Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1912 — VICTORY FOR WILSON [ARTICLE]

VICTORY FOR WILSON

CONVENTION StfATS HIS DELEGATES FROM SOUTH DAKOTA. All Other Contests Disposed of. According to the Recommendation of Credentials Committee. Convention Hall, Baltimore, Md., June 28. —At the first session of the Democratic national convention yesterday the preliminaries for leading up to the nomination of president and vice-president were swept away and, after a four hour session, adjournment was taken until evening. It was a day of excitement, in which Governor Woodrow Wilson came off with first honors from a test of strength with the conservative forces in the convention. On a roll call the, convention, by a vote of 633 to 437, seated the ten Wilson delegates from South Dakota who had been unseated by the committee •n credentials. Governor Wilson, in turn, lost part of this gain when the six delegates from the Philippines were unseated on the ground that the Democratic party, having proclaimed that these islands were not and Bhould not ever become a part of the United States, could not permit the islands to haveAa voice in the deliberations of the partX After the disposition of the South Dakota and the Philippines cases the other contests were disposed of with one viva voce vote when the report of the crfedentlals committee, as amended in these two instances, was adopted. This ended the Illinois’fight between the Sullivan and Harrison factions, and the Sullivan delegates retained their seats. Permanent organization then was perfected and Senator-Elect Ollie M. James of Kentucky was introduced as permanent chairman of the convention. Senator La Follette, the Republican progressive, arrived in the convention hall as Mr. James concluded his ' speech and was escorted to the platform. He had hardly reached there vhen a motion to recess was put and carried.