thomas
W. Hardwick, of Sandersville; James
R. Gray, of Atlanta; Pleasant A. Sto
vall, of Savannah; E. T. Brown and
William J. Hanis, of Atlanta; Senator
Hoke Smith of Georgia; Congressman
Charles Bartlett, of Macon, and others
are on hand. They long ago gave up
importuning the Georgia delegation to
> come to Wilson. They now are beg
ging it to stand by Underwood to the
last ditch. They have acquired a new
and entirely different idea of things of
[ late with respect to Georgia’s standing
stoutly by the every letter of its con
vention putting those instructions on
the delegation.
As for the Georgia delegation in the
• convention, it is standing by Mr, Un-
• derwood, and will so long as he is in
the running. That he is yet in the run
ning is admitted by all. That his
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Balloon Built
In Akron, Ohio
AKRON, OHIO. July 2.—The balloon.
“Akron." which was destroyed at At
-1 lantic City today, was constructed In
this city and named for the city be
-1 cause of the fact of its construction.
■ The flight across the Atlantic was the
idea of Frank A. Seiberling. president
1 of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Com
' pany,
I The fabric for the big gas bag was
made at the rubber plant here and was
shipped to Atlantic City In charge of
Vaniman and his brother. It required
■ many months of constant labor to con
struct the bag and when finished was
pronounced to be the strongest gas ba?
ever constructed The manufacture of
the fabric was kept a secret for a long
time after the details were given to the
public Npne of the crew, including
the Vanimans, were Akron men.
BY T. E. POWERS
finishing line an Alabama delegate megaphoned!
"Mr. Chairman, please notify all these waiters and
bellboys that we will need them at the hotel for
breakfast.” T. E. P.
chances of being nominated are very
slim, however, is the opinion of the
forces generally prefer Underw’ood as
majority. He will have his tryout to
day. If he can’ win, every opportunity 1
will be given him to do so. The Clark
a second choice, and would go to him,
if he should show winning form. The ||
Georgians are being praised for their B
steadfastness of purpose and their evi
dent sincerity of support of the Ala
bama man.
Clark Men May Aid Underwood.
If the Underwood forces had been
solidly behind Clark as a second choice,
as the Georgia delegation has been, the
Clark forces might go solidly to Un- ®
derwood in today’s tryout. But they
have not been. As it is, however, a (
large section of the Clark vote may
swing to Underw’ood, if he gets well
into the running anywhere along the
line.
If Underwood fails to achieve the
nomination today, it is rumored that he j
■w’ill request that his name be with- ■
drawn front the convention’s considers- 1
tion. In that event, by far the greater 1
part of the Underwood strength will go I
to Clark, and once more the possibility S
of Clark’s nomination will loom large. H
Looking at it from a standpoint of
things as they are, and not as they I
might be, or as somebody would wish
them, it looks as if Clark must yet be flu
nominated, or nobody, which may be j
construed to mean some incopsequen
tial dark horse, Clark has received®
and held through seven ballots a ma
jority of the convention’s vote |
In the entire history of both big par- T
ties there never has been but one lone Z
case, that of Martin Vanßuren, where- 7
in a candidate once having received a I
majority vote of a national convention J
subsequently failed to have the nom
ination awarded him. I
The Georgia delegation is discussing, I
with considerable spirit, Judge C. R. |
Bartlett’s resolution offered In con- |
gress yesterday, providing for the elec- A ■
tion of a speaker protein and for a fl
committee to notify the president of
the United States that the speaker was fffl
not in his seat when the house was
called to order, while, for a short time, *■
Clark was away from Washington, in
coniw-enee, in a private home in Balti
more with three of his loaders.
Georgians Denounce
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and a'li' kl'. rc-acrvd by trolley
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