Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1912 — DEMOCRATIC CONTEST , INTENSE. AT BALTIMORE. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC CONTEST , INTENSE. AT BALTIMORE.

Bryan Bitter Against Clark But May Not Be Abie to Carry AU His Criwd For Governor Wilson. <

Bryan is making them all sit up and take notice at Baltimore. He came up from his defeat in the temporary chairmanship fight with a bland smile and was able to have Ollie James, of Kentucky, made the permanent chairman. He also had Senator John W. Kern, of Indiana, placed as chairman of the resolutions committee. There was a lot of oratory Wednesday afternoon and the convention had to adjourn to shut up the spellbinders. ~ Bryan’s suggestion to make the platform after the candidate was nominated was embodied in the rules committee report. Bryan has been working hard for Wilson and against Speaker Clark. He made a big showing and at the mention of Wilson’s name the convention began cheering and kept it up for 33 minutes. The Clark men insist that there has been no break in their ranks, however. The situation at midnight Wednesday night, when the convention adjourned until morning, was as complex as it had been at any time since the convention opened. Bryan was as busy as a bee all the time and was instrumental in securing a passage of the rule to disregard the instruction of the state delegations except in states where the law is mandatory on the subject. This will secure for Wilson 18 delegates from Ohio, which it had beeh expected would go to Harmon.

The thirty Indiana delegates are all pledged to Marshall and they are standing fast, it is said, although overtures have been made by the Wilson and Clark managers to tempt them away. Taggart is determined that all the support he can control will go for Clark as against Wilson. Tom is believed to be much against Marshall but to be masquerading it with a strong appearance of loyalty. That is one of the characteristics of Taggart and he nearly always gets away with it, too. No nominations had been made up to 3 o’clock, Baltimore time, this afternoon.