THE PRESIDENCY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10673, 1 July 1912, Page 5

THE PRESIDENCY

DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION MR CHAMP CLARK LEADING. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock > BALTIMORE. June 29. The DcmtxTiYY" Ccnv-Ji.'lion spent a whole day "n balloting. Mr Champ Clark,'who was loading o'l the fir.se ballot, led a :.tp;'.; dcM.onstration. Scores of the standards of the different States were torn up, MiChamp Clark's banners substituted, ajifl a procession formed. The fifth ballot gave the voting as fe'iows: — Mr Champ Clark 413 Dr. Woo'drow Wilson 351 Judge Harmon 14.1 Mr Underwood 118 Mr Marshall 31 A later mesasge states that the scenes wore unprecedented. Loud imprecations were uttered against the Wall Street magnates. Mr W. J. Bryan is irreooncilible in his determination to Radicalise the Democratic Party. "But," says Renter, "the riddle of his tactics will be unsolvable until the outcome of tho struggle compels him to decare himself." The tentn br.llot increased Mr Champ Clark's lead. He had the Tammanv votes moing in his favour, hut still failed to secure the necessarv two-thirds majority. The Democratic platform, which h about to be presented, favours th« j"imedinte and gradual reduction of the tariff, especially on necessaries of life, s-md a rigorous criminal and civil enforcement of the Anti-Trust law. It aire condemns the Republican compromise with the Standard Oil and Tobacco Trusts. (It is somewhat remarkable that, whereas a bam majority is sufficient to secure nomination as a Republican candidate, a two-thirds majority h necessary to secure nomination as a Democratic candidate.) STILL NO DECISION. . THE TWENTY-SIXTH BALLOT. Received This Morning, 12.20 Vclock. BALTIMORE, June SO. There was unprecedented balloting, at Saturday's e»s*ion. The twenty-sixth ballot resulted. Mr Champ Clark 476 Dr. Woodrow Wilson t... 405 Mr Underwood 112 Judge Harmon 39 The Convention was imaW n to re-ich a d""i V'"on. and adiourned till Monclnv. Mr Bryan has shown nr, tendency to as ,o candidate so far. Th" interest, eclipses that at the Republican Convention. 1