The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-28
TAMMANY OPENS
 FIGHT ON PARKER
BEGINS CAMPAIGN TO STOP IN- sTRUCTIoNs FOR HILL MAN.
Say He Would Lose state-Hope Out side Candidate Will Be Named and Beaten to Help George
 B. Mcclellan in 1908.
Washington Special to New York Tri-

or bourke Cockran nave set out merIily to nullify the action of MT. Hills con yention. Cochran made brilliant speech | in the House on Saturday and the Dem. ocratic members have bowed down and
 worshiped him. recognizing that the brilliance of his orauory might be de
 ciding factor in the next campaign. Ii
 Is extremely significant, therefore, to find that Cochran and all the Tammany
 men in and out Of Congress are mall | eiously knocking Parker.
 Bryan outdone by Cochran.
 Bryan at Chicago said nothing a tenth | part as severe about the platform as Cochran and his Tammany cohorts have
 been intentionally saying today Men | who are to go to St. Louis as delegates
 from New York have made great i'm pression among the other Democrats. be- cause when asked as to their opinion of
 Parker they. reply inevitably: T am un- der instructions"
 The significance of this is explained when 1t Is found that Tammany delegates | without exception are openly denoun c- ing Parker as a colorless candidate up- | will vote for Parker in the convention under their instructions, but they will not vote his way during any of the pre- liminary skirmishing. and this position I may be sufficient to insure Parker 6 l downfall. They hate HILL and hate him hard, and everything they can do to hurt Hills candidate will not only be
 
 Washington tonight.
 Fight Spreads to the Interior.
 Bourke Cockran's immense popularity in Congress has given a weight to his words they might not otherwise have. Southern and Western Congressmen have taken their cue from the activity of the Tammany belligerents, and the word Is being passed along that the interior States should so far as possible adopt the unit rule, but avoid instructions for Parker R0llrka COckran Thnnaa E Grady, Bob Van Wyck, Charles A. Towne. and Charles F. Murphy, the Tam many leader, and all district delegates sonally only to their own district but of course are bound by the instructions of the State Convention. Each one of them is hammering at Parker's head, denouncing the tyranny of Hill, and rld- iculing- the platform adopted at Albany ardly.
 New York City Out of Line.
 There is more than appears on the sur. face in this open rebellion of the Tam many words that Hill, August Belmont and Judge Parker can never, by any possibility, roll up enough votes south of the Bronx to offset the heavy Repub- lican vote of the State. This has start led some of the Southern and Western Democrats, and the result is a notable subsistence of Nthe Parker wave, which ohiy a !eW aays ago threatened to sweep
 There are no signs of something like ar understanding between Murphy, the Tdlnmany leader, and Senator German looking toward a consolidation of their interests m opposition to Hill and Bel mont. It has long been known that Mar- Day and German were good friends, and that If Cleveland had no show the Maj y- land Senator could have the Tammany strength
 Under the unit rule, of course Murphy himself will have to vote from beg1nning to end exactly as Hill dictates. The unit rule does not begin it's benefcent work, ized. Until then the Tammany delegates are at liberty to hit Mir. Parker between the eyes, and they are missing no chances to follow this program.
 Unit Rule of Small Avail.
 Southern and Western Democrats, who were thrilled with Bourke Cockran's elo- duence on Saturday are now giving close attention. to him and to the personal talk of his associates. Tammany men never intended to be a serious candidate, that no one knows where he stands, that he was chosen merely to kill off Hearst and that he has. therefore, outIved his usefulness. because 1t is now admitted that Hearst can by no possibility have anything more at St. Louis than dis organized and disgruntled minority.
 Tammany men have taken the ground lAAAb tiiC IcSt Ol the country SnOulQ not force them to submit to Hilrs dictation. They call attention to the fact that Great CT New York will have to furnish a Democratic majority to carry the State, and they insist that it Is unfair to per init Hill to dictate to Tammany hall. Leader Murphy, Bourke Cochran, Char ley Towne the Silver Tongued Grady, and other Tammany spellbinders are hard at structions, and there is evidence that they are having remarkable success in their propaganda.
 Bryan's Attack is Useful.
 MT. Bryan's attack upon the Albany platform would have had little or no ef- feet had 1t not been for the attitude of Tammany. New York City Democrats have not hesitated to call attention to Bryan's position and they say he is en- tirely right in insinuating that August Belmont, Sheehan, Brady, and other of Hilrs tools concocted the Albany plat form for the express purpose of securing campaign contributions from the worst | collection of trusts which has ever cursed | New York and New Jersey.
 The Tammany missionaries say if they | had been left free they would have ac- | cepted the mere indorsement of Parker | and would have kept their mouths shut | with castiron instructions and forced | to submit to the dictation of Hill, | who derives his strength solely from | the Republican counties Therefore. | being cut off from a chance of recording their protests against Parker at St. Louis | and having been notified that HUI as leader of the delegation, would crack his i whip at every turn, they have set out personal influence to knife the Parker boom before 1t gets to St. Louis.
 southern and Western members have taken alarm at the situation and are pointing 10 the fact that Pennsylvania, a nearby State to New York refused to vote Tor instructions the day after the Albany convention. There is a whole string or Southern and Western State conventions yet to be held and Tammany lnnuence Is to be exerted in each in- stance to prevent instructions for Parker
 Call Parker Trust Candidate.
 The war cry from now on will he e,s+ that Parker is a trust candidate and 1 secondly, that Hill and those who are pushlIlg Farkers candidacy have insult ga anu outraged Tammany to such an extent extent mat If normal Democratic ma lorIy IS 10 be expected in Greater New fork It must be cast for some other man than Alton B. Parker.
 Oehocrats in Congress seem to attach 2 great deal of importance to the atti- lr IMue "L the Massachusetts delegation. l. lnese are thirty-two votes there in a soNd lump, No one, even in Massachn- setts' believes that Olney could he nom lnated or elected. MT. Olney himself has ffepeateoly and recently declared himself 1t 1fr ,s 'ie nomination of Grover Cleveland. lt iS an open secret that the Massachn. setts uoIegation is being held in reserve ldent. ''' '"o lorHler Fres- southern Democrats have been an. proS,nd on this subject, and there is ,oa 9Iates wnlch have been counted for Par i VIII pc ready to follow Tammanv's : V gag sa9,. anu participate in a joyful and nra- z monv sSortaLlds landslide to Cleveland. Tam I