Wilson Triumphs.

The Democrats held their national nominating convention in Baltimore on 25 June-2 July. As the opening day approached, Speaker of the House James Beauchamp "Champ" Clark of Missouri held the lead in delegates. A former editor, Clark had been a supporter of William Jennings Bryan's populist agrarian politics. Among Clark's challengers was Woodrow Wilson, a relative newcomer to national politics. Though Wilson, a former president of Princeton University, had won the governorship of New Jersey in 1910 with the backing of conservative Democratic bosses, he had proved to be much more liberal than New Jersey party regulars anticipated. In 1911, under his leadership, New Jersey's legislature had passed a workmen's compensation act and a corrupt practices act and had established a state commission to regulate municipal utilities and railroads. Another major contender for the nomination was Oscar W. Underwood, a Democratic...