On Tuesday, at the Baltimore Convention, Dr. Woodrow Wilson was
nominated as the candidate of the Democratic Party for the Presidency of the United States. This result was reached suddenly and dramatically on the forty-sixth ballot. On the forty-fifth ballot there was still apparently a deadlock. Dr. Woodrow Wilson had then 633 votes to the 306 of Mr. Champ Clark. This was not nearly a large enough majority to bring about a " stampede " of the opponents of Dr. Wilson, who included, of course, the sup- porters of Mr. Underwood and Mr. Harmon, besides those of Mr. Champ Clark. At this point Senator Bankhead, in a speech which, as the Times correspondent tells us, matched his venerable appearance, withdrew Mr. Underwood's name. The result was electrical, It was now known that Dr. Wilson's nomination was assured. The stampede began. Mr. Champ Clark's followers were released from their pledges, and on the forty-sixth ballot the figures were : Wilson, 990; Clark, 84; Harmon, 12. Dr. Wilson's nomination was then made unanimous. Dr. Wilson, at once a scholar and a successful Governor, is a Radical, but not an ultra-Radical. If the Democrats had chosen a man of Conservative tendency there would have been more hope for the successful recruiting of Mr. Roosevelt's proposed third party.
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