Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1912 — LATE CONVENTION NEWS [ARTICLE]

LATE CONVENTION NEWS

The Indiana delegates dropped Marshall on the 27th ballot Monday and went to Wilson. At 12:43 a. m., yesterday, after taking the 42d ballot, convention adjourned to 12 M. For-ty-second ballot—Clark, 430; Wilson, 404; Underwood, 104; Harmon, 27; Bryan, 54; Kern 1; Foss, 28. Oil 43d ballot Wilson gained 115 votes, 10 from Michigan; 58 from Illinois; 24 from Virginia; 16 from West Virginia. Forty-fourth ballot Wilson, 620; Clark, 306; Underwood, 90; Foss, 27; Harmon, 27. Forty-fifth ballot Wilson, 633; Clark, 306; Underwood. 07; Harmon, 26; Foss, 27.

The democratic convention at Baltimore seems to he going the| recent republican convention on* better in damfoolism and, as in the case of the Chicago one man is causing all the turmoil

and dissention. The public is geiring awfully tired of this sort of thing of one man bossing or trying to boss an entire convention. it is time we had a new set of party leaders on both sides who will set down on this one man domination Although it has been the custom for the past seventy years whenever a candidate for the presidency in a democratic convention received a majority of the votes of the convention for the convention to ratify bis nomination by enough of the delegates to go over and give him the necessary two-thirds, yet through Bryan’s influence the nomination was withheld from Champ Clark although he received a majority vote of the delegates on eight consecutive ballots.