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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1912
Page
6
New Jersey Governor Wins a big victory on a forty six ballot after deadlock. The platform is progressive and Indiana Governor placed second on the ticket. The piece recalls party history from 1872 to 1896, arguing for a realignment on political morality and the seriousness of government.
Baltimore July 3 Governor Wilson of New Jersey won the Democrats’ nod with backers like Governor Marshall of Indiana supporting him. He led a hard fought campaign, secured the progressive standard, faced Tammany opposition, and endured a record forty six ballots for nomination, marking a dramatic convention sequence.
Baltimore served as the site for multiple national party conventions from 1832 to 1872. Notable nominees included Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, James K. Polk, Lewis Cass, Franklin Pierce, Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge, Horace Greeley, and Abraham Lincoln among others. The city hosted both Democratic and Whig/R Republican events across decades.
A historical tally shows the Democratic Party’s ballot requirements for presidential nominations. It lists year and winning ballot for figures such as Seymour, Polk, Cass, Pierce, Buchanan, Douglas, McClellan, Greeley, Tilden, Hancock, Cleveland, Bryan, Parker, and Bryan again, ending with 1908.
Baltimore dispatch reports Judge John F. Wescott of Camden New Jersey nominates Woodrow Wilson for the presidency praising his intellect humanity and public service. He celebrates New Jersey as emancipated and ready to aid in democratic deliberation placing Wilson as a cosmopolitan practical statesman and fearless debater.
Former Judge Alton B. Parker led as temporary chair over William Jennings Bryan by 579 to 506. Bryan proposed John W. Kern to oppose Parker, but Kern declined. The convention battled eight states contests and platform issues while revising the unit rule, Wilson’s forces gaining. After long balloting, Woodrow Wilson secured the nomination on the forty sixth ballot, with Clark and Harmon as runners-up and Marshall named earlier.
In a bold projection New Jersey declares Woodrow Wilson the sole candidate capable of guaranteed Democratic success and broad electoral appeal. The piece frames Wilson as a national necessity, arguing that platforms and candidates fail without his leadership and urging a 100000 vote endorsement from New Jersey’s liberated citizens.
The Baltimore July 8 report outlines the Democratic national convention platform asserting the federal government lacks power to impose tariffs beyond revenue needs. It condemns the high Republican tariff as widening wealth gaps, raising living costs for farmers and workers, and claims wages reflect market competition, not tariff protection.
A party platform emphasizes revenue tariffs, reduced tariff tinkering, and states rights. It calls for presidential primaries, a single-term presidency, funds for campaigns, rate regulation of interstate transport lines, parcels post support, and opposition to the Aldrich bank bill.
The platform calls for immediate tariff reductions on essentials and free lists for compet ing imported and domestically produced goods. It opposes vetoes on tariff relief bills, targets trust control, supports stronger anti trust enforcement, and endorses state sovereignty, primaries, campaign contribution limits, a single presidential term, railroad and communications regulation, banking reform, rural credits, and efficient civil and criminal law administration.
Public notice of a sheriff sale in Warren Borough Warren County Pennsylvania by virtue of a writ of Fieri Facias court of common pleas. It lists parcels 453 and 454 on West Warren Real Estate Company plan Deed Book 88 page 706, conveyed to L E Hermansen, with two two story frame houses, seized and sold at execution to satisfy Alice W Jefferson claim. Sale dates July 11 18 25.
L C Eddy of 410 Pennsylvania avenue west advertises a general law practice with prompt collection services emphasized.
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