PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 27 June 1912, Page 5

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

4 THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION

CHAMP CLARKE MENTIONED AS

A CANDIDATE

*' «V CABLE—PRE^S ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. BALTIMORE, June 26. Mr W. J. Bryan, when proposing Mr •J. W. Kern as chairman of the Demo- ! , -cratic Convention, said that the coun- | try was waiting to hear whether the Convention would follow the Chicago j Convention in listening to the voice of predatory wealth. The same interests which converted the Chicago Convention into a farce were more brazenly working in Baltimore. Mi* Kern appealed to Judge Parker to co-operate in selecting a compromise chairman; otherwise Mr Bryan would contest it«■Judge Parker returned thanks for his election as temporary chairman. He was congratulating the meeting on its superior orderliness over that in Chicago when an uproar abruptly terminated the sitting. In view of a two-thirds majority "being required for the nomination, it Is significant that neither Judge Parker nor Mr Bryan controls the Contention. Mr Roosevelt's agents in Baltimore are seeking to induce Mr Bryan, in the -event of his defeat, to join forces with Mr Roosevelt ; hence the conservatives are •confronted with the necessity of con--ciliating the Radicals.

Another report states that Mr Chamu

Clarke is now favored as the Democratic candidate for the Presidency.