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4 GA. DELEGATION LOST CHANCE TO CONTROL If Opportunity Had Been Seized t Champ .Clark Would Have Been Nominated. By JAMES B. NEVIN Sbtfi* n ne —perhaps a not '» ' ini" portant tom' once upon a time that tt Is not the faTts of hlwtory that tnake It Interesting. «" much a 1 it Is the 'lts” thereof v Wherefore. one may speculate »n --gaglngly enough with respect to what might have happened In the Monu mental City had the Georgia delega tion to the national convention In Ba timbre elected to disregard Us Instruc tions for Underwood, In the slnte <• and righteous knowledge and belief •that he could not be nominated, and cast its vote early tn the game for Champ Clark The Georgia delegation preferred Clark to Wilson Had it ever come to the point where the Georgia delegates might have reg istered an opinion as to that the truth of the assertion would have been e.-- tahlished in the written record beyond dispute But the Georgian* were for Underwood first and they wore in stAicted for him under an frpn-ciad resolution that so downright stupidity and lack of common sense and fore sight could hardly have been surpassed. Could Have Named a President. At one time the Georgia Underwood delegates had in their hands the nam ing of a president of the C nlterf States. One word from the Georgians would have nominated Champ Clark. But Georgia, hoist by its own petard, so to‘speak, let the psychological mo ment pass And when Georgia finally realized that it had let golden oppor tunity go. It would have undone th l thing it had done or, rather, it would • have done the thing it had foolishly left undone —but it was too late Champ Clark received, and held for nine ballots a majority of the votes of the convention By every rule of the game as theretofore played. Clark should have had the nomination then Never before, save In one Isolated and subsequently disastrous instance, had a convention of either big party refused a nomination to a candidate once passing the majority mark Never has a Democratic convention treated a favorite swn so unfairly and so disloyally as Champ Clark was treated in Baltimore Now. there is no knocking of U ilson or 'beefing In this The New Jersey governor has won his fight, and. so far as HE is concerned, it was a clean and maply tight. Remember. Wilson says himself that he. despairing of a nomi nation when Clark held so persistently so a majority, telephoned to Baltimore and released the Wilson delegates, so sure was Wilson that Clark would be awarded that which, under a majority rule. Clark had won The point Is that Georgia, having the certain'direction of things in Ils hami.- at a vital slag, of the proceedings, tailed to rise to the occasion, and let go by the golden opportunity It had been hoping for. and through which it might have named the next president of the United States'. Deterred by Bankhead. Georgia was persuaded by Sena lor Rankhead (bat Underwood had a chance tn be nominated, even after Clark had received and held a majority through several ballots! The hopelessness of Underwood's candidacy was pointed out io the Un derwood delegates time and again by Clark leaders and others, fiom every point of the compass Many Under wood men weie convinced, and wanted to switch to Clark, but not the major ity of them The arguments of the Clark men were met with the bland and [Jous as surance of Senator Rankhead that Un derwood must be the eventual nominee -—that a deadlock was Unde wood's compelling hope and sure ..men of vl. tory And Rankhead hpld the Under wood men in line stubbornly The "dope' of that point ot view ran rhusw ise Bryan was blocking Clark's nomina tion. and Cla k In retaliation, would block Wilson s Therefore. I'n<i>-rwon ( f was the ker to the deadlock Its palpable errors a ■ painfully clear today, now that it is all too iate’ Bryan did in bad faith and slander ous utterance, succeed in putting through his part of the hawking of Clark, but it wa- the unwitting and reasoning rhe halfwar pathetic, a.-- sistame of the Underwood vole that enabled th Nebraskan to ctmsummH.c that pie, e of political trotrh.-n and w rong When it <ame to lb»- blocking of Wilsons nomination by the t'la’k men. the Underwood delegates found th,J the Clark men were trot wring to go the length of depravity to which Rrr co Inclined, and so much tn some Under wood surprise. Wilson's nomination was achieved rtr much the same >1 eunigtaru.es under which ''l.i k - un righteously was tirade Impossible Bryan Thrnkrng of Himself, R'yan had rm thought of nominating Wilson when he stabbed Clark to his dew U. wa- no mon for Wilsmt pi r ma .I t i hall he yras to Clark 11. was for R' \tn He at ruck down Clark with ’he unwitting a».«:»tan< e afmesairi. and he thought that '‘lark might l>< depend, r mon tn strike down Wilson mn 'Ur t • ’u» of that would arise h dead. w - " Rt 'Hi i nought, from > ■ w > mne mu Undent nod- fm Hr* in F f I’r "erw o>>d ,n ml h.r .11t.e ke,| THE BIG SCENE miksi ° ir ■ y '< H' a a 'H.-- —.—— L r —■ ll» * WATSON ON BKYAN’S TREACHERY TO CHAMP CLARK rr>IIE state <>f Nebraska was carried by Speaker Clark. Bryan sought and obtained a place on the Clark delegation to Baltimore. After this, he made speeches in South Dakota for LaEollette. and in Florida for Woodrow Wilson. Did he say or do a single thing for Clark? . ' No: he did not. ♦ After having been instructed by his own state to secure the nomination nf Champ Clark, he worked against him and spoke against him. The DaKollette votes that Bryan helped to get nominated Taft, by helping to win the chair manship for I'.lihu Root the rotten lawyer who virtually ruled that wherjp thirteen men. are ac-. cused ot having received the same kind of stolen goods, at the same time, twelve of the accused are a competent jury to try the thirteenth. Having made speeches for l.abollette. the Republican, and for Wilson, the Pennsylvania Rvanite. Mr. Bryan went to Baltimore bent on knifing Clark. What is Bryan's charge against the Southern statesman? I hat he. ( lark, did not help Bryan defeat Judge Parker for temporary chairman! And this is the same Brvan who. in 1904. spoke t>s times a day in the effort to make -Judge Parker our president. Ihe bitterness and mendacity with which Bryan has assailed our Southern leaders. I nder wood ami Clark, are without parallel in recent polities. He has lied about them both, with shameless continuity ami creativeness. In the case of Clark, Bryan's infamy is this: He was sent to Baltimore to support Clark, and he used the opportunitv to stab him. /nm Watson, tn his "Jeffersonian. " time and again in The Commoner —But Bryan! He showed that part of his hand when, the deadlock seemingly on hopelessly. Bryan gave out a list of 'dark horses" that might do Kern. James. G'Gormari. All of those "dark horse” suggestions meant Bryan. Who can doubt it? When it was all too late, when the Georgians realised how Bryan et al. had "made monkeys" of them, they neie not happy perhaps they are not happy yet They might have played a great part in naming a president. In the end they were only permitted to sing a melancholy "Me. too." led by the persuasive and soft-voiced Bank head. to a nomination they were not in favor of and against which they, in great majority, had prayed the good Lord vociferously and oft to deliver them They might hay.’ remembered that the Lord helps them that help them selves! The last thing I heairi when I left the Hotel Belvedere on my way to the train which should carry me Georgia* w ard was a bunch of Prim eton stu dents warbling hi the lobby a song, the chorus of which ran this way They say Old Bill Bryan, he ain't got no style He s style all the while, hr s style a 1 ! tin while! They -ay Old Bill Bryan, he ain't got no style. Hrs style ail the w tie all the while"' The Real Forces Behind Him. Into tne M?ng went til of the <x ulter.in.c of youth and »• effeiy. - mg gladness those students were sublime, ly happy that Hteh toyed Wilson had woe, and they .< etc paying tribute to the man they thought most instill men* , t* hi neine tbotit Wth>n s yu - lory They took no 'bmiTht of Murphy anti T HE ATLANTA GEOKGIAN AND NEWS. I HI KSUAV4LH 4. IMI2. Tom Taggart, and Roger Sullivan, with out whose co-operation and consent Wilson never would have been named for the presidency—they were frankly and Joyously heralding Bryan as Wil sons neatest and dearest frgend and helper. They were acknowledging the supremacy and the prowess of War wick as they figured Warwick to be brave and magnificent in his king mak ing’ But the song set me to thinking that the one man in the I'nited States today who can beat Wilson—perhaps the only man is that same Bryan Bryan played a sorry and an unap pealing part at Baltimore, and if Wil son lets the impression go aboard that. In the event of his election, the Ne braskan is to be the overshadowing in fluence in the yvhite house, the Wilson cause is half lost before a. battle is fought. And Bryan, unless Wilson be pos sessed of the tact and diplomacy r>f a muster, surely will "butt in" anti as sume the center of the limelight throughout the campaign, and unto thy bitter end. Rome Friends Send Wires to Mrs. Wilson ROME GA.. July 4 Scores of con- I gratulatory telegrams have been -ent ' from Home to Mrs Woodrow Wilson at het summer home in Seagnt X .1 after the news of the nomination of he. husband for the presidency of the Uni ted State' The messages were personal ones from l» girlhood friends in Rome Whole «•..■ ty y: tnyrrtr.l to Goy errtof i X\ tl-on \ 'ii- L'Hrit Lo t Ax-on. M> it it- son is well know n here, her father hav ing served as pastor of the First Pres byterian church of this city for a num ber of t ears. 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COMMITTEE CALLS ON WILSON Bryan’s Brother Represents • Nebraskan at Conference at Seagirt This Afternoon. » SEAGIRT. N. J.. July 4.—Charles Bryan, brother of William .1. Bryan, wired to Governor Woodrow Wilson, the Demo cratic nominee for president, that he would arrive at Seagirt this afternoon to represent his brother at a conference of the Democratic national committee. No one ai tht executive mansion would say what the object of the conference would be. or whether Charles Bryan bore a mes sage from the Nebraskan advising any course of action. The executive household was astir at an early hour this morning ip prepara tion for the reception of the national com mitteemen. Dean Fine, of Princeton, a guest of the Wilsons, was the first to make his appearance. He left the ex ecutive mansion shortly after X o'clock jdst as Charley Miller, the laundryman of the little white house, was putting the finishing touches to the two brass can non that decorate the governor’s lawn. Professor Fine was greeted with a cho rus of clicks from an already assembled squad of camera men and was besieged by the correspondents for an outline of the governor's program for the day. The professor said that other than the entertainment of the committeemen at luncheon this afternoon and a subsequent conference with the governor to outline the coming campaign and select a na tional chairman and campaign manager he knew of no official .program. As the morning progressed autos and carriages bearing the governor's well wishers and admirers began to line the drive in front of the mansion extending well wishes. The governor, who arose shortly after 8 o'clock and breakfasted with Professor Fine and his family, greeted the new comers with cordiality. Marshall Eager To Help Democracy INDIANAPOLIS. July 4.—Governor Thomas R. Marshall. Democratic nom inee for vice president, in the course of an interview here, expressed himself as follows: "I was entirely satisfied and am now' with the nomination of Governor Wood row Wilson for the presidency. I am too poor a man to do much toward ob taining his election,- but what I can do consistently with my duties to my xylfe and my creditors. I expect to do. “I do not look on the position of vice president aa one in which there is the least opportunity in the world to save a dollar: perhaps one in which a man gets not even a living salary, yet I deem it to be highly honorable in its character. I have taken the nomina tion in the faith and hope that I may contribute to the election of a Demo cratic president. If at any time in my judgment I fee) that my nomination is weakening the. chances of Governor Wilson. I shall have no hesitancy in resigning from the ticket." It is settled that if the governor goes campaigning Mrs. Marshall is to cam paign with him. 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