The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-07-15


vice president. The selection was
made on the first ballot.
Other candidates presented were
James r. Williams, of Illinois; ex-Sen-
ator George Turpie, of Washington
state; Senator &. w. Carmack, of Ten
nesee, and former Senator w. A. Har-
ris, of Kansas.
Alabama, Arkansas and California
went soidy for Davis, Turner scored
seven on the Colorado vote, and VII
Hams received three at the same time.
The final result of the final ballot was
unoffciaIly, Williams, 1865; Turner,
100; Davis, 654; Harris, So. Iowa
did not vote.
The nomination of Davis was made
unanimous.
After the nomination of Judge Par
ker the convention recessed until sat
urday afternoon, when the selection or
a vice presidential candidate was Ia
ken up. Before this was accomplish
ed. however, a bomb-shell was explod-
ed before the convention in the shape
of a telegram from Judge Parker to
his representative, w. f. Shehan, who
stated that he was for the gold stand
ard.
The message was such frank and
fearless declaration of principle that
its full significance was not at first
realized by even the boldest and bray
est of democrats in the convention,
The telegram was simply an offer
from the nominee to land back to the
democratic party the nomination If the
party felt it had rendered it under
misapprehension Of his views. The
telegram was as. follows:
Hon w. F. Shehan, Hotel Jeffer-
son. st. Louis: | regard the gold
standard as firmly and irrevocably es-
tablished and Shall act accordingly If
the action of the convention OF today
shall be ratified by the people.
''As the platform is silent on the
subject, my views should be made
known to the convention, and if it is
proved to be unsatisfactory to the
majority, I request you to decline the
nomination for me at once so that an
other may be nominated before adj !
iournment. A. b. PARKER"
Considerable CONSERVATION was Gre
ated, but after a lengthy discussion
over the matter the following reply |
to Judge Parkers telegram, framed by
John Sharp Williams and adopted by
the convention, was sent:
The platform adopted by this con
vention is silent on the question of
monetary standard, because it is not !
regarded by us as a possible issue in
this campaign and only campaign is.
sues were mentioned in the platform.
Therefore there is nothing in the |
views expressed by you in the teie-
gram just received which would pre- |
clude man entertaining them from
accepting a nomination on said plat
form.
After some debate roll call was
ordered on the question of the a5op- |
ton of the Williams reply to Judge |
Parker's message to Mr.. Sheehan.
AS the roll call proceeded it was evil |
dent that the motion to send the mes
sage to Judge Parker would be carried |
by An overwhelming majority. The
result was announced to be IA ayes, |
191 noes, ana the message was ordered I
sent by the convention.
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of the proceedings of the convention
should be printed.
A resolution naming and thanking
the officers of the convention was also
adopted; also James X. Jones and /
the outgoing national committee.
The people of st. Louis and the
Business Mems League of the city
were thanked for entertainment pro-
vided.
Chairman champ Clark and Tempo
rary Chairman John Sharp Williams
were made respectively chairman If
the committee to notify Judge Parker
and ex-senator Davis of their nom-
nation. It was also announced that the
new national committee would meet
in New York on date to be fixed oy
the chairman.
Thanks to the management, presi-
dent and officers of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition Company were
expressed In a resolution which was
agreed to.
Resolutions to Senator James Fl.
Bailey, of Texas. for the admirable
manner in which he presided over the